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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Studio portrait of a male student. The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: R. Tahamont.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: JAMES REILY WHEELOCK
Portrait of James Riley Wheelock.
This image appears in The Telegraph, which is published in Harrisburg.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Edison
Edison Mount Pleasant on stage.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The headline reads: ARRANGING INDIAN CONFERENCE
The caption reads: MRS. ROSA BE LA FLESCHE.
The note reads: Three-quarter blood Chippewa, proud of her race, who is here arranging for the coming conference on betterment of conditions among her people. he is corresponding secretary and treasurer of the American Indian Association.
This image appears in the Columbus Ohio State Journal published in Columbus, Ohio on June 1, 1911.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction, Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The reverse side of the postcard includes a note from Louis Felix to Superintendent Moses Friedman.
Felix's house is located in Prior Lake, Minnesota.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: MRS. HENRY ROBERTS
The printed note reads: She was Miss Rose De Nomie, a nurse in the Carlisle Indian School Hospital. When Roberts, star end on the Indians' football team, was injured in a game she nursed him back to health and strength, and was wooed and won by him.
This image appears in The North American (1912).
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: MRS. ROSA B. LA FLESCHE,
The note reads: Secretary Congress of American Indians, in session at Columbus, Ohio.
This image appears in the Oklahoman in 1911.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction, Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Edison Mount Pleasant on stage.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of Julius Warren.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of Elmer Busch wearing football uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Anna Hauser
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: This is my home.
Charles Buck's house was located in Browning, Montana.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: This was taken right after the summer vacation.
View of Bird C. Seward's wagon around 1911.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Dining room.
View inside Buck's house, which was located in Browning, Montana.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Portrait of Elmer Busch in football uniform standing on an athletic field.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The reverse side includes a note from Martha Sickles Cornelius to Nellie Robertson Denny.
Martha Sickles Cornelius and James W. Cornelius house during the winter.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The printed note on the reverse side reads: Margaretta Reed George
Lewis George
Married August 30, 1911.
Margaretta Reed George and Lewis George in a car.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Willard Comstock's mother's home
The house of Inez Comstock the mother of Carlisle student Willard Comstock in Chicago, Illinois.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the front reads: Willard Comstock
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Portrait of Bruce Goesback standing in a field wearing a football uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The caption reads: CHARLES E. DAGENETT (Peoria) Vice President on Membership.
The printed note reads: Mr. Dagenett, who is the U. S. Supervisor of Indian Employment, has been one of the of the most energetic workers since the beginning of the Society. In many a financial crisis he has been the business head.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: A corner in the palor.
View inside Buck's house, which was located in Browning, Montana.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The headline reads: INDIAN ATHLETE AND CHEROKEE BRIDE -TO-BE.
The captions read: Miss MARGARET IVA MILLER. JAMES THORPE.
This image appears in the Philadelphia North American in October 1911.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
House of Mary Perry Paisano and the family's small store in Casa Blanca, New Mexico, included with a returned student survey sent to the school in 1911.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of Joseph Bergie in football uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society