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 reads: Mr & Mrs King with their colts.
Ellen and Charles King with four colts and a dog.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Children of Mr. + Mrs. Keller
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Dr C.A. McNutt St Joseph Missouri.
Photograph of Louise Provost McNutt and Dr. C.A. McNutt that McNutt sent to Superintendent Moses Friedman on December 12, 1909.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student in school uniform.
The postcard was produced and marketed by local photographer M. J. Hoover.
Format: Postcard (Commercial), Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Fred Sickles
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Julia Elmore
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Julia Elmore
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Martin D. Archiquette, band instructor, and a group of students at the Indian School of Fort Simcoe, Washington.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: J. H. Lonestar. Shell Lake, Wis.
View of John H. Lonestar with his wife, Rebecca Hart Lonestar, and his two children around 1909.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Portrait of Peter J. Jordan in suit.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: C. L. Butler chief engineer in electric-lighting of steam-heating plant, with air-compresser in the rear.
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: I was standing in the pumphouse door.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Staff dining area, with tables set with tablecloths and a coffee urn on a side table. Radiator in the background along with exposed light bulb hanging from the ceiling.
This postcard is believed to have been produced at the school after the establishment of a photo studio there.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
A panorama photo (10" x 50") of the Carlisle Indian School campus, facing east.
The caption reads: U.S. INDIAN SCHOOL. CARLISLE, PENNA.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: TEWANIMA, CARLISLE'S GREAT INDIAN RUNNER.
Lewis Tewanima in hat and suit.
This image appears in the New York Herald in January 1909.
Format: Drawing
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The headline reads: Indian Wins Exiciting Ten Mile Run
The captions read: JOHNNY McHUGH STARTER JAMES THORPE. LEWIS TENEWANINA J. NORMAN LYND WESLEY W COE. HARRY HILLMAN LAWSON ROBERTSON JOHN J. ELLER.
The article starts: Lewis Tewanina Makes Up Nearly One Lap and Beats J. Lee in Thrilling Finish.
YALE TAKES RELAY RACE
These images and drawings appear in a newspaper covering the Pastime Athletic Club’s games in New York City’s Madison Square Garden in January 1909.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten writing on the reverse side reads: Marjorie Jackson
Majorie Jackson standing outside on the schoolgrounds.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The printed caption reads: GIRLS AT DUMB BELL WORK AT INDIAN SCHOOL, Carlisle, Pa.
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Here is the Place we dance. I tell you it goes dandy. Sincerly, Jacob Paul Carlisle, Pa.
Note sent to Elizabeth Young in Roxbury, New Jersey from Jacob Paul in 1909.
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption on this postcard reads: Indian School Band and Girls Quarters, Carlisle, PA.
The postcard was addressed to Mr. Chester Wleuau[?], Steelton, Pa.
The message reads: "Am staying near here for a few days. How's Steelton? Dutch"
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The reverse side contains a note from Joseph Sheehan.
The 1909 Frederick, Maryland Y.M.C.A football team in uniform.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption on this postcard reads: CARPENTER SHOP AND TAILORING DEPT, INDIAN SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA.
The postcard was addressed to Miss Gillie M. Atherton, Greencastle, Pa.
The message reads: "Reach home safe and sound. I am well hoping you are the same. got done about 8 o'clock. Sunday being work hard on Monday done forget on Saturday and soon form a true friend H. J. B."
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
View of Charles W. Buck and his wife, Spyna Devereaux, around 1909. Both Charles and Spyna attended the Carlisle Indian School.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View of Charles and Spyna Buck's daughter around 1909.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: Oliver Brown and his pony
The reverse side includes a short note from Oliver Brown to his mother Eliza Bell Brown.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View of Josiah Redwolf around 1909.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Lillian Complainville Keller Oliver Curtis Keller
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
