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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March 18, 1918 - April 8, 1918
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by George Green to find work which pays more than the wages he was making on outing.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Wages and Employment of George Green951.12 KB
March 21, 1918 - April 10, 1918
These materials include correspondence between Superintendent John Francis Jr. and Colonel R. H. Van Deman concerning student Andrew Cuellar, and his selection for special work in the Military Intelligence Branch during the First World War.…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Former Students in Military, World War I
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Selection of Andrew Cuellar for Special Work in Military Intelligence259.61 KB
April 4-13, 1918
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to return Emma Williams and George Horn to their homes.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Students Being Expelled
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Emma Williams and George Horn604.95 KB
April 15, 1918 - June 20, 1918
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.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry into Enrollment of William Gayton936.48 KB
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.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Enrollment Statistics
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Errors in Average Attendance Calculations for 1918441.5 KB
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.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Condemnation and Sale of Unserviceable Property, 19181.69 MB
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.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Graduation
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Overage Graduates of the Class of 1918179.31 KB
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…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Inspection Report of W.S. Coleman for May 1918615.13 KB
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.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Sarah Celia Monteith Competency Evaluation392.05 KB
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.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Request to Return Andrew and Mary Peters1.38 MB
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…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Possibility of Sending Indian School Graduates to Penn State1.05 MB
May 20, 1918 - June 15, 1918
This material includes correspondence between Alex Washington, who had joined the U. S. Army, and Commisioner Cato Sells concerning Washington's desire to transfer his assingnment to the ship-building plant at Hog Island, Pennsylvania.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Former Students in Military
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Alex Washington's Request To Transfer to Ship Building433.17 KB
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.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Cynthia Cornelius to Return Home555.85 KB
May 21, 1918
Superintendent John Francis Jr. requests an additional $1,000 allotment for the purchase and transportation of Indian supplies in 1918.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Funds for the Purchase & Transportation of Supplies182.57 KB
May 21-24, 1918
These materials contain correspondence regarding the whereabouts of Lincoln Levering after he departed from the school.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Whereabouts of Lincoln Levering533.21 KB
June 2, 1918 - June 6, 1918
Invitation to the 1918 commencement exercises of the Carlisle Indian School beginning on June 2, 1918, along with a brief program for the events of the week.
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Topics: Graduation
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
View Document: Invitation to the 1918 Commencement Exercises188.93 KB
June 6, 1918
Sadie Metoxen received this diploma (course in Home Economics) during the commencement ceremonies held at the Carlisle Indian School on June 6, 1918.
This diploma was donated by the Jerry Lappin family in 2018.
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Topics: Graduation
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
View Document: Diploma of Sadie Metoxen1.43 MB
June 10-11, 1918
This material includes letters about the employment of some outing students at the American International Shipbuilding Compnay, and how their wages would be handled by the school.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Arrangements for Outing Students for American International Shipbuilding Company441.75 KB
June 11-15, 1918
This document contains correspondence concerning the death of Alice Finley due to pneumonia.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Deaths, Student Illness
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Notice of Death of Alice Finley973.67 KB
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'…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Building Repairs and Expansions
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Appropriation Request for Repairs Denied 111.88 KB
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.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Notice of Death of Isaac Longshore2.75 MB
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,…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Building Repairs and Expansions
View Document: Spending Funds for Building Repairs in Fiscal Year 1919484.4 KB
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…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Closure of the Carlisle Indian School - Part 1.111.94 MB, Closure of the Carlisle Indian School - Part 1.215.64 MB, Closure of the Carlisle Indian School - Part 2.116.64 MB, Closure of the Carlisle Indian School - Part 2.212.88 MB, Closure of the Carlisle Indian School - Part 2.314.71 MB
July 17, 1918
These materials contain correspondence regarding the enrollment status of Noah L. Bench.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Enrollment Status of Noah L. Bench268.67 KB
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…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Correspondence Regarding Richard Kesetta2.13 MB