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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March 31, 1903
Colonel Richard H. Pratt submits a report that lists irregular employees who worked at the school during March 31, 1903. The report includes details on compensation, position titles, race, and the number of days worked during that month.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Students - Irregular Employees
Format: Reports
View Document: Report of Irregular Employees, March 1903925.16 KB
April 1903
S. L. Diven, the school physician, compiles the sanitary report for the quarter ending on March 31, 1903.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Illness
Format: Reports
View Document: Quarterly Sanitary Report of Diseases and Injuries, March 19031.14 MB
April 1, 1903
Richard Henry Pratt compiles a report with remarks regarding employees' efficiency, conduct, behavior, dress, health, attitude towards children, and notes on any special skills. The report also lists employees' salaries and position titles.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - General
Format: Reports
View Document: Semi-Annual Efficiency Report of Employees, April 19031.03 MB
April 4, 1903
Richard Henry Pratt emphasizes to the Office of Indian Affairs the need to authorize spending an additional $3,000 to transport students to and from the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Emphasizes Need for Additional Funds to Transport Students in Fiscal Year 1903438.15 KB
April 4, 1903
Richard Henry Pratt requests to change the industrial training staff positions to Instructor in Carpentry, Instructor in Blacksmithing, etc. from Carpenter and Blacksmith. Pratt notes that this change might produce a different applicant from the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Requests to Change Title of Industrial Training Instructors363.35 KB
April 7, 1903
Richard Henry Pratt provides the Office of Indian Affairs with a certificate of the age of Ida Mitchell.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Age of Ida Mitchell Provided to Office354.95 KB
March 13 - April 9, 1903
Colonel Richard H. Pratt submits a report that lists employees who have left the school (Carrie M. Kistler). These reports include personal information as well as reasons for departure for those leaving. Pratt also sends a resignation letter from…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - General
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Descriptive Statements of Changes in School Employees and Resignation, April 1903864.33 KB
April 10, 1903
Richard Henry Pratt responds to Office of Indian Affairs circular #92 by providing various information related to the cost of bringing and returning students to and from Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Information Related to Transporting Students in 1903697.11 KB
April 10, 1903
Richard H. Pratt requests a supply of two dozen different articles of stationery used by the United States Indian Affairs division of the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Legal and Government Documents
View Document: Requisition for Stationery, April 1903782.59 KB
April 13-14, 1903
Richard H. Pratt submits his request for positions and salaries for the upcoming fiscal year, compared agains the list of position for the current year. The list includes position titles, the number of employees for each position title, and…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Employee Positions and Salaries, 1903-19041.48 MB
April 13, 1903
Gilbert Hitchcock, Nebraska Congressman, requests on behalf of A. A. Selden if Selden can bring six students from the interior of Alaska to the coast in order to send them to the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Send Students from the Interior of Alaska572.88 KB
April 14, 1903
Richard Henry Pratt forwards Matron Carrie E. Weekley's application for a 30-day annual leave of absence.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Carrie E. Weekley's Application for Annual Leave of Absence549.83 KB
April 17, 1903
Richard Henry Pratt forwards Fannie I. Peter's request for a 30-day annual leave of absence. Peter works as a clerk.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Fannie I. Peter's Application for Annual Leave of Absence 503.98 KB
April 18, 1903
Richard H. Pratt submits a report that lists employees who have changed positions (Mary Moffitt). These reports include personal information about those being hired.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - General
Format: Reports
View Document: Descriptive Statements of Changes in School Employees, April 1903739.43 KB
April 22, 1903
Richard Henry Pratt informs W. A. Jones about two runaway students.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Students Running Away
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Informs Jones of Two Runaway Students632.42 KB
April 22, 1903
W. A. Jones is informed that two runaway students should be returned to Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Students Running Away
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Two Runaway Students Should be Returned to Carlisle432.8 KB
April 23, 1903
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that with the appointment of Olga Koerner that no provision for quarters or board are expected to be provided. Pratt also includes a list of employees who provide wither own quarters and…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Lists Employees Who Provide Own Accommodations602.2 KB
April 29, 1903
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that with Annie B. Moore leaving the Service at the close of year that Jeannette Senseney is moving to the instrumental instructor with William Davies becoming the vocal instructor. As a…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Changes to Music Instruction Staff566.21 KB
April 30, 1903
Colonel Richard H. Pratt submits a report that lists irregular employees who worked at the school during April 1903. The report includes details on compensation, position titles, race, and the number of days worked during that month.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Students - Irregular Employees
Format: Reports
View Document: Report of Irregular Employees, April 1903575.26 KB
May 5, 1903
Colonel Richard H. Pratt submits a report that lists employees who have left the school (Mary Moffitt and Elizabeth Searight) and those who have changed positions (Olga O. Koerner). These reports include personal information about those being…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - General
Format: Reports
View Document: Descriptive Statements of Changes in School Employees, May 1903341.58 KB
May 4, 1903
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a report on leave of absence for assistant seamstress Mary E. Lininger.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Report of Mary E. Lininger's Leave of Absence 514.73 KB
May 4, 1903
Richard Henry Pratt forwards Clerk S. J. Nori's application for a 10-day annual leave of absence.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Legal and Government Documents
View Document: S. J. Nori's Application for Annual Leave of Absence589.04 KB
May 5-6, 1903
Richard H. Pratt forwards applications of four employees for leave of absence: Elizabeth E. Forster (drawing teacher), W. Grant Thompson (disciplinarian), Annie B. Moore (music teacher), and Jessie L. McIntire (teacher).
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Four Applications for Annual Leave of Absence2.37 MB
May 5, 1903
Richard Henry Pratt forwards James R. Wheelock's application for a 24-day annual leave of absence. Wheelock works as a bandleader.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: James R. Wheelock's Application for Annual Leave of Absence523.78 KB
May 6, 1903
Richard H. Pratt submits a statement of cost form that lists the total amounts for subsistence, clothing, school materials and furnishings, light and fuel, miscellaneous expenses, new buildings and repairs, the value of subsistence raised by…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Statement of Cost of Employees and Issues and Expenditures, March 19031.03 MB