Corbett, Edward

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Louis Twin Student File
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Student file of Louis Twin, a member of the Winnebago Nation, who entered the school on July 2, 1905 and departed on November 2, 1910. The file contains medical/physical records, a student information card, correspondence, trade/position record cards, an application for enrollment, a returned student survey, a report after leaving, a news…

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National Archives and Records Administration
George Francis Student File
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Student file of George Francis, a member of the Penobscot Nation, who entered the school December 9, 1912 and ultimately departed on April 30, 1917. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards, correspondence, financial transactions, outing records, a federal financial…

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National Archives and Records Administration
Student Officers and Maj. Duran, 1916

Group portrait of seventeen male students in uniform and one white man in uniform. 

The photo's mat bears the inscription: "To Mr. & Mrs. Corbitt, Compliments of Carlisle Officers and Mr. J. F. Duran, Dec. 1916." 

J. F. Duran was the school's Assistant Disciplinarian and there was a married couple named Corbett…

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Photographic Print, B&W
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Cumberland County Historical Society
Request to Commission a Deputy to Halt the Sale of Liquor
August 31, 1914

Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt informs Chief Special Officer Henry A. Larson that Carlisle Indian School Supervisor Lipps would like to commissioner one of his school employees, Edward Corbett, as a deputy. Lipps would like Corbett to be tasked with suppressing the sale of liquor to Indian students in the East. Merritt notes that at…

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Male Students Drinking and Spending Time with Carlisle Women
May 12, 1915

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells forwards a newspaper article about behavior of the school's male students with alcohol and local women to Oscar Lipps and asks for his response. 

In his reply Lipps disputes some of the article's specific charges but says in general it is accurate. He also describes how difficult it has been…

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Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines
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National Archives and Records Administration
Use of Liquor by Carlisle Indian School Students
April 6, 1917 - May 11, 1917

These materials include correspondence regarding the use of liquor among students at Carlisle, and the punishment of Turner Dwight for intoxication.

Note: Turner Dwight is also known as Simon Turner Dwight.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration