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 reads: Class Rooms, Indian School, Carlisle, Pa.
The postcard was addressed to Dr. Zatae L. Straw, 627 Union St., Manchester, N. H.
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: CAMPUS AND TENNIS COURT, INDIA SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA.
The postcard was addressed to Miss Enid C. Straw, 627 Union St., Manchester, N. H. The message reads: "Dear Enid, Was so glad to get your card & will surely write you a long letter in the very near future. The school marms are kept pretty busy keeping bad boys & girls busy. I know you are not of that kind however Ha! Ha! With love, Helen."
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Angus Jacobs
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Profile of Angus Jacobs around 1908.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Harry W. Wheeler around 1908.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: Guard House at Indian School, Carlisle, Pa. (built by the Hessians 1777).
The postcard was addressed to Dr. Zatae L. Straw, 627 Union St., Manchester, N. H.
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption on this postcard reads: Instruction Buildings, Carlisle Indian School. Carlisle, Pa.
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption on this postcard reads: Academic Building, Indian School, Carlisle, Pa.
The only words on the back are standardized directions for where to write a message and where to write the address.
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption on this postcard reads: Alumni Hall, U. S. Indian School, Carlisle, Pa. Designed and Built by Students.
The only words on the back are standardized directions for where to write a message and where to write the address.
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption on this postcard reads: Campus and Tennis Courts, Indian School, Carlisle, Pa.
The reverse side includes a short note addressed to Helen M. Smith of Derry, Pa. which reads: "Your card received. No, I am not dead. I am going to write soon. Yours A. H. W."
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
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.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Small photograph of David Solomon.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of Manus Screamer and Nannie Saunooke. Screamer is wearing a uniform. They were married at the school in 1908 and this photo may have been taken at that time.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Clara Tepania (1) Anna Rolette (2)
Clara Trepania and Anna Roulette in their Carlisle uniforms. Each student is indicated by a number and identified on the reverse side.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View of the Gymnasium after the addition of the bowling alley, showing the connection to the Girls' Quarters.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of a large group of seated and standing male and female students, identified as the graduating class of 1908. They are identified in a label attached below the photo.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A white male doctor, a white female nurse, two female and one male student nurses are posed in an operating room with a male student patient.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A white male doctor, a white female nurse, two female and one male student nurses are posed in an operating room with a male student patient.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A white male doctor, a white female nurse, two female and one male student nurses are posed in an operating room with a male student patient.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The caption on the front of the postcard reads: Tewanima, "the marathon runner," Indian School, Carlisle, Pa.;
The only words on the back are standardized directions for where to write a message and where to write the address.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Two white men, presumably doctors, and six women, presumably nurses or nursing staff, standing on the porch and steps of the hospital. Five of the women are wearing nursing uniforms. One, not so dressed, is Native American.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Part of a scrapbook compiled by William Winneshiek (Winnebago), who wrote the caption: One Of The Chief Causes Of The Government Inspection Into Corrupted Management Of Carlisle's Appropriations.
What Was The Outcome of That Gov. Inspection? This "Grafter" Was Fired . . .
Photo of Moses Friedman, a native of Cincinnati, O., The New Superintendent of the Carlisle Indian School, who succeeds Supervisor Dickinson, on Wednesday, April 1, during the Carlisle Indian School Commencement. Supt. Friedman is 33 years old, and an authority on industrial training."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A typed label on the reverse of the image identifies it as an "'open air' summer trolley" on Pratt Avenue. The Leupp Art Studio is visible in the background.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
This postcard has the caption Taps Indian School Carlisle, Pa. This postcard is believed to have been produced at the school after the establishment of a photo studio there.
Although this postcard was never sent, there is a message written on the back: "To Donald from Catharine. We had an indian boy take us all through the Indian school."
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Female students and student nurses posed in a hospital room with beds and other furnishings.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society