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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October 28 - December 22, 1911
Carlisle Superintendent Moses Friedman transmits several programs from the school: "Annual Reception of the Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association," "Thanksgiving Service," two copies of "School Entertainment," "World's…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Programs printed by Carlisle Indian School Printing Department2.18 MB
November 7-8, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding an inquiry into whether the Government should pay for the return home of Thomas Rowland.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry into Return Expense of Thomas Rowland196.82 KB
November 11, 1911 - January 16, 1912
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by John McInnis to be released from the Carlisle Indian School. McInnis wished to work at his trade as a shoe and harness maker to support his mother and brother.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Release by John McInnis1.17 MB
November 23 - December 28, 1911
This document contains correspondence concerning the conditions and progress of Carlisle students who had been sent to the Monto Alto Sanitarium in Pennsylvania for tuberculosis treatment.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Illness
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Progress Report of Students at Mont Alto Sanitarium439.83 KB
November 24, 1911 - December 12, 1911
Supervisor in Charge of Indian Schools H. B. Peairs requests that the Indian School superintendents send him a list of all vacant school positions and salaries because he has received complaints that it is difficult to fill them. Carlisle Indian…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Filling Appointments in the Indian Service328.56 KB
November 27, 1911 - December 2, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding an inquiry into the arrival of Stella Ellis and Ruth Moore at Carlisle. Both students arrived shortly thereafter.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry into Arrival of Stella Ellis and Ruth Moore281.72 KB
November 29, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding the arrival of Stella Ellis and Ruth Moore at the Carlisle Indian School. They request that a representative of the school meet them at the train station.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Notice of Arrival of Stella Ellis and Ruth Moore134.8 KB
December 6 - December 22, 1911
Daniel W. White, the Department of the Interior Eye and Trachoma Expert, asks Carlisle Indian School Surgeon in Charge Dr. A. R. Allen to request, through Superintendent Friedman, to send White to Carlisle after the holidays. Allen forwards White…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Illness, Medical Care at School
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Visit from Doctor to Help Treat Trachoma Cases Among Students668.51 KB
December 12, 1911 - January 6, 1912
This material includes information regarding a noncompetitive engineer examination for Maxie Luce.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Maxie Luce Engineer Examination152.26 KB
December 16, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding the enrollment of students from the Five Civilized Tribes. Anna Melton inquired about the expenses she had incurred and various discrepancies in how students are charged.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Information on Students from the Five Civilized Tribes837.36 KB
December 16, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding an application blank of Charles King. The blank was being sent to the Carlisle Indian School so it could be stored in their files.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Transfer of Charles King's Application to Carlisle202.49 KB
March 12, 1912 - December 16, 1912
Superintendent Moses Friedman tells the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that he believes that Indian school superintendents should not offer positions to other schools' employees and then revoke their offers after the employees accept. Friedman…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Complaints Regarding the Process of Indian School Employee Transfers1.33 MB
December 18, 1911 - December 30, 1911
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman encloses three claim vouchers for approval. The vouchers are from the B. F. Sturtevant Company, Alfredy Lowry & Bro., and D. Klein & Bro. Makers of Army and Navy Uniforms.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Enclosure of Three Claim Vouchers403.29 KB
December 20, 1911
This is a monthly report for filled out by the Carlisle Indian School administration for the Department of the Interior. It is for the month of November, 1911, and includes ratings on a number of topics including the physical plant,…
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
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Format: Reports
View Document: Report for the Month of November 19111.78 MB
December 21, 1911 - January 22, 1912
Thomas B. Mills informs Senator Isaac Stephenson that a 1/8 Chippewa girl would like to attend the Carlisle Indian School and asks him to secure information that would help her to enroll. Stephenson forwards the letter to the Commissioner of…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Enroll a 1/8 Chippewa Girl752.43 KB
January 4 - February 1, 1912
These materials include correspondence, a supplies list, and a survey of unserviceable materials at the Carlisle Indian School. Some of the condemned materials were approved for sale on the open market.
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View Document: Condemnation and Sale of Unserviceable Property, January 1912695.57 KB
January 5, 1912
Correspondence between Robert G. Valentine, Commissioner of Indian Affairs and Moses Friedman regarding the previous Carlisle Indian School Annual Report. Valentine compliments Friedman on the quality of the printing and design as well as the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Correspondence Regarding the 1911 Annual Report186.17 KB
January 5 - 16, 1912
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to return home Tillie Catfish.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Discipline - General
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Return Home of Tillie Catfish242.63 KB
January 7, 1912 - June 14, 1912
These materials include correspondence and financial documents related to the re-enrollment and disposition of funds of Peter Jackson. There were disputes over how Jackson's earnings and annuities should be paid out.
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View Document: Dispute Regarding Funds and Enrollment of Peter Jackson1.87 MB
January 7, 1912
Special Indian Agent Edward Paze investigated the way the Carlisle Indian School handles their students' money. Paze informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that Carlisle has a good system, one that with a few tweaks could be used by the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Savings Accounts
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: School's Handling of Student Money168.76 KB
January 15 - August 31, 1912
These materials include correspondence, an excerpt from an inspection report, and memoranda concerning staff organization and salary changes at the Carlisle Indian School. After an inspection by Charles F. Peirce, the salaries of certain…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - General
Format: Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Changes to Staff Salaries and Organization, 19123.43 MB
January 15, 1912
These materials include an inspection report of Charles F. Peirce, Supervisor of Indian Schools, on the Carlisle Indian School in early 1912, as well as correspondence regarding the reports. Peirce makes a number of recommendations, in particular…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Inspection Report of Charles F. Peirce for January 19122.72 MB
January 15, 1912
Supervisor of the Fifth District Charles F. Peirce provides an Inspection Report about the Carlisle Indian School. Peirce states that the dormitories need new floors, that the partially installed vacuum system makes it impossible to properly heat…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Inspection Report on Dormitories, Vacuum System, and Lavatories406.92 KB
January 20, 1912
These materials include correspondence regarding students' heritage. Specifically, officials sought information on students' blood quantum, as changing policy barred the enrollment of students considered to have less than one-fourth degree Indian…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Report on Pupil Heritage182.77 KB
January 22, 1912 - April 26, 1912
This document contains reports and correspondence about eye examinations of Carlisle's students, performed in 1912. Included are statistics and lists of students in need of specific eye treatments, as well as recommendations on preventing further…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Report of Eye Examinations and Treatment by Dr. Daniel White9.11 MB