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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July 2, 1906
William A. Mercer informs the Office of Indian Affairs that he will consider the objections raised by the Acting Judge Advocate General in having the Carlisle Indian School serve as a training ground for the United States Cavalry.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Mercer Responds to Ruling Regarding Cavalry Training563.55 KB
July 2, 1906
William A. Mercer requests authority to pay telephone rent, for medical treatment of students on outing, and for transportation and board of students being treated in Philadelphia during the 1907 fiscal year.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Requests to Rent Telephone and Pay for Treatment Outside of Carlisle, 1906496.87 KB
July 3, 1906
William A. Mercer requests authority to pay $400 for the rent of the Henderson Tract in order to use the land for pasture.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Farms - Land Transactions
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Mercer Requests Authority to Rent Henderson Tract for Fiscal Year 1907534.18 KB
July 3, 1906
William A. Mercer requests $400 for the rental of the Alexander Tract during the current year to use a playground for students of the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Pay for Rent for Use of Alexander Farm for Remainder of 1906524.3 KB
July 5, 1906 - July 7, 1906
Angel De Cora submits a report on her first five months in charge of the Native Arts Industry at the Carlisle Indian School to William A. Mercer.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Native Art and Industry Program
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Angel De Cora Submits Report of First Months at Carlisle1.02 MB
July 5, 1906
William A. Mercer requests to know more about an Act of Congress appropriating money for the return of students from Alaska to their homes. Mercer notes that two students in particular should be sent home as soon as possible due to consumption.…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Mercer Requests to Know More About Appropriation to Return Alaskan Students509.18 KB
July 6, 1906
William A. Mercer requests to know if the recent appropriation allowing for funds to transport Alaskan students to their homes would apply to Lottie Hilton.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry into Using Fund to Return Alaskan Students in Case of Lottie Hilton485.21 KB
July 6, 1906
William A. Mercer follows up on his recommendation to grant Effie G. Moul's request to transfer her and to send another assistant matron to the Carlisle Indian School in her place.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Mercer Renews Request for the Transfer of Effie Moul482.52 KB
July 9, 1906
Major William A. Mercer submits a report that lists new employee (Michael Barron), an employee who's hired and then fired (William M. Hays), and employees who have left the school (H. W. Leaman and E. G. Sprow). The reports include position title…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - General
Format: Reports
View Document: Descriptive Statement of Changes in School Employees, July 19061.01 MB
July 10, 1906
William A. Mercer requests to know if the Carlisle Indian School industrial department can sell wagons or buggies to the public. Mercer states that the school generally makes two or three vehicles above the requests of the Indian Service that are…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry Regarding Making Wagons for the Public425.55 KB
July 10, 1906
William A. Mercer requests the Office of Indian Affairs fill the position of printer through the Civil Service Commission's list of eligible candidates.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Printer to be Appointed to through Civil Service List644.89 KB
July 11, 1906
William A. Mercer informs the Office of Indian Affairs that Effie G. Moul accepts the transfer to the position of teacher at Rapid City, South Dakota.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Effie Moul Accepts Transfer to Rapid City as Teacher379.38 KB
July 11, 1906
William A. Mercer responds to request of Red Tomahawk to return his daughter Catherine Red Tomahawk.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Mercer Responds to Request to Return Catherine Red Tomahawk427.96 KB
July 13, 1906 - July 30, 1906
Correspondence related to the request of Arthur A. Heald, Superintendent of the Public Schools of the Town of Wareham, to enroll Eva and Ellen Simons at the Hampton School or the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Enroll Eva and Ellen Simons1.53 MB
July 14, 1906 - July 17, 1906
William A. Mercer provides the cost of returning 35 students to their homes in Alaska on account of expired terms of enrollment and ill health.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Cost of Returning Students to Homes in Alaska848.96 KB
July 16, 1906
E. Corbett submits her resignation as assistant seamstress at the Carlisle Indian School due to her health. William A. Mercer forwards the resignation to the Office of Indian Affairs and requests it to be accepted.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: E. Corbett Submits Resignation as Assistant Seamstress436.2 KB
July 16, 1906
William A. Mercer informs the Office of Indian Affairs that Benedict A. Cox who was appointed to the mason position at the Carlisle Indian School has not reported for duty.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Office Informed Benedict Cox Has Not Reported for Duty345.7 KB
July 17, 1906
W. A. Mercer forwards disciplinarian E. H. Colegrove's application for a 24-day leave of absence.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: E. H. Colegrove's Request for Leave of Absence557.26 KB
July 18-20, 1906
W. G. Thompson discusses the excavation for the new hospital building and provides a sketch of the ground on which the hospital is being built.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: New Building Construction
View Document: Sketch of Ground for New Hospital Building1.23 MB
July 19, 1906
Estimate of funds for the first quarter of 1906 amounting to $68,102.90 for support of the school and for transportation of Indian supplies, $13,915.00 of which is for regular employee pay.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Estimate of Funds and Regular Employee Pay, First Quarter 1906795.82 KB
July 20 - September 18, 1906
Major W. A. Mercer forwards certificates of attendance at summer school for eight employees: Emma H. Foster, Mariette Wood, Cora B. Hawk, Mary A. Yarnall, Hattie M. McDowell, Frances R. Scales, Sarah E. Gedney, and John L. Walters.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Eight Certificates of Attendance at Summer School8.83 MB
July 21, 1906
Harry G. Brown requests information regarding the proposed hospital at the Carlisle Indian School in order to make a bid to erect the building.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Harry Brown Requests Information to Make a Bid to Build New Hospital559.07 KB
July 21, 1906 - July 30, 1906
William A. Mercer forwards a letter from Michael A. Buffalo and provides him a recommendation to reinstate him in the Indian Service.
Note that Buffalo was not a Carlisle student, but someone Mercer had previously known.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Michael A. Buffalo Requests Reinstatement to the Indian Service1.38 MB
July 21, 1906
William A. Mercer requests authority to pay for expenses involved in placing students in their outing homes as well as visiting them.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Outing Program Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Pay for Expenses in the Outing Program in Fiscal Year 1907538.29 KB
July 23, 1906
W. A. Mercer forwards teacher Sadie E. Newcomer's request for leave of absence due to her father's illness.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Sadie E. Newcomer's Request for Leave of Absence 578.54 KB