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 24 - August 15, 1918
Traveling Auditor in Charge Claude V. Peel requests to sell twenty five old Smith-Premier double keyboard typewriters for $10 each. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt grants Peel permission and orders him to advertise the sale…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Office Supplies
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Sell Old Typewriters443.7 KB
July 26, 1918
The Carlisle Indian School requests the Commissioner of Indian Affairs send a $5,000 allotment to the Ind. Mon. Pro. of Labor Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Request for a $5,000 Allotment103.18 KB
July 27 - August 8, 1918
Banker and outing patron R. H. Headley asks Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells if there is any way that he can host an Indian boy at his home after the Carlisle Indian School closes. Headley states that he has been an outing host since…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Desire to Continue being an Outing Host after the Closure of the School640.4 KB
August 5-9, 1918
Emma K. Hetrick writes to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to request to host a female Carlisle Indian School student at their house to cook and do housework. Commissioner Cato Sells tells Hetrick that the school will be closing on September 1…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Denial of Outing Request due to Closure of School203.71 KB
August 6-22, 1918
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by Frank H. Mather to retain Harold Parker on outing after Carlisle closed in 1918.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Retain Harold Parker on Outing225.17 KB
August 18, 1918 - September 3, 1918
J. F. Carr requests to be appointed the Superintendent of Brick and Tile Work at the Carlisle Indian School.
Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informs Carr that the school has been transferred from the Bureau of Indian…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Superintendent of Brick and Tile Work Appointment282.28 KB
August 21 - September 2, 1918
Outing Host Elizabeth B. Saiborne writes to the Indian Bureau and explains that she would like to continue to host female students at her home after the Carlisle Indian School closes. She is currently hosting a girl named Elsie.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Continue as an Outing Patron after the School Closes378.6 KB
August 26, 1918
These materials contain correspondence regarding the consent of Mary B. Owl to allow her son John R. Wolfe remain on outing with George Gore in Newton, Pennsylvania following the closing of the Carlisle School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Consent to Allow John Wolfe to Remain on Outing276.83 KB
August 26, 1918
These materials contain correspondence regarding the transfer of Harold Parker to the Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School upon the close of Carlisle and a prior request to have Parker remain at the outing home of Frank H. Mather.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Transfer of Harold Parker241.04 KB
August 27, 1918 - August 30, 1918
Traveling Auditor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School C. V. Peel encloses former bandmaster and current Lieutenant James R. Wheelock's request to pay the balance left on his salary to his wife.
Assistant Commissioner of Indian…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Pay Lieutenant James R. Wheelock's Salary to his Wife246.11 KB
September 3, 1918 - September 25, 1918
Travelling Auditor in Charge at the Carlisle Indian School Claude V. Peel requests that Austin, Nichols & Co. are paid for five hundred pounds of hominy and Reid, Murdoch & Co. are paid for rolled oats. Chief Clerk C. F. Hauke informs…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Food and Dining
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Claims for Hominy and Rolled Oats252.28 KB
September 4, 1918 - September 1, 1918
Reverend Walter L. Ritter asks the Indian Bureau if the Outing System still exists and requests to host a 16-18 year old girl if it does. Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt informs Ritter that the Carlisle Indian School closed, so it is…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Know the Status of the Outing System285.56 KB
September 11, 1918 - October 17, 1918
These materials include correspondence containing a request from Fred Skenandore, a former student, regarding the status of the Carlisle Indian School. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informed Skenandore that the school had…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry About Closure of Carlisle Indian School by Fred Skenandore284.64 KB
September 11- 17, 1918
These materials include correspondence concerning the transfer of funds from students at Carlisle who were transferred to the Chilocco Indian School upon the closure of Carlisle in 1918.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Transfer of Funds for Pupils Transferred to Chilocco Indian School214.03 KB
October 8-19, 1918
These materials include a request from George Cushing to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells, asking for permission to take the students' course in automobile manufacturing at the Ford Motor Company factory in Detroit, Michigan. Cushing's…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request of George Cushing to Attend Ford Motor Company Course490.37 KB
October 17, 1918 - May 19, 1919
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Alice E. Patterson to have her two sons Robert and Burnell transferred to another Indian School upon the close of Carlisle. Also included is correspondence between R. A. Cochran,…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Transfer Robert and Burnell Patterson792.84 KB
October 20, 1918 - November 6, 1918
This material includes correspondence between Sadie Ingalls Feder and Assistant Commisioner E. B. Merritt concerning former student Henry Ingalls McClellan and his desire to be drafted to the Army.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Former Students in Military
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Draft of Henry Ingalls McClellan673.43 KB
October 21, 1918 - May 14, 1920
This material includes correspondence between Corporal Frank J. Mitchell, his wife, and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merrit concerning Mitchell's marriage.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Marriage of Frank J. Mitchell814.38 KB
November 15, 1918 - December 4, 1918
These materials include a inquiry by Loren Jackson on the whereabouts of his son Jacob Jackson following the close of the Carlisle School. Jackson was informed his son had returned to his outing home under S. W. McKeehan in Carlisle, Pennsylvania…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Whereabouts of Jacob Jackson665.86 KB
November 20 - December 3, 1918
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Isaac Willis about ending his enlistment in the United States Navy early and entering college.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Former Students in Military
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request of Isaac Willis to End Naval Enlistment Early663.12 KB
November 23, 1918 - June 10, 1938
This material includes correspondence between former student Leon A. Miller and John Collier, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Miller was attempting to start post-graduate work at a local university and was requesting his school records.…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request from Leon A. Miller Concerning His School Records947.5 KB
November 29, 1918 - April 19, 1966
This material is a collection of correspondence received by the Office of Indian Affairs between 1918 and 1966, all related to the Carlisle Indian School. As the Carlisle Indian School closed in 1918, the majority of these letters are either…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Correspondence File, 1918-196638.03 MB
November 30, 1918 - February 26, 1919
These materials include correspondence regarding the health of Clara Shunion. Shunion stayed in Pennsylvania on outing following the close of the Carlisle School, and developed tuberculous. After residing for some time in the Bryn Mawr Hospital,…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Health of Clara Shunion1.17 MB
December 4, 1918
These materials include correspondence pertaining to a request by the Arthur C. Bachmeyer, Commanding Officer of U.S. Army General Hospital 31, for records relating to the land of the former Carlisle Indian School. Those records, not included…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Transfer of Land Records Related to the Carlisle Indian School250.37 KB
December 30, 1918 - January 19, 1919
These materials include correspondence regarding unclaimed letters sent to the outing home of patron Virginia Allen, where former student Nellie Thompson remained following the closing of the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Unclaimed Letters Sent to Nellie Thompson1.29 MB