Invincible Debating Society
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A booklet of information and photographs assembled by the Carlisle Indian School for their 23rd year, circa 1902. Includes a short history of the school and the town and school demographic information. Includes pictures of arriving students, students during classroom and extracurricular...
Portrait of a large group of male students with one white man in the center of the group posed in front of a school building. The caption identifies them as the Invincible Debating Society.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The...
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Portrait of a large group of male students, some holding instruments, with a white man in the center of the bottom row. They are posed on the front steps of a building on the school grounds. The caption on the Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image states that this is the...
Group of seated male students facing two male students seated at a desk on a dais and one male student standing as if to address the group.
In 1901 the Bureau of Indian Affairs contracted with the photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston to document the...
The first volume of the Invincible Debating Society's minutes contains entries, arranged chronologically, from September 1894 through November 1906. These entries, which start on page 21 and vary in length, usually include the date, a description of the meeting, updates on the Society's activities, and identify members who participated. The first twenty pages include the membership roll as well as the Society's constitution and bylaws. Pages without content were not photographed. The Minutes of the Invincible Debating Society comprise 3 volumes, which are located at the National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 75, Series 1339.
The second volume of the Invincible Debating Society's minutes contains entries, arranged chronologically, from December 1906 through November 1915. These entries, which start on page 1 vary in length, usually include the date, a description of the meeting, updates on the Society's activities, and identify members who participated. The first section of this volume contains unnumbered pages that list the membership rolls for each academic year. Pages without content were not photographed. The Minutes of the Invincible Debating Society comprise 3 volumes, which are located at the National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 75, Series 1339.
Two letters, which relate to the Society's fundraising for the Belgian Relief fund, were found within this volume at the U.S. National Archives.
The third volume of the Invincible Debating Society's minutes contains entries, arranged chronologically, from November 1915 through June 1918. These entries, which start on page 20 and vary in length, usually include the date, a description of the meeting, updates on the Society's activities, and identify members who participated. The first section in this volume includes a typed program for two meetings in 1915 and the Society's membership roll. Pages without content were not photographed. The Minutes of the Invincible Debating Society comprise 3 volumes, which are located at the National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 75, Series 1339.
Two loose documents were found in this volume, including an undated Roll Call and questions to discuss at meeting in May 1918 .
The first page opened with a poem titled "There's Danger," about the evils of drink. Next appeared "In an Indian Camp: How to Cook Beans," adapted from the Cheyenne Transporter newspaper, about cleaning cooking utensils before using them. The article continued on page four. Page two...
The first page opened with a poem titled "A Fourteen-Year-Old Girl's Good Advice," followed by an article called "The Menomonees and Pottawatomies Dance: A Story by Lucy Jordan, Stockbridge, a pupil from Wisconsin," that told of an 1882 visit by dancers to her home agency in Keshena, Wisconsin....
The first page opened with a poem titled "Sound Principle But Poor Poetry," followed by "A Boy Needs a Trade," about the degradation of a ditch digger reprinted from the Detroit Free Press. There was also an article called "A Sick Man who Wanted Whiskey." The second page included a report in the...
The first page opened with the poem, "You Conquer Me, Me Conquer You" followed by a letter from Rev. Edward F. Wilson of the Shingwauk Home titled "An Indian School in Canada," which described Wilson’s report to the Indian Department of Canada on his visit to Carlisle, the Lincoln Institute and...
The first page began with an untitled poem that began with the first line, “Waste not moments, no, nor words,” followed by A-Te-Ka’s letter to the Man-on-the-band-stand titled “It Took Eight Years to Discover a Mistake.” The letter recalled a December 1881 article on early student art work from...
The first page opened with an untitled poem warning of the evils of debt, followed by “Eet, Kit-E-Ko Give It To Me: A True Story,” about fictional Aunt Martha’s exasperation after generously giving away all her potatoes to hungry Pawnee women. The story continued on page four. Page two featured...
The first page opened with a poem "Bear It in Mind” followed by the third installment of the series titled “How An Indian Girl Might Tell Her Own Story if She Had the Chance: All Founded on Actual Observations of the Man-on-the-band-stand’s Chief Clerk” which continued on the fourth page. Page...
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Souvenir pamphlet for the Carlisle Indian School. Includes a short description of the school in the beginning, mentioning its history and aims. Images of the campus, school buildings, dorm rooms, classrooms, extracurricular groups, and graduates are given, each including a short caption....
Charles H. Thompson forwards an inspection report of the Carlisle Indian School on March 2, 1892. Thompson's report examines a wide range of topics related to the School including the buildings, health of students, food, student's social lives, industrial training, outings, and academic training...
