Track Team

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Catalogue of the Indian Industrial School, 1902
1902

A booklet of information and photographs assembled by the Carlisle Indian School for their 23rd year, circa 1902.  Includes a short history of the school and the town and school demographic information.  Includes pictures of arriving students, students during classroom and extracurricular activities, the buildings on campus, farmwork…

Format:
Pamphlet
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Track Team, 1901

Large group of male students in athletic clothing, posed on the grounds in front of a fence.

This image, with the caption TRACK TEAM, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p.97].

Format:
Photograph, Reproduction
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Relay track team at University of Pennsylvania meet, 1903

Photograph of a photograph of five male students in track clothing, posed outside, holding a banner from the "University of Pennsylvania 9th Annual Relay Races, 1903" with the participating teams listed.  

Format:
Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
black and white image; photograph of the finish line of a track event, four young men are running towards the camera, the two in the front have a large M visible on their tops, a crowd of spectators stands on either side of the path to the finish line

The caption on the front of the postcard reads: Final 220 yds. Dash. Between Carlisle Indians and Mercersburg Academy.

The postcard was sent to Paul Calm, Strong Creek Mills, Berks County, Pa.

 

Format:
Postcard (Commercial)
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Track Team members, c.1908

The reverse side reads: Edgar Moore.

View of Edgar Moore with other members of the track team around 1908. Fellow team member Louis Dupuis is standing on the far right.

Nation:
Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Tewanima Can Run, 1909

The headline reads: IT'S NO WONDER TEWANINA CAN RUN.

Lewis Tewanima in Carlisle Track uniform along with cartoons.

This image appears in The Globe and Commercial Advertiser on March 13, 1909.

Format:
Photograph, Reproduction
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Track Team with Trophy, 1909

Fourteen male student athletes posed in the photo studio with their white male coach, Pop Warner. They are the track team of 1909, posed with a trophy from the State Championship. 

Jim Thorpe is the fourth male student from the left in the back row. 

Nation:
Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
black and white image; portrait of Jim Thorpe in athletic clothings, he is posed as if he about to start sprinting and he is looking to the right

The caption reads: JAMES THORPE (INDIAN)   FROM THE CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL   THE WORLD’S CHAMPION ATHLETE.

 

Nation:
Format:
Postcard (Commercial), Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Athletic Teams

The captions read: ATHLETICS, INDIAN FIELD, ON THE FIELD, BASE-BALL TEAM, TRACK TEAM, FOOT-BALL TEAM, GLENN S. WARNER CORNELL, '94 DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS

This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 5 (January 1912): 207.

Format:
Photograph, Reproduction
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Lewis Tewanima and Jim Thorpe, c.1912

The headline reads: CARLISLE INDIAN ATHLETES LIKELY TO MAKE OLYMPIC TEAM

The captions reads: TEWAUNIA, MARATHON.    THORPE, WEIGHTS, HURDLES AND SPRINTS.

Format:
Photograph, Reproduction
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Lewis Tewanima in Track Uniform, #1, c.1912

The caption reads: Louis Tewanima

The printed note reads: IN THE 10,000-METER RUN AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN STOCKHOLM TEWANIMA SECOND PLACE-HE IS A FULL-BLOOD HOPI INDIAN AND IS CONSIDERED AMERICA'S GREATEST LONG-DISTANCE RUNNER

Tewanima in his Carlisle Track and Field Uniform.

Format:
Photograph, Reproduction
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Lewis Tewanima in Track Uniform, #2, c.1912

Lewis Tewanima in his Carlisle Track and Field Uniform.

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Front cover of the Carlisle booklet, gray blue color
December, 1906-September, 1908

A printed copy of the Carlisle Indian School Athletic Association Constitution and By-Laws (circa 1908) and a printed copy of the Charter and By-Laws of the Athletic Association of the University of Pennsylvania (circa December 1906).

These booklets were part of the materials compiled for the Congressional Investigation of 1914. …

Format:
Books and Pamphlets
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration