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 caption on this postcard reads: Alumni Hall, U. S. Indian School, Carlisle, Pa. Designed and Built by Students.
Format: Postcard
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: Francis E. Luepp
This clipping is from the Waynesboro Blue Ridge Zephyr published on January 28, 1908.
Format: Drawing
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Dr C.A. McNutt St Joseph Missouri.
Photograph of Louise Provost McNutt and Dr. C.A. McNutt which was included in a letter to Moses Friedman sent on December 12, 1909.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Children of Mr. + Mrs. Keller
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Ella Johnson
A. Ella Johnson and ten unidentified Carlisle students.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Lillian Complainville Keller Oliver Curtis Keller
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Sara Monteith
Sarah Celia Monteith and ten unidentified Carlisle students.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Julia Elmore
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: J. H. Lonestar. Shell Lake, Wis.
View of John H. Lonestar with his wife, Rebecca Hart Lonestar, and his two children around 1909.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Fred Sickles
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption on this postcard reads: Indian School Band and Girls Quarters, Carlisle, PA.
The reverse side includes a short note.
Format: Postcard
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Julia Elmore
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Francis Shakonaby
View of Francis Shakonaby while standing on the grounds of the Carlisle Indian School around 1909. The woman next to Shakonaby has not been identified.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: Bertha Cassel an applicant to enter the Carlisle Indian School from Mayagüez Porto Rico
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: TEWANIMA, CARLISLE'S GREAT INDIAN RUNNER.
Lewis Tewanima in hat and suit.
This image appears in the New York Herald in January 1909.
Format: Drawing
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: Mr & Mrs King with their colts.
Ellen and Charles King with four colts and a dog.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The reverse side contains a note from Joseph Sheehan.
The 1909 Frederick, Maryland Y.M.C.A football team in uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The printed caption reads: GIRLS AT DUMB BELL WORK AT INDIAN SCHOOL, Carlisle, Pa.
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Here is the Place we dance. I tell you it goes dandy. Sincerly, Jacob Paul Carlisle, Pa.
Note sent to Elizabeth Young in Roxbury, New Jersey from Jacob Paul in 1909.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
A panorama photo (10" x 50") of the Carlisle Indian School campus, facing east.
The caption reads: U.S. INDIAN SCHOOL. CARLISLE, PENNA.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Portrait of Peter J. Jordan in suit.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Please return this to Edgar H. Rickard Lewiston, N.Y. R. F. D. 19
Edgar H. Rickard with his daughter and son.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View of James Downs on a cart with a child, possibly his daughter, around 1909.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: Oliver Brown and his pony
The reverse side includes a short note from Oliver Brown to his mother Eliza Bell Brown.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The headline reads: John Wa-Lat-Zi, Great Carlisle Fullback and Trackman Again Reduced to Semi-Savage State by "Firewater"
John Wallatsie in his rodeo outfit.
The image of John Wallatsie appears in The Journal.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View of Josiah Redwolf around 1909.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration