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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June 26, 1914 - July 7, 1914
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps encloses a letter from former Superintendent Moses Friedman. Lipps explains that he has been sending Friedman claims and vouchers to sign from when Friedman was still in charge of…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Problems with Sending Vouchers to former Superintendent Moses Friedman346.92 KB
July 2, 1914 - September 3, 1915
Supervisor Oscar H. Lipps requests authorization to spend funds for fiscal years 1915 and 1916 in order to pay the lease of the Henderson Tract, which will be used for dairy cow pasturage and a skating rink.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Continue Henderson Farm Lease374.49 KB
July 6-15, 1914
Former Carlisle Indian School student Harry West asks Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells to appoint him as the Mechanical Drawing Teacher at the school. Second Assistant Commissioner C. F. Hauke informs West that the position has been…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - Teachers
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Mechanical Drawing Teacher Position Abolished273.97 KB
July 9, 1914
Annie Fuller recommends that Commissioner Cato Sells appoints Dr. Thomas Jessie Jones as Superintendent of the Carlisle Indian School. Sells informs Fuller that he will consider Jones.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Recommendation of Thomas Jones as Superintendent406.13 KB
July 10-11, 1914
These materials include a request by Representative Philip P. Campbell for a copy of the final report of the 1914 Congressional Investigation into the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: 1914 Congressional Investigation
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for 1914 Investigation Report by Philip P. Campbell139.51 KB
July 11, 1914 - July 20, 1914
Benjamin M. Connelly asks Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt if there is a vacancy in the bandmaster position at the Carlisle Indian School because his friend, Harry O. Hickernell, would like to apply if such a vacancy exists…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Musical Instructor Position Abolished173.97 KB
July 13, 1914 - August 1, 1914
These materials include correspondence concerning the account of Levi Clute. He had requested that his funds be transferred to the Superintendent of the New York Agency.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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View Document: Deposit Transfer of Levi Clute443.07 KB
July 18, 1914
These materials include correspondence concerning the cancellation of a check to Harry Bonser.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Cancellation of Check to Harry Bonser161.6 KB
July 20, 1914 - September 28, 1914
These materials include correspondence concerning the account of Herbert Sickles, which was closed and the funds forfeited to the Carlisle Indian School's Emergency Fund upon Sickles' departure.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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View Document: Inquiry into Account of Herbert Sickles800.52 KB
July 21, 1914 - September 28, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to pay irregular student labor for harvesting grain planted at the Carlisle Indian School which exceeded the previous fiscal authorization.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Authorization to Pay Students for Extra Harvesting Labor1.2 MB
July 21, 1914
Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests authority from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to spend $250.00 for emergency supplies until contract supplies arrive.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Fiscal Request to Pay for Emergency Supplies131.05 KB
July 21, 1914
Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests authority from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to spend $100.00 "for incidental expenses" relating to "the administration of the Carlisle Indian School."
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Fiscal Request to Pay for Incidental Expenses145.81 KB
July 21, 1914
Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests authority from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to spend $250.00 "for engraving, mounting, and making plates and plats of Indian art designs for catalogue and magazine work."
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Request to Pay for Materials to Reproduce Indian Art Designs135.71 KB
July 27, 1914
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells writes to Warner Thompson regarding the death of Annie S. Ely, the former head of the Outing Department at the Carlisle Indian School. Commissioner Sells praises Ely's record of nearly 30 years in that…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Death of Annie S. Ely, Former Head of the Outing Department88.24 KB
July 28, 1914 - May 3, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps to change admission rules for students from the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma. Prior to Lipps request, students from these Nations were required to…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Alter Admission Policy for Oklahoma Nations1.84 MB
July 28, 1914 - August 5, 1914
Representative A. Mitchell Palmer recommends Carnegie Technical School Professor J. H. Nolen to be teacher of an upcoming practical building course at the Carlisle Indian School.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells informs…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Teacher for Possible New Practical Building Class200.68 KB
July 30, 1914 - September 9, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to have Mary Shomin returned to her home at Government expense following the expiration of her term.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Mary Shomin Home584.18 KB
August 7-25, 1914
These materials include correspondence and a government document regarding a new policy for student vacation requests. Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps notes that, because the circular outlining the policy was received late, some students did not…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Request for Guidance on New Student Vacation Request Policy473.15 KB
August 11-20, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Louisa Jordan to enroll her daughter Winona Isabell Jordan at the Carlisle Indian School to learn the dressmaking trade. The request is denied, and Jordan is recommended to enroll her…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment of Winona Isabell Jordan253.99 KB
August 12, 1914 - May 4, 1926
This material includes a request the Louis Lange Publishing Company, publishers of the German magazine Abendschule, for information about the history of the Carlisle Indian School. This information, along with a list of further readings…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Information about the Carlisle Indian School by Abendschule381.29 KB
August 15 - September 16, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by S. S. Kempton to have an exemption granted so his three children could enroll at the Carlisle Indian School. The request is denied.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Enroll Kempton Children948.87 KB
August 17, 1914 - September 17, 1914
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps writes to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs regarding a $5,000 donation from sisters Mary P. and Eliza O. Ropes in 1908. He states that the money was given to former…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Donation from Ropes Sisters in Massachusetts227.02 KB
October 22, 1908-November 13, 1917
These materials primarily consist of correspondence between the Office of Indian Affairs and the U. S. Department of Justice, in particular an Assistant Attorney General Charles Warren. In this correspondence, officials discuss whether or not…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Discussing Potential Federal Trial of Siceni Nori and Moses Friedman 21.52 MB
August 19, 1914
Two memos between government officials which discuss what laws or court cases are relevant to the investigation into the mishandling of money of the students of Carlisle. These were compiled in the wake of the 1914 Congressional Investigation at…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Memorandum Concerning Policy for Handling Student Funds2.79 MB
August 20, 1914
A list of documents related to the charges against Moses Friedman and Siceni J. Nori in the aftermath of the 1914 Congressional Investigation at Carlisle as prepared by the Department of Justice.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: 1914 Congressional Investigation
Format: Reports
View Document: Memoradum related to Letter from Department of Justice for Nori Case1.22 MB