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 headline reads: Indian Appointed to The Military Academy
The printed caption reads: SYLVESTER CHAHUSKA LONGLANCE
This image appears in the Worcester Post on May 9, 1916.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: Macbeth and Lady Macbeth (Meroney French and Lucy West).
This image appears in The Carlisle Arrow vol. 13, no. 1 (July 1916): 4.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
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
View of the the State Sanitorium in Mt. Alto, Pennsylvania around 1917.
The reverse side includes a handwritten note from Joseph Denny to Mr. C. V. Peel.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: MISS CORA ELM MISS SARAH M. INGALLS
The headline reads: INDIAN GIRLS WILL PLEAD FOR SUFFRAGE
The printed note reads: They will take part in the big suffrage demonstration planned for next Sunday in Washington under the direction of the Congressional Union. Miss Elm represents the Oneida tribe and is a nurse in the Episcopal Hospital in this city. Miss Ingalls is a member of the Sac-and-Fox tribe and is fitting herself for a business career. More than 100 delegates of the union in this city and suffrage sympathizers will take part in the demonstration.
This image appears in a newspaper in Philadelphia, PA on March 1, 1917.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: Camp Kelly Sanantonio texas
The handwritten note on the reverse reads: Whatever you do dont criticeze my Big nose couse I cant help now the old folks usto Be
Gabriel Poggie sitting on a cot in uniform at Camp Kelly, San Antonio, Texas in 1917.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: David Bureau
The photograph appears in article regarding Bureau's attempt to enlist in the Aero Corps.
The newspaper title and the date of publication are unknown.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
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 handwritten note on the reverse side reads: I send my picuter Mr James Chaves Riverbank California round house.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Welch Teesatesky, in school uniform
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: Both Ends of Corliss Street Tunnel, Pittsburgh, Pa.
The reverse side includes a note from Andrew S. Condon to the Band Company at the school sent from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on April 18, 1917.
Format: Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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 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
The caption reads: NEW COURT HOUSE, NEW YORK CITY.
The reverse side contains a note from William Little Wolfe to John Francis Jr. sent from Brooklyn, New York on September 5, 1917.
Format: Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The printed note reads: NEVER SAW DEFEAT
The reverse side includes a note from Frances B. Jacobs to John Francis Jr. sent from Lewiston, New York in September 1917.
The American flag over a battleship.
Format: Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Cora Belle Martin (front row, center) with her grandmother, mother, and sisters around 1917.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Private Collection
The caption reads: 15001. Southern Pacific Station, Oakland, California.
The reverse side includes a note from Mary Welch to Nellie Robertson Denny sent from Klamath Agency, Oregon in 1917.
Format: Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: Thomas Montoya John Needham
John Needham and Thomas Montoya in their respective uniforms with four other unidentified soldiers. Three separate photos.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten caption reads: 14 INCH SHELL, USS OKLA.
The reverse side contains a note from George J. Cayenne to John Francis Jr. sent from the U.S.S. Oklahoma on August 25, 1917.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: Welch
Mary Welch in glasses and white collared shirt.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: Lonechief
Mary Lonechief in glasses and a white collared shirt.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: Warrington
George Anthony Warrington in a formal three piece suit and tie.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: Madison
Lyman Madison in a bow tie and formal suit.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: Burson.
Uneeda Burson in a white dress.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: Parker
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration