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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Female students posed standing and sitting in their campgrounds, with tents and a fire, at Camp Sells. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Female students posed standing and sitting in their campgrounds, with tents and a fire, at Camp Sells. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Group portrait of nineteen female students, some with long braids and some with baseball equipment, posed in an outdoor setting. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Female students posed standing and sitting in front of tents. In the foreground one girl in Native-style dress holds a boy and arrow and another is posed aiming what appears to be a rifle. One of the seated girls is wearing a Native-style headband. A white female teacher stands at far right. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Female students posed in rows, standing in front of the dining pavilion. In the foreground a black man stands beside an outdoor cooking grill with pots and pans on it. Another man stands, wiping his face, beside a pile of wood. At far left a female student in Native-style clothing poses with a boy and arrow. Behind her a female student wearing a Native-style headband poses aiming a rifle. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

On the grounds at Camp Sells, fourteen male students, a row standing and a row sitting, pose in the foreground and three male students are sitting and standing in the background. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The caption on the front of the postcard reads: Panoramic View of Indian School and Campus, Carlisle, Pa.

The address has been crossed out but reads "Miss R. Stetson, 860 N. 22nd St. Phila. Pa." The message on the back reads: " Dear Sister, Thought you might like to see the Indian School on a card. Spent Sunday in Harrisburg, Love Helen"

 

Format: Postcard

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

The headline reads: VERSATILE INDIAN IS WONDER OF ATHLETICS

The captions read from top left to bottom right: PLAYING FOOTBALL   RUNNING BROAD JUMP    RUNNING 100 YARD DASH          HIGH JUMPING      AS A BASE BALL PITCHER        BASKETBALL        PUTTING THE SHOT      HURDLING

These images appear in the New York World on January 4, 1913.

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The caption reads: THE THORPE BRIDAL PARTY.

The bridal party for the wedding of Jim Thorpe and Iva Miller.

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

Studio portrait of Edward Brien (standing) and David Bird (seated), both wearing non-native clothing.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Gladys Titus, 6 mo old.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

Harry John outside a house with an unidentified women in the background.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

Harry John holding two trowels with other tools on the ground.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

View of Everett Ranco as a student at Carlisle.

This image was shared courtesy of Robert R. Rowe.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Robert R. Rowe Private Collection

The caption reads: Panoramic View of Indian School and Campus, Carlisle, PA.

The reverse side contains a note sent to Marie Belbeck sent from Carlisle, Pennsylvania on August 1, 1914.

Format: Postcard

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

Harry John holding two trowels with other tools on the ground.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

Studio portrait of Richard R. Kesetta wearing non-native clothing.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The caption reads: U.S.S. "Mississippi" In Dry Dock, League Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pa.

The reverse side contains a note from Marcos Carbajal to Oscar H. Lipps sent on May 18, 1914 from Morrisville, Pennsylvania.

Format: Postcard

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The caption reads: Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas.

The reverse side contains a note from John A. Ortego to Oscar H. Lipps from Lawrence, Kansas on June 5, 1915. It is likely that John A. Ortego is the student also known as Aniseto Ortego.

Format: Postcard

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: The face my book like she came old Bessie

Here are my little boys and our watch dog. with my best wishes to you. Remember me to Elizabeth Baird.

Bessie Gotholda Thompson holding a small dog with a group of boys in the Black Rock Boarding School in Black Rock, New Mexico.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Minnie White

Minnie White in the foreground with a house and barn in the background.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The caption reads: Panoramic View of Indian School and Campus, Carlisle, Pa.

The reverse side includes a note to Lillian Simons in Mashpee, Massachusetts from Billie. The note is sent from Carlisle, Pennsylvania on August 1, 1914.

Format: Postcard

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

Joseph S. Sheehan and wife.

Clipping is from the Baltimore America in 1914.

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The caption reads: WEST ST. A. M. E. ZION CHURCH, CARLISLE, PA.

The reverse side includes a note from Mary Chief to Mrs. Brennan sent from Carlisle, Pennsylvania on October 15, 1914.

Format: Postcard

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The caption reads: OFFICERS OF CHEMAWA BATTALION, 1914.

The handwritten note reads: Ed Smith - Discip.

Edwin A. Smith with the Chemawa Battalion in uniform with other members.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration