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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Studio portrait of Julius Warren.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: Pearl Bonser
Pearl Bonser with a group of students sitting on the steps of a building.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Edison
Edison Mount Pleasant on stage.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Edison Mount Pleasant on stage.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Dining room.
View inside Buck's house, which was located in Browning, Montana.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: MRS. HENRY ROBERTS
The printed note reads: She was Miss Rose De Nomie, a nurse in the Carlisle Indian School Hospital. When Roberts, star end on the Indians' football team, was injured in a game she nursed him back to health and strength, and was wooed and won by him.
This image appears in The North American (1912).
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Portrait of Bruce Goesback standing in a field wearing a football uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Five women and one man on the stage set up in the school gymnasium. One of the women is likely Minnie White, since the photo is located in her file.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The headline reads: INDIAN ATHLETE AND CHEROKEE BRIDE -TO-BE.
The captions read: Miss MARGARET IVA MILLER. JAMES THORPE.
This image appears in the Philadelphia North American in October 1911.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View of Stephen Glori's apartment building, The Hudsonia, in New York City in 1911. Glori marks the location of his apartment with a "X."
The reverse side includes a note from Glori to Superintendent Moses Friedman.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: This is my home.
Charles Buck's house was located in Browning, Montana.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: Carlisle Indians 1911-1912.
The typed note on the reverse side reads: 1911 & 1912 Carlisle Indian Team.
BACK
ARCASA R HB ; WELSH QB ; POWELL FB ; THORPE L HB
LINE
WHEELOCK R E ; DIETZ R T ; BUSCH R G ; BERGLE C ; JORDON L G ; NEWASHE L T ; HENRI L E
17 Dickinson 0
46 Mt StMary’s 6
19 Georgetown 0
17 Layeffette 0
16 Pittsburgh 0
16 Penn 0
18 Harvard 15
13 Syracuse 14
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: The Toona Indian Company
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Regards and best wishes of M'lle Toona
543 Lincoln Park Blvd
Chicago . Ill -
621 Olive Ave..
Long Beach.
California
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: Minnie White
Minnie White with a group of students sitting on the steps of a building.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The reverse side of the postcard includes a note from Louis Felix to Superintendent Moses Friedman.
Felix's house is located in Prior Lake, Minnesota.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: This was taken right after the summer vacation.
View of Bird C. Seward's wagon around 1911.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: This is my home and family.
Rosalie Doctor Poodry with her husband Stafford Poodry and daughters Mabel, Ethel, Christine, and baby in front of their house in Basom, New York.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View of a piano inside Charles Buck's house, which was located in Browning, Montana.
The reverse side includes a short note from Buck to Superintendent Moses Friedman.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of Louis Dupuis in basketball uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten note reads: Sara Mansur
Sarah Mansur with a group of students sitting on the steps of a building at the Carlisle Indian School.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: MRS. ROSA B. LA FLESCHE,
The note reads: Secretary Congress of American Indians, in session at Columbus, Ohio.
This image appears in the Oklahoman in 1911.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction, Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: AIR AND EFFICIENT EDUCATION- MR. WATT'S IDEA IN PRACTICE IN A CHICAGO SCHOOLROOM
This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 2 (October 1911): 56.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The reverse side includes a note from Martha Sickles Cornelius to Nellie Robertson Denny.
Martha Sickles Cornelius and James W. Cornelius house during the winter.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Annie Dibo
View of Annie Dibo standing next to a house around 1911.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Anna Dibo
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration