Books and Pamphlets

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Outing System Rulebook and Forms
April 8-16, 1910

Chief Clerk C. F. Hauke requests Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman to create a report on student outings from July 1, 1909 to April 1, 1910. A few days later Hauke asks for a statement outlining the overall plan for the outing system. Friedman sends blank copies of each of the forms used in implementing outings and a rule…

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Books and Pamphlets, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Correspondence Regarding Medical Treatment at Carlisle
January 1 - September 5, 1911

Correspondence regarding a report made by Joseph A. Murphy, Medical Supervisor, regarding the medical work of the Carlisle Indian School with a focus on tuberculosis. Murphy's report also includes the hospital regulations for the School for 1911 and Dr. A. R. Allen's 1911 report for the previous six months.

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National Archives and Records Administration
Outline Lessons in Housekeeping
1911

Outline Lessons in Housekeeping, including Cooking, Laundering, Dairying, and Nursing for use in Indian Schools. Issued by the Office of Indian Affairs includes reference books, recommended text books, an estimate for equipment, lesson outlines, and a tentative program of a week's work in a boarding school.

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Books and Pamphlets
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Cumberland County Historical Society
Social Plays, Games, Marches, Old Folk Dances and Rhythmic Movements for use in Indian Schools, 1911
1911

Pamphlet issued by the Office of Indian Affairs to provide a manual for physical instruction in Indian Schools. Includes suggestions for equipment, reference books, and instructions on various singing, rhythmic, games without singing, and parlor games.

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Books and Pamphlets
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Cumberland County Historical Society
Annual Report of the Carlisle Indian School, 1911
June 30, 1911

The Annual Report, U.S. Indian School, Carlisle, PA , for the year ending June 30, 1911, by M. Friedman, Superintendent, Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The annual report contains statistical information related to the school's enrollment, former students and training/industrial programs. The report also contains narrative accounts of former…

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Books and Pamphlets, Legal and Government Documents
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Cumberland County Historical Society
Regulations and Circulars for the Carlisle Indian School, 1911
July 19 - August 2, 1911

These materials include correspondence and pamphlets related to circular orders and regulations in force at the Carlisle Indian School under Superintendent Moses Friedman. Friedman forwarded the documents to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for approval. The forwarded documents include a blank Pupil's Health Report, the Outline of Course for…

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Books and Pamphlets, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Programs printed by Carlisle Indian School Printing Department
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 Temperance Sunday," and "Special Program by the Mercer Literary Society."

Second Assistant…

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Books and Pamphlets, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Industrial Class Lessons in Harness-Making
1913

The Carlisle Indian School copy of Industrial Class Lessons in Harness-Making, by John Charles Jordan, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.

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Books and Pamphlets
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Cumberland County Historical Society
Commissioner Argues that Carlisle does not Exploit Student Labor
January 19, 1913 - December 15, 1916

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells writes a lengthy letter to G. McM. Ross in which he thoroughly disagrees with Ross' claim that Carlisle Indian School students should be paid for their labor, reasoning that the government pays for their lodging, food, and education, that students can earn money on outing, and that their labor at the…

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Books and Pamphlets, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Commencement Concert program, 1913
April 1, 1913

Program for the commencement concert on April 1, 1913 by the Carlisle Indian School band.

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Books and Pamphlets
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Explanation of Why Female Students Declined an Outing
July 10 - August 18, 1913

Representative Thomas J. Soully forwards a letter from James M. Ziegler to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Acting Commissioner Cato Sells forwards Soully's and Ziegler's letters to Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman and explains that Ziegler is looking to be a host for a female student on outing. 

Friedman…

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National Archives and Records Administration
Request for Chaperone to Escort Girls to St. Patrick's Church
October 1 - November 6, 1913

Rev. Mark E. Stock, the Catholic priest whose church Carlisle students attend, asks Superintendent Moses Friedman to allow female students to walk to his church without a chaperone or to assign a chaperone for them.

Friedman forwards Stock's letter to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells, stating that it would be unsafe to send the…

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Books and Pamphlets, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Front cover of the Carlisle booklet, gray blue color
December, 1906-September, 1908

A printed copy of the Carlisle Indian School Athletic Association Constitution and By-Laws (circa 1908) and a printed copy of the Charter and By-Laws of the Athletic Association of the University of Pennsylvania (circa December 1906).

These booklets were part of the materials compiled for the Congressional Investigation of 1914. …

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Books and Pamphlets
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National Archives and Records Administration
Request to Install a Sound System and Educational Motion Pictures
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 voting contest of the schools in Carlisle, and the winner will receive a free installation of their…

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Books and Pamphlets, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Commencement Concert program, 1915
May 18, 1915

Naomi Greensky's program for the commencement concert on May 18, 1915 by the Carlisle Indian School band.

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Books and Pamphlets
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Invitation for Male Students to attend Military Training Camp in New York
May 4-31, 1916

Military Training Camp for Boys Chairman T. Douglas Robinson encloses a bulletin from Fort Terry Training Camp and asks Carlisle Indian School students to enroll. Carlisle Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps informs the Commissioner that they could send 50 boys to the camp if the government pays for it, but otherwise they can't afford to send anyone…

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Books and Pamphlets, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Nurse Training Program at German Hospital, New York
April 23 - May 21, 1917

This document contains correspondence concerning a nursing program for female students at the German Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. 

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Books and Pamphlets, Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
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National Archives and Records Administration
Eligibility of George W. Tibbetts for Minnesota Soldiers' Bonus Act
June 1, 1921 - April 11, 1922

These materials include correspondence and a pamphlet regarding George W. Tibbetts' eligibility for coverage under Minnesota's Soldiers' Bonus Act. Minnesota's Attorney General ruled that, because Tibbetts had initially claimed exemption from drafted military service on the grounds that he was not a citizen of the United States, he was not…

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Books and Pamphlets, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration