Carlisle Indian School Photography with Kate Theimer

Kate Theimer is a Project Partner with the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center, focusing on cataloging photographs and authority control of student names. She also hosts the Carlisle Indian School Research podcast and is the author of A Very Correct Idea of Our School”: A Photographic History of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (2018). 

Since 2004, she. Kate, She has also given, Since 2004, sheKate is a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists and has written, edited, or contributed chapters to fourteen books about archives and numerous articles in archival journals. She has given plenary addresses at international archival conferences in New Zealand, Canada, Germany, and Norway and state and regional archival associations in the United States. She has participated in or moderated over twenty presentations at conferences. 

Before starting her career as an independent writer and editor, she worked in the policy division of the National Archives and Records Administration. She holds a Master of Science in Information (Specialization in Archives and Records Management) from the University of Michigan and a Master of Arts (Art History & Archaeology) from the University of Maryland.

Carlisle Indian School students mentioned in the episode: 

Bruce Patterson - https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/ci-search/bruce%20patterson

While Buffalo - https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/images/white-buffalo-c1882

1884 Student Body - https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/images/carlisle-indian-school-student-body-version-1-1884

Ice Skating - https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/ci-search/ice%20skating

John Leslie - https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/ci-search/john%20leslie 

Recorded on February 12, 2025, in Carlisle, PA.