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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February 19, 1909
This material includes a forwarded press copy report detailing the findings of Medical Supervisor Joseph A. Murphy's investigation of tuberculosis at the Carlisle Indian School in 1909. This report includes a list of pupils diagnosed with…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Tuberculosis Investigation by Joseph Murphy for February 1909313.98 KB
February 24 - April 5, 1909
This material includes correspondence between Superintendent Moses Friedman and Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. G. Valentine concerning the messenger vacancy that former student Guy Cooley left behind, as well as some unsettled financial…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Discussion of Guy Cooley and Messenger Position Vacancy319.43 KB
February 24-25, 1909
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Joseph R. Brown to have his two daughters attending the Carlisle Indian School to visit him in Washington D.C.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Travel
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Daughters of Joseph R. Brown to Visit Washington D.C.391.64 KB
May 10-19, 1909
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Louis White Moon to have his two daughters enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School. White Moon's request was denied due to the age of his children and the fact that their homes were in…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment of Children of Louis White Moon579.23 KB
March 17, 1909 - June 29, 1910
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to spend $500 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1910" account for special medical treatment of students, to send students to Philadelphia for treatment, and for medicine and food…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Report on the Effectiveness of Open-Air Balcony Treatments on Tuberculosis962.67 KB
March 18-24, 1909
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Carlisle Superintendent Moses Friedman to return Fred Tall Crane and George Dailey Jr. to their homes. The request was granted.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Return Home of Fred Tall Crane and George Dailey Jr.248.88 KB
March 20, 1909
Program for the 1908 Athletic Celebration and presentation of the C's. Includes the records for the athletic teams, team photos, rosters, the school song, and the school yell.
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Topics: Football, Baseball, Track and Field Team
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
View Document: Program for the 1908 Athletic Celebration3.89 MB
March 20-29, 1909
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to have Matilda Hancorne returned to her home in Orick, California. The request was granted by the Office of Indian Affairs.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Return Home of Matilda Hanorne944.93 KB
March 21 - April 28, 1909
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Susie Wilson to have her son, George Day, returned home to the Shawnee Indian Agency. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs, R. G. Valentine, provided authority to send Day home provided…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Return Home of George Day513.04 KB
March 24 - April 17, 1909
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Superintendent Moses Friedman to send home four students earlier than the close of the school year.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Students Home Early241.07 KB
March 25 - April 1, 1909
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Carlisle Superintendent, Moses Friedman, to return 189 students to their homes as a result of either graduating from Carlisle or due to expiring terms of enrollment. The request was…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Returned Students List for March 1909622.07 KB
March 26 - April 6, 1909
These materials include correspondence regarding requests to send Lillian Otter Chief, Jeanette Jackson, and Moses Gray to their homes. All three requests were granted.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Requests for Return Home of Several Students697.59 KB
March 29, 1909
The program for "The Captain of Plymouth," performed as part of the Commencement Exercises of 1909. The program lists the various acts of the performance as well as the student actors.
Note: In two cases it is unclear which student…
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Format: Books and Pamphlets
View Document: Program for "The Captain of Plymouth," 19091.56 MB
March 31 - April 5, 1909
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Franklin Moses to enroll Max Mixsooke in the Carlisle Indian School. Moses' request was granted by Francis E. Leupp, Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment of Max Mixsooke753.57 KB
April 1, 1909 - April 10, 1909
Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. G. Valentine asks Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman if he has any male students that could work for the messenger service for the Indian Affairs Office and also be a pitcher on the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Baseball Players for the Department of the Interior Team 209.58 KB
April 4, 1909
These materials include a letter from Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs Robert Valentine to Carlisle's Superintendent, Moses Friedman, proposing a change to how employment appointments are made for the Carlisle Indian School. Valentine…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Proposal to Change Appointment Procedures299.4 KB
April 4, 1909
Acting Commissioner R. G. Valentine informs Superintendent Moses Friedman that they are reorganizing the Education Division of the Office, so the organizations dealing with appointments for schools and agencies have now been combined into one…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Reorganization of the Appointment Process190.55 KB
April 5-15, 1909
This document contains correspondence concerning James Henry. The student had been diagnosed with tuberculosis, and was returned to his home in Sweet Water, Idaho.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Return Home of James Henry183.08 KB
April 8, 1909 - April 9, 1909
First Assistant Secretary of the Department of the Interior Frank Pierce grants the Commissioner of Indian Affairs the authority to abolish a teacher position at the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - Teachers
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Abolition of Teacher Position155.17 KB
April 9, 1909 - May 11, 1909
These materials contain correspondence regarding appropriations for the board of students attending the Philadelphia School of Industrial Art.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Board for Students Attending Philadelphia Institute of Art384.14 KB
April 10-17, 1909
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to return Noble Thompson to his home in Laguna, New Mexico.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Return Home of Noble Thompson160.23 KB
April 23, 1909 - July 7, 1914
This folder includes documents related to August Kensler's employment in the Indian Service. He worked at Carlisle as storekeeper and then quartermaster from December 1, 1892 until May 19, 1914 when he resigned.
At the beginning of…
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Topics: School Employees - Storekeeper
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: August Kensler Personnel Folder6.83 MB
April 26, 1909
These materials include a telegram from Carlisle Superintendent Moses Friedman informing the Bureau of Indian Affairs that he was leaving for a trip to the Walters Sanitarium in Wernersville, Pennsylvania. John Whitwell was left in charge of the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Leave of Absence for Sanitarium Trip for Moses Friedman125.76 KB
May 3, 1909 - May 12, 1909
Chief of the Accounts Division of the Department of the Interior H. Dimick informs Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman that he can't send him the "Indian Moneys, Proceeds of Labor" funds because that account is overdrawn. …
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Status of "Indian Moneys, Proceeds of Labor" Account273.23 KB
May 11 - July 21, 1909
Carlisle Gardener Reinholt H. Hoffman writes to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs because he was tasked with working as a temporary agricultural teacher but only received a gardener's salary. Superintendent Moses Friedman argues that Hoffman…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Dispute over Gardener's Salary1.34 MB