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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Portrait of Joseph Bergie in a football uniform standing in a field. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The caption reads: AIR AND EFFICIENT EDUCATION- MR. WATT'S IDEA IN PRACTICE IN A CHICAGO SCHOOLROOM

This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 2 (October 1911): 56.

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

The note on the reverse side reads: John Monhart

John A. Monhart in a suit outside.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads:  Annie Dibo

View of Annie Dibo standing next to a house around 1911.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The printed note on the reverse side reads: John Doyle

John Doyle with three others outside with a house and small tree in the background.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The headline reads: INDIANS TO COMPETE IN MARATHON CONTEST

The caption reads: SKY EAGLE, INDIAN RUNNER Who Will Compete with White Sprinters in Los Angeles-Venice Marathon.

The printed note reads: Judson Cabay, Swiftest of Chippewa Braves, and Sky Eagle to Be Running Mates in Race to Venice

This image of Swift Eagle appears in an article of the Los Angeles Tribune.

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Anna Dibo

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The handwritten note reads: Carlisle Indians 1911-1912.

The typed note on the reverse side reads: 1911 & 1912 Carlisle Indian Team.

BACK
ARCASA  R  HB ; WELSH   QB ; POWELL   FB ; THORPE   L  HB

LINE
WHEELOCK   R E ; DIETZ   R T ; BUSCH   R G ; BERGLE   C ; JORDON   L G ; NEWASHE   L T ; HENRI   L E

17  Dickinson 0
46  Mt StMary’s 6
19  Georgetown 0
17  Layeffette 0
16  Pittsburgh 0
16  Penn 0
18  Harvard 15
13  Syracuse 14

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Five women and one man on the stage of the school auditorium.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

Daphne Waggoner looking down in a white dress.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

Group portrait of thirty-one women, presumably all female students, wearing large hats, posed on the school grounds. 

Note: This image was published in the Red Man with the caption: A HOME PARTY OF CARLISLE STUDENTS, JUNE 1911 - LEAVING FOR HOME AFTER A TERM AT CARLISLE. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two prints of this image: 10-B-26 and 13-13-01

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The caption on the front of the postcard reads: Academy Building, Indian School, CARLISLE, Pa.

The postcard was addressed to Mrs. H. D. Bender, Dauphin, Pa. On the side for the message the only thing written is the name Harry.

 

Format: Postcard

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

The caption on the front of the postcard reads: Band Stand and Teachers Quarters, Indian School, Carlisle, Pa. It is likely that this is incorrect and the postcard actually shows the bandstand and girls quarters. (The flag pole and what is probably the Superintendent's Quarters are in the background.)

The postcard was addressed to Mr. Piercen Knaub of Dillsburg, Pa. R. F. D. No. 1. The message reads: "My Dear Father, I will write you a few lines today to let you know that we are all well and hope you are all the same. the baby has two teeth and he is rid of his cold and is getting big and [?] Johnie is much better and is out every day, [?] Maud."

 

Format: Postcard

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

The headline reads: SPEEDY RED MAN

The caption reads: Lewis Tewanima.

The printed note reads: Wonderful little Indian distance run-ner, who is training or the five-mile event at the National Indoor champion-shisp, to beheld in Madison Square garden. New York on December 26.

Lewis Tewanima during the Modified Marathon in New York, New York on May 6, 1911.

This image of Louis Tewanima appears in the Atlanta Constitution on December 21, 1911.

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Algonac, Mich.
3/25/1911.
Mr. Friedman I am sending you the picture of my house. And kindly give me the address of Charlotte Wilson and Allie Mulins if living and oblige. I remain Esther Clark Thomas.

House of Esther Clark Thomas and Peter W. Thomas in Algonac, Michigan with three children sitting on the porch.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The headline reads: LEADING INDIANS OF U. S. TO CONFER ON RACE ADVANCEMENT

The caption reads: From left to right, in the upper picture, are Mayor George S. Marshall, Dr. Carlos Montezuma of Chicago, Henry Standing Bear of Dakota, Dr. Charles A. Eastman of Amherst, Mass., Charles E. Dagenett of Denver and Prof. F. A. McKenzie of this city. In the lower group are Thomas L. Sloan of Pender, Neb., and Miss Laura Cornelius of New York.

This image appears in The Ohio State Journal on April 4, 1911.

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The caption reads: A HOME PARTY OF CARLISLE STUDENTS, JUNE 1911 - LEAVING FOR HOME AFTER A TERM AT CARLISLE

The image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 4 (December 1911): 143. 

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

The caption reads: CARLISLE'S HOME PARTY OF BOYS, JUNE, 1911.

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Group portrait of thirty-one women, presumably all female students, wearing large hats, posed on the school grounds. 

A version of this image was published in the Red Man with the caption: A HOME PARTY OF CARLISLE STUDENTS, JUNE 1911 - LEAVING FOR HOME AFTER A TERM AT CARLISLE

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of thirty-four male students of various ages posed on the school grounds. Only one is wearing a school uniform. 

Note that in this version of the group the students in the back row are positioned in a slightly different order than in version 1 and one student in the back row is making a somewhat funny face. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society also has a print of this version: 13-01-01.

This version of the image was reproduced in The Red Man as CARLISLE'S HOME PARTY OF BOYS, JUNE, 1911 (see Related Images).

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of thirty-four male students of various ages posed on the school grounds. Only one is wearing a school uniform. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society also has a print of this image (10-B-23). 

A slightly different version of this image was reproduced in The Red Man as CARLISLE'S HOME PARTY OF BOYS, JUNE, 1911 (see Related Images).

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The caption on this postcard reads: Carlisle, Pa., Marching into School Room, Indian School.

The postcard was addressed to Mr. Pierce Knaub, Dillsburg, Pa., RFD. No. 1

The message reads: "Dear Father, I and the children have been alone every since we came home. John has been working at Newport last week. and this week. Maud"

 

Format: Postcard

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

The printed note begins: The officials of the M. E. Church South of Lapwai, Idaho, who are shown in the accompanying picture.

The photo includes Rev. Peter Lindsley, Rev. E. J. Conner, Rev. A. L. Thoroughman, Stephen Reuben, John Allen, Edward Kash Kash, and Effie Kash Kash.

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The caption on the front of the postcard reads: Carlisle, Pa., Large Girls Quarters and Fire Department, Indian School.

The postcard was addressed to Mr. Piersan Krat, Dillsburg, Pa. R. F. D. No. 1. The message reads: "Dear Father and Aunt, I received the barle allright and have the most of it put up. I have been a lone fore a week. John is working in Newport again. I was coming down the next day when I got the barel the day belfore, Maudie[?]." There is a note above the main message which reads "this is from Johin."

 

Format: Postcard

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

The caption reads: HOMES OF CARLISLE EX-STUDENTS AND GRADUATES. 

The printed note reads: MRS. LAURA PEDRICK, KIOWA, ANADARKO, OKLAHOMA; ELLEN MARTIN MCCOMEE, OSAGE, FORAKE, OKLA.; WILLIAM PAISANO AND MARY PERRY, PUEBLOS, CASA BLANCA, N.M.; BENJ. CASWELL AND LEILA CORNELIUS, CHIPPEWA AND ONEIDA, CASS LAKE, MINNESOTA.

This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 1 (September 1911): 12.

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections