The Documents section features digitized copies of documents relating to the history of the school. These documents include correspondence, graduation pamphlets, and other forms of ephemera, and have been digitized by Digital Resource Center staff. Today, these documents are preserved in a number of locations, including the Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections as well as private collections.
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November 28, 1914 - December 26, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a solicitation from the Metropolitan Booking Offices regarding a screening of Cabiria at the Carlisle Indian School. The offer was viewed favorably by Carlisle's superintendent and…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Entertainment
Format: Legal and Government Documents
View Document: Film Screening of Cabiria for Students432.66 KB
December 1, 1914 - January 2, 1915
These materials include a complaint from local Carlisle businessman John H. Lau against Charles H. Carns, the painter at the Carlisle Indian School. Lau, of the local carriage-maker E. A. Lau and Sons, claimed that Carns was inappropriately…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Complaint Regarding Commercial Competition for Carriage Painting716.49 KB
December 3, 1914 - July 13, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding the enrollment at Carlisle of Brown Eagle, a member of the Navajo Nation, and the loss of his trunk after being shipped from Morrisville, Pennsylvania to Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Enrollment of Brown Eagle and Locating Lost Trunk1.65 MB
December 4, 1914 - January 23, 1915
Carlisle Indian School Physician Dr. Walter Rendtorff informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that he thinks he may have developed a cure for tuberculosis, which he has used on David Belin and two others. He requests to give it a trial at the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Denial of a Trial for Carlisle Indian School Physician's Potential Tuberculosis Remedy965.21 KB
December 8-9, 1914
Cato Sells requests the Carlisle Indian School print 1000 copies of the Advance Statement of Annual Report for 1914 as quickly as possible. Sells additionally notes corrections to be made to the Report.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Printing Department
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Sells Request Carlisle Print Copies of Advance Statement of Annual Report for 1914277.53 KB
December 9-15, 1914
This material includes a letter as well as a flyer concerning the performance of the Carlisle Indian School band at the Belgian Relief Fund Benefit.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: School Band Performance At The Belgian Relief Fund Benefit312.9 KB
December 12, 1914 - August 4, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding requests from Andrew F. Solomon to stay at Carlisle or to enter Haskell to obtain an education.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Education Requests by Andrew F. Solomon3.29 MB
December 14-22, 1914
Louis Scott requests permission to enroll at the Carlisle Indian School. The Chilocco Indian School was recommended as an alternative.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment of Louis Scott479.91 KB
December 17, 1914 - March 11, 1915
Superintendent O. H. Lipps requests to spend $100 to pay for incidental expenses incurred from the administration of the Carlisle Indian School from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1915" fund, and Second Assistant Commissioner C. F. Hauke…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
View Document: Request to Spend $160.15 from 1915 Fund1.05 MB
December 24, 1914 - January 9, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding the return home of Frank Young Eagle, Charles Wilson, George Roberts, and Eustace Edwards in January 1915.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Discipline - General
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Return Home of Four Students1.13 MB
December 29, 1914 - January 12, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Angeles Rivera to enroll a young Puerto Rican boy at the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Students from Puerto Rico
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment of Underage Puerto Rican Student463.39 KB
December 31, 1914- January 15, 1915
This document contains correspondence concerning a request made by Stephen Foote to access his student funds.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Request for Funds by Stephen Foote181.88 KB
1915
This compiled list of graduates of the Carlisle Indian School from 1889 to 1915 includes the names, Nations, and addresses of Carlisle's graduates from those class years. The compilation year of this document is believed to be circa 1915 based on…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Graduation
Format: Reports
View Document: List of Graduates, 1889-19156.86 MB
January 4-13, 1915
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company would like to purchase 7/1000 of an acre of Farm No. 1 to provide a bit more room to…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Farms - Land Transactions
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Possibility of Selling Strip of Farm Land to Pennsylvania Railroad Company177.71 KB
January 5-18, 1915
Reginald Oshkosh appeals to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to prevent the discharge for cause of his son, Roland Oshkosh, from Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Discipline - General
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Appeal to Allow Roland Oshkosh to Remain at Carlisle878.03 KB
January 9 - 13, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding the formation of a Boy Scout troop at Carlisle. This is considered the first Native American scouting troop.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Boy Scout Troop Formation at Carlisle326.53 KB
January 11, 1915 - March 10, 1915
Supervisor in Charge of Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests $100 for incidental expenses in association with the administration of the school. Lipps later requests approval for spending $8.40 for eggs.
Second Assistant…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Request for Funds for Incidental Expenses and Eggs404.09 KB
January 12, 1915 - February 23, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding the enrollment status of Alexander P. Powell.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Enrollment Status of Alexander Powell370.78 KB
January 12, 1915
These materials include a correspondence regarding the whereabouts of Susie Wallan and Margaret Buffalo.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Whereabouts of Susie Wallan and Margaret Buffalo299.57 KB
January 15, 1915
Emily Peake Robitaille, Secretary of the Alumni Association of the Carlisle Indian School, writes to former students regarding the desire of the Alumni Association to start an Alumni Publication following a conference of Alumni Secretaries.…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Notice of Attempt to Start Carlisle Alumni Association Publication737.58 KB
January 18, 1915
Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt provides information regarding a bill dispute with the Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad Company to Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps. Meritt advises Lipps to accept…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Bill Dispute with Railroad Company122.03 KB
January 22, 1915 - February 10, 1915
The Chicago and North Western Railway Company writes to the Indian Office requesting that a $30 train ticket be paid for. Second Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs C. F. Hauke informs Supervisor in Charge Oscar H. Lipps, who told CNWRC to…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: False Claim for $30.06 Train Ticket449.46 KB
January 22 - October 1, 1915
This document contains correspondence concerning the enrollment of Ben Powell and Charles Williams at Haskell Institute. Both had previously been enrolled at Carlisle. Also included are documents concerning the requirements placed upon student…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Transfer of Ben Powell and Charles Williams to Haskell Institute2.59 MB
February 1, 1915 - April 29, 1915
Correspondence and investigative material related to a charge that Oscar H. Lipps made a sale of Indian allotments in the Nez Perce reservation for personal gain. The investigation concluded that Lipps was innocent.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Correspondence Regarding Nez Perce Allotment Sale Investigation8.52 MB
February 1, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding the departure of Louis Twin from Carlisle and the funds owed for his transportation.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Departure of Louis Twin153.33 KB