Captain Richard H. Pratt provides the Commissioner of Indian Affairs with a list of irregular labor required for November 1886. Pratt also includes details on compensation, position title, and the number of workdays required for the month.
Pratt, Richard Henry
Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt writes to Doctor Cornelius Rea Agnew regarding attempts to get a Mr. Moody to visit Carlisle. Pratt also mentions that 75 or more Florida Apache prisoner children are expected to arrive at the school soon, and that the school was recently inspected by a Mrs. Clarke of Virginia. This letter is part…
Submission of voucher for expenses by Richard Henry Pratt related to visit from C. M. Clark, Special Agent for the Department, who was instructed to learn the Carlisle Indian School outing system.
Estimate of funds for the fourth quarter of 1886 amounting to $11,389.32 for support of the school. Richard H. Pratt also requests additional funds amounting to $6,667.50 for regular employee pay.
Richard H. Pratt submits an Estimate of Supplies for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 1886 amounting to $494.55 and requests to purchase those items in the open market. The form includes the items being requested, the quantity, the estimated cost, and how the item will be used at the school.
These materials include a cover letter and Descriptive Statement of Pupils regarding 37 Chiricahua Apache prisoners-of-war transferred to the Carlisle Indian School from Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida, where a larger group of Geronimo's band remained imprisoned. The 37 individuals transferred to Carlisle represented a portion of all…
Captain Richard H. Pratt submits a report that lists irregular employees and includes details on their compensation, position titles, race, and the number of days worked at the school in October 1886. Pratt distinguishes between the employees, whose names appear on the first page, and the "Indian Apprentices" listed on the subsequent pages of…
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a letter to the Office of Indian Affairs from Thomas La Fort regarding enrolling students at the Carlisle Indian School from the St. Regis reservation.
Richard Henry Pratt submits a "Special" Estimate of Funds form for $555.00 to purchase "Paragon" school seating at .85 cents per feet and transportation of supplies.
Captain Richard Henry Pratt submits a report that lists new employee (C. H. Hepburn) as well as one who changed positions (James H. Richards). The reports include position title, salary, date of departure, and reason for departure. An explanatory cover letter is included in which Pratt requests to hire an outing agent and to relieve a…
Richard Henry Pratt seeks authority to cover the expense to return Christine Archiquette to her home due to hemorrhages.
Captain Richard H. Pratt provides the Commissioner of Indian Affairs with a list of irregular labor required for December 1886. Pratt also includes details on compensation, position title, and the number of workdays required for the month.
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to employ a bookbinder to repair 150 worn out gospel hymnals.
Captain Richard H. Pratt submits a report that lists irregular employees and includes details on their compensation, position titles, race, and the number of days worked at the school in November 1886. Pratt distinguishes between the employees, whose names appear on the first page, and the "Indian Apprentices" listed on the subsequent pages of…
Richard Henry Pratt responds to the Office of Indian Affairs that he has forwarded the descriptive statement of Wasu Ricker to the Department.
Richard Henry Pratt forwards the descriptive statement of Julia Long, a member of the Sioux Nation, from Mitchell, Dakota as requested by the Office of Indian Affairs.
Captain Richard H. Pratt provides the Commissioner of Indian Affairs with a list of irregular labor required for January 1887. Pratt also includes details on compensation, position title, and the number of workdays required for the month.
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that Nellie Londrosh has accepted the position of teacher at the Winnebago Agency.
Estimate of funds for the first quarter of 1886 amounting to $9,711.65 for support of the school. Richard H. Pratt also requests additional funds amounting to $6,817.50 for regular employee pay.
Richard H. Pratt submits an Estimate of Supplies for the first quarter of fiscal year 1887 amounting to $234.15 and requests to purchase those items in the open market. The form includes the items being requested, the quantity, the estimated cost, and how the item will be used at the school.
An invitation for a series of exercises, performed by Carlisle Indian School students, which include industrial demonstrations, recitations, songs, drawings, and a debate. The event was billed as a way to show "the capacity of the Indian to receive education," and was open to the general public.
Captain Richard H. Pratt provides the Commissioner of Indian Affairs with a list of irregular labor required for February 1887. Pratt also includes details on compensation, position title, and the number of workdays required for the month.
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that he omitted a carpenter to assist in general repairs in his Report of Irregular Employees for the month of February 1887.
Richard Henry Pratt provides a list of property which has become unserviceable and requests authority from the Office of Indian Affairs to drop them from his property returns.
Richard Henry Pratt requests to be sent two crusts vaccine viruses in order to vaccinate new students.