Richard Henry Pratt requests funds to develop the industrial and mechanical training programs at the school. Specifically, Pratt hopes to establish a harness-making program and to expand the blacksmithing, wagon-making, carpentry, shoemaking, and tinsmithing departments. Pratt notes that this issue is already before the Secretary of the…
Visits by Government Officials
March 8, 1880
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June 6, 1881
Samuel Chapman Armstrong of the Hampton Institute writes to Richard Henry Pratt sharing details of President James Garfield's visit to Hampton. Armstrong also informs Pratt of his desire to exhibit at a manufacturers' exhibition in Boston and requests that Pratt send him some of his industrial arts materials for the exhibit.
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January 16, 1882
B. C. Hobbs requests an introductory letter to visit the Carlisle Indian School in order to provide specific points during Congressional testimony in support of funding for Industrial Schools and other work.
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May 12, 1885
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that he needs to go to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and New York. Asks if the Commissioner can visit the following week.
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circa 1885
Samuel Chapman Armstrong of the Hampton Institute writes to Richard Henry Pratt asking if he knows when Representative Holman and his committee intended to visit Indian schools. Armstrong also shares his views from a recent visit to the Lincoln Indian School in Philadelphia.
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October 25, 1886
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.
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January 8, 1890
Robert V. Belt of the Department of the Interior Office of Indian Affairs writes to Richard Henry Pratt thanking him for his recent hospitality during a visit to the Carlisle Indian School, and sending sympathies for the deaths of Carlisle's clerk, Mr. Gould, and physician, Dr. Given.
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May 16, 1891
Commissioner of the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Education William Torrey Harris writes to Richard Henry Pratt to introduce Dr. Franz Boas, Special Assistant in charge of Physical Anthropology for the Department of Ethnology for the World's Columbian Exposition. Dr. Boas's letter of introduction notes his desire to take a variety…
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October 28, 1895
Levi St. Cyr, Robert Hamilton, and Elmer Simon invite W. N. Hailmann to the dedication ceremony of the new addition to the gymnasium at the Carlisle Indian School.
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