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 31, 1900
Richard H. Pratt compiles a report with remarks regarding employees' efficiency, conduct, behavior, dress, health, kindness towards children, and notes on any special skills. The report also lists employees' positions.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - General
Format: Reports
View Document: Efficiency Report of Employees, March 1900793.35 KB
March 31, 1900
Major Richard H. Pratt submits a report that lists irregular employees who worked at the school during March 1900. The report includes details on compensation, position titles, race, and the number of days worked during that month.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Students - Irregular Employees
Format: Reports
View Document: Report of Irregular Employees, March 1900610.83 KB
April 1900
S. L. Given, school physician, compiles the monthly sanitary report for March 1900.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Illness, Student Deaths
Format: Reports
View Document: Monthly Sanitary Report of Sick and Injured, March 19001.33 MB
April 2, 1900
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that he is forwarding contracts for building materials in 1900.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Forwards Contracts for Building Materials in 1900521.46 KB
April 2, 1900
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to hire labor to repair roads at the Carlisle Indian School and for purchasing supplies for industrial construction.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Hire Labor for Fixing Roads and Industrial Supplies502.37 KB
April 2, 1900
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to purchase additional supplies for the Harness and Shoe Shops due to the increased number of students in the industrial programs.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Industrial Training Supplies
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Purchase Additional Supplies for Harness and Shoe Shops482.44 KB
April 2, 1900
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to purchase 400 bushels of potatoes and dried fruit.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Food and Dining
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Purchase Potatoes and Dried Fruit468.78 KB
April 3, 1900
Richard H. Pratt submits an Estimate of Supplies for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 1900 amounting to $496.35 and requests to purchase those items in the open market. The form includes the items being requested, the quantity, the estimated…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Estimate of Supplies, April 1900770.62 KB
April 3, 1900
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to pay for repairs as well as student labor on the school farm. Pratt notes that the farm is three miles away from the school and serves as an outing experience for the students.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Pay for Labor and Materials for Repairs and School Farm732.14 KB
April 3, 1900
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to purchase horses or mules to replace those previously condemned as well as corn for the school farm animals.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Purchase Horses and Corn525.38 KB
April 3, 1900
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to purchase postage for students correspondence, 12,000 pounds of ice for preserving food, and 10 reams of typewriter paper.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Purchase Postage, Ice, and Paper510.04 KB
April 5, 1900
Richard H. Pratt requests an immediate supply of one-hundred proposal supplies for Indians blank administrative forms used by the United States Indian Affairs division of the Department of the Interior.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Legal and Government Documents
View Document: Requisition for Blanks and Blank Books, April 1900509.97 KB
April 7, 1900 - April 19, 1900
Richard Henry Pratt responds to the requests of Walter L. Jones and Boies Penrose for the transfer of Margaret Roberts to Carlisle as a teacher.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Responds to Request to Transfer Margaret Roberts948.77 KB
April 9, 1900
Estimate of funds for the second quarter of 1883 amounting to $23,962.60 for support of the school. Richard H. Pratt also requests additional funds amounting to $12,285.00 for regular employee pay.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Estimate of Funds and Regular Employee Pay, Fourth Quarter 19001.56 MB
April 11, 1900
Richard Henry Pratt forwards clerk Anna S. Luckenbach's application for a 6 day leave of absence.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Anna S. Luckenbach's Application for Leave of Absence529.32 KB
April 11, 1900
John R. Procter, President Civil Service Commission, requests to know if an examination is desired for the position of assistant disciplinarian.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Civil Service Commission Requests to Know if Exam Desired497.32 KB
April 11, 1900 - April 24, 1900
Alfred John Standing responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding correspondence on the health of Jennie Redwing and other students from the Santee Agency who had eye trouble upon arriving at Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Standing Responds to Agency's Claims Regarding Ill Students2.28 MB
April 14, 1900
Richard H. Pratt requests a supply of two dozen different articles of stationery used by the United States Indian Affairs division of the Department of the Interior during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Legal and Government Documents
View Document: Requisition for Stationery, April 1900449.21 KB
April 16-20, 1900
Richard H. Pratt recommends that former Carlisle student Edith Smith, a member of the Class of 1897, be appointed as a teacher in the Indian Service.
Richard H. Pratt forwards Smith's application along with a reference from Dr. G. M…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Application for Employment from Edith Smith2.95 MB
April 17, 1900
Richard Henry Pratt requests following the transfer of Annie Luckenbach to the Phoenix Indian School that her former clerk position be abolished and a position covering the savings of students be created.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Create Position in Charge of Student Savings544.61 KB
April 17, 1900
Richard Henry Pratt notes that he only received one bid to supply bricks due to an excess of orders that will delay construction. Pratt notes that he has since negotiated a lower price with a company in Mount Holly Springs, Pennsylvania that will…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Purchase Bricks on the Open Market496.76 KB
April 17, 1900
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to purchase twelve sets of sewing drafting patterns produced by Annie Livingston. Pratt notes that Livingston's patterns were recommended by a number of individuals as well as having spent a fortnight…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Purchase Sewing Drafting Patterns556.38 KB
April 18-23, 1900
Mary Wolfe, a member of the Class of 1900, applies for an assistant laundress position at the Crow Agency School in Montana.
Major Richard H. Pratt and Assistant Superintendent A. J. Standing forwards Wolfe's application to the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Application for Employment from Mary Wolfe1.59 MB
April 18-27, 1900
Major Richard Henry Pratt submits a report that lists employees who have left the school (George W. Taylor, Mary E. Campbell, and William Ratley), those who have started working at the school (Leo Van der May, Sine Marie Van der May, and Joe B.…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - General
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Descriptive Statements of Changes in School Employees and Resignation, April 1900540.5 KB
April 19, 1900
Richard Henry Pratt requests a favorable reply to his request to purchase bricks to improve the heating plant.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Favorable Reply to Request to Purchase Bricks378.65 KB