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 2, 1914
Program for the 1914 commencement exercises of the Carlisle Indian School. The program includes student performances, the names of graduating class and students who were awarded industrial certificates, and the class motto and colors.
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
View Document: 1914 Commencement Program945.37 KB
April 3 - 10, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Peter Jordan to have his transportation home paid for by the school. Jordan's request was denied.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Transportation Home by Peter Jordan197.81 KB
April 3-10, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding the transfer of the children of Willie Connell from Carlisle to the Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Transfers
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Transfer of Willie Connell's Children356.14 KB
April 4, 1914 - April 13, 1914
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests permission from Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells to renovate the currently unused Leupp Art Studio and convert it to the official headquarters of the Carlisle…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Conversion of Leupp Art Studio to Carlisle Alumni Association Headquarters437.39 KB
April 6 - 16, 1914
These materials contain correspondence regarding fees owed to the Carlisle Police Department for the return of Carlisle students found in town without permission. The policy of paying these fees for student returns was to end after this payment…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Fees Paid to Carlisle Police398.64 KB
April 6 - 18, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Overton Colbert to have an application for the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for an Application by Overton Colbert4.12 MB
April 6-10, 1914
These materials contain correspondence regarding either transfer to a reformatory, or the expulsion, of Grover Allen, John Plenty (also known as John Brought Plenty), and John Martin (also known as John Squirrel).
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Discipline - General
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Transfer or Return Home of Three Students323.17 KB
April 7, 1914
This document contains a letter concerning an article about individual pupil's accounts, prepared by Mr. Stinchecum of the Education Division.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Notice of Article on Individual Student Accounts86.38 KB
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…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Request to Purchase Water Supply for Domestic Purposes for Fiscal Year 1914491.43 KB
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.…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Denial of a Request to Pay Supervisor Lipps' Debt118.42 KB
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.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Information by Holmes Colbert391.5 KB
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…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Academic Supplies
View Document: Request to Install a Sound System and Educational Motion Pictures1.4 MB
April 21, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a trip for Arnold Holliday to visit his uncle Henry Holliday in Washington D. C.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Travel
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Arnold Holliday Trip to Washington D. C.167.03 KB
April 24-25, 1914
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to return Francis Obern to his home from Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
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.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Request for Funds for the 1914 Fourth Quarter252.08 KB
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.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
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…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Correspondence Regarding 1914 Congressional Investigation8.01 MB
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…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Attempt to Quarter or Give Raises to Employees who Live Off-Campus646.23 KB
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.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Request for Authorization to Pay Students for Summer Work on School Farm470.96 KB
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…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Superintendent is a Civil Service Position190.62 KB
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…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
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."
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Request to Spend $100 for General School Purposes144.27 KB
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.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Printing Department
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Sells Requests Carlisle Print Form Letters for Citizenship Essay Contest268.88 KB
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.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Send Isabel Bourbonnais to New Home315.17 KB
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…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Civil Service Requirement for Teacher and Principal Positions238.08 KB