Images

This image of Isaac Lyon as a Right Guard for the Carlisle Football team appeared in the New York Herald on October 1, 1911 as part of a feature about his death, which was suspected to be caused by his "witch" wife, Lillian Bigknife.

The caption reads: ADMINISTRATION BUILDING OF THE CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL

This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 2 (October 1911): 78.

The caption reads: FRONT VIEW OF SCHOOL HOSPITAL SHOWING OUT-DOOR SLEEPING ADDITIONS

The image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 2 (October 1911): 76.

This illustration of Lillian Bigknife appeared in the New York Herald on October 1, 1911 as part of a feature about Isaac Lyon's death, which was suspected to be caused by his "witch" wife, Lillian Bigknife.

The caption reads: BOY'S WARD, SCHOOL HOSPITAL

The image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 2 (October 1911): 75.

The caption reads: OUTDOOR SLEEPING WARD-HOSPITAL

The image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 2 (October 1911): 75.

The caption reads: TAKING THE OATH OF OFFICE

The printed note reads: Child citizenship is effective for producing right conditions among children and those civic habits which will insure faithful adult citizenship.

Our country needs it in every school, for its defense from mobs and riots instigated by ignorance of our institutions, on the part of our newly arrived populations.

This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 2 (October 1911): 58.

The caption reads: HIS HONOR THE MAYOR IS PRESENTED WITH HIS OFFICIAL BADGE

The printed note reads: This Russian-Jew boy, less than one year in America, was elected by more than two thousand little citizens to be their chief magistrate. His executive ability proved to be excellent and great good came to the little Republic under his administration.

This educational method of prevention affords our only permanent protection, except that of the police and army, from those conditions already arisen and developing every hour as the result of the influx of oppressed people from other lands.

This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 2 (October 1911): 58.

The caption reads: CITIZENS DISCUSSING A PROBLEM OF GOVERNMENT

The printed note reads: In any average public school, whatever the proportion of foreign born children, a large majority favor fair dealing and right conditions, and when given the privilege to govern themselves and shown how to legislate and carry their laws into execution, at once put a stop to cigarette smoking, fighting, profanity, hazing and all kindred evils. 

This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 2 (October 1911): 57.

The caption reads: CITIZENS WILL NOT TOLERATE TRUANCY

The printed note reads: All efforts for years by the New York City school authorities could not reduce the average daily number of unexcused absences in a certain large school below about 25. Within two weeks after the organizing of their School Republic, the children themselves reduced it to an average of two.

This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 2 (October 1911): 57.

The caption reads: AIR AND EFFICIENT EDUCATION - FOURTH-GRADERS STUDYING IN OPEN AIR

This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 2 (October 1911): 55.

The caption reads: AIR AND EFFICIENT EDUCATION - FIRST GRADE CHILDREN DOING CONSTRUCTION WORK IN OPEN AIR

This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 2 (October 1911): 55.

The printed caption reads: THE FIRST NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN ASSOCIATION, HELD AT COLUMBUS, OHIO, OCTOBER 12-15.

This image appears in the Review of Reviews vol. 16, no. 4 (November 1911): 537.

The headline reads: Famous Baseball Players Snapped at World's Series

The first caption reads: TY COBB (AT LEFT) TALKING TO CHRISTY MATHEWSON BETWEEN THE PITCHERS INNINGS.

The second caption reads: THE TWO INDIANS PLAYING IN THE WORLD'S SERIES. CHIEF MEYERS, CATCHER FOR NEW YORK (ON LEFT) AND CHIEF BENDER STAR PITCHER OF THE ATHLETICS.

These images appeared in the Wichita Beacon published in Wichita, Kansas on October 25, 1911.

The top picture shows a close up Charles Albert Bender in a sweater bearing his name.

The bottom picture shows an Athletics player after sliding into second base in the 1911 World Series against the New York Giants as an umpire looks on.

The caption reads: INDIAN TYPES-HOPI MAN, ARIZONA (Photo by Carpenter, Field Museum)

The image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 3 (November 1911): 100.

The caption reads: TEACHERS' CLUB, THE CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL

The image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 3 (November 1911): 101.

The caption reads: ATHLETIC QUARTERS - UNITED STATES INDIAN SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PENNSYLVANIA

The image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 3 (November 1911): 119.

The caption reads: INDUSTRIAL TRAINING-LESSON IN DOMESTIC SCIENCE, CARLISLE SCHOOL

The image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 3 (November 1911): 120.

The caption reads: SOME HOMES OF CARLISLE EX-STUDENTS WHO ARE "MAKING GOOD" 

The image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 3 (November 1911): 121.

The captions read: BUILDINGS, THE DINING HALL, THE LEUPP STUDIO, GIRLS' QUARTERS, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, THE GUARD HOUSE, LARGE BOYS' QUARTERS

The image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 3 (November 1911): 122.

The captions read: CARLISLE INDIANS DEFEAT PENN ON FRANKLIN FIELD. 16-0

The sub-captions read: Captain Burd of the Indians, centre; Wheelock, of Carlisle, crashing through Penn's line; When the Indians scored. 

The handwritten note reads: Nov. 4, 1911.

 A group of visiting Cheyenne chiefs, posed with former student Thaddeus Redwater and another man. 

A clipping from the Balitmore Sun in Thaddeus Redwater's student file identifies the chiefs who were with him on this visit as Charles Nonyak, Charles Toe Ball, William Bighead and Little Son. The November 24, 1911 issue of the Carlisle Arrow says the chiefs visiting were Big Head, Little Sun, Tall Bull, and Lone Elk. That article says they were also accompanied by Mr. Willis Rowland, "who has a son and two nieces enrolled at Carlisle."  

The handwritten note reads: Nov. 25, 1911. first snow.

The reverse side includes a short note from Tennyson Berry to an unidentified recipient.

View of Tennyson Berry's, or Ah-ko-beh-setine, house.

The caption reads: THE EDUCATION OF ALASKAN INDIANS - HOME OF THOMAS HANBURY, BUILT BY HIMSELF - A CARLISLE EX-STUDENT OF SITKA, ALASKA

The image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 4 (December 1911): 142.