Request for Funds for Industrial Training

Date
March 8, 1880

Richard Henry Pratt requests funds to develop the industrial and mechanical training programs at the school. Specifically, Pratt hopes to establish a harness-making program and to expand the blacksmithing, wagon-making, carpentry, shoemaking, and tinsmithing departments. Pratt notes that this issue is already before the Secretary of the Interior, who just visited the school.

Time Period
Year
Standard Forms & Transactions
Repository
National Archives and Records Administration
Location
RG 75, Series 79, box 574, Miscellaneous-1880-P-#0346
Request for Funds for Industrial Training