Captain Richard H. Pratt requests a six-month supply of two dozen different blank administrative forms used by the United States Indian Affairs division of the Department of the Interior.
1890-1899
![Requisition for Blanks and Blank Books, July 1891 Requisition for Blanks and Blank Books, July 1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0747_23614_c1307.jpg?itok=ZHFF8MM9)
![Proposal to Add Additional Wing to School Hospital Proposal to Add Additional Wing to School Hospital](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0750_24111_c1380.jpg?itok=Wir9Q7vu)
Richard Henry Pratt cites the epidemic of measles and following pneumonia that caused the hospital to become overcrowded. Included in the correspondence is plans to add an additional wing to the present hospital for $1,000 in material and labor.
![C. R. Dixon Inquires About Parameters of Report on Care of Sick C. R. Dixon Inquires About Parameters of Report on Care of Sick](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0750_24183_0001.jpg?itok=UmB4eBzq)
C. R. Dixon, Carlisle Indian School Physician, requests additional information from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs on a request he made for Dixon and Alice Seabrook to write up a report on the care of the sick. Dixon inquires about the parameters of the report and what format it will eventually appear.
![Acknowledgement of Receipt of Various Contracts Acknowledgement of Receipt of Various Contracts](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0750_24398_0001.jpg?itok=IL7XqEIM)
Richard Henry Pratt acknowledges receipt of an Office of Indian Affairs letter inclosing contracts between various individuals.
![Descriptive Statement of Changes in School Employees, July 1891 Descriptive Statement of Changes in School Employees, July 1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0751_24648_c1434_B.jpg?itok=mNiBG-ug)
Major Richard H. Pratt submits a report that lists all employees (A. J. Standing, C. R. Dixon, C. H. Hepburn, W. G. McConkey, L. A. Bendes, A. S. Luckenbach, E. L. Fisher, Emma A. Cutter, Anna C. Hamilton, Mary H. Cooke, M. C. B. Phillips, Fanny G. Paull, Della F. Botsford, Clara C. McAdam, Florence M. Carter, Lillie Ruth Shaffner, Lydia L…
![Estimate of Funds, First Quarter 1892 Estimate of Funds, First Quarter 1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0751_24635_c1385.jpg?itok=zoPytlDt)
Estimate of funds for the first quarter of 1892 amounting to $54,367.65 for support of the school, transportation of Indian supplies, and stock cattle.
![Justifications for Not Reappointing Employees in 1892 Fiscal Year Justifications for Not Reappointing Employees in 1892 Fiscal Year](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0752_24860_0001.jpg?itok=k6Q-840v)
Richard Henry Pratt provides reasons for not reappointing employees from the previous year.
![Pratt Forwards Lease of the Hocker Farm for the 1892 Fiscal Year Pratt Forwards Lease of the Hocker Farm for the 1892 Fiscal Year](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0751_24647_0001.jpg?itok=6wKN2XQ9)
Richard Henry Pratt forwards articles of agreement covering the lease of the Hocker Farm and requests that it is renewed for one year beginning on July 1, 1891.
![Request for Authority to Pay for Freight Shipping Request for Authority to Pay for Freight Shipping](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0751_24641_0001.jpg?itok=T0rxVUIj)
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to pay for freight shipment of articles manufactured at the Carlisle Indian School and shipped to various Indian Agencies. In addition, Pratt requests authority to pay for freight shipment on articles shipped by the department for the school.
![Request for Expenses for Transportation of Students Request for Expenses for Transportation of Students](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0751_24642_0001.jpg?itok=qeZL1dPs)
Richard Henry Pratt requests $3000 for the fiscal year in order to pay for travel and incidental expenses in the transportation of students from Carlisle to their homes and brining students to the school.
![Request for Funding to Visit Pupils on the Outing Program Request for Funding to Visit Pupils on the Outing Program](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0751_24643_0001.jpg?itok=B64WF92l)
Richard Henry Pratt requests $400 for expenses incurred during the current fiscal year in traveling to visit pupils on the outing program.
![Request to Employ Joe Harris as Assistant Printer Request to Employ Joe Harris as Assistant Printer](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0751_24644_0001.jpg?itok=REyfrKwX)
Richard Henry Pratt requests to employ a Carlisle Indian School graduate from 1889, Joe Harris, as an Assistant Printer at $240 a year.
![Request to Return Lily Huff Request to Return Lily Huff](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0753_25375_0001.jpg?itok=6_zixzKD)
Josiah Baird requests the return of his wife Lily Huff from the Carlisle Indian School. Baird claims that Lily was sent to the school by her father and that she has been influenced to make false claims to Richard Henry Pratt to keep her at the school.
![Pratt Responds to Response to Return Lily Huff to her Husband Pratt Responds to Response to Return Lily Huff to her Husband](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0759_27510_0001.jpg?itok=igUokdS2)
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a letter by Nicholas Huff regarding his daughter Lily Huff being enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt writes that he would not stand in the way of Lily being returned to her husband, Josiah Baird, but that she should stay at Carlisle for a number of years before taking the full burden of wifehood. In…
![Forwards Account for Tickets Furnished for Transportation of Students Forwards Account for Tickets Furnished for Transportation of Students](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0753_25254_0001.jpg?itok=Ssof9UaK)
Richard Henry Pratt forwards account of J. R. Wood, general passenger agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, for tickets furnished to escorts and pupils during the previous fiscal year.
![Morgan Requests Return of Lease of Hocker Farm to Renew Morgan Requests Return of Lease of Hocker Farm to Renew](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0755_26097_0002.jpg?itok=KShgbQKa)
Thomas J. Morgan requests the Second Comptroller of the Treasury return to the Office of Indian Affairs the lease entered into between the Executive Committee of the Hocker Farm and the Office. Morgan notes that the lease will be returned after due endorsement of the extension.
![Forwards Plans for Addition to Girls Building Forwards Plans for Addition to Girls Building](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0756_26292_0001.jpg?itok=0qEXOR6t)
Cover letter of Richard Henry Pratt detailing his transmission of plans and specifications for an addition to the girls buildings under contract with Andrew J. Wetzel.
![Pratt Requests Office No Longer Use Pratt Institute Title Pratt Requests Office No Longer Use Pratt Institute Title](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0754_25594_0001.jpg?itok=2b0PAMbg)
Richard Henry Pratt requests that as the name of the Carlisle Indian School did not change that he no longer be referred to with the title of Superintendent Pratt Institute.
![Request to Transfer Two Apache Students from Santa Fe to Carlisle Request to Transfer Two Apache Students from Santa Fe to Carlisle](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0757_26701_0001.jpg?itok=L3VwzKQL)
Elmore Chase recommends transferring two Apache students at his school to the Carlisle Indian School due to the fact that the Santa Fe School is going to draw entirely from female students from local Pueblo villages.
![Emmeline Garlow Information Cards (Visitor Only) Emmeline Garlow Information Cards (Visitor Only)](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_1328_b005_c00g_0004.jpg?itok=19qIBcli)
Information cards of Emmeline Garlow, a member of the Tuscarora Nation, who visited the school on July 28, 1891 and departed on July 29, 1891.
![Descriptive Statements of Pupils from Omaha and Winnebago Agency to Grant, Carlisle, and Lincoln Schools, 1891 Descriptive Statements of Pupils from Omaha and Winnebago Agency to Grant, Carlisle, and Lincoln Schools, 1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0783_35579_c1599_combined.jpg?itok=wUS4NL1g)
These materials include descriptive statements of students for individuals transferred from the Omaha and Winnebago Agency to the Grant Institute in Genoa, Nebraska; the Lincoln Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and the Carlisle Indian School.
![Correction of Two Names on List of Approved Employees Correction of Two Names on List of Approved Employees](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0762_28485_0001.jpg?itok=9Ng1_BsS)
Richard Henry Pratt corrects the names of Jane R. Dawson and Annie Souder on the Office of Indian Affairs list approving nominations of employees at the Carlisle Indian School.
![Report of Irregular Employees, July 1891 Report of Irregular Employees, July 1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0762_28543_c1467.jpg?itok=ra4B_bO-)
Captain Richard H. Pratt submits a report that lists irregular employees who worked at the school during July 1891. The report includes details on compensation, position titles, race, and the number of days worked during that month.
![Request to Enroll Cherokee Students at the Carlisle Indian School Request to Enroll Cherokee Students at the Carlisle Indian School](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0764_29185_0002.jpg?itok=7dFl99tV)
Helen R. Duncan inquires from the Carlisle Indian School if a number of Cherokee students under her care can enroll at the Carlisle Indian School. Duncan cites the desire of the students to enroll at an Industrial Training School in order to learn a trade.
![Request for the Return of Louise King Request for the Return of Louise King](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0763_28848_0001.jpg?itok=0hUVrUDE)
George King writes to the Office of Indian Affairs to request the return of his oldest daughter Louise King from the Carlisle Indian School. King states that his wife is very sick and he needs his daughter to help care for her.