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 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 reverse side of the postcard includes a note from Louis Felix to Superintendent Moses Friedman.
Felix's house is located in Prior Lake, Minnesota.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: This was taken right after the summer vacation.
View of Bird C. Seward's wagon around 1911.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: Carlisle Indians 1911-1912.
The typed note on the reverse side reads: 1911 & 1912 Carlisle Indian Team.
BACK
ARCASA R HB ; WELSH QB ; POWELL FB ; THORPE L HB
LINE
WHEELOCK R E ; DIETZ R T ; BUSCH R G ; BERGLE C ; JORDON L G ; NEWASHE L T ; HENRI L E
17 Dickinson 0
46 Mt StMary’s 6
19 Georgetown 0
17 Layeffette 0
16 Pittsburgh 0
16 Penn 0
18 Harvard 15
13 Syracuse 14
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Portrait of Elmer Busch in football uniform standing on an athletic field.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of Joseph Bergie in a football uniform standing in a field.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of Stephen Glori's apartment building, The Hudsonia, in New York City in 1911. Glori marks the location of his apartment with a "X."
The reverse side includes a note from Glori to Superintendent Moses Friedman.
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The reverse side includes a note from Martha Sickles Cornelius to Nellie Robertson Denny.
Martha Sickles Cornelius and James W. Cornelius house during the winter.
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
Studio portrait of Julius Warren.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Five women and one man on the stage set up in the school gymnasium. One of the women is likely Minnie White, since the photo is located in her file.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
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 handwritten note reads: Minnie White
Minnie White with a group of students sitting on the steps of a building.
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 handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Anna Hauser
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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: Annie Dibo
View of Annie Dibo standing next to a house around 1911.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
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 printed note on the reverse side reads: John Doyle
John Doyle with three others outside with a house and small tree in the background.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
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
Studio portrait of a male student. The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: R. Tahamont.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The headline reads: INDIANS TO COMPETE IN MARATHON CONTEST
The caption reads: SKY EAGLE, INDIAN RUNNER Who Will Compete with White Sprinters in Los Angeles-Venice Marathon.
The printed note reads: Judson Cabay, Swiftest of Chippewa Braves, and Sky Eagle to Be Running Mates in Race to Venice
This image of Swift Eagle appears in an article of the Los Angeles Tribune.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
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 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