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 caption reads Academic Building, Indian School, Carlisle, PA.

This image appears in a fold-out booklet of postcard views titled Souvenir Views of Carlisle, PA (New York, NY: The Valentine Souvenir Company, c.1910).

Format: Postcard (Commercial)

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

View of Michael W. Chabitnoy and Edward Wolfe taken while the two were working in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: John Frost, Grey Cliff, Mont.  

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The attached printed note reads: Thomas St. Germaine, a former commercial student and foot-ball player, has entered the senior law class at Yale and is now playing with the Yale scrubs.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Sarah Hoxie

Sara Hoxie wearing white dress and a large hat with a flower in the front.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Mary Redthunder

Mary Redthunder with an unidentifed male child.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: James Driver

View inside of James Driver (Goliath Bigjim)'s bakery with Driver and bread oven in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads:  James Driver

View of James Driver (Goliath Bigjim) next to his bakery and delivery wagon in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

View of Nannie Saunooke Screamer around 1910. Both Nannie and her husband, Manus Screamer, were students at the Carlisle Indian School.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

View of Manus Screamer around 1910. Screamer, a student at the Carlisle Indian School, went on to become a musician and started his own orchestra.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The caption reads: One of the First of The Modern Indian Homes Built on The Reservation

This image appears in the Sunday Oregonian, which is published in Portland.

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The caption reads Printing Office, Indian School, Carlisle, PA.

This image appears in a fold-out booklet of postcard views titled Souvenir Views of Carlisle, PA (New York, NY: The Valentine Souvenir Company, c.1910).

Format: Postcard (Commercial)

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Mr. Wallace Denny, This is our latest Photos what do you think of them. from your Friend, M.W.Chabinoy. Give my regards to friends.

View of Michael W. Chabitnoy and Edward Wolfe taken during their time at Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Format: Postcard (Real Photo)

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

Jim Thorpe around 1910.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The caption on this postcard reads: GYMNASIUM, ALL INDIANS EXCEPT INSTRUCTOR. 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: BOYS AT HEAVY GYMNASTICS AT 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

Joel Wheelock in football uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The Mishler family, including former Carlisle Indian School student Louis Mishler, take a family portrait around 1910.

Standing: Louis Mishler

Sitting, left to right: Lillian Isabelle Elizabeth Mishler, Clarence Harrison Mishler, Anna Johnson Mishler

This image was digitized from the private collection of Pat Monroe, descendant of Louis Mishler.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Private Collection

View of John D. LaJeunesse, Jr. around 1910.

Format: Postcard (Real Photo)

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: This is Ardith Nioma my youngest daughter living I have four girls living and one Boy three girls dead

Ardith Nioma McComb, the youngest daughter of Ellen Martin McComb and F. B. McComb, sitting on a stool around the age of four.

Format: Postcard (Real Photo)

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: This is my Self and Ardith and my Hired Girl

Ellen Martin McComb, Ardith Nioma McComb, and a hired girl doing laundry in a tub on a porch around 1910.

Format: Postcard (Real Photo)

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The headline reads: ARRANGING FOR CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN INDIANS

The caption reads: MRS. ROSA LA FLESCHE

The note reads: One of the leading women of her race, a graduate of Carlisle and long in the government service. She has been in Columbus, all summer arranging the preliminaries for the Indian Congress to meet here in October. Mrs. La Flesche is a Chippewa.

This image appears in the Columbus Dispatch published in Columbus, Ohio on September 17, 1911.

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The handwritten note reads: grace Tromley n Lucy Skiyosh Tromley

Lucy Skipegosh and two children outside a house with another girl standing in the doorway.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

Emma Eversman Wheelock and two children.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The caption reads: LONE STAR'S WIFE IN HER TRIBAL DRESS.

The printed note reads: Our artists in portraying Indians too often "try to improve upon the native dress, and it is evident," says an Indian artist, "that they do not use the native costume as a model, but trust to their imagination."

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration