Studio portrait of Paul Good Bear (standing) with Thomas W. Potter (seated).
Note: Potter was employed first as a teacher at the school from Oct. 1889 to Jan. 1890, and then as storekeeper from Feb. to Apr. 1890.
Potter, Thomas W.
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Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
September 4 - October 1, 1889
Captain Richard H. Pratt submits a report that lists new employees (Fordyce Grinnell, Thomas W. Potter, and Mariette Wood). These reports include personal information about those being hired. Pratt also sends Grinnell's (physician), Potter's (teacher), and Wood's (literary teacher) applications.
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Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
November 23, 1889 - December 6, 1889
Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding statements made by a public official on returned students from the Carlisle Indian School and others. Pratt also includes a letter from T. W. Potter, former Issue Clerk at the Cantonment Agency, on the same issue. The issue concerned former students in polygamous…
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
April 16, 1890
Alfred John Standing requests authority to pay expenses incurred due to the illnesses of students on the outing program as well as a funeral of a student on the outing program.
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Letters/Correspondence
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Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
July 29, 1893 - September 2, 1893
Richard Henry Pratt responds to a request to return Harry Mann by his father Black Coyote.
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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
October 1, 1896 - March 11, 1897
Thomas W. Potter, Superintendent of the Chemawa Indian School, praises the actions taken against Richard Henry Pratt and includes an issue of The Chemawa American published on October 1, 1896.
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Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines
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Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
August 21, 1901
Duncan D. McArthur, Superintendent and Special Disbursing Agent, informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs provides further information on the money owed to Richard Henry Pratt by Robert Depoe. McArthur notes that the money owed to Depoe from the Siletz General Fund cannot be guaranteed to pay back Pratt and that the matter should be referred…
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Letters/Correspondence
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Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
December 18, 1902 - January 23, 1903
Correspondence regarding the enrollment of Mary, Hiram, Lewis, and Thomas Runnels at the Carlisle Indian School. Albert M. Anderson, U.S. Indian Agent for the Colville Agency, complains that the Runnels were transferred to Carlisle without his consent and as such has undermined his authority.
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Letters/Correspondence
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Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
October 30, 1903
Edgar A. Allen responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter concerning the proposed transfer of David Graham from the Chemawa Indian School to Carlisle.
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Letters/Correspondence
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Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
July 27, 1904
W. S. Bannerman, Minister of the Presbyterian Churches of Sitka, requests to enroll Georgie A. Cook at the Chemawa Indian School.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration