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 handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Childers and children Clarence, Eloise, and Ruby. Broken Arrow Oklahoma, October 8, 1915.
View of D. B. and Mildred (Millie) McIntosh Childers with their three children.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: By Franci Rameies
This drawing of a house with a fence is on the inside front cover of the Onondaga Free Academy Hand Book: 1915-1916.
Format: Drawing
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Ozetta Bourbonnais and an unidentified woman wearing a cape. Both in white uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Ozetta Bourbonnais in white uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: THE GERMAN HOSPITAL ANNEX
The New Home for the Pupil Nurses of the Training School
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side contains a note from John Kennedy to Oscar H. Lipps regarding having his son James Henry Kennedy coming home to help on the farm over the summer. Sent from Irving, New York in March 1916.
House, two barns, and the greenhouse of James Henry Kennedy and his father John Kennedy.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Lillian Henry - Carlisle - Pa. Tribe - New York - Tuscarora
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of a male student, Corporal Robert James Tahamont, member of the second infantry of Company C of the National Guard of New Jersey, wearing his overcoat uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Corporal Robert James Tahamont member of the second infantry of Company C of the National Guard of New Jersey in 1916 in his overcoat uniform.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Portrait of Peter Calac posed outdoors wearing football uniform.
Note: The CCHS description of this image notes Calac was captain of the football team at this time.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: 1916-1492=424 years ago.
Three faces including a man with a bowler hat, a crying infant, and a man who appears ill. Appears in Barney Jacobs Onondaga Free Academy Hand Book for the 1915-1916 school year.
Format: Drawing
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Fred J. Ettawageshik in formal suit.
The handwritten caption reads: Fred Ettawageshik (1916.)
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Ernest William Kick as a member of the Canadian military around 1916.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Ernest William Kick as a member of the Canadian military around 1916.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The reverse side includes a note from Paul Red Star to Oscar H. Lipps sent from Manderson, South Dakota on August 8, 1916.
Church in a field with horses and people.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Group portrait of twenty-seven male students in uniform.
The rug in front of the students appears to be the same as that in another photo (FB03-11) which is dated 1916.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Group portrait of seventeen male students in uniform and one white man in uniform.
The photo's mat bears the inscription: "To Mr. & Mrs. Corbitt, Compliments of Carlisle Officers and Mr. J. F. Duran, Dec. 1916."
J. F. Duran was the school's Assistant Disciplinarian and there was a married couple named Corbett employed by the school.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Cora Elm
Cora Elm in her nursing uniform taken at her graduation from the Protestant Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1916.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The headline reads: Indian Appointed to The Military Academy
The printed caption reads: SYLVESTER CHAHUSKA LONGLANCE
This image appears in the Worcester Post on May 9, 1916.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: Macbeth and Lady Macbeth (Meroney French and Lucy West).
This image appears in The Carlisle Arrow vol. 13, no. 1 (July 1916): 4.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption on the postcard reads: Carlisle, Pa., Gymnasium, Indian School.
The postcard was addressed to Mrs. John P. Miller, Dillsburg, Pa. The message reads: "Dear Maud, How are you and the boys. We are all pretty well. We will look for you all on the 28th the big day in Carlisle. Kathryn."
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption on the front reads: GREEN HOUSE AT INDIAN SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA.
The postcard was sent to Wm. Gutbhall[?] Band 8th Rgt. 3rd Brigade Pa. U. G. U. S. Camp Steward, El Paso Texas. The message reads "Carlisle Pa. Aug. 27 -16 Brother Wm. Sorry to hear you are broke Yors G. A. Sollenly"
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption on the front of the postcard reads: Indian School, Parade Ground and Buildings, Carlisle, Pa.
The postcard was addressed to Mr. Jonny Miller, Dillsburg, Pa. and the message reads: "Dear Jonny, I hope you had a Merry Christmas. Santa Claus was good to me. I hope he was the same to you. Santa Claus brought me a sled." Above the message it is signed "from Martha Jane".
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Part of a scrapbook compiled by William Winneshiek (Winnebago), who wrote the caption: Carlisle Dramatic Club Presents The Indian Pagent "Sweet Corn" 1917.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A group of male and female students posed on the steps of a building on the school grounds. A male student in the front row holds a banner reading: "Justice Class 1917." A handwritten list of student names below the photo identifies each person.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society