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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Female students Jeanette Pappin, Clemence Le Traille and Blanche Jollie with two male and two female visitors. These are members of a group of Blackfeet dignitaries visiting the school for its commencement in early April of 1913.
According to the school newspaper there were twelve people in this party of visitors. Eleven of them were identified in the paper: Chief Long Time Sleep, Medicine Owl and wife, Chief John Whitecalf, Chief Three Bears, Lazy Boy, John Two Guns and wife, Fred Big Top , Fish Wolf Robe, and Cecelia Ground.
A researcher has identifed one of the people in this photo as Two Guns Whitecalf.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Female students Jeanette Pappin, Clemence Le Traille and Blanche Jollie with two male and two female visitors. These are members of a group of Blackfeet dignitaries visiting the school for its commencement in early April of 1913.
According to the school newspaper there were twelve people in this party of visitors. Eleven of them were identified in the paper: Chief Long Time Sleep, Medicine Owl and wife, Chief John Whitecalf, Chief Three Bears, Lazy Boy, John Two Guns and wife, Fred Big Top , Fish Wolf Robe, and Cecelia Ground.
A researcher has identifed one of the people in this photo as Two Guns Whitecalf.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: BLACK FEET INDIANS FROM GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. COMMENCEMENT WEEK. INDIAN SCHOOL. CARLISLE. PA.
These are members of a group of Blackfeet dignitaries visiting the school for its commencement in early April of 1913.
According to the school newspaper there were twelve people in this party of visitors. Eleven of them were identified in the paper: Chief Long Time Sleep, Medicine Owl and wife, Chief John Whitecalf, Chief Three Bears, Lazy Boy, John Two Guns and wife, Fred Big Top , Fish Wolf Robe, and Cecelia Ground.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Female student posed with one white man, presumably an interpreter, and three Native Americans.
Part of a scrapbook compiled by William Winneshiek (Winnebago), who wrote the caption "Montana Chiefs . . . Cheyenne, Osage + Sioux . . . Interpreter Greeting a Daughter A Daugther At Carlisle 1913."
Winneshiek appears to be mistaken, as this appears to have been taken on the occasion when a group of Blackfeet dignitaries visited the school for commencement in early April of 1913. Based on comparision with other photos of this occastion (see Related Images) we believe this student is Blanche Jollie.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The caption reads: CARLISLE STUDENT IN INDIAN DRESS
The handwritten note reads: Rose Lyons
The printed note reads: It isn't often that Indian students appear in native costume at Carlisle, but the accompanying cut is from a picture of Miss Star Eyes, who attracted much attention at this week's commencement by her pretty face and pic-turesque garb.
This image of Miss Star Eyes appears in the Harrisburg Telegraph on April 2, 1913.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Female students posed standing and sitting in front of tents. In the foreground several girls pose as if building a campfire.
Several girls are wearing Native American-style clothing and accessories.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Male students posed standing and sitting in their campgrounds, with tents and a fire, at Camp Sells.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A posed group at Camp Sells, with male students sitting on and standing next to a log bridge. More male students and staff are sitting and standing on the shore, some leaning on shovels, in front of tents. A banner with "Camp Sells" is strung between two trees.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
White female staff members posed using a two-sided saw on a log, while other staff members, including a black man, observe. Female students can be seen in the background with tents and the edge of the dining pavilion.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Male students posed standing and sitting in their campgrounds in front of the tents observing a male student playing a violin. A "Camp Sells" banner is partially visible in the background.
The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging notes that "in the August 1913 booklet about Camp Sells, the violin player is identified as Fred Cardin."
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Male students posed standing and sitting in their campgrounds, with tents and a fire, at Camp Sells.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Female students seated for a meal on benches at tables in an open air pavilion with female staff standing at the ends of the tables. A black male staff member is standing in the center in the background.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A posed group at Camp Sells, with white male and female staff on a log bridge, some carrying supplies. Some female students are sitting further back on the log bridge and standing in the water below. More female students and staff are sitting and standing on the shore in front of tents. A banner with "Camp Sells" is strung between two trees.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A posed group at Camp Sells, with female students sitting on a log bridge and standing in the water below. More female students and staff are sitting and standing on the shore in front of tents. A banner with "Camp Sells" is strung between two trees.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Female students posed standing and sitting in their campgrounds, with tents and a fire, at Camp Sells.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Female students posed standing and sitting in their campgrounds, with tents and a fire, at Camp Sells.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Group portrait of nineteen female students, some with long braids and some with baseball equipment, posed in an outdoor setting.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
On the grounds at Camp Sells, fourteen male students, a row standing and a row sitting, pose in the foreground and three male students are sitting and standing in the background.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Female students posed in rows, standing in front of the dining pavilion. In the foreground a black man stands beside an outdoor cooking grill with pots and pans on it. Another man stands, wiping his face, beside a pile of wood. At far left a female student in Native-style clothing poses with a boy and arrow. Behind her a female student wearing a Native-style headband poses aiming a rifle.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Female students posed standing and sitting in front of tents. In the foreground one girl in Native-style dress holds a boy and arrow and another is posed aiming what appears to be a rifle. One of the seated girls is wearing a Native-style headband. A white female teacher stands at far right.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The caption on the front of the postcard reads: Panoramic View of Indian School and Campus, Carlisle, Pa.
The address has been crossed out but reads "Miss R. Stetson, 860 N. 22nd St. Phila. Pa." The message on the back reads: " Dear Sister, Thought you might like to see the Indian School on a card. Spent Sunday in Harrisburg, Love Helen"
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The headline reads: VERSATILE INDIAN IS WONDER OF ATHLETICS
The captions read from top left to bottom right: PLAYING FOOTBALL RUNNING BROAD JUMP RUNNING 100 YARD DASH HIGH JUMPING AS A BASE BALL PITCHER BASKETBALL PUTTING THE SHOT HURDLING
These images appear in the New York World on January 4, 1913.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: THE THORPE BRIDAL PARTY.
The bridal party for the wedding of Jim Thorpe and Iva Miller.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Part of a scrapbook compiled by William Winneshiek (Winnebago), who wrote the caption "Jim Thorpe's Historical Wedding. Ivy Miller (Choctaw) The Smiling Bride. October 1913."
Men standing in back row, left to right: Francis Bresette, Ribbon Boy; Charles Pratt, Usher; Joseph Guyon, Usher; Augustus Look-Around, Usher; Peter Calac, Usher; Edward Morrin, Usher.
Middle Row, left to right: Francis McMahon, Ribbon boy; William Hodge, Usher; Gus Welch, Best Man; Jim Thorpe, Groom; Philip Welmas, Usher; Edward Thorpe, Usher.
Women and girls standing in front, left to right: Teresa Barron, Flower Girl; Adele Minich, Flower Girl; Margaret Chilson, Maid of Honor; Hazel Nori, Ring Bearer; Iva Miller, Bride; Verna Nori, Flower Girl.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of Thomas Hawk Eagle in a football uniform.
Part of a scrapbook compiled by William Winneshiek (Winnebago), who wrote the caption "Hawkeagle (Sioux) Guard, 1914."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society