Documents
The Documents section features digitized copies of documents relating to the history of the school. These documents include correspondence, graduation pamphlets, and other forms of ephemera, and have been digitized by Digital Resource Center staff. Today, these documents are preserved in a number of locations, including the Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections as well as private collections.
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Date: August 28, 1917 - September 7, 1917
These materials contain correspondence regarding correspondence a request by the guardian of Mary Lieb to have her released from Carlisle in order to have her enrolled at the Haskell Institute.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
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Request to Release Mary Lieb
Date: August 30, 1917 - August 22, 1918
This material includes correspondence related to the request of George Gore, a farmer and outing patron in Newton, Pennsylvania, to retain some outing students beyond their normal term. Specific correspondence relates to students John R. Wolfe (Cherokee) and Cornelius Hartman. Additionally, this material discusses the decision of Superintendent John Francis Jr. to return all outing students to the school during the Fall 1917 school term.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Outings
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Correspondence Regarding Outing Patron George Gore
Date: September 4-8, 1917
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to enroll Nellie Hawkins at Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Enroll Nellie Hawkins
Date: September 6 - 8, 1917
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request from E. P. Davis, through the office of the President, to have Cornelius Hartman returned to the home of outing patron George Gore.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Outing Student to George Gore
Date: September 7 - 15, 1917
These materials contain correspondence regarding a report on the health of Edward Williams who was admitted to the hospital at the Carlisle School with a case of pneumonia aggravated by tuberculosis.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Report on Health of Edward Williams
Date: September 14-24, 1917
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by the grandfather of Lucile and Kenneth Abert to have them enrolled at Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Enroll Lucile and Kenneth Abert
Date: September 18, 1917
This document contains a letter concerning the death of Edward Williams.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Death, Health and Medicine
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Notice of Death of Edward Williams
Date: September 23, 1917 - October 5, 1917
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to return Harry Laursen from Carlisle to his home in Shell Lake, Wisconsin.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Harry Laursen
Date: October 18- 27, 1917
This document contains correspondence concerning the illness of George Swanson with smallpox. Quarantines were placed on the hospital and the school by the Pennsylvania Department of Health and by County Health Inspector Dr. Harvey B. Bashore, respectively.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Health and Medicine, Hospital
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Notice of Illness of George Swanson
Date: November 19, 1917
This document contains a letter inquiring about the account balance of Samuel Tingley.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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View Document: Account Balance of Samuel Tingley
Date: November 20, 1917 - December 6, 1917
This material includes correspondence between Superintendent John Francis Jr. and Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Merritt concerning the draft registration of George W. Cushing, a student from Alaska.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Military Service
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Draft Registration for George W. Cushing
Date: November 22, 1917 - December 11, 1917
This material includes correspondence between Superintendent John Francis Jr. and Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Merritt concerning students wishing to enlist in the Navy.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Military Service
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Navy Enlistments 1917
Date: November 23, 1917 - December 8, 1917
This document contains correspondence concerning the collected tuition of Clifford Johnson, and a refund due to him.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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View Document: Tuition Refund for Clifford Johnson
Date: November 27, 1917 - March 27, 1918
These materials include correspondence regarding the indictment of Philadelphia bartender Stephen E. Kelly for selling liquor to four Carlisle Indian School students. The students, in Philadelphia for a game against the University of Pennsylvania, were disciplined by the school when they were discovered. Kelly's indictment sparked public outcry in Philadelphia, and his indictment was ultimately dropped by a grand jury.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Discipline, Temperance, Field Trip
View Document: Indictment of Stephen E. Kelly for Sale of Liquor to Indians
Date: December 1-29, 1917
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to release John Mathews from Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Release John Mathews
Date: December 6-11, 1917
This document contains correspondence concerning the death of Louis Godfrey due to a football injury.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Death, Health and Medicine, Athletics
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Notice of Death of Louis Godfrey
Date: January 2, 1918 - May 20, 1919
These materials contain requests from Rose Shenoskey to release her daughter Mary Shenoskey from Carlisle, and regarding the allotment of her son Samuel Leo who was serving in the United States Army in France during World War I.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Requests by Rose Shenoskey
Date: January 10-21, 1918
These materials include correspondence regarding a revised outing policy for the summer of 1918 to met the demand for agricultural work while also satisfying newly established academic requirements.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Outings
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Revised Outing Policy for 1918
Date: January 25, 1918 - February 16, 1918
These materials include correspondence and a report regarding Supervisor Elsie E. Newton's inspection of facilities and activities for female students at the Carlisle Indian School. Newton discusses topics including girls' dormitories, the school matron, the Domestic Science and Housekeeping departments, and discipline.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Inspection Report of Elsie E. Newton for January 1918
Date: February 1-4, 1918
This document contains a list of the senior graduating class of 1918.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: List of 1918 Graduates
Date: February 6, 1918 - March 27, 1918
This material includes correspondence regarding an incident where Jerome Sultuska had been accused of chewing tobacco. Sultuska complained of harsh discipline and racial insults at the hands of Disciplinarian Wallace Denny. Carlisle's Superintendent and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs both sided with Denny in the matter.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Discipline, Tobacco
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Complaint by Jerome Sultuska Against Wallace Denny
Date: March 1-5, 1918
This document contains correspondence concerning former student Montreville Yuda and his desire to teach a lecture on shipbuilding. Yuda was a shipbuilder with the Emergency Fleet Corporation in Newport News, Virginia. Carlisle's superintendent suggested that such a lecture would be counterproductive to the purposes of the school.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Montreville Yuda Lecture on Shipbuilding
Date: March 12, 1918 - May 23, 1918
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request for the return home of Andrew Peters to Breed, Wisconsin to assist his family on their farm.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Andrew Peters
Date: March 15-16, 1918
This material includes correspondence between Luther H. Jacobs and Assistant Commisioner E. B. Merritt concerning Jacobs's eligibility to enter the army draft.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Military Service
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Draft Eligibility for Luther H. Jacobs
Date: March 15-29, 1918
This material includes correspondence between Superintendent John Francis Jr. and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merritt concerning the return of Andrew Cuellar to Carlisle after attempted enlistment in the Army.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Military Service
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Andrew Cuellar's Return to Carlisle from the Army