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 8-13, 1913
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Montreville Yuda to F. H. Abbott, Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to leave the Carlisle Indian School while remaining in the borough of Carlisle to work. School officials were…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Discipline - General
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Remain in Carlisle Upon Departure by Montreville Yuda591.94 KB
May 17 - July 1, 1913
Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry A. D. Melvin informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that Dr. F. C. Bigelow tested four cows for tuberculosis at the Carlisle Indian School and found one to be infected. Melvin requests that the infected…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Results from Tuberculosis Test of Four Cattle, 1913558.71 KB
May 21, 1913 - June 13, 1913
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to return home Agnes Bartholomeau and Edith Rainey.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Discipline - General
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Home Agnes Bartholomeau and Edith Rainey343.1 KB
May 22-29, 1913
These materials include a request from William Reichert to enroll his son at the Carlisle Indian School. The request was forwarded to the Bureau of Indian Affairs by House Representative Scott Ferris of Oklahoma.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment for Son of William Reichert415.58 KB
May 23 - August 1, 1913
These materials include correspondence regarding the allotments of Zella and Marcellus Eagle Eye, as well as the enrollment of Marcellus at the Carlisle Indian School. Marcellus was denied due to his access to local public schools being available…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Application and Allotment of Marcellus Eagle Eye1.81 MB
May 24, 1913
This material includes correspondence between Superintendent Moses Friedman and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs concerning accusations made by John Jackson. Jackson blamed Annie and Jean Richards for his allegations, which he recanted. …
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Complaints by John Jackson318.07 KB
May 26, 1913 - June 12, 1913
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman provides a list of appropriations needed for running the school for 1913 and requests that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs sends him a statement of warehouse invoices and explains why he…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Dispute Regarding Funds and Accounts for 1913476.23 KB
June 1 - September 6, 1913
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Emily Hardt Floyd to have her brother Edward Paul Bauer enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School. Floyd's request was denied as Bauer lived in a city and had access to local public…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment for Edward Paul Bauer1.14 MB
June 1, 1913 - November 11, 1913
These materials include correspondence concerning the account balances of three pupils; William Waupoose, James Welch, and Leslie James.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Request for Funds by William Waupoose, James Welch, and Leslie James1.57 MB
June 6, 1913
These materials include a typed and hand-written copy of a letter from J. F. Murray, praising the Carlisle Indian School. Murray discusses numerous topics, including Carlisle's assimilationist mission, appropriations and finances, discipline,…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Praise for Carlisle by J. F. Murray713.39 KB
June 6-11, 1913
These materials include correspondence concerning Mollie Mantel's request to access her entire account balance in preparation for her marriage to Alfred LaMont.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Request for Funds by Mollie Mantel514.51 KB
June 14 - June 28, 1913
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to spend $350 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1913" account on water supply for domestic purposes. Friedman later submits copies of a previous contract for light and water…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Request to Purchase Water Supply for Domestic Purposes for Fiscal Year 1913322.84 KB
June 18, 1913
This document contains correspondence concerning the death of Pauline Peazzoni at the Pennsylvania State Sanatorium at Monto Alto.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Deaths
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Notice of Death of Pauline Peazzoni74.5 KB
June 18, 1913 - September 15, 1914
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to spend $700 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1914" account for water supply for domestic purposes for fiscal year 1914. He later corrects that the rate should be $0.03.33 per…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Utilities
View Document: Request to Purchase Water Supply for Domestic Purposes for Fiscal Year 1914813.48 KB
June 19 - July 18, 1913
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to reinstate an evening study hour two nights a week in which students will do homework in the academic classrooms. In years past, it was four nights a week in the classroom, but last…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Plan to Establish Evening Study Hour484.88 KB
July 19, 1913
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman forwards a Requisition for Funds for the first quarter of 1914 and asks that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs immediately pays the salaries of Friedman's employees.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Request for Funds for 1914 First Quarter350.84 KB
June 24 - July 9, 1913
Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to modify several expenditures paid for by the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1913" appropriation. The Chief of the Education Division requests that two expenditures totaling $120.08 from the previously…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Issues regarding which 1913 Appropriation should be Used to Cover Expenses572.43 KB
June 25, 1913 - May 14, 1914
Oscar H. Lipps forwards a number of questions for the disbursement of the Athletic Fund following the investigation into Moses Friedman including paying for a lacrosse coach as well as building a new grandstand.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Questions Regarding Use of Athletic Funds Following Investigation2.19 MB
June 30, 1913
This document contains correspondence concerning the death of Henry Buffalo.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Notice of Death of Henry Buffalo86.35 KB
June 30, 1913 - February 26, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding mulitple requests from Alex Cole and Mary Ann Cole to have their daughter, Annie B. Cole, returned home from the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Return Home of Annie Cole4.9 MB
July 1, 1913
Superintendent Moses Friedman transmits articles of agreement with A. P. Henderson and J. Webster Henderson for the school to rent the Henderson tract.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Farms - Land Transactions
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Agreement for Renting Henderson Farm83.7 KB
July 10 - August 18, 1913
Representative Thomas J. Soully forwards a letter from James M. Ziegler to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Acting Commissioner Cato Sells forwards Soully's and Ziegler's letters to Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman and…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Explanation of Why Female Students Declined an Outing1.05 MB
July 11 - August 15, 1913
Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to expend $50.00 from the "Purchase & Transportation Indian Supplies, 1914" appropriation to pay for express freight charges on shipments far from Carlisle. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells asks…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
View Document: Request to Expend $50 to Ship Emergency Repair Supplies621.99 KB
July 11 - August 1, 1913
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Joseph Chief Eagle to return to his home on the Pine Ridge Reservation from his outing home in Tullytown, Pennsylvania.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Home from Joseph Chief Eagle660.04 KB
July 11-30, 1913
Moses Friedman requests to expend $50.00 for general school purposes from each of three appropriations: "Miscellaneous Receipts, Class IV," "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1914 - Lavatories and Bathing Facilities," and "Indian School…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Building Repairs and Expansions
View Document: Request to Spend $50 from Three Different Appropriations829.24 KB