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 31 - July 20, 1910
Acting Supervisor Elsie E. Newton from Muskogee, Oklahoma asks Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman if "two Cherokee boys" from the "unrestricted class of Indians" could attend his school and how much it would cost. Friedman sends…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Admission from Two Cherokees410.24 KB
May 31 - June 2, 1910
Education Division Chief J. H. Dortch requests that Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman send information about the outing system to J. J. Gardner. Friedman informs Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. G. Valentine that he has sent…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Information about the Outing System181.06 KB
June 5, 1910 - September 14, 1910
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by Louis Webster to return home early from an outing due to the expiration of his enrollment period.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Leave by Louis Webster1.35 MB
June 9, 1910 - June 18, 1910
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to sell nine art bowls, five silver bracelets, six brass candlesticks, and four art plates manufactured in the Native Indian Art Department. Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. G.…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Native Art and Industry Program
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Sale of Art Manufactured in the Native Indian Art Department168.14 KB
June 10 - July 14, 1910
Superintendent Moses Friedman forwards contracts that the Carlisle Indian School is engaged in to secure annual supplies. Second Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs Hauke also forwards 27 contracts between Carlisle and various companies for…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Contracts for Supplies, Fiscal Year 1910-19111.42 MB
June 11, 1910 - May 1, 1918
Personnel file of Nellie Robertson Denny, who served as the Clerk of the Carlisle Indian School from 1900 to 1912 and from 1914 to 1918. She also served as Outing Manager for the Carlisle Indian School from 1908 to 1912. Robertson Denny was a…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Personnel File of Nellie Robertson Denny, Clerk and Outing Manager4.45 MB
June 11, 1910 - September 2, 1918
Personnel file of Wallace Denny, who served as Assistant Disciplinarian of the Carlisle Indian School from sometime before 1910 until 1918. Denny was a member of Carlisle's class of 1906, and was married to Nellie Robertson Denny.
The file…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Personnel File of Wallace Denny, Assistant Disciplinarian5.14 MB
June 13 - August 9, 1910
Robert G. Valentine compliments Howard Fremont Stratton, Director of the Art Department at the Philadelphia School of Industrial Art of the Pennsylvania Museum, for his article published in The Red Man. Stratton thanks Valentine for the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Philadelphia Art Director's Thoughts on Carlisle Student Artwork1.92 MB
June 16 - 29, 1910
These materials contain correspondence and a newspaper clipping regarding press coverage of the arrest of Robert Doyle and Jesse Teleskie (mispelled Gilleski in the article) for running away from their outing home to Paterson, New Jersey.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Press Coverage of Robert Doyle and Jesse Teleskie Runaway281.72 KB
June 20, 1910 - August 27, 1910
These materials include correspondence regarding the grandsons of E. A. Pierce, Seneca Clarke Cook and Howard Jones.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Report Concerning Grandsons of E. A. Pierce946.5 KB
June 24 - July 6, 1910
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Antonio Florez to enroll at the Carlisle Indian School. Florez was informed that he should consider enrolling at a closer school to his home and should make direct contact with the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment by Antonio Florez273.75 KB
June 24, 1910 - October 19, 1910
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Raymond Kennedy to be released from the Carlisle Indian School in order to continue with his machinist trade in one of Carlisle's outing districts. Kennedy's request was denied, but he…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Release by Raymond Kennedy1.24 MB
July 5, 1910 - July 6, 1910
Second Assistant Commissioner C. F. Hauke informs Commissioner of Indian Affairs Moses Friedman that a beef contract has been approved. Friedman asks for more explicit information regarding this approval and contract. Hauke explains that the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Approval of Beef Contract with Brelsford Company206.63 KB
July 5, 1910 - August 3, 1910
These materials contain correspondence regarding the enrollment and tuition of Paul Vargas, a student from Puerto Rico and the Caribbean Islands.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Enrollment of Paul Vargas478.65 KB
July 5 - August 27, 1910
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Ida Logan to enroll her son Harold Bishop to the Carlisle Indian School. Bishop was under the standard age of enrollment. The Indian Office allowed Bishop's admission pending the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment of Harold Bishop1.04 MB
July 6 - September 20, 1910
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to spend $500 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1911" account for special medical treatment for students, taking students to Philadelphia for treatment, and for medicine and food…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Expenses for Medical Care of Students427.64 KB
July 6, 1910 - September 28, 1910
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Joe Welch to be admitted to the Carlisle Indian School to obtain an education in industrial arts. Welch was informed that as a member of the Chickasaw Nation he could only attend…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment by Joe Welch280.9 KB
July 6, 1910
Superintendent Moses Friedman requests authorization to spend $400 for fiscal year 1911 in order to pay the lease of the Henderson Tract, which is used for "pasture and other purposes."
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Farms - Land Transactions
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Request to Spend Funds for Henderson Farm Lease120.94 KB
July 12 - October 21, 1910
These materials include correspondence regarding the forced return of Seneca Clark Cook by Carlisle's disciplinarian, Wallace Denny. Cook's grandmother, Mrs. E. A. Pierce, wrote to the Indian Office complaining about the treatment of her grandson…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Discipline - General
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Complaints By Mrs. E. A. Pierce Against Wallace Denny2.82 MB
July 13-18, 1910
These materials include correspondence reporting the death of Wallace Perryman (referred to as Wallace Berryman here). Perryman was admitted to the school hospital in early June and was later sent to the German Hospital in Philadelphia for…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Deaths, Student Illness
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Notice of Death of Wallace Perryman163.65 KB
July 15-25, 1910
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Hattie Williams to enroll her daughter at the Carlisle Indian School. The Indian Office replied that Williams should consider applying to the Sherman Institute in Riverside,…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment of Daughter of Hattie Williams156.46 KB
July 24, 1910 - September 21, 1910
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Jackson Ellis to have his children enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School. As Ellis lived in Marble City, Oklahoma and was a member of the Cherokee Nation, his children were not…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment of Children of Jackson Ellis1.53 MB
July 28, 1910 - August 16, 1910
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Florence Pennel to have the minimum age requirement of attending the Carlisle Indian School waived for a younger brother on account of two other siblings attending school. The Indian…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Waive Age Requirement for Sibling of Florence Pennel343.27 KB
August 3, 1910 - September 5, 1910
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman acknowledges receipt of an "advance notice" regarding the 1912 estimate of funds and assumes that it does not apply to Carlisle.
Acting Chief of the Education Division W. B. Fry…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Form Needed for the 1912 Estimate of Funds434.11 KB
August 9, 1910 - September 23, 1910
This material includes correspondence between Charles Dagenett and Superintendent Moses Friedman about establishing a nurse training program at Carlisle with additional training at various hospitals on the outing program.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Nursing Training
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Carlisle Nurse Training Correspondence698.62 KB