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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Ernest William Kick as a member of the Canadian military around 1916.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
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: Baseball Team Captains of Carlisle 1914 - 1917.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has identified these students as Ambrose, Apekaum, Crane, and Johnson. It is not clear which student named Johnson the latter is.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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
Outdoor group portrait of members of 20 men and 25 women, identified as the faculty of the school in 1917. Wallace Denny is in the front row
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
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. They are: 1) Sarah Fowler 2) Maude Cook 3) Hattie McAfee 4) Theodore Frank 5) Jesse Wofford 6) Peter Tarbell 7) Jane Gayton 8) Belle Peniska 9) Hobson Tupper 10) Lena Parker 11) George Tibbetts 12) Mike Gurno 13) Earl Wilbur 14) Mary Welch 15) George Merrill 16) Mary L. Chief 17) Mary A. Cutler 18) Amy Smith 19) Max La Chapelle 20) Henry Sutton 21) Pauline Chisholm 22) Marion Paris 23) Mamie Mt. Pleasant 24) Mary Wilmet 25) John Flinchum 26) Wilson Wyley 27) George Warrington 28) Flora Peters 29) Eveyln Schingler 30) Margaret Raiche 31) Mae Lavadore 32) Isaac Willis 33) Alex Roye 34) Alta Printup 35) Ralph Tourtillotte 36) Daisy Eshelmen 37) Roberta Seneca 38) Addie Hovermale 39) Arnold Holiday 40) Andrew Beechtree 41) Eva Jones 42) Rhoda Fobb 42 [Duplicate number) Lyman Madison 43) Uneeda Burson 44) Edwin Miller 45) Francis Odibway 46) Marie Poupart 47) Sarah Monteith 48) Peter Jackson 49) Elizabeth Allen 50) Lucy West 51) Wilford Eshelman 52) Agnes Hatch, and 53) Lena Button.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: This was my squad when I first inlisted but it is not now. Herbert
Herbert Pappin with seven others in his army squad. Two tents in the background.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: MISS CORA ELM MISS SARAH M. INGALLS
The headline reads: INDIAN GIRLS WILL PLEAD FOR SUFFRAGE
The printed note reads: They will take part in the big suffrage demonstration planned for next Sunday in Washington under the direction of the Congressional Union. Miss Elm represents the Oneida tribe and is a nurse in the Episcopal Hospital in this city. Miss Ingalls is a member of the Sac-and-Fox tribe and is fitting herself for a business career. More than 100 delegates of the union in this city and suffrage sympathizers will take part in the demonstration.
This image appears in a newspaper in Philadelphia, PA on March 1, 1917.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
While the two individuals in this photograph have not been positively identified, it is likely Harry Charles and Daisy Brader. Harry married Daisy in December 1917.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: Camp Kelly Sanantonio Texas
The handwritten note on the reverse reads: Whatever you do dont criticeze my Big nose couse I cant help now the old folks usto Be
Gabriel Poggie sitting on a cot in uniform at Camp Kelly, San Antonio, Texas in 1917.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Welch Teesateskee around 1917.
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Welch Teesatesky, in school uniform
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: David Bureau
The photograph appears in article regarding Bureau's attempt to enlist in the Aero Corps.
The newspaper title and the date of publication are unknown.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: I send my picuter Mr James Chaves Riverbank California round house.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The title reads: GERMAN HOSPITAL OF BROOKLYN, N. Y.
St. Nicholas Avenue, Stanhope and Stockholm Streets
J. Edward Stohlmann, Superintendent.
The caption reads: THE TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES CONNECTED WITH THIS INSTITUTION offers a three years' course of training to young women who have had one year in High School or its equivalent.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: Burson.
Uneeda Burson in a white dress.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: Madison
Lyman Madison in a bow tie and formal suit.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: Warrington
George Anthony Warrington in a formal three piece suit and tie.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: Lonechief
Mary Lonechief in glasses and a white collared shirt.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration