1910

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Issues with the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1910" Account
May 9, 1910 - May 13, 1910

Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman provides receipts from the Assistant Treasurer for the account "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1910" totaling $161, 719.97 of the total $164,000 appropriation. 

Chief of the Finance Division of the Department of the Interior H. Dimick provides Friedman a list of discrepancies that…

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Request for Return Home of Ida Coon Sands
May 12, 1910 - August 10, 1910

These materials include correspondence regarding a request from James N. Coon to return his niece Ida Coon Sands to her home.

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Letters/Correspondence
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Request from New Jersey to Procure Female Students for Housework
May 19, 1910

Chief Clerk C. F. Hauke encloses a letter to Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman. The letter, from Hattie E. Hudson, requested to secure female students for housework in New Jersey. Hauke requests that Friedman send Hudson information on the outing system.

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Letters/Correspondence
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Policy Against Female Students Working as Servants while on Outing
May 24 - June 18, 1910

Walter S. Davis asks Congressman John H. Rothermel to influence the Carlisle Indian School for him because he would like to have "two of the trained servants" from the school, but the school's policy is to not send students to cities the size of Reading, which is where Davis lives. 

Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. G. Valentine…

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Request to Return Arrivals and Departures of Pupils Report for 1910 Third Quarter
May 26, 1910

Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs returns triplicate copy of Arrivals and Departures of Pupils for the third quarter of 1910.

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Letters/Correspondence
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Request for Admission of Two Cherokee Students
May 31 - July 20, 1910

Acting Supervisor Elsie E. Newton from Muskogee, Oklahoma asks Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman if "two Cherokee boys" from the "unrestricted class of Indians" could attend his school and how much it would cost. Friedman sends two applications to Newton and informs her that board and tuition costs $167 and that the potential…

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Letters/Correspondence
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Request for Information about the Outing System
May 31 - June 2, 1910

Education Division Chief J. H. Dortch requests that Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman send information about the outing system to J. J. Gardner. Friedman informs Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. G. Valentine that he has sent Gardner an outing application and a copy of Outing Rules.

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Letters/Correspondence
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Request to Leave by Louis Webster
June 5, 1910 - September 14, 1910

These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by Louis Webster to return home early from an outing due to the expiration of his enrollment period.

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Letters/Correspondence
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Sale of Art Manufactured in the Native Indian Art Department
June 9, 1910 - June 18, 1910

Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to sell nine art bowls, five silver bracelets, six brass candlesticks, and four art plates manufactured in the Native Indian Art Department. Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. G. Valentine grants permission.

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Contracts for Supplies, Fiscal Year 1910-1911
June 10 - July 14, 1910

Superintendent Moses Friedman forwards contracts that the Carlisle Indian School is engaged in to secure annual supplies. Second Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs Hauke also forwards 27 contracts between Carlisle and various companies for annual supplies to the Returns Office of the Department of the Interior.

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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Personnel File of Nellie Robertson Denny, Clerk and Outing Manager
June 11, 1910 - May 1, 1918

Personnel file of Nellie Robertson Denny, who served as the Clerk of the Carlisle Indian School from 1900 to 1912 and from 1914 to 1918. She also served as Outing Manager for the Carlisle Indian School from 1908 to 1912. Robertson Denny was a graduate of Carlisle's class of 1890, and was married to Wallace Denny.

The file contains…

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Personnel File of Wallace Denny, Assistant Disciplinarian
June 11, 1910 - September 2, 1918

Personnel file of Wallace Denny, who served as Assistant Disciplinarian of the Carlisle Indian School from sometime before 1910 until 1918. Denny was a member of Carlisle's class of 1906, and was married to Nellie Robertson Denny.

The file contains quarterly employee reports, letters of resignation, complaints from students, a photograph…

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Philadelphia Art Director's Thoughts on Carlisle Student Artwork
June 13 - August 9, 1910

Robert G. Valentine compliments Howard Fremont Stratton, Director of the Art Department at the Philadelphia School of Industrial Art of the Pennsylvania Museum, for his article published in The Red Man. Stratton thanks Valentine for the kind words about his article, which was about "Indian education in art," and discusses the…

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Press Coverage of Robert Doyle and Jesse Teleskie Runaway
June 16 - 29, 1910

These materials contain correspondence and a newspaper clipping regarding press coverage of the arrest of Robert Doyle and Jesse Teleskie (mispelled Gilleski in the article) for running away from their outing home to Paterson, New Jersey.

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Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines
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Report Concerning Grandsons of E. A. Pierce
June 20, 1910 - August 27, 1910

These materials include correspondence regarding the grandsons of E. A. Pierce, Seneca Clarke Cook and Howard Jones.

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Letters/Correspondence
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Request for Enrollment by Antonio Florez
June 24 - July 6, 1910

These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Antonio Florez to enroll at the Carlisle Indian School. Florez was informed that he should consider enrolling at a closer school to his home and should make direct contact with the superintendent of the school.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Request for Release by Raymond Kennedy
June 24, 1910 - October 19, 1910

These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Raymond Kennedy to be released from the Carlisle Indian School in order to continue with his machinist trade in one of Carlisle's outing districts. Kennedy's request was denied, but he was given the ability to access his money held at Carlisle.

Also included in the file is…

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Letters/Correspondence
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Approval of Beef Contract with Brelsford Company
July 5, 1910 - July 6, 1910

Second Assistant Commissioner C. F. Hauke informs Commissioner of Indian Affairs Moses Friedman that a beef contract has been approved. Friedman asks for more explicit information regarding this approval and contract. Hauke explains that the contract for beef was with Brelsford Company. 

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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Enrollment of Paul Vargas
July 5, 1910 - August 3, 1910

These materials contain correspondence regarding the enrollment and tuition of Paul Vargas, a student from Puerto Rico and the Caribbean Islands.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Request for Enrollment of Harold Bishop
July 5 - August 27, 1910

These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Ida Logan to enroll her son Harold Bishop to the Carlisle Indian School. Bishop was under the standard age of enrollment. The Indian Office allowed Bishop's admission pending the status of his formal application.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Expenses for Medical Care of Students
July 6 - September 20, 1910

Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to spend $500 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1911" account for special medical treatment for students, taking students to Philadelphia for treatment, and for medicine and food for the school hospital. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs F. H. Abbott requests that…

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Request for Enrollment by Joe Welch
July 6, 1910 - September 28, 1910

These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Joe Welch to be admitted to the Carlisle Indian School to obtain an education in industrial arts. Welch was informed that as a member of the Chickasaw Nation he could only attend Carlisle by paying tuition but that he could attend Haskell Institute without paying tuition.

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Letters/Correspondence
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Request to Spend Funds for Henderson Farm Lease
July 6, 1910

Superintendent Moses Friedman requests authorization to spend $400 for fiscal year 1911 in order to pay the lease of the Henderson Tract, which is used for "pasture and other purposes."

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Complaints By Mrs. E. A. Pierce Against Wallace Denny
July 12 - October 21, 1910

These materials include correspondence regarding the forced return of Seneca Clark Cook by Carlisle's disciplinarian, Wallace Denny. Cook's grandmother, Mrs. E. A. Pierce, wrote to the Indian Office complaining about the treatment of her grandson by the school, including specific complaints against Denny's treatment of students.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Notice of Death of Wallace Perryman
July 13-18, 1910

These materials include correspondence reporting the death of Wallace Perryman (referred to as Wallace Berryman here). Perryman was admitted to the school hospital in early June and was later sent to the German Hospital in Philadelphia for surgery. Following Perryman's death he was interred at the school cemetery.

 

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Letters/Correspondence
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