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 Edward Bracklin wearing an athletic uniform and holding a lacrosse stick.
This image was scanned from The Red Man, Vol. III, No. 7, 1911/03.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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
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
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 of the postcard includes a note from Louis Felix to Superintendent Moses Friedman.
Felix's house is located in Prior Lake, Minnesota.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
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 reads: Pearl Bonser
Pearl Bonser with a group of students sitting on the steps of a building.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The note on the reverse side reads: John Monhart
John A. Monhart in a suit outside.
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 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
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: This is my home.
Charles Buck's house was located in Browning, Montana.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of Joseph Bergie in football uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Dining room.
View inside Buck's house, which was located in Browning, Montana.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: JAMES THORPE Retiring Captain of the Carlisle Indian School Football Team
Jim Thorpe holding a football in his football uniform.
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: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: MRS. ROSA. B. LA FLESCHE (Chippewa)
The note reads: It was her deep faith in the Society and her devotion to it that carried the first conference to success and gave the Society the strength to live through its most critical periods.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The printed note on the reverse side reads: John Doyle
John Doyle with three others outside with a house and small tree in the background.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The headline reads: INDIANS TO COMPETE IN MARATHON CONTEST
The caption reads: SKY EAGLE, INDIAN RUNNER Who Will Compete with White Sprinters in Los Angeles-Venice Marathon.
The printed note reads: Judson Cabay, Swiftest of Chippewa Braves, and Sky Eagle to Be Running Mates in Race to Venice
This image of Swift Eagle appears in an article of the Los Angeles Tribune.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View of a piano inside Charles Buck's house, which was located in Browning, Montana.
The reverse side includes a short note from Buck to Superintendent Moses Friedman.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
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: The Toona Indian Company
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Regards and best wishes of M'lle Toona
543 Lincoln Park Blvd., Chicago . Ill.
621 Olive Ave., Long Beach, California
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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: 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
Daphne Waggoner looking down in a white dress.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: L N. Gansworth
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration