Exhibits of Student Work

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Excerpt from Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1893
1893

An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending 1893, containing the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The report, submitted by Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt, includes a table of the school's population, as well as…

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Book
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The Red Man and Helper (Vol. 1, No. 4)
August 3, 1900

A description of this document is not currently available.

Note: This issue was also published as The Red Man (Vol. 16, No. 7).

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Newspapers
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Excerpt from Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1901
1901

An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending 1901, containing the Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The report, submitted by Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt, includes a school population table and discussions of…

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Book
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Pratt Leave of Absence to Attend American Missionary Association Meeting
October 29, 1881

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of his acceptance to attend the American Missionary Association annual meeting. He notes that it will allow him to return an exhibit on display in Boston, Massachusetts at no expense to the Government. In his absence A. J. Standing is in charge of the School.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Request for Information on a Display for New Orleans
July 23, 1884

Richard Henry Pratt requests information from the Indian Affairs Office regarding an exhibit for New Orleans. Pratt mentions that Spencer Fullerton Baird of the Smithsonian Institute has mentioned building a display in conjunction with the Carlisle Indian School as well as an inquiry from General Eaton.

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Proposal for Display at the Government Exhibition in New Orleans
July 31 - August 1, 1884

Alfred John Standing provides a copy of his letter to the Commissioner of the Patent Office Benjamin Butterworth to the Bureau of Indian Affairs regarding a potential Carlisle Indian School exhibit at the Government Exhibition in New Orleans. Standing provides an estimate of $2500 if the school is attend along with students, a teacher, and the…

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request of the French Government for Part of Exhibit
May 30 - June 8, 1885

Lyndon A. Smith requests from Richard Henry Pratt part of the Carlisle Indian School Exhibit at the Government Exhibition in New Orleans due to a request by the French Government. Pratt informs the Bureau of Indian Affairs that while he was planning on setting up the exhibit at Carlisle for visitors but that nothing in exhibit cannot be…

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Bureau of Indian Affairs Endorses Plan to Donate Exhibit to French
June 5, 1885

John D. C. Atkins, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, refers to the letter from Richard Henry Pratt regarding donating parts or the whole of the Carlisle Indian School exhibit at the Government Exhibition in New Orleans to the French Government in a letter to the Secretary of the Interior.

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Inability to Add to Exhibits Currently in Washington D.C.
June 21, 1888

Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding an upcoming exhibit in Cincinnati. He notes that Carlisle cannot add to the exhibits currently in Washington D.C. at the Office of Indian Affairs and Senate Committee Room on short notice with the exception of some photographs of which he includes various size frames…

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Pratt Outlines Exhibit for World's Columbian Exposition
August 8 - September 29, 1890

Richard Henry Pratt provides an outline for an Indian Department exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition covering the history of Native Americans. Pratt suggests highlighting the education work of the Office of Indian Affairs.

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Initial Proposal for Columbian World's Fair Exhibit
October 7, 1890

Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding an exhibit for the Indian Department at the Columbian World's Fair. Pratt states that he has placed Alfred John Standing in charge of the exhibit due to his experience with the New Orleans exhibit. As a result Standing has developed a plan for an exhibit at a cost of $…

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Proposed Expenses and Diagram for Exhibit at Worlds Columbian Exposition
October 15, 1890

Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter by providing the proposed expenses and diagram developed by Alfred John Standing for the Columbian World's Exposition Indian Department exhibit at Chicago.

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Diagrams, Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Pratt Responds to Department Plan for Chicago Exhibit in 1893
April 13, 1892

Richard Henry Pratt expresses his disappointment in the plan of the Office of Indian Affairs on its upcoming exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair and Columbian Exposition. Pratt notes that the proposed plan does not offer an opportunity to demonstrate individual schools and the larger Indian School system a respectable showing. Rather he…

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Relative to Sending an Exhibit to Madrid
July 21, 1892

Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding an exhibit at the Columbian Historical Exhibition in Madrid. Pratt notes that if the expense of the exhibit could be arranged for it would not be much trouble to create the exhibit. If the exhibit goes forward then Pratt will send Alfred John Standing to Washington D.C…

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Preliminary Planning for Chicago Exhibit in 1893
November 10, 1892

Richard Henry Pratt responds to a letter from the Office of Indian Affairs regarding an exhibit at the World's Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Pratt informs the Office that he is planning to carry out orders to carry on a small school and illustrator but has made no definite plans as he has not received any blue prints.

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Pratt Follows Up on Letter Regarding Allowance for Chicago Exhibit
April 28, 1893

Richard Henry Pratt follows up on his letter of March 15th regarding allowance for special exhibit at Chicago.

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Pratt Follows Up on Letter Regarding Allowance for Chicago Exhibit [version 2]
April 28, 1893

Richard Henry Pratt follows up on his letter of March 15th regarding allowance for special exhibit at Chicago.

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Petition to Retain George Day as Kiowa and Comanche Agent
May 1, 1893 - May 23, 1893

Richard Henry Pratt forwards a petition from the Comanche Nation to keep their U.S. Indian Agent George Day.

Also a brief note that a few members of the Agency stopped in Chicago and saw the Carlisle exhibit.

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Annual Report of the Carlisle Indian School, 1892-1893
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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National Archives and Records Administration
Forwards Request to Donate Part of Chicago Exhibit
October 9, 1893

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to donate a part of the Carlisle Indian School at the Chicago World's Fair and Columbian Exposition to a Pedagogy Museum composed of exhibits at the Fair.

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Annual Report of the Carlisle Indian School, 1894
August 25, 1894

Fifteenth Annual Report of the Carlisle Indian School for the 1893-1894 school year. Richard Henry Pratt provides an overview of the previous year focusing on both the academic and industrial training as well as the outing program. In addition, Pratt focuses on the Chicago World's Fair and Columbian Exposition which the School had an exhibit…

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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
Bakeless Nominated to Represent Carlisle at Sioux City Convention
June 6, 1895

Richard Henry Pratt informs the W. N. Hailmann that he is unable to attend the convention at Sioux City and Alfred John Standing is busy setting up the Atlanta exhibit. He recommends O. H. Bakeless to represent Carlisle.

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Pratt Responds to Request to Send Upshaw to Atlanta Exposition
September 20, 1895

Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding sending Alexander Upshaw to the Atlanta Exposition.

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Disposition of the Atlanta Exhibit
December 14, 1895

Richard Henry Pratt provides Alfred John Standing's comments on the disposition of the Atlanta Exhibit.

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Standing Reports for Duty Pertaining to Nashville Exhibit
February 6, 1897

Alfred John Standing informs the Office of Indian Affairs that he has been directed to report to the Office for duty relative to the Indian Department Exhibit at the Exhibition in Nashville, Tennessee. Standing further makes recommendations for the exhibit.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration