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: Anna Dibo
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: L N. Gansworth
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: MRS. ROSA. B. LA FLESCHE (Chippewa)
The note reads: It was her deep faith in the Society and her devotion to it that carried the first conference to success and gave the Society the strength to live through its most critical periods.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: CHARLES E. DAGENETT (Peoria) Vice President on Membership.
The printed note reads: Mr. Dagenett, who is the U. S. Supervisor of Indian Employment, has been one of the of the most energetic workers since the beginning of the Society. In many a financial crisis he has been the business head.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: JAMES THORPE Retiring Captain of the Carlisle Indian School Football Team
Jim Thorpe holding a football in his football uniform.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: This is my home and family.
Rosalie Doctor Poodry with her husband Stafford Poodry and daughters Mabel, Ethel, Christine, and baby in front of their house in Basom, New York.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: AIR AND EFFICIENT EDUCATION- MR. WATT'S IDEA IN PRACTICE IN A CHICAGO SCHOOLROOM
This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 2 (October 1911): 56.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The headline reads: ARRANGING INDIAN CONFERENCE
The caption reads: MRS. ROSA BE LA FLESCHE.
The note reads: Three-quarter blood Chippewa, proud of her race, who is here arranging for the coming conference on betterment of conditions among her people. he is corresponding secretary and treasurer of the American Indian Association.
This image appears in the Columbus Ohio State Journal published in Columbus, Ohio on June 1, 1911.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction, Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: MRS. ROSA B. LA FLESCHE,
The note reads: Secretary Congress of American Indians, in session at Columbus, Ohio.
This image appears in the Oklahoman in 1911.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction, Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Willard Comstock's mother's home
The house of Inez Comstock the mother of Carlisle student Willard Comstock in Chicago, Illinois.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Daphne Waggoner looking down in a white dress.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
House of Mary Perry Paisano and the family's small store in Casa Blanca, New Mexico, included with a returned student survey sent to the school in 1911.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the front reads: Willard Comstock
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: Pearl Bonser
Pearl Bonser with a group of students sitting on the steps of a building.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View of a piano inside Charles Buck's house, which was located in Browning, Montana.
The reverse side includes a short note from Buck to Superintendent Moses Friedman.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: Minnie White
Minnie White with a group of female students in uniforms and hats.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: MRS. HENRY ROBERTS
The printed note reads: She was Miss Rose De Nomie, a nurse in the Carlisle Indian School Hospital. When Roberts, star end on the Indians' football team, was injured in a game she nursed him back to health and strength, and was wooed and won by him.
This image appears in The North American (1912).
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: A corner in the palor.
View inside Buck's house, which was located in Browning, Montana.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Portrait of Elmer Busch in football uniform standing on an athletic field.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Virginia Boone
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Dining room.
View inside Buck's house, which was located in Browning, Montana.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of Elmer Busch wearing football uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: This is my home.
Charles Buck's house was located in Browning, Montana.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The caption reads: The Toona Indian Company
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Regards and best wishes of M'lle Toona
543 Lincoln Park Blvd., Chicago . Ill.
621 Olive Ave., Long Beach, California
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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)
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society