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 handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Mr. Wallace Denny, This is our latest Photos what do you think of them. from your Friend, M.W.Chabinoy. Give my regards to friends.
View of Michael W. Chabitnoy and Edward Wolfe taken during their time at Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View of Manus Screamer around 1910. Screamer, a student at the Carlisle Indian School, went on to become a musician and started his own orchestra.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View of David and his wife, Bessie Flute, with their baby around 1910.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View of Patrick Kennedy around 1910. The woman standing next to Kennedy is likely his wife, Myrah K. Harris.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: Adam F. Johnson
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: I have no picture of my house now. But will send one when I have it taken. Adam F. Johnson, 2020 R. R. One, Swanton, Ill.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Pine Ridge - S.D. William C. Girton. Ass't Add'l Farmer. and his wife Fanny Girton.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption on this postcard reads: BOYS AT HEAVY GYMNASTICS AT INDIAN SCHOOL. CARLISLE, Pa.
The only words on the back are standardized directions for where to write a message and where to write the address.
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption on this postcard reads: GYMNASIUM, ALL INDIANS EXCEPT INSTRUCTOR. CARLISLE, Pa.
The only words on the back are standardized directions for where to write a message and where to write the address.
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Benj. Caswell
Margaret Caswell's bedroom
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Wm. Hazletts family
William Hazlett, his wife Nora Guy Hazlett, their three children and a dog.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Aneta Pollard
Anita Pollard with an unidenified student.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Charles Bender
Charles Albert Bender in his Philadelphia Athletics uniform having just thrown a baseball.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Benj. Caswell
Robert & Oliver Caswell's bed room.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: HOME OF C. M. SICKLES, CARLISLE '98
The printed note reads: DR. SICKLES IS SUCCESSFULLY PRACTICING HIS PROFESSION AT TIFFIN, OHIO
View of Dr. Caleb M. Sickles's house.
This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 10 (June 1912): 475.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: Kickapoo Wigwam, McLoud, Okla.
The handwritten note reads: This is Henry Murdock summer house.
The reverse side contains a short note from George B. Kishketon to Superintendent Moses Friedman sent from McLoud, Oklahoma on September 20, 1910.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: David Little Oldman.
This photograph is of David Little Oldman plowing his field with the assistance of horses and another man.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: David Little Oldman.
This photograph is of David Little Oldman plowing his field with the assistance of horses and another man.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten caption on the reverse reads: D. Little Oldman.
This photo shows David Little Oldman shoeing a horse at a blacksmith's shop "in which he was regularly employed... at $75 per month." This information was taken from a letter contained in Little Oldman's student file.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: D. Little Oldman.
This photograph is of David Little Oldman plowing his field with the assistance of horses and another man.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Dining room Benj. Cawell's residence
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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.
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: DEPOT AND ELEVATOR, OGEMA, MINN.
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Paul La Rocque's team
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Jim Thorpe around 1910.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Alfred Blackwell around 1910.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration