1913

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Enclosure of Teachers' Theses to Commissioner of Indian Affairs
February 6, 1913

The Carlisle Indian School Principal Teacher encloses teachers' theses to the Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs and informs him that four theses will be sent later because teachers are sick. (Theses are not included.)

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Enrollment of Edward Woods
February 14 - March 7, 1913

These materials include correspondence related to the enrollment of Edward Woods. Woods, orphaned as a child, spent a number of years drifting across the United States before ending up in Baltimore, where he was picked up as a vagrant and taken in by the Federated Charities of Baltimore. C.V. Stinchecum, the Assistant Chief of the Education…

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request for Unrestricted Trust Funds by Emma Newashe
February 17, 1913 - April 8, 1913

These materials include correspondence concerning Emma Newashe's request to have unrestricted use of her trust funds on deposit to her credit. 

Format:
Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Resignation of Georgie H. Kelly and Edith W. Kinkead
February 19, 1913

Superintendent Moses Friedman informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that Georgie H. Kelly and Edith W Kinkead have resigned. He recommends that, in the future, employees who will stay at the school on a more permanent basis be hired.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Request for Enrollment by Alfonso Rodart
February 24-27, 1913

These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Alfonso Rodart to enter a government-run school such as Carlisle. C. F. Hauke rejected the request, as Rodart did not specify a trade and he already had the equivalent of Carlisle's academic education

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request for Enrollment of Daughter of Joseph K. Griffis
March 4-8, 1913

These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Joseph K. Griffis to have his daughter enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Plans to Build Sewer System Underneath School Grounds and Henderson Farm
March 6, 1913 - March 18, 1913

J. Webster Henderson informs Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman that the Carlisle Borough is planning to build a sewage tunnel that will go underneath the school grounds and the Henderson Farm. Friedman then forwards Henderson's letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and asks for the petition to be granted. 

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request for Information About Pratt's Time at Carlisle
March 13-27, 1913

Nell C. Splitstone, children's editor of The People's Home Journal, asks the Department of the Interior for a complete record of former Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt's time at the Carlisle Indian School.

Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs F. H. Abbott informs Splitstone of Pratt's address and sends them the Report…

Format:
Letters/Correspondence, Reports
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Permission for Installation of a Sewer System under School Grounds and Henderson Farm
March 18, 1913

Assistant Secretary of the Interior Lewis C. Laylin informs J. Webster Henderson that he grants permission for the Carlisle Borough to begin the construction of a sewer underneath the the school's grounds and the Henderson Farm.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Results from Cattle Tuberculosis Test, 1913
March 18-31, 1913

Acting Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry A. M. Farrington informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that they tested the cattle herd at the Carlisle Indian School for tuberculosis in January, 1913. Of 46 total cows, 34 were healthy. The remaining 12 were slaughtered in Harrisburg and postmortem examination confirmed the test results that…

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request to Enroll Member of Six Nations Reserve of Canada
March 24 - April 3, 1913

These materials include correspondence regarding a request by K. C. Steele, an American citizen, to enroll an acquaintance from the Six Nation Reserve in Brantford, Canada at the Carlisle Indian School to study dentistry. Steele's request is denied, as no Indian School in the United States teaches dentistry and because his acquaintance would…

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
1913 Baccalaureate Program
March 30, 1913

This pamphlet for the 1913 Baccalaureate of the Carlisle Indian School includes the program for both the Baccalaureate Services and the Union Meeting of Christian Associations, which both took place on Sunday, March 30. A number of hymns and songs were performed for each service.

Format:
Memorabilia and Ephemera
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Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Accounting Inspection Report of H. T. Brown for August 1913
March 31 - August 12, 1913

These materials include an inspection of accounting and office practices at the Carlisle Indian School, performed by Supervisor H. T. Brown in August, 1913. The report includes a lamp inspection form as well as discussions of accounting, record-keeping, office equipment, personnel evaluations, and financial practices.

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Reports
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Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
 1913 Commencement Concert Program
April 1, 1913

Program for the 1913 commencement concert by the Carlisle Indian Band. The program also contains the names of the students in the band.

Format:
Memorabilia and Ephemera
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Commencement Concert program, 1913
April 1, 1913

Program for the commencement concert on April 1, 1913 by the Carlisle Indian School band.

Format:
Books and Pamphlets
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Notice of Illness of Antoine Petite
April 1-14, 1913

This document contains correspondence concerning the appendicitis case of Antoine Petite.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Allegedly Unpaid Invoices for Construction Equipment
April 2, 1913 - April 28, 1913

George D. Branston, Treasurer of Manning, Maxwell & Moore Inc., informs Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman that the schools has not paid two invoices from the previous summer. The school owes $461 for a Barnes upright drilling machine and $116 for a grinder. 

Friedman informs Branston that he forwarded the two…

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
1913 Commencement Program [copy 1]
April 3, 1913

Program of the 1913 graduation exercises of the Carlisle Indian School. The program includes the graduation exercises, the name of the graduating class, and students receiving industrial certificates.

Format:
Memorabilia and Ephemera
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
1913 Commencement Program [copy 2]
April 3, 1913

Program of the 1913 graduation exercises of the Carlisle Indian School. The program includes the graduation exercises, the name of the graduating class, and students receiving industrial certificates.

Format:
Memorabilia and Ephemera
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Request for Transportation Home by Robert Bruce
April 6-11, 1913

These materials include a request by Robert Bruce to have the government pay his transportation back home. Bruce wished to leave Carlisle early to help his father plant the wheat crop at their home in Montana.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Notice of Death of Alice Sowtea
April 7, 1913

This document contains a letter concerning the death of Alice Sowtea.

 

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request for Funds by Elizabeth La Vatta
April 8-21, 1913

These materials include correspondence concerning a request to approve a check of Elizabeth La Vatta's. 

Format:
Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Rules Governing the Management of Students' Money
April 9 - May 24, 1913

Supervisor of Indian Funds Benton informs Commissioner of Indian Affairs F. H. Abbott that $35,000 of Carlisle Indian School students' money is held in the Farmers Trust Company in Carlisle, and the school handles all business and all record-keeping of this money. Benton recommends that the students should have to keep an account book and…

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Notice of Death of Frank Peshlakie
April 11-14, 1913

This document contains correspondence concerning the death of Frank Peshlakie.

 

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Notice of Illness of Josephine Warren
April 11-14, 1913

This document contains correspondence concerning the appendicitis case of Josephine Warren. 

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration