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 headline reads: ARRANGING INDIAN CONFERENCE
The caption reads: MRS. ROSA BE LA FLESCHE.
The note reads: Three-quarter blood Chippewa, proud of her race, who is here arranging for the coming conference on betterment of conditions among her people. he is corresponding secretary and treasurer of the American Indian Association.
This image appears in the Columbus Ohio State Journal published in Columbus, Ohio on June 1, 1911.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction, Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: Minnie White
Minnie White with a group of female students in uniforms and hats.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: MRS. ROSA. B. LA FLESCHE (Chippewa)
The note reads: It was her deep faith in the Society and her devotion to it that carried the first conference to success and gave the Society the strength to live through its most critical periods.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: A corner in the palor.
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: CHARLES E. DAGENETT (Peoria) Vice President on Membership.
The printed note reads: Mr. Dagenett, who is the U. S. Supervisor of Indian Employment, has been one of the of the most energetic workers since the beginning of the Society. In many a financial crisis he has been the business head.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: JAMES THORPE Retiring Captain of the Carlisle Indian School Football Team
Jim Thorpe holding a football in his football uniform.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The printed note on the reverse side reads: John Doyle
John Doyle with three others outside with a house and small tree in the background.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: L N. Gansworth
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The headline reads: INDIANS TO COMPETE IN MARATHON CONTEST
The caption reads: SKY EAGLE, INDIAN RUNNER Who Will Compete with White Sprinters in Los Angeles-Venice Marathon.
The printed note reads: Judson Cabay, Swiftest of Chippewa Braves, and Sky Eagle to Be Running Mates in Race to Venice
This image of Swift Eagle appears in an article of the Los Angeles Tribune.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The note on the reverse side reads: John Monhart
John A. Monhart in a suit outside.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the front reads: Willard Comstock
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Willard Comstock's mother's home
The house of Inez Comstock the mother of Carlisle student Willard Comstock in Chicago, Illinois.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of Joseph Bergie in football uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Daphne Waggoner looking down in a white dress.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The printed note on the reverse side reads: Margaretta Reed George
Lewis George
Married August 30, 1911.
Margaretta Reed George and Lewis George in a car.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
House of Mary Perry Paisano and the family's small store in Casa Blanca, New Mexico, included with a returned student survey sent to the school in 1911.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of a male student. The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: R. Tahamont.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Anna Hauser
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of Elmer Busch wearing football uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The caption reads: JAMES REILY WHEELOCK
Portrait of James Riley Wheelock.
This image appears in The Telegraph, which is published in Harrisburg.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Portrait of Elmer Busch in football uniform standing on an athletic field.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Virginia Boone
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Portrait of Joseph Bergie in a football uniform standing in a field.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Group portrait of thirty-one women, presumably all female students, wearing large hats, posed on the school grounds.
Note: This image was published in the Red Man with the caption: A HOME PARTY OF CARLISLE STUDENTS, JUNE 1911 - LEAVING FOR HOME AFTER A TERM AT CARLISLE.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two prints of this image: 10-B-26 and 13-13-01
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The caption on the front of the postcard reads: Academy Building, Indian School, CARLISLE, Pa.
The postcard was addressed to Mrs. H. D. Bender, Dauphin, Pa. On the side for the message the only thing written is the name Harry.
Format: Postcard
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections