Sac & Fox

Portrait of twelve female and fourteen male students posed outside on the school grounds. The students are identified below the image. 

This is a page from The Red Man, March 1897. The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: 14A-02-01 and 15-28-01. 

Studio portrait of Shela Guthrie Brown holding a doll. 

Studio portrait of the graduating class of 1898. Students are marked with white numbers that correspond to the typed caption below the image. 

Posed studio photograph of the graduating class of 1900.

Note: Although Eliza Smith's name is on the label for this photograph, the number next to her is not written next to anyone in the photograph. Other documentation also indicates that she actually graduated in 1899.

Studio portrait of the graduating class of 1901. 

The students are identified with white numbers corresponding to the typed label below the photograph.

Note: Edwin Smith, a member of this graduating class, is not included in the photo.

The headline reads: Indian Wins Exiciting Ten Mile Run

The captions read: JOHNNY McHUGH STARTER      JAMES THORPE.     LEWIS TENEWANINA     J. NORMAN LYND      WESLEY W COE.      HARRY HILLMAN…

Group portrait of twelve female students wearing costumes, standing and facing forward. They are the "Indian Squaws," characters in the performance of the play, "The Captain of Plymouth," produced at the school from March 29-March 31, 1909.

According to the program for the performance, these students are Jane Butler, Shela Guthrie Brown…

Group portrait of twelve female students wearing costumes, standing, turned so that the prop "papooses" containing dolls they are wearing on their backs are visible. They are the "Indian Squaws," characters in the performance of the play, "The Captain of Plymouth," produced at the school from March 29-March 31, 1909.

According to the…

Group portrait of twelve female students wearing costumes, kneeling and holding prop "papooses" containing dolls in front of them. They are the "Indian Squaws," characters in the performance of the play, "The Captain of Plymouth," produced at the school from March 29-March 31, 1909.

According to the program for the performance, these…

Fourteen male student athletes posed in the photo studio with their white male coach, Pop Warner. They are the track team of 1909, posed with a trophy from the State Championship. 

Jim Thorpe is the fourth male student from the left in the back row. 

The caption reads: BARK-HOUSE. SAC AND FOX INDIANS.

The printed note reads: GEO. E. CORNISH, ARKANSAS CITY, KANS.

The reverse side includes a short note from George B. Kishketon to Superintendent Moses Friedman sent from McLoud, Oklahoma on September 20, 1910.

Jim Thorpe around 1910.

The caption reads: JAMES THORPE (INDIAN)   FROM THE CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL   THE WORLD’S CHAMPION ATHLETE.

The handwritten notes reads: Warner   Jas. Thorpe   Tewanima   Friedman

Jim Thorpe shaking hands with Moses Friedman while Glenn "Pop" Warner, Lewis Tewanima, and a crowd look on.

William Newashe around 1910.

The caption reads: JAMES THORPE Retiring Captain of the Carlisle Indian School Football Team

Jim Thorpe holding a football in his football uniform.

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.

Studio portrait of Louis Dupuis in basketball uniform. 

Part of a scrapbook compiled by William Winneshiek (Winnebago), who wrote the caption: Carlisle Graduate 1912, World War Veteran, Graduate of University of Oklahoma, Physician. 

Louis Dupont, Capt. Basket Ball Team 1911 (Cheyenne)

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.

Part of a scrapbook compiled by William Winneshiek (Winnebago), who wrote the caption "Three Members of Carlisle's Honored Hall of Fame. Three Indians Who Never Once Failed to Carry Out Carlisle Tradition--Fight! Newashe --- (R. G.) (Pawnee)

The caption reads: JAMES THORPE

Jim Thorpe in his Carlisle Football uniform.

The headline reads: IN THE SPOTLIGHT OF SPORTS

The subheader reads: This Indian the Athletic Marvel of the Age.

The caption reads: JAMES THORPE

Images and sketches showing Jim Thorpe in various athletic pursuits.

These images appear in the Philadelphia Inquirer…

Eleven male students, in football uniforms, posed on the football field. 

They are identified as the 1912 football team. Left to right, front row: Charles Williams, Pete Calac, Elmer Busch, Joe Bergie, William Garlow, Joe Guyon, and Roy Large; back row: Alex Arcasa, Stansill "Possom" Powell, Gus Welch, and Jim Thorpe. 

The headline reads: THORPE, A WONDERFUL INDIAN

The description reads: Jim Thorpe, the wonderful Sac and Fox Indian youth of the Carlisle School, who is picked by many to win the tryout for the American Olympic game in the Pentathlon all-around event at Celtic Park, New York, Saturday. Thorpe has done the 100-yard…

The handwritten note reads: Thorpe

Jim Thorpe shaking hands with Moses Friedman while Glenn "Pop" Warner, Lewis Tewanima, and a crowd look on.