International Interest in the School

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Request for Information on Carlisle from Toronto
February 9, 1881 - February 16, 1881

Richard Henry Pratt forwards a copy of a letter from Archibald Young - writing from Toronto, Canada - who is seeking information on the Carlisle Indian School as he is thinking of instituting a school on a similar basis. Pratt asks the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to send the last Annual Report and he will write further on the subject.

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

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Student Products for Exhibition in Quito, Ecuador
February 8, 1909 - May 13, 1909

These materials include correspondence regarding student-produced artwork and articles sent for an exhibition in Quito, Ecuador. Products from Carlisle were provided for the exhibit; the correspondence discusses what items were provided as well as the production and retail prices for the articles.

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request for Information about the Carlisle Indian School by Abendschule
August 12, 1914 - May 4, 1926

This material includes a request the Louis Lange Publishing Company, publishers of the German magazine Abendschule, for information about the history of the Carlisle Indian School. This information, along with a list of further readings and some photographs, were supplied by the Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request for Information from a Cuban Professor
November 18-30, 1927

A Professor in Cuba named Fernando Aguado Rico asks the Director of the Carlisle Indian School for information about the school. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informs Rico that the school closed.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request for Information about the Carlisle Indian School by Gerda-Maria Morris
November 28 - December 22, 1928

These materials include a request from Gerda-Maria Morris of Berlin, Germany for information about the Carlisle Indian School. Morris sought information for a book or film on Native American history. Her request, sent to Carlisle after she obtained copies of the school magazine the Red Man, was forwarded to the Bureau of Indian Affairs…

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