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 top captions read: Banquet Hall The Council Chamber 1748 Used by the Governor of Penn.
The middle captions read: The Liberty Bell Independence Hall Independence Hall Stairway Independence Hall
The bottom captions read: The Room of the Clerks of the Assembly Supreme Court Room-Independence Hall The Banqueting Room - Independence Hall
INDEPENDENCE HALL, PHILADELPHIA, PA. THE CRADLE OF LIBERTY.
The reverse side includes a note from mark Welch to Nellie R. Denny from Washington D.C. sent on September 5, 1917.
Format: Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: Wilmet.
Mary Wilmet in a white shirt and glasses.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: Peters Pinconning Mich.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: Schingler
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: MERRILL AVE. LOOKING SOUTH AT NIGHT, GLENDIVE, MONTANA.
The reverse side includes a note from Charles Little Chief to John Francis Jr. sent from Solon, North Dakota on October 16, 1917.
Format: Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
While the two individuals in this photograph have not been positively identified, it is likely Harry Charles and Daisy Brader. Harry married Daisy in December 1917.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: Cooke
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: This was my squad when I first inlisted but it is not now. Herbert
Herbert Pappin with seven others in his army squad. Two tents in the background.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: GERMAN HOSPITAL OF BROOKLYN
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: Lieut. S. C. LONG-LANCE
Sylvester C. Long Lance in military uniform.
This image of Sylvester Long Lance appears in an article in the New York World on February 25, 1917.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Isaac Willis in his U.S. Naval uniform from the U.S.S. Kentucky.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Jerome Feather.
Jerome Feather in his Infantry uniform after joining the military on June 1, 1917.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The top caption reads: Sylvester Chahuska Long Lance, a full-blooded Cherokee Indian, college graduate and champion athlete, now First Lieutenant of "Princess Pat's," who fought at Vimy Ridge, at present lies severely wounded in a base hospital, "somewhere in France."
The bottom caption reads: Cadet Long Lance, athletic and literary prize medallist, graduate of Carlisle and St. John's in his military school uniform.
These images of Sylvester Long Lance appear in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette on July 22, 1917.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Earl Wilber
Earl Wilber in his U.S. Army Uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: WOODSIDE PARK
The reverse side includes a short note from James Garlow to Nellie R. Denny.
Woodside Park is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Format: Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Wm. Littlewolfe
William Little Wolfe in his naval uniform that was included in a letter to someone at Carlisle while stationed on the U.S.S. Texas on November 23, 1917.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: Pete Calac
The headline reads: Will Lead Wesleyan
The article begins: Pete Calac, the famous Indian football player who has played on the West Virginia Wesleyan team for the past two seasons, was selected last night by his team mates, at the annual football banquet which was held at the New Valley Hotel, to pilot the Wesleyan team of 1918.
Peter Calac in his football uniform.
This image appears in an article of the Wheeling Register on December 13, 1917.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The headline reads: Indian Athlete To Quit Game
The caption reads: JIM THORPE.
Jim Thorpe in a suit and tie wearing a hat.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: NAVAL TRAINING STATION. BARRACKS C., NEWPORT. R. I.
The reverse side includes a note from John M. Martineau to John Francis sent from Newport, Rhode Island in April 1918.
Format: Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The headline reads: American Indians with Allies
The article reads: New York Sun: Gus Welsh, at left, is the first American Indian to be made a captain in the United States army. He was a former Carlisle and Dickinson football and athletic star. A feature of the fortieth annual commencement of the Carlisle Indian school was the announcement that Welsh has just been made a cavalry captain. He was an official at the Carlisle school when the war broke out, and received his military training at the first Fort Niagara camp, have been graduated as a second lieutenant. He has been stationed at Camp Meade.
Flowberth W. Richester, at right, was the first Indian aviator to join the Lafayette escadrille.
This image appears in the Des Moines Register published in Des Moines, Iowa on June 18, 1918.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: "ON UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM." UNION PACIFIC SHOPS AND PARK, NORTH PLATTE, NEB.
The reverse side includes a short note from Stephen Reuben to John Francis, Jr sent from Carlisle, Pennsylvania on May 17, 1918.
Format: Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The printed title reads: BALTIMORE OUR BALTIMORE
The top caption reads: FORT McHENRY
The bottom caption reads: FRANCIS SCOTT KEY MONUMENT
The reverse side includes a note from Joseph S. Shellian to John Francis Jr. sent from Baltimore, Maryland on July 1, 1918.
Fort McHenry and the Francis Scott Key Monument with the flag of Baltimore City and the first verse of Baltimore our Baltimore.
Format: Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Corporal S. Patterson.
Spencer Patterson in his U.S. Army uniform holding a gun at his side.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: SOUTH SIDE OF CENTER SQUARE BY NIGHT, EASTON, PA.
The reverse side includes a note from Green George.
Format: Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: Cavalry Stable, Fort Riley, Kansas.
The reverse side includes a note from Fred Skenandore to William and Nellie Denny sent from St. Louis on May 5, 1918.
Format: Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration