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The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: This is our Church - Presbyterian Church of Council.  My family is all well.  Your truly, G. N. Sitaraugok.

This Presbyterian Church is located in Council City, Alaska.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: You will see me with my Haying gang.  I am in front with the first team, at the M. V. Freight Yard. Geo. Conner.

The caption reads: JAMES THORPE (INDIAN)   FROM THE CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL   THE WORLD’S CHAMPION ATHLETE.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: David Little Oldman.

This photograph is of David Little Oldman plowing his field with the assistance of horses and another man.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Jos. Ross.

Joseph Ross in a suit.

The top handwritten note reads: Orchard of Stephen Reuben. Carlisle returned student of 1893.

The caption reads: Orchard Planted by a Nez Perce Indian Orchardist of Stephen Reuben. 1,250 different kind of fruit trees.

This image appears in the Sunday Oregonian, which is published in Portland.

The caption reads Sewing Room, Indian School, Carlisle, PA.

This image appears in a fold-out booklet of postcard views titled Souvenir Views of Carlisle, PA (New York, NY: The Valentine Souvenir Company, c.1910).

The handwritten note on the reverse reads: Katie Callsen

Group of 16 young women, 1 child, and 1 older woman on the steps of a building, with 1 woman standing next to the steps.

The caption reads Dispensary at Hospital, Indian School, Carlisle, PA.

This image appears in a fold-out booklet of postcard views titled Souvenir Views of Carlisle, PA (New York, NY: The Valentine Souvenir Company, c.1910).

Peter J. Jordan in his football uniform.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Home of D. W. Wheelock. '90 West Depere, Wis.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Thomas King & family; Wyandotte, Okla.

A seasonal greeting card from Thomas King, his wife (Mary Long), and their four children around 1910. 

The caption reads: SAVAGE HOPI INDIANS ARE TRANSFORMED INTO MODEL STUDENTS

The sub-captions over the individual pictures read (top, then left to right): BAND OF HOPI INDIANS AS THEY LOOKED FIVE YEARS AGO WHEN THEY WERE TAKEN TO THE CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL; JOSHUA HERMEYESVA; ARCHIE QUAMALA AS HE LOOKS TODAY; LEWIS TEWANIMA, FAMOUS MARATHON RUNNER, WHO WAS A SAVAGE FIVE YEARS AGO.

The newspaper title and the date of publication are unknown.

The caption reads Dining Hall, Indian School, Carlisle, PA.

This image appears in a fold-out booklet of postcard views titled Souvenir Views of Carlisle, PA (New York, NY: The Valentine Souvenir Company, c.1910).

View of Etta Crow Batson, Olivia Batson, Etta Batson, Robert Batson, and Alfred Batson around 1910.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Etta Crow Batson, Olivia Batson, Robert Batson, Etta Batson, and Alfred Batson. 

View of Olive Chisholm around 1910.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Ollie Chisholm

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Mrs. Katrina Scott and Daughters, St. Xavier, Montana 

The caption reads: LONE STAR'S WIFE IN HER TRIBAL DRESS.

The printed note reads: Our artists in portraying Indians too often "try to improve upon the native dress, and it is evident," says an Indian artist, "that they do not use the native costume as a model, but trust to their imagination."

Jim Thorpe around 1910.

The handwritten note reads: Laundry.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Laundry     ELLA ALBERT INSTRUCTOR.

This image was shared courtesy of Robert R. Rowe.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Louis Vilnave

Louis Vilnave (left) and an William M. Hodge.

Alfred Blackwell around 1910.

View of John D. LaJeunesse, Jr. around 1910.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: This is Ardith Nioma my youngest daughter living I have four girls living and one Boy three girls dead

Ardith Nioma McComb, the youngest daughter of Ellen Martin McComb and F. B. McComb, sitting on a stool around the age of four.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: This is my Self and Ardith and my Hired Girl

Ellen Martin McComb, Ardith Nioma McComb, and a hired girl doing laundry in a tub on a porch around 1910.