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The handwritten note reads: Madison

Lyman Madison in a bow tie and formal suit.

The handwritten note reads: Raiche

The handwritten note reads: Lonechief

Mary Lonechief in glasses and a white collared shirt.

The handwritten note reads: Welch

Mary Welch in glasses and white collared shirt.

The handwritten note reads: Wilmet.

Mary Wilmet in a white shirt and glasses.

The handwritten note reads: Cooke

The handwritten note reads: Burson.

Uneeda Burson in a white dress.

Welch Teesateskee around 1917.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Welch Teesatesky, in school uniform

The caption reads: Lieut. S. C. LONG-LANCE

Sylvester C. Long Lance in military uniform.

This image of Sylvester Long Lance appears in an article in the New York World on February 25, 1917.

Isaac Willis in his U.S. Naval uniform from the U.S.S. Kentucky.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Jerome Feather.

Jerome Feather in his Infantry uniform after joining the military on June 1, 1917.

The top caption reads: Sylvester Chahuska Long Lance, a full-blooded Cherokee Indian, college graduate and champion athlete, now First Lieutenant of "Princess Pat's," who fought at Vimy Ridge, at present lies severely wounded in a base hospital, "somewhere in France."

The bottom caption reads: Cadet Long Lance,…

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Earl Wilber

Earl Wilber in his U.S. Army Uniform.

View of the State Sanitorium in Mt. Alto, Pennsylvania in mid-August 1917.

The reverse side includes a handwritten note from Joseph Denny to Mr. C. V. Peel.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Wm. Littlewolfe

William Little Wolfe in his naval uniform that was included in a letter to someone at Carlisle while stationed on the U.S.S. Texas on November 23, 1917.

The caption reads: Pete Calac

The headline reads: Will Lead Wesleyan

The article begins: Pete Calac, the famous Indian football player who has played on the West Virginia Wesleyan team for the past two seasons, was selected last night by his team mates, at the annual football banquet which…

The headline reads: Indian Athlete To Quit Game

The caption reads: JIM THORPE.

Jim Thorpe in a suit and tie wearing a hat.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Aniseto Ortego.

Aniseto Orgeto in uniform.

The headline reads: Indian Officer in Army

The caption reads: CAPTAIN "GUS" WELSH

The article reads: "Gus" Welsh, Indian athlete and graduate of Carlisle school, who has been made a captain in the United States, cavalry, is the first Indian…

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Corporal S. Patterson.

Spencer Patterson in his U.S. Army uniform holding a gun at his side.

Frank Verigan in a formal suit with tie.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Fred Blythe

Fred Blythe in uniform.

The headline reads: American Indians with Allies

The article reads: New York Sun: Gus Welsh, at left, is the first American Indian to be made a captain in the United States army. He was a former Carlisle and Dickinson football and athletic star. A feature of the fortieth annual commencement of the Carlisle Indian…

Guy Littlejohn in his U.S. Army uniform around 1918.

The handwritten note reads: Paris

Marion Paris in a formal suit and tie.