Lois Pretty Scalp [version 3], c.1885
Studio portrait of Lois Pretty Scalp.
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections also has a copy of this version (CIS-P-0018).
Studio portrait of Lois Pretty Scalp.
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections also has a copy of this version (CIS-P-0018).
Studio portrait of Joseph Cox in native clothing.
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Josep Cox. Sioux.
Note: Although the caption on the reverse of the card indicates that Josep [Joseph] Cox is Sioux, school records indicate that he belongs to the Omaha Nation.
View of Son of the Star.
As this image is a copied photograph of an original photographic print, the format is "Photograph, Reproduction." It is possible that John N. Choate had an original photograph from another photographer that he wished to copy, or that his own original negative was damaged, and that he needed to make another negative using one of his own earlier prints.
The printed note on the reverse side reads: Ouray and his wife Chipeta; Utes.
This is a copy photographer J.N. Choate made of a portrait taken in 1858 and marketed by Mathew Brady. Choate made a copy of the Brady image and marketed it as his own. Ouray is included in Choate's composite of chiefs who had visited the school.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has four copies of this image: PA-CH1-018b, CS-CH-040.1-.2, and 10B-02-04.
The handwritten note reads: BLACK FEET INDIANS FROM GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. COMMENCEMENT WEEK. INDIAN SCHOOL. CARLISLE. PA.
These are members of a group of Blackfeet dignitaries visiting the school for its commencement in early April of 1913.
According to the school newspaper there were twelve people in this party of visitors. Eleven of them were identified in the paper: Chief Long Time Sleep, Medicine Owl and wife, Chief John Whitecalf, Chief Three Bears, Lazy Boy, John Two Guns and wife, Fred Big Top , Fish Wolf Robe, and Cecelia Ground.
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Carlisle Indian School Football Team 1896.
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
The caption reads: JAMES THORPE (INDIAN) FROM THE CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL THE WORLD’S CHAMPION ATHLETE.
The caption reads: GRADUATING CLASS OF 1895, INDIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA.
Portrait of eight female students of varying ages posed on the steps of a school building with a white female woman, presumably a teacher.
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: "A Happy Group" Girls Quarters Carlisle Training School.