Images
The Images section features photographs, postcards, and different types of artwork, as well as reproductions of images that appeared in newspapers, magazines, and other publications. These images all reflect the Carlisle Indian School students, facilities, and staff. Images available here are drawn from files housed at the U. S. National Archives, from collections of Carlisle Indian School materials housed at various archival repositories, and from a variety of published sources. Visitors to this website are also invited to share copies of photographs from their own personal and family collections; please contact us if you have images you would like to contribute.
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The handwritten note reads: Mr. Stephen K. Murray and wife. Cut meat, S. D.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
This photo is believed to be Charles Pratt in his football uniform. The handwritten note on the reverse side simply reads: PRATT
This image was shared courtesy of Robert R. Rowe.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Robert R. Rowe Private Collection
The handwritten note on the reverse reads: GUSTAVE HENSEL, PHOTO CA 1915 DID WORK CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL
Group of women in an outdoor wooded area many dressed in as Indians.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gilman. 1915.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: Electric Bldg. at Night. Buffalo, N. Y.
The reverse side includes a note Carlenia Bennett to Nellie R. Denny on August 18, 1915.
Format: Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: Santa Maria of the Columbus Caravel, Jackson Park, Chicago.
The reverse side includes a note from Edward Connell to Oscar H. Lipps from Chicago, Illinois on May 28, 1915.
Format: Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: Looking Across the Golden Gate from Fort Point, San Francisco, California
The reverse side includes a short note from Marcia Melavidoff to Lida M. Johnston, a teacher at the Carlilse Indian School.
Format: Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The printed caption reads: STATE ARMORY AND ARSENAL, HARTFORD, CONN.
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Have changed my residence from 45 Farminton to #211 Ashley st. Miss L. M. Wind
Hartford conn (XS)
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The headline reads: AMERICAN INDIAN IS FIGHTING FOR ALLIES
The printed caption reads: Lieut. Long Lance.
Sylvester Long Lance in military uniform.
This image appears in the New York Post on February 12, 1915.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: Well-known Nez Perces.
The printed note reads:
Standing -- Rev. E. J. Conner and James Kash Kash.
Sitting -- Kip-kip-pa-li-can and Black Eagle.
This image appears courtesy of the Redman in The Nez Perce Indian vol. 1, no. 21 (April 1915): 1.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
This image is from a newspaper article about James M. Phillips as he was elected Mayor of Aberdeen, Washington, in 1915.
This article appears in the Tacoma Ledger on April 18, 1915.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Our camp, Turkey Foot Lake. Ohio, Summit Co. Fourth of July week - 1915
Mr. Brown Eagle - Cook
Mr. Roy H. Cross
Mr. Arthur W. Durr
Mr. Gene Smith
Mr. George Smith
Mr. James Y. Black.
Akron, O.
Four men in front of a tent with woods in the background.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten caption reads: Taken August 30, 1915.
The reverse side includes quotes from Woodrow Wilson and Abraham Lincoln and the home addresses of Moses P. Kogechiwan.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Childers and children Clarence, Eloise, and Ruby. Broken Arrow Oklahoma, October 8, 1915.
View of D. B. and Mildred (Millie) McIntosh Childers with their three children.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Portrait of Peter Calac posed outdoors wearing football uniform.
Note: The CCHS description of this image notes Calac was captain of the football team at this time.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The caption reads: Mess Hall, U. S. Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Ill.
The reverse side contains a note from Andrew F. Solomon to Oscar H. Lipps from Waukegan, Illinois on September 24, 1916.
Format: Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: Spearfish Brook and Stevens Point Black Hills, S. Dak.
The reverse side includes a note from Nettie Standingbear to Oscar H. Lipps sent from Interior, South Dakota on August 9, 1916.
Format: Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The reverse side includes a note from Paul Red Star to Oscar H. Lipps sent from Manderson, South Dakota on August 8, 1916.
Church in a field with horses and people.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: By Franci Rameies
This drawing of a house with a fence is on the inside front cover of the Onondaga Free Academy Hand Book: 1915-1916.
Format: Drawing
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: 1916-1492=424 years ago.
Three faces including a man with a bowler hat, a crying infant, and a man who appears ill. Appears in Barney Jacobs Onondaga Free Academy Hand Book for the 1915-1916 school year.
Format: Drawing
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side contains a note from John Kennedy to Oscar H. Lipps regarding having his son James Henry Kennedy coming home to help on the farm over the summer. Sent from Irving, New York in March 1916.
House, two barns, and the greenhouse of James Henry Kennedy and his father John Kennedy.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: State University, Missoula, Mont.
The reverse side contains a note from J. E. L. Barnaby sent from Arlee, Montana in 1916.
Format: Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Ernest William Kick as a member of the Canadian military around 1916.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Lillian Henry - Carlisle - Pa. Tribe - New York - Tuscarora
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Corporal Robert James Tahamont member of the second infantry of Company C of the National Guard of New Jersey in 1916 in his overcoat uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration