This material includes correspondence between Carlisle graduate A. H. Nash and Commissioner Cato Sells. Nash and The American Art Works had created a daily-date calendar which he sent to the largest Indian Schools, including Carlisle.
Letters/Correspondence
September 8-13, 1915
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September 8, 1915
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps requests to spend $200 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1916" account to pay for students' dental work.
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September 13 - 23, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to re-enroll Amos Sackatook at the Carlisle Indian School in order to take up a form of industrial training. The application was approved on the condition that Sackatook pay for his transportation to the school.
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September 15 - 18, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to enroll Guy Dickerson at the Carlisle Indian School.
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September 17, 1915 - October 7, 1915
This document contains correspondence concerning the student account of Louis Schweigman. The student had requested remittance payments from the government.
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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
September 24, 1915 - October 1, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding two special enrollment courses. The first is for the enrollment of four pupils over the age of 21 years, the maximum allowed at Carlisle. The second is for Ralph Harmon Sexton to attend a technical high school in the borough of Carlisle, so he could pursue a course in Electrical Engineering from…
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September 24 - 30, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding the enrollment of Rachel Schenderline and George Pease Jr. at the Carlisle Indian School. Information is provided about the background of Schenderline and a request to reimburse Superintendent Estep of the Crow Agency for the transportation costs to enroll Schenderline.
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September 30, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by Carlisle Superintendent Oscar Lipps to the Superintendent of the Haskell Institute J. R. Wise for information about the record of Isaac Bettelyoun while Bettelyoun was a student at Haskell.
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October 1, 1915 - November 23, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding the church attendance of Benjamin Black Elk while on outing. Upon receiving an answer to his inquiry, William H. Ketcham, the Director of Catholic Indian Missions, objected to the placing of pupils in homes where they were unable to attend Mass regularly.
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October 24-30, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by Francis Green, a member of the Pleasant Point Indian Reservation in Maine, to gain admission to the Carlisle Indian School.
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October 26 - November 2, 1915
This document contains correspondence concerning the death of Katie Cochran.
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October 30 - November 19, 1915
This document contains correspondence concerning the student account of Jerome Slattery. Slattery sought to use the funds to cover travel expenses.
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November 1-11, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding pay for M.A. Davis, Special Officer of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, for returning pupils who deserted from the Carlisle Indian School.
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November 4 - 13, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by David St. Cyr to enroll his children Walter and Annie St. Cyr at the Carlisle School.
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November 7 - 22, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Richard Summers to have his son Frank Summers returned home from Carlisle.
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November 8-22, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Benjamin C. Kreiner to enroll at Carlisle. Kriener was admitted to Carlisle and then held back due to a quarantine at his home agency. Following the close of the quarantine, Kreiner was then denied access to the school due to having schools nearby.
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November 19, 1915
Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt forwards a drawing of Cottage #10 to Carlisle Indian School Director of Mechanic Arts Roy H. Bradley and asks him to make several adjustments to it.
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December 9, 1915 - February 5, 1916
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by George H. Mayo to be enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School. Mayo and E. B. Meritt correspond on the matter of who is responsible for paying for Mayo's transportation to Carlisle.
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December 21-28, 1915
Henry C. Durand and Peter J. Kasper from Wholesale Grocers write to Chief Disbursing Clerk of the Department of the Interior George W. Evans regarding a weight difference in laundry starch that they shipped to Carlisle.
Evans forwards the letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt informs…
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December 24, 1915 - December 29, 1915
Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt asks Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps to prepare a financial report on the school's agricultural products for fiscal year 1914-1915. Lipps prepares a report listing the type of product produced, the amount of the product in weight, the value of the product, the amount of…
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January 2 - 20, 1916
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Pablo Herrera for the enrollment of his younger brother William Herrera at Carlisle. According to the school, Herrera was denied admission due to having access to a similar school nearby his home.
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January 3 - 10, 1916
These materials include correspondence regarding a plan of Stanley R. Yarnell, of the Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to admit Mexican students to the Carlisle Indian School.
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January 6 - February 7, 1916
State Historical Society of North Dakota Librarian and Acting Curator Georgia B. Carpenter asks the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for information regarding the Carlisle Indian School. Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt informs Carpenter that Carlisle is a vocational school and that its intentions to train Indian young adults "the duties and…
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January 21 - March 27, 1916
This document contains correspondence regarding a $20 mileage book, which former Superintendent Moses Friedman purchased from the Cumberland Valley Railroad and charged to the Athletic Association. After careful discussion about the legitimacy of the purchase, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells authorizes current Superintendent O. H.…
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Letters/Correspondence
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January 21, 1916 - February 3, 1916
This document contains correspondence between Joseph A. Shooter and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merritt concerning the former's desire to use his student funds to build a house.
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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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