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 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: Virginia Boone
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
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
Portrait of Bruce Goesback standing in a field wearing a football uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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
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 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
Edison Mount Pleasant on stage.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
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 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 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
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 handwritten note reads: Sara Mansur
Sarah Mansur with a group of students sitting on the steps of a building at the Carlisle Indian School.
Format: 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 printed note on the reverse side reads: Margaretta Reed George
Lewis George
Married August 30, 1911.
Margaretta Reed George and Lewis George in a car.
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
Daphne Waggoner looking down in a white dress.
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
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
Studio portrait of Julius Warren.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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 note on the reverse side reads: John Monhart
John A. Monhart in a suit outside.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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
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