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 caption reads: GIRL STUDENTS OF CARLISLE IN PENNSYLVANIA HOUSEHOLDS UNDER THE SCHOOL'S OUTING SYSTEM.
This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 1 (September 1911): 11.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: HOMES OF CARLISLE EX-STUDENTS AND GRADUATES.
The printed note reads: MRS. LAURA PEDRICK, KIOWA, ANADARKO, OKLAHOMA; ELLEN MARTIN MCCOMEE, OSAGE, FORAKE, OKLA.; WILLIAM PAISANO AND MARY PERRY, PUEBLOS, CASA BLANCA, N.M.; BENJ. CASWELL AND LEILA CORNELIUS, CHIPPEWA AND ONEIDA, CASS LAKE, MINNESOTA.
This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 1 (September 1911): 12.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: THIS INDIAN LAD SPEAKS OF THINGS WITH WHICH HE HAS AN INTIMATE ACQUAINTANCE INSTEAD OF DELIVERING AN ORATION ON LITERATURE OR POLITICS, GAINED SECOND HAND
This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 1 (September 1911): 14.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: FULLBLOOD NAVAJO INDIANS OPERATING STEAM DRILL ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ZUNI DAM, BLACKROCK, NEW MEXICO
This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 1 (September 1911): 31.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: JAMES THORPE
Jim Thorpe in his Carlisle Football uniform.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption on the front of the postcard reads: General View, Indian School, CARLISLE, Pa. There is also a few handwritten words on the front: "Nov. 10, 1911. Luddlow Bbs, P. I."
The postcard was addressed to Corpl. J. E. Bryan, Co. A. 21 St. Iny Manila P. I. and reads "Newburg, Pa. yous letter received a few days ago more than glad to hear from you will visite later I am having a good time, Ida".
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption on the front of the postcard reads: GIRLS QUARTERS - INDIAN SCHOOL CARLISLE PA. This postcard was produced and marketed by local photographer M. J. Hoover.
The postcard was addressed to Miss Annie Schaeffer, Millersburg, Pa, R. F. D. no 1 c/o Newton Schaeffer.
The message reads "Cousin Annie, Could you arrange to come in after supper this eve- I must help out home again today, am awfully sorry I hadn't been home. Will be home tomorrow if it will suit the best. Berta"
Format: Postcard (Commercial), Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
This image of Isaac Lyon as a Right Guard for the Carlisle Football team appeared in the New York Herald on October 1, 1911 as part of a feature about his death, which was suspected to be caused by his "witch" wife, Lillian Bigknife.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: ADMINISTRATION BUILDING OF THE CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL
This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 2 (October 1911): 78.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: FRONT VIEW OF SCHOOL HOSPITAL SHOWING OUT-DOOR SLEEPING ADDITIONS
The image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 2 (October 1911): 76.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
This illustration of Lillian Bigknife appeared in the New York Herald on October 1, 1911 as part of a feature about Isaac Lyon's death, which was suspected to be caused by his "witch" wife, Lillian Bigknife.
Format: Drawing
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: BOY'S WARD, SCHOOL HOSPITAL
The image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 2 (October 1911): 75.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: OUTDOOR SLEEPING WARD-HOSPITAL
The image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 2 (October 1911): 75.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: TAKING THE OATH OF OFFICE
The printed note reads: Child citizenship is effective for producing right conditions among children and those civic habits which will insure faithful adult citizenship.
Our country needs it in every school, for its defense from mobs and riots instigated by ignorance of our institutions, on the part of our newly arrived populations.
This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 2 (October 1911): 58.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: HIS HONOR THE MAYOR IS PRESENTED WITH HIS OFFICIAL BADGE
The printed note reads: This Russian-Jew boy, less than one year in America, was elected by more than two thousand little citizens to be their chief magistrate. His executive ability proved to be excellent and great good came to the little Republic under his administration.
This educational method of prevention affords our only permanent protection, except that of the police and army, from those conditions already arisen and developing every hour as the result of the influx of oppressed people from other lands.
This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 2 (October 1911): 58.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: CITIZENS DISCUSSING A PROBLEM OF GOVERNMENT
The printed note reads: In any average public school, whatever the proportion of foreign born children, a large majority favor fair dealing and right conditions, and when given the privilege to govern themselves and shown how to legislate and carry their laws into execution, at once put a stop to cigarette smoking, fighting, profanity, hazing and all kindred evils.
This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 2 (October 1911): 57.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: CITIZENS WILL NOT TOLERATE TRUANCY
The printed note reads: All efforts for years by the New York City school authorities could not reduce the average daily number of unexcused absences in a certain large school below about 25. Within two weeks after the organizing of their School Republic, the children themselves reduced it to an average of two.
This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 2 (October 1911): 57.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: AIR AND EFFICIENT EDUCATION - FOURTH-GRADERS STUDYING IN OPEN AIR
This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 2 (October 1911): 55.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: AIR AND EFFICIENT EDUCATION - FIRST GRADE CHILDREN DOING CONSTRUCTION WORK IN OPEN AIR
This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 2 (October 1911): 55.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The printed caption reads: THE FIRST NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN ASSOCIATION, HELD AT COLUMBUS, OHIO, OCTOBER 12-15.
This image appears in the Review of Reviews vol. 16, no. 4 (November 1911): 537.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The headline reads: Famous Baseball Players Snapped at World's Series
The first caption reads: TY COBB (AT LEFT) TALKING TO CHRISTY MATHEWSON BETWEEN THE PITCHERS INNINGS.
The second caption reads: THE TWO INDIANS PLAYING IN THE WORLD'S SERIES. CHIEF MEYERS, CATCHER FOR NEW YORK (ON LEFT) AND CHIEF BENDER STAR PITCHER OF THE ATHLETICS.
These images appeared in the Wichita Beacon published in Wichita, Kansas on October 25, 1911.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The top picture shows a close up Charles Albert Bender in a sweater bearing his name.
The bottom picture shows an Athletics player after sliding into second base in the 1911 World Series against the New York Giants as an umpire looks on.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: INDIAN TYPES-HOPI MAN, ARIZONA (Photo by Carpenter, Field Museum)
The image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 3 (November 1911): 100.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: TEACHERS' CLUB, THE CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL
The image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 3 (November 1911): 101.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: ATHLETIC QUARTERS - UNITED STATES INDIAN SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PENNSYLVANIA
The image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 3 (November 1911): 119.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections