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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May 4, 1916
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps requests $250 to pay for incidental expenses associated with the administration of the Carlisle Indian School He also explains how these funds have been and will be spent.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Request for Funds for Incidental Expenses and Explanation of Authorities292.4 KB
May 5, 1916 - May 20, 1916
Carlisle Indian School Agriculture Teacher Leo Marks forwards maps or blueprints of both school farms and provides an inventory of the school's livestock. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells thanks Marks' for his maps, inventory, and his…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Blueprints of Two School Farms and Inventory of School's Livestock7.67 MB
May 11, 1916 - May 17, 1916
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps encloses an abstract of authorities and asks to be informed of any differences. Second Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs C. F. Hauke returns the abstract with the differences marked in…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Differences in an Abstract of Authorities224.94 KB
May 11, 1916 - May 31, 1916
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps requests $250 to pay for incidental expenses associated with the administration of the Carlisle Indian School. He also explains how funds requested from May 11 were spent.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Request for Funds for Incidental Expenses and Explanation of Authorities300.31 KB
May 12 - 25, 1916
These files include correspondence regarding a request of Juan Herrera to have his sister Josephine Herrera, who was attending public school in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, enroll in the Carlisle School. Permission was denied as a result her…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment for Josephine Herrera284.13 KB
May 15, 1916
Cover letter from Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells regarding a circular and announcement advertising a military training camp for boys in New York to Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps.
Based on related…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Cooperation with Military Training Camp180.27 KB
May 22, 1916
J. H. Dortch inquires of Oscar H. Lipps if the Carlisle Indian School Library has a copy of the Indian Population in the United States and Alaska for 1910.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Library
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Office Inquiry Regarding School Library Holdings88.13 KB
May 29, 1916 - June 22, 1916
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by William Obern to have his two sons, Luke and Lawrence, sent home on vacation.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Vacation Request for Luke and Lawrence Obern713.09 KB
May 31 - June 16, 1916
Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps requests approval of an agreement between the school and J. Webster Henderson to rent a small tract of land adjoining the school for fiscal year 1917.
Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt asks…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Farms - Land Transactions
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Rent a Small Tract of Henderson Land, 1916344.92 KB
June 3, 1916 - June 17, 1916
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps requests $250 to pay for incidental expenses associated with the administration of the Carlisle Indian School. He also explains how funds requested from June 3 were spent.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Request for Funds for Incidental Expenses and Explanation of Authorities285.62 KB
June 5 - 28, 1916
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Liddia Jessaun to have her son Joseph returned home. Jessaun's request was denied with the explanation that Joseph's term of enrollment had one more year and that an additional year of…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Joseph Jessaun1.02 MB
June 7-16, 1916
These materials include correspondence regarding the participation of the Carlisle Indian School band in the Preparedness Parade in Washington, D.C. The parade was designed to be a show of patriotism, and the Interior Department wanted to have a…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Participation of Carlisle Indian School Band in the Preparedness Parade350.05 KB
June 30, 1916
Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt orders Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps to print 500 copies of the U.S. v. Nice Supreme Court decision. Meritt plans to send a copy to each Superintendent in the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Printing Department
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Printing Supreme Court Decision (US v. Nice)172.37 KB
July 3 - 8, 1916
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Elsie H. Lenher to have information about how to enroll someone in the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Information on Enrolling Student348.16 KB
July 11 - September 1, 1916
Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps forwards a letter from attorney Addison M. Bowman and communication from Glenn S. Warner relative to a $53.75 claim from detective George W. Shuler, who was hired to investigate the illegal sale of liquor to students…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Denial of Claim to Pay Detective Investigating Sale of Liquor to Students683.31 KB
July 17, 1916
Assistant Commissioner of Affairs E. B. Meritt transmits an Allotment of Funds to Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps. The funds, which amount to $25.00, are for purchasing and transporting Indian supplies.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Allotment of Funds for Supplies236.24 KB
July 17-27, 1916
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps requests $300 for traveling expenses in fiscal year 1917. He explains that he needs the money to visit different schools in district number 1 to introduce a new course of study at these schools…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
View Document: Reimbursement of Superintendent Lipps' Travel Expenses401.61 KB
July 17-18, 1916
This document contains correspondence concerning the preparation of students for vocational work. Statistics outlining students prepared for each year of vocational training are included.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Statistics on Vocational Work of Students285.85 KB
July 18 - July 28, 1916
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps returns a voucher to Chicago Indian Supplies Warehouse Superintendent Frank Sorenson because Sorenson sent him "50 pads, Individual Outline Maps of Africa," which he didn't ask for. Sorenson…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Academic Supplies
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Dispute Regarding an Order for Outline Maps of Africa423.45 KB
July 26, 1916 - December 1, 1916
This document contains correspondence requesting the return home of six students from the Pine Ridge Agency who were diagnosed with tuberculosis.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Report of Return Home of Six Tubercular Students to Pine Ridge494.95 KB
July 26, 1916
These materials include a letter regarding Victor Kelley's request for Amanda Williams to be transferred to the Sherman Institute from Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Transfer of Amanda Williams357.82 KB
July 28, 1916
These materials include correspondence regarding an application in duplicate that was sent in error to the Indian Office.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Application Sent in Error to Indian Office155.63 KB
August 1, 1916 - September 21, 1916
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to by Congressman Charles D. Carter to enroll Herbert S. Burgevin in the Carlisle Indian School. Burgevin was permitted to enroll under the condition that his traveling expenses and…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment for Hebert S. Burgevin1.07 MB
August 1, 1916 - September 13, 1916
This document contains correspondence concerning the student account of Eugene Jones.
Note: The student also went by the name Eugene Jimerson.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Request for Funds by Eugene Jones782.99 KB
August 1 - 9, 1916
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by R. C. Stearnes, the Superintendent of Public Institution in Virginia, about enrolling a member of the Pamunkey Nation in an Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Information on Enrolling Pamunkey Nation Student371.26 KB