A booklet of information and photographs assembled by the Carlisle Indian School for their 23rd year, circa 1902. Includes a short history of the school and the town and school demographic information. Includes pictures of arriving students, students during classroom and extracurricular activities, the buildings on campus, farmwork…
Track Team
![Catalogue of the Indian Industrial School, 1902 Catalogue of the Indian Industrial School, 1902](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-pub/iisc_cover_display.jpg?itok=A4zrBJVy)
![Final 220 yds. Dash Between Carlisle Indians and Mercersburg Academy, c.1900 Final 220 yds. Dash Between Carlisle Indians and Mercersburg Academy, c.1900](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/Rowe_A_09a_0.jpg?itok=eQmxIVY8)
The caption reads: Final 220 yds. Dash Between Carlisle Indians and Mercersburg Academy.
The handwritten note reads: Easter Greetings. Can you find the sender? A boy snapped this some years ago. W. A. McLaughlin. Mercersburg, Pa. 03/30/1907.
This image is from a track and field event between…
![Track Team, 1901 Track Team, 1901](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/iisc_0097_0.jpg?itok=S-PYU5Yg)
Large group of male students in athletic clothing, posed on the grounds in front of a fence.
This image, with the caption TRACK TEAM, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p.97].
![Relay track team at University of Pennsylvania meet, 1903 Relay track team at University of Pennsylvania meet, 1903](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/NAA_73860.jpg?itok=LRDqa9P5)
Photograph of a photograph of five male students in track clothing, posed outside, holding a banner from the "University of Pennsylvania 9th Annual Relay Races, 1903" with the participating teams listed.
![Final 220 yds. Dash Between Carlisle Indians and Mercersburg Academy [version 2] black and white image; photograph of the finish line of a track event, four young men are running towards the camera, the two in the front have a large M visible on their tops, a crowd of spectators stands on either side of the path to the finish line](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CIS-I-0126.jpg?itok=xkRI2DF5)
The caption on the front of the postcard reads: Final 220 yds. Dash. Between Carlisle Indians and Mercersburg Academy.
The postcard was sent to Paul Calm, Strong Creek Mills, Berks County, Pa.
![Track Team members, c.1908 Track Team members, c.1908](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/NARA_1327_b027_f1265_0002.jpg?itok=-0Fmrt5c)
The reverse side reads: Edgar Moore.
View of Edgar Moore with other members of the track team around 1908. Fellow team member Louis Dupuis is standing on the far right.
![Tewanima Can Run, 1909 Tewanima Can Run, 1909](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/NARA_1327_b079_f3766_0022combined.jpg?itok=h8PSX06b)
The headline reads: IT'S NO WONDER TEWANINA CAN RUN.
Lewis Tewanima in Carlisle Track uniform along with cartoons.
This image appears in The Globe and Commercial Advertiser on March 13, 1909.
![Track Team with Trophy, 1909 Track Team with Trophy, 1909](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/11-B-02.jpg?itok=OlkbpNOi)
Fourteen male student athletes posed in the photo studio with their white male coach, Pop Warner. They are the track team of 1909, posed with a trophy from the State Championship.
Jim Thorpe is the fourth male student from the left in the back row.
![Jim Thorpe, c.1910 black and white image; portrait of Jim Thorpe in athletic clothings, he is posed as if he about to start sprinting and he is looking to the right](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CIS-P-0016.jpg?itok=tUwxpSuE)
The caption reads: JAMES THORPE (INDIAN) FROM THE CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL THE WORLD’S CHAMPION ATHLETE.
![Athletic Teams Athletic Teams](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/RedMan_4_5_033.jpg?itok=DwyuaKeh)
The captions read: ATHLETICS, INDIAN FIELD, ON THE FIELD, BASE-BALL TEAM, TRACK TEAM, FOOT-BALL TEAM, GLENN S. WARNER CORNELL, '94 DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS
This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 5 (January 1912): 207.
![Lewis Tewanima and Jim Thorpe, c.1912 Lewis Tewanima and Jim Thorpe, c.1912](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/NARA_1327_b079_f3766_0021.jpg?itok=_Na5Eig1)
The headline reads: CARLISLE INDIAN ATHLETES LIKELY TO MAKE OLYMPIC TEAM
The captions reads: TEWAUNIA, MARATHON. THORPE, WEIGHTS, HURDLES AND SPRINTS.
![Lewis Tewanima in Track Uniform, #1, c.1912 Lewis Tewanima in Track Uniform, #1, c.1912](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/NARA_1327_b079_f3766_0026b.jpg?itok=3Bq2luE1)
The caption reads: Louis Tewanima
The printed note reads: IN THE 10,000-METER RUN AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN STOCKHOLM TEWANIMA SECOND PLACE-HE IS A FULL-BLOOD HOPI INDIAN AND IS CONSIDERED AMERICA'S GREATEST LONG-DISTANCE RUNNER
Tewanima in his Carlisle Track and Field Uniform.
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![Lewis Tewanima in Track Uniform, #2, c.1912 Lewis Tewanima in Track Uniform, #2, c.1912](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/NARA_1327_b079_f3766_0032.jpg?itok=9lKf0EEC)
Lewis Tewanima in his Carlisle Track and Field Uniform.
![Athletic Association Charter and By-Laws Front cover of the Carlisle booklet, gray blue color](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_CCF_b008_f04_10144_0185.jpg?itok=_RU6oORO)
A printed copy of the Carlisle Indian School Athletic Association Constitution and By-Laws (circa 1908) and a printed copy of the Charter and By-Laws of the Athletic Association of the University of Pennsylvania (circa December 1906).
These booklets were part of the materials compiled for the Congressional Investigation of 1914. …