These materials contain correspondence regarding an inquiry into the enrollment of William Gayton upon a request by his father. The enrollment of other students is also discussed.
Letters/Correspondence
April 15, 1918 - June 20, 1918
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 22, 1918 - May 18, 1918
These materials contain correspondence regarding the an error in the calculation of monthly and quarterly average student attendance rates resulting from counting outing pupils in only the former calculation.
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April 23, 1918 - July 1, 1918
These materials include correspondence and survey forms regarding unserviceable property at the Carlisle Indian School. Some of the condemned supplies was approved for sale on the open market.
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 24, 1918
These materials include a question and answer of how many graduates of the Class of 1918 will be over the age of 18.
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May 1, 1918
This material includes the May 1918 inspection of the Carlisle Indian School by W. S. Coleman. The included correspondence between Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells and Coleman discusses the health conditions of outing students and the general campus, conditions at the school farm, and school athletics.
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May 2, 1918 - April 29, 1919
This document contains correspondence concerning former student Sarah Celia Monteith, and her certificate of competency for self-administration of trust allotments.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
May 3 - July 2, 1918
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by Libbie P. Charles to have her children Andrew and Mary Peters returned home.
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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
May 16, 1918 - June 8, 1918
Carlisle Indian School Principal Teacher C. W. Blair writes to Pennsylvania State College Registrar Professor A. H. Espenshade about designing curriculum that would prepare students to attend college. He sends an example of what classes an Indian School student would take and asks Blair if that coursework would get them into Penn State.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
May 20 - June 15, 1918
This material includes correspondence between Alex Washington, who had joined the U. S. Army, and Commissioner Cato Sells concerning Washington's desire to transfer his assignment to the ship-building plant at Hog Island, Pennsylvania.
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May 21 - June 6, 1918
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by Sampson Cornelius to have his daughter Cynthia returned home to West De Pere, Wisconsin for her summer vacation from Carlisle.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
May 21, 1918
Superintendent John Francis Jr. requests an additional $1,000 allotment for the purchase and transportation of Indian supplies in 1918.
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May 21-24, 1918
These materials contain correspondence regarding the whereabouts of Lincoln Levering after he departed from the school.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
June 10-11, 1918
This material includes letters about the employment of some outing students at the American International Shipbuilding Company, and how their wages would be handled by the school.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
June 11-15, 1918
This document contains correspondence concerning the death of Alice Finley due to pneumonia.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
June 13, 1918
Acting Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs C. F. Hauke informs Carlisle Indian School Superintendent John Francis Jr. that they cannot appropriate $15,000 to the school for "repairs and improvements." As a result of the United States' involvement in World War I, they are only appropriating funds that are "absolutely necessary."
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June 24, 1918 - June 2, 1919
This document contains correspondence concerning the death of Isaac Longshore, a former student who returned to the school for a visit. Longshore was interred in the school cemetery.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
June 28, 1918
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent John Francis Jr. provides a detailed breakdown on how he plans to spend a $15,000 appropriation on building repairs in fiscal year 1919. He outlines plans to utilize the Plumbing & Electrical, Painting, Carpentry, and Sheet Metal Departments.
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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
July 9, 1918 - February 14, 1940
These materials include correspondence, official records, and other documents related to the closure of the Carlisle Indian School in 1918. Discussed topics include the transfer of the land from the Department of the Interior to the Department of War, the transfer of property to other Indian schools, and the discharge and transfer of students…
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Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Maps, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
July 17, 1918
These materials contain correspondence regarding the enrollment status of Noah L. Bench.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
July 20, 1918 - February 28, 1923
These materials include correspondence regarding the custody of Richard Kesetta upon the closing of the Carlisle School. Additional correspondence relates to Kesetta's life after the school closed, including attempts to have him enrolled in the Haskell Institute as well as an inquiry made by Kessetta into his rights as a member of the Lipan…
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Letters/Correspondence
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July 24 - August 15, 1918
Traveling Auditor in Charge Claude V. Peel requests to sell twenty five old Smith-Premier double keyboard typewriters for $10 each. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt grants Peel permission and orders him to advertise the sale.
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July 27 - August 8, 1918
Banker and outing patron R. H. Headley asks Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells if there is any way that he can host an Indian boy at his home after the Carlisle Indian School closes. Headley states that he has been an outing host since 1900 and would like to continue to be one if at all possible.
Assistant Commissioner E. B.…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
August 5-9, 1918
Emma K. Hetrick writes to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to request to host a female Carlisle Indian School student at their house to cook and do housework. Commissioner Cato Sells tells Hetrick that the school will be closing on September 1, and the students will be transferred to western schools, so he cannot accommodate her request.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
August 6-22, 1918
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by Frank H. Mather to retain Harold Parker on outing after Carlisle closed in 1918.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
August 18 - September 3, 1918
J. F. Carr requests to be appointed the Superintendent of Brick and Tile Work at the Carlisle Indian School.
Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informs Carr that the school has been transferred from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Department of War, so if Carr wants an appointment, he should write to the Secretary…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration