Documents

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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April 13, 1914 - April 18, 1914

Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests to spend $400 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1914" account on water supply for domestic purposes for fiscal year 1914. Second Assistant Commissioner of Indian…

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April 15, 1914

Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt informs Carlisle Supervisor in Charge Oscar H. Lipps that they cannot pay a debt that Lipps incurred in Oklahoma before he came to Carlisle because it would violate the Departmental Order of December 17, 1909.…

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April 15 - 25, 1914

These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Holmes Colbert for more information about enrolling his son, Overton Colbert, in the Carlisle Indian School following his graduation from the Murray Agricultural School.

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April 15, 1914 - May 27, 1914

The Musolaphone Corporation writes to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells to invite him to a presentation of their "sound transmission" equipment and "educational talking pictures." Musolaphone informs Sells that they will be holding a…

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April 21, 1914

These materials include correspondence regarding a trip for Arnold Holliday to visit his uncle Henry Holliday in Washington D. C.

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April 24 - 25, 1914

These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to return Francis Obern to his home from Carlisle.

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View Document: Request to Return Francis Obern405.34 KB

May 2, 1914

Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps requests funds from the Department of the Interior for the fourth quarter of 1914.

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May 3, 1914 - July 3, 1914

These materials include correspondence concerning the transfer of money in John J. Campbell's account to the Sisseton Indian School in Sisseton, South Dakota. 

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View Document: Money Owed to John J. Campbell547.47 KB

May 4, 1914 - October 25, 1918

These materials include correspondence and legal documents regarding the 1914 internal and Congressional investigations into Superintendent Moses Friedman and Chief Clerk Siceni J. Nori of the Carlisle Indian School. Included is copied and…

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May 12, 1914 - July 6, 1914

Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps provides a list of employees that do not have quarters at the school and therefore have to rent or own their own living spaces in the town of Carlisle. He informs the Commissioner…

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May 13, 1914

This material includes documents regarding Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps' request for authorization to pay students to work on the farm over the summer.

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May 20-28, 1914

State Normal School History and Social Service Professor S. H. Dodson applies for the Superintendency at the Carlisle Indian School. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informs Dodson that the position is only open to the…

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May 21-22, 1914

Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that the "Indian Moneys Proceeds Labor" and "Indian School Transportation" accounts are exhausted and requests funds to fill these…

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View Document: Fund Request for Two Accounts Granted130.34 KB

May 22, 1914

Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests authority from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to spend $100.00 "for general school purposes."

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May 25, 1914

Cato Sells requests the Carlisle Indian School print various form letters for use in the Citizenship Essay Contest. Sells includes one of the form letters.

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May 26, 1914 - June 10, 1914

Aaron Bourbonnais requests that his daughter, Isabel Bourbonnais, be sent to his new home in New Mexico rather than their previous home in Oklahoma.

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May 27-29, 1914

United States Senator Miles Poindexter forwards high school principal Bruce Bartholomew's application for an appointment to the Carlisle Indian School to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells. Sells informs Poindexter that principal and…

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May 27 - October 2, 1914

Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps encloses correspondence involving the school, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Gettysburg & Harrisburg Railway Company to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Second…

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May 29, 1914 - June 5, 1914

These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Congressman Carter D. Moore to send material concerning the Carlisle Indian School to Jackson Moore.

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June 3-12, 1914

C. E. Cahel complains to the Bureau of Indian Affairs that students attending the Hogansburg Indian School were being prevented from applying to the Carlisle Indian School. Cahel claims that Hogansburg school officials refused to sign students'…

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June 4-22, 1914

Supervisor in Charge Oscar H. Lipps informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that The Report of the Joint Congressional Investigating Committee found that a "large percentage" of the student body have trachoma. Lipps requests that the…

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June 4, 1914 - June 25, 1914

Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests $100 for Indian Moneys, Proceeds of Labor. Lipps also forwards how he spent that $100 and requests another $100 under authority 56002.

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June 15-24, 1914

Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests funds for the fourth quarter of 1914. He later requests that that the request for $1,000 for "Industrial Work and Care of Timber, 1914, (Field Matrons)" be removed.

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June 15 - August 31, 1914

These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Elvira Anderson to have her daughter, Melissa Anderson, returned home.

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June 22-27, 1914

These materials include a request by W. F. Graham for a copy of the final report of the 1914 Congressional Investigation into the Carlisle Indian School.

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