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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April 12, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt approves the Commissioner of Indian Affairs' suggestion that General Agent for the Presbyterian Board of Missions, Sheldon Jackson, should recruit and send students from Colorado and New Mexico to the Carlisle Indian School.…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Recruitment of Students, Missionary Work
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Plan for Reverend Sheldon Jackson to Recruit Southwestern Students224.2 KB
April 14, 1880
Wrapper for Samuel C. Armstrong's letter forwarding a copy of the newspaper, The Southern Workman, which details some of the work for Indians done at Hampton Institute and the Carlisle Indian School to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Enclosure of The Southern Workman Newspaper139.09 KB
April 17, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt informs Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. E. Trowbridge that when the late and former Commissioner, E. A. Hayt, visited the school several months ago, he recommended that Pratt hire an instructor and start a student band at…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Hire Instructor to Start Student Band147.09 KB
April 17, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to purchase 300 dining room stools, 72 desks, 30 rear seats, and 5 teacher's desks amounting to $545
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which were filmed…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Furniture
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Purchase Chairs and Desks151.33 KB
April 19, 1880 - April 21, 1880
A. J. Koser informs Representative J. C. Beltzhoover that he visited the Carlisle Indian School and liked it so much that he'd like to establish an Indian school for 140 students in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania at a former Soldiers Homestead.…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Desire to Start Indian School in Gettysburg259.95 KB
April 23, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests to spend $65 on materials for his blacksmith and wagonmaker to make a carriage to travel to the town of Carlisle and the surrounding countryside.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Purchase Materials to Build a Carriage147.62 KB
April 24, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt asks Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. E. Trowbridge to set the date when chiefs visit the Carlisle Indian School so that "friends of the school" can visit at the same time.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Friends of the School to Visit when Chiefs Do100.49 KB
April 27, 1880
Rev. Sheldon Jackson continues correspondence with Pratt regarding bringing Navajo and Pueblo students to Carlisle. He notes that "the Navajoes are very restless just now & we may have difficulty in security their consent."
Repository: Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Topics: Recruitment of Students
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Jackson Writes About Arrangements for Bringing Navajo and Pueblo Students, 1880553.37 KB
April 27, 1880
Andrew J. Koser informs Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. E. Trowbridge that he visited the Carlisle Indian School, which he thinks is a "grand success" and more effective than reservation schools. He proposes the idea of purchasing the building…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Plan to Establish Indian School in Gettysburg253.88 KB
May 1880
Richard Henry Pratt lists the cash and property accounts for the quarter ending March 31, 1880 and forwards them to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Cash and Property Accounts, March 1880219.52 KB
May 6, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt asks the Commissioner of Indian Affairs if he can visit him in Washington, D. C. to discuss the Carlisle Indian School.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which were filmed…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt's Request to Visit Washington, D. C.103.9 KB
May 7, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt describes the problems he's having with receiving rubber hose, hose pipes, and one hose carriage from September 1879's estimate for supplies.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Supplies and Materials
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Issues with Receiving Hose, Pipes, and a Carriage224.71 KB
May 7, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to purchase food for students instead of using the government-issued rations. Pratt requests to spend up to 17.5¢ per student per day and to be able to choose food for the students so that they can receive…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Food and Dining
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt's Request to Select Food for the School227.62 KB
May 7, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests to pay for Etahdleuh's traveling expenses to visit a hospital in Syracuse, New York. Pratt notes that Etahdleuh is suffering from eye and throat problems.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Send Etahdleuh to New York Hospital for Eye and Throat Issues156.55 KB
May 12, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to return to Carlisle from Washington, D.C.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which were filmed from the original documents found in Record Group 75, Entry…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt's Request for Authority to Return to Carlisle from Washington, D.C.141.69 KB
May 15, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a monthly report of irregular employees for April 1880 to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Note: The report itself was missing from the microfilm reels at the National Archives.
Note: This item was…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - General
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Report of Irregular Employees, April 1880135.44 KB
May 18, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests to spend $80 to transport students to the South Mountain to visit the iron works and paper mills and to have a picnic. Pratt would like to arrange this excursion when the Dakota chiefs and families are visiting.
…Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Visit Factories with Students and Dakota Families146.4 KB
May 24, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests to present samples of the Carlisle Indian School's manufactured goods at the letting of contracts in New York.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which were filmed…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Present Industrial Samples in New York City151.12 KB
May 25, 1880 - July 28, 1880
George W. Hendry informs Richard Henry Pratt that he knows a 21 year old man, who's half Indian and half Black, who is "dignified" and can speak English. He asks Pratt to send him pictures of Indian students and schools. Pratt forwards Hendry's…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Send Photographs to a Half-Indian, Half-Black Young Man307.36 KB
June 2, 1880 - June 5, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt encloses a copy of a letter from B. F. Beveridge to Charles Tackett about how to ensure that the Indian chiefs while visiting Washington D.C. stay at the Washington House (Beveridge's establishment). In his cover letter, Pratt…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Intention to Discharge Charles Tackett244.54 KB
June 2, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt sends a telegram to Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. E. Trowbridge regarding 25 Hampton Institute students going north for the summer.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234),…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Outings
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Plan for Hampton Institute Students to Go North for the Summer159.96 KB
June 2, 1880
J. S. Bender informs Richard Henry Pratt that he believes six to eight students should be returned to their homes because they have "incurable" conditions and will likely "die young." Pratt encloses and endorses Bender's requests to the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: School Physician's Belief that Eight Students Should be Sent Home due to Poor Health324.24 KB
June 3, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt submits a "Special" Estimate of Funds form for the second quarter of 1880 amounting to $1,100.80 for areas covering traveling expenses, supplies, contingencies, and clothing.
Note: This item was copied from U.S.…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Supplies and Materials
View Document: Special Estimate of Funds, Second Quarter 1880821.45 KB
June 5, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt informs Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. E. Trowbridge that the Cheyenne & Arapaho Agent John D. Miles would like to send 25 students from his agency to the Carlisle Indian School. Miles added that he'd like several…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Enroll 25 Cheyenne and Arapaho Students225.21 KB
June 11, 1880
Richard H. Pratt transmits to Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. E. Trowbridge his Return of Medical Property form for the first quarter of 1880.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which were…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Medical Supplies and Materials
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Return of Medical Property, First Quarter 1880146.44 KB