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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August 20-31, 1917
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent John Francis Jr. informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that he is sending Disciplinarian Mr. Duran to Oklahoma to recruit Osage students, who will pay their own transportation fees and tuition. Francis…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Authority to Send Agriculture Teacher to Recruit Students392.28 KB
August 20, 1917 - September 25, 1917
This material includes correspondence regarding two students on the outing program on the farm of Jesse Webster. Webster is requesting an exception to a new outing program guideline that students return to the school for academic work in August,…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Correspondence on Outing Guideline Wartime Exception536.55 KB
August 20, 1917 - August 25, 1917
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent John Francis Jr. informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that there are 25-30 small Individual Indian Money checks that were shipped 5-6 years ago and have never been cashed due to being lost, destroyed,…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Disposal of Outstanding Student Check Balances264.69 KB
August 20, 1917 - September 21, 1917
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent John Francis Jr. denies Alfred A. Marlatt to host a student on outing over the winter because the school's new policy requires all students to stay at the school over the winter unless they can attend public…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Host a Male Student at Farm because White Boys are Quitting School to do the Work554.81 KB
August 22, 1917
This document contains a letter concerning the appendicitis case of Nora Buffalo.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Illness
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Notice of Illness of Nora Buffalo171.12 KB
August 23, 1917
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by Martha Napawat Thomas to have her son Dennis Thomas returned home in order to attend a local business college.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Dennis Thomas Home229.04 KB
August 24 - 30, 1917
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to enroll Helen White Calf at Carlisle to take courses in sewing and dressmaking.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Enroll Helen White Calf369.03 KB
August 25 - 29, 1917
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request from Congressman Tom D. McKeown to enroll the son of G. W. Harkins at Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Enroll Student from Oklahoma289.55 KB
August 27, - September 15, 1917
File of Margaret House, a member of the Oneida Nation, who entered the school on August 27, 1917, and departed on June 8, 1918. This file includes information cards, an application for enrollment, and correspondence.
House was not a…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Margaret House File (Not a Student)1.08 MB
August 27 - 29, 1917
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to waive the age requirement to enroll Lonie Evans in Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Waive Age Requirement for Lonie Evans437.33 KB
August 28, 1917 - June 13, 1919
Correspondence concerning Mary Lone Chief and her trust allotment, including competency evaluations, a photograph, and her memorandum.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
View Document: Mary Lone Chief Competency Evaluation2.05 MB
August 28, 1917 - September 6, 1917
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by the guardian of Lizzie Kemp to have her released from her term of enrollment at Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Release Lizzie Kemp325.03 KB
August 28, 1917 - September 7, 1917
These materials contain correspondence regarding correspondence a request by the guardian of Mary Lieb to have her released from Carlisle in order to have her enrolled at the Haskell Institute.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Release Mary Lieb292.25 KB
August 30, 1917 - August 22, 1918
This material includes correspondence related to the request of George Gore, a farmer and outing patron in Newton, Pennsylvania, to retain some outing students beyond their normal term. Specific correspondence relates to students John Wolfe and…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Correspondence Regarding Outing Patron George Gore1.47 MB
September 4-8, 1917
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to enroll Nellie Hawkins at Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Enroll Nellie Hawkins729.13 KB
September 6 - 8, 1917
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request from E. P. Davis, through the office of the President, to have Cornelius Hardman (referred to as Cornelius Hartman here) returned to the home of outing patron George Gore.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Outing Student to George Gore769.03 KB
September 7-15, 1917
These materials contain correspondence regarding a report on the health of Edward Williams who was admitted to the hospital at the Carlisle School with a case of pneumonia aggravated by tuberculosis.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Illness
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Report on Health of Edward Williams289.47 KB
September 14-24, 1917
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by the grandfather of Lucile and Kenneth Abert to have them enrolled at Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Enroll Lucile and Kenneth Abert957.32 KB
September 18, 1917
This document contains a letter concerning the death of Edward Williams.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Deaths, Student Illness
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Notice of Death of Edward Williams328.23 KB
September 18-28, 1917
Mrs. T. S. Buckley asks if there is an Indian School that someone from Chatham, New York, could attend. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informs Buckley that the New York Indian can attend the Carlisle Indian School and sends…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request from New York Indian to Enroll291.57 KB
September 19, 1917 - September 27, 1917
Superintendent John Francis Jr. requests to sell 300 old mattresses and asks the Commissioner of Indian Affairs which bid, either Jacob Shields or Abe Robinowitz, to accept. Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt tells Francis Jr. to accept…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Furniture
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Sell Old Mattresses265.64 KB
September 23, 1917 - October 5, 1917
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to return Harry Laursen from Carlisle to his home in Shell Lake, Wisconsin.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Harry Laursen435.96 KB
October 17, 1917 - October 18, 1917
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent John Francis Jr. informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that the football team is playing the Naval Academy at Annapolis and that no tickets will be issued because there will be plenty of room for…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Football
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Invitation to Commissioner of Indian Affairs to Attend Football Game at the Naval Academy294.8 KB
October 18- 27, 1917
This document contains correspondence concerning the illness of George Swanson with smallpox. Quarantines were placed on the hospital and the school by the Pennsylvania Department of Health and by County Health Inspector Dr. Harvey B. Bashore,…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Illness, Medical Care at School
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Notice of Illness of George Swanson896.28 KB
October 26, 1917
John Francis Jr. informs graduates and ex-students of the Carlisle Indian School of the combination of The Arrow and Red Man moving forward. Francis describes this measure as a result of increased costs and further cancels all…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Printing Department
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Notice of Combined School Publication585.15 KB