Images

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

Format: Postcard (Real Photo)

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The handwritten note on the reads: O. Caswell

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Benj. Caswell & family.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

Alfred Blackwell around 1910.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: This is the front of my house.  This is me and my father.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

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.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

View of Patrick Kennedy around 1910. The woman standing next to Kennedy is likely his wife, Myrah K. Harris.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

View of David and his wife, Bessie Flute, with their baby around 1910.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The caption reads: INDIAN PARADE. CHEYENNE RIVER INDIAN FAIR, DUPREE, SOUTH DAKOTA.

The reverse side includes a note from James Browndog to Superintendent Moses Friedman.

Format: Postcard (Real Photo)

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

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.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The handwritten note reads: Adam F. Johnson

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: I have no picture of my house now. But will send one when I have it taken. Adam F. Johnson, 2020 R. R. One, Swanton, Ill.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

View of a boy with gun walking towards a house.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: [illegible] I have no Photos of my self that I can find.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

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).

Format: Postcard (Commercial)

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

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

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Winnie Turtlehead's child, Verna.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

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. 

Format: Postcard (Real Photo)

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

View of Olive Chisholm around 1910.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Ollie Chisholm

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

Jim Thorpe around 1910.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

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.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

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.

Format: Postcard (Real Photo)

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

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.

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The caption reads Entrance to 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).

Format: Postcard (Commercial)

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

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.

Format: Postcard (Real Photo)

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

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.

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Ellen Grinnell

A group of woman and a man stand outside an unidentified building. Ellen Grinnell is identified by the "X" in this photograph.

Note: A researcher suggested that Ellen Grinnell is likely a member of the Hidatsa Nation.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

Portrait of Dr. Caleb M. Sickles in a suit.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration