Richard Henry Pratt writes personally to Thomas J. Morgan to object to the method used to calculate the costs in educating students at the various Indian Schools. Pratt notes that in the 1890 Annual Report all costs for Carlisle were represented while other schools did not have certain costs factored into their calculation skewing the results.…
Annual Reports
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Employment
An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending 1904, containing a table of Indian School Employees for the Carlisle Indian Training School. The table includes employee name, position, salary, sex, race, date of…
January 22, 1891
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
September 1, 1891
Pratt's annual report of the Carlisle Indian School begins by providing statistics of the number of students from various nations during the school year. Pratt claims that the per capita cost at Carlisle is lesser than at other schools while also highlighting the cost of Carlisle as a tool for greater assimilation with the outing program in…
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Legal and Government Documents, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
November 2, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt responds to Thomas J. Morgan's annual report on the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt states that the numbers used in the report present Carlisle in an unfair light by including transportation costs in their funds while not including them for other schools. In addition, the report under counted the daily average of students at…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
August 31, 1893
Richard Henry Pratt forwards the Annual Report of the Carlisle Indian School for the 1892-1893 school year to the Office of Indian Affairs. Pratt's narrative discusses the enrollment statistics of the school, academic and industrial education, the outing system, the saving system, as well as field trips to the Columbian Quadricentennial in New…
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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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Annual Reports, Enrollment Statistics, Student Deaths, Industrial Training - General, School Farms - Statistics, Printing Department, Outing Program – Overview/Statistics/Success of, Field Trips, World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893), Exhibits of Student Work, Student Illness, Education After Carlisle
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National Archives and Records Administration
August 31, 1894
Cover letter for a duplicate School Statistics Accompanying the Annual Report for the 1893 year forwarded to the Office of Indian Affairs.
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 11, 1897
Marianna Burgess, Superintendent of Printing, seeks authority to provide the proof sheets of a pamphlet of Richard Henry Pratt's eighteenth annual report to a local reporter.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
August 25, 1899
Major Richard H. Pratt sends a letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs requesting a supply of blank 5-141 administrative forms to complete the school's annual report.
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National Archives and Records Administration
November 16, 1907 - December 2, 1907
These materials include correspondence between Assistant Superintendent J. R. Wise and the Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs C. F. Larrabee regarding annual reports from 1883 to 1903.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
January 20, 1910 - January 22, 1910
Moses Friedman requests a copy of the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in order to highlight it in the Indian Craftsman. The Office of Indian Affairs returns a copy of the literary section noting the statistical copy is not yet ready but will be provided when it comes out.
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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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Cumberland County Historical Society
January 5, 1912
Correspondence between Robert G. Valentine, Commissioner of Indian Affairs and Moses Friedman regarding the previous Carlisle Indian School Annual Report. Valentine compliments Friedman on the quality of the printing and design as well as the analysis of the outing system.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
March 13-27, 1913
Nell C. Splitstone, children's editor of The People's Home Journal, asks the Department of the Interior for a complete record of former Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt's time at the Carlisle Indian School.
Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs F. H. Abbott informs Splitstone of Pratt's address and sends them the Report…
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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
March 4-17, 1914
Oscar H. Lipps requests approval to follow through on his predecessors plan to print 3,500 copies of the Annual Report of the Carlisle Indian School for the year ending June 30, 1913. E. B. Meritt subsequently informs Lipps that there is no need to print the report.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration