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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View of a boy with gun walking towards a house.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: [illegible] I have no Photos of my self that I can find.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Benj. Caswell
Margaret Caswell's bedroom

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Davis Lovejoy

View of Davis Lovejoy's farm in Walthill, Nebraska.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: You will see me with my Haying gang.  I am in front with the first team, at the M. V. Freight Yard. Geo. Conner.

Format: Postcard (Real Photo)

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The caption on this postcard reads: BOYS AT HEAVY GYMNASTICS AT INDIAN SCHOOL. CARLISLE, Pa.

The only words on the back are standardized directions for where to write a message and where to write the address.

 

Format: Postcard (Commercial)

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

The caption on this postcard reads: GYMNASIUM, ALL INDIANS EXCEPT INSTRUCTOR. CARLISLE, Pa.

The only words on the back are standardized directions for where to write a message and where to write the address.

 

Format: Postcard (Commercial)

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

The top handwritten note reads: Orchard of Stephen Reuben. Carlisle returned student of 1893.

The caption reads: Orchard Planted by a Nez Perce Indian Orchardist of Stephen Reuben. 1,250 different kind of fruit trees.

This image appears in the Sunday Oregonian, which is published in Portland.

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Charles Bender

Charles Albert Bender in his Philadelphia Athletics uniform having just thrown a baseball.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The caption reads Green House at Indian School, Carlisle, PA.

This image appears in a fold-out booklet of postcard views titled Souvenir Views of Carlisle, PA (New York, NY: The Valentine Souvenir Company, c.1910).

Format: Postcard (Commercial)

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Alfred Blackwell around 1910.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The caption reads: CARLISLE'S BASKET BALL TEAM, 1910.

Louis Dupuis stands second from the right.

This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 1 (September 1911): 13.

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

The caption reads Dining Hall, Indian School, Carlisle, PA.

This image appears in a fold-out booklet of postcard views titled Souvenir Views of Carlisle, PA (New York, NY: The Valentine Souvenir Company, c.1910).

Format: Postcard (Commercial)

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: here is a picture of us both and a little boy that is boarding with us at present. this is the corner of our house.

View of Sosipatra Suvaroff and her husband, Thomas L. Wasson, in Marshfield, Oregon around 1910.

Format: Postcard (Real Photo)

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The caption reads Entrance to Indian School, Carlisle, PA.

This image appears in a fold-out booklet of postcard views titled Souvenir Views of Carlisle, PA (New York, NY: The Valentine Souvenir Company, c.1910).

Format: Postcard (Commercial)

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads:  James Driver

View of James Driver (Goliath Bigjim) next to his bakery and delivery wagon in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: He runs the unloader at land. This is his Engline. Tow school boys are there the day they took this P. card.

View of Thomas L. Wasson stands with two unidentified "school boys" around 1910.

Format: Postcard (Real Photo)

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: from left to right: Jessy Tilden and Raph Tilden.

View of Samuel and Amy Tilden's children around 1910.

Format: Postcard (Real Photo)

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

Studio portrait of a large group of seated and standing male and female students, identified as the graduating class of 1910. They are identified in a label attached below the photo. They are: 1) Margaret B. Burd 2) Stella Bear 3) Stacey Beck Hardy 4) John Bastian 5) Inex Brown 6) Johnson Enos 7) Louis George 8) Adeline Greenbrier 9) Carlyle G. Charles 10) Levi Hillman 11) Raymond Hitchcok 12) Sarah Hoxie 13) Louise Kenney 14) Joseph Loudbear 15) William Nelson 16) Mary Redthunder 17) Selina Twoguns 18) Fannie Keokuk 19) Katie Wolfe, and 20) Eveyln Pierce. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing a fedora-style hat.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Student James M. Welch in uniform posed with three women and one man. 

This was probably taken in the school's photo studio. 

Note: This is a scan of a postcard from a private collection. 

Format: Postcard (Real Photo)

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Part of a scrapbook compiled by William Winneshiek (Winnebago), who wrote the caption "Carlisle Indian School Cross-Country Runners, All set for the yearly event of a 6 mile run. Tewanima, famous Indian runner in center (X)." 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The caption on the front of the postcard reads: INDIAN SCHOOL, PARADE GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS, CARLISLE, PA.

The postcard was addressed to Johnny Miller, Dillsburg, Pa. The message reads: "Johnny boy be a good boy and daddy will bring something along for you Sat. Daddy."

 

Format: Postcard (Commercial)

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The caption on the front reads: United States Indian School, Carlisle, Pa.

The only words on the back are standardized directions for where to write a message and where to write the address.

 

Format: Postcard (Real Photo)

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

A female student in uniform standing alone, with her hands behind her back, on a stage. 

This may have been part of the school's Annual Examination which took place at the end of the academic year. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society