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Index Card with table recording demographic information and details of employment
October 1, 1880

The service record card for Marianna Burgess's employment with the Office of Indian Affairs. The card indicates that she began working as a teacher at the Pawnee Agency in 1873 then left to become a teacher at Carlisle in 1880. She continued to teach at Carlisle until 1884 when she became a Truant Officer, a Registering Officer, then the…

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Legal and Government Documents
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National Archives and Records Administration
Lessons on the Human Body Textbook, 1883
1883 - November 2, 1893

Lessons on the Human Body, by Orestes M. Brands, 1883. Indian School textbook with paper cover stating "Title: Hygiene" and "The Property of the United States Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, PA." Signed in front by Lillie Smith and others and in back by Julia B. Dorris, Nettie Buckles, and Bremer.

Note: Pages scanned if they…

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Books and Pamphlets
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Cumberland County Historical Society
Index Card with table recording demographic information and details of employment
October 1, 1887

This is a card tracking the details of Richard Davis' employment with the Office of Indian Affairs. He began working at Carlisle as an assistant disciplinarian in 1887, resigned in 1888, and returned as a dairy manager/dairyman from 1891 to 1894.

Note: upon request for Davis' Official Personnel Folder at the National Archives in St. Louis…

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Pratt Requests Additional Clerks to Meet New Duties
September 19, 1890 - July 2, 1898

Richard Henry Pratt requests two additional clerks tp meet the demands recently imposed by the Office of Indian Affairs circular of June 23, 1898. Pratt notes that the administrative burden is quite high and would lead him to abandon his current financial recordkeeping of student money of which he encloses a copy.

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Financial Documents, Ledgers, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Estimate of Funds, First Quarter 1893
July 9, 1892

Estimate of funds for the second quarter of 1883 amounting to $28,076.71 for support of the school and transportation of Indian supplies.

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Estimate of Supplies, July 1892
July 9, 1892

Richard H. Pratt submits an Estimate of Supplies for the first quarter of fiscal year 1893 amounting to $464.00 and requests to purchase those items in the open market. The form includes the items being requested, the quantity, the estimated cost, and how the item will be used at the school.

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Financial Documents
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National Archives and Records Administration
Resignations of McConkey and Seabrook
August 1, 1892 - January 4, 1893

Richard Henry Pratt forwards the resignations of clerk William G. McConkey and nurse Alice M. Seabrook.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Estimate of Supplies, October 1892
October 13, 1892

Richard H. Pratt submits an Estimate of Supplies for the second quarter of fiscal year 1893 amounting to $475.28 and requests to purchase those items in the open market. The form includes the items being requested, the quantity, the estimated cost, and how the item will be used at the school.

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Financial Documents
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National Archives and Records Administration
Pratt Responds to Complaints Made by Mary M. Kennedy
December 11, 1892 - April 1, 1893

Mary M. Kennedy provides Thomas J. Morgan two letters regarding claims made by students at Carlisle regarding their punishment over complaints that they are not receiving enough food to eat. She further states that Richard Henry Pratt punishes students when he hears they have written home complaining and to not show the letters to him.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Estimate of Funds, Third Quarter 1893
January 1893

Estimate of funds for the third quarter of 1893 amounting to $20,834.51 for support of the school.

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National Archives and Records Administration
Requisition of Blanks and Blank Books, January 1893
January 3, 1893

Captain Richard H. Pratt requests a six-month supply of payroll of irregular employees blank forms used by the United States Indian Affairs division of the Department of the Interior.

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Legal and Government Documents
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National Archives and Records Administration
Monthly Sanitary Report of Sick and Injured, December 1892
January 4, 1893

C. R. Dixon, the school physician, compiles the monthly sanitary report for December 1892. Dixon also includes a note summarizing health conditions of 1892 in the "Remarks and Physician's Special Report" section.

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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
Mary Kennedy Requests Return of her Granddaughter from Carlisle
January 5, 1893

Mary M. Kennedy requests the return of her granddaughter from the Carlisle Indian School. Kennedy notes that the students like the school but they do not have enough to eat and that the students are sick despite Richard Henry Pratt claiming otherwise. Kennedy further states that her granddaughter is homesick because Pratt is scolding the New…

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Estimate of Supplies, January 1893
January 6, 1893

Richard H. Pratt submits an Estimate of Supplies for the third quarter of fiscal year 1893 amounting to $455.51 and requests to purchase those items in the open market. The form includes the items being requested, the quantity, the estimated cost, and how the item will be used at the school.

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Financial Documents
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National Archives and Records Administration
Pratt Requests Authority to Purchase New Printing Press
January 6, 1893

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to purchase a No. 3 "Eclipse" Press for the printing office. Pratt notes that previously all of the equipment for the office was purchased by the charity fund of the school.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Worn Out and Unserviceable Property Report, January 1893
January 6, 1893

Richard H. Pratt compiles a list of worn out, broken, or unserviceable property at the Carlisle Indian School and requests that a Board of Survey do the same.

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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
Pratt Responds to Request to Return Julia Williams
January 7, 1893

Richard Henry Pratt responds to the request of James Williams for the transfer of his daughters, Sarah and Julia, to the Mt. Pleasant School. Pratt notes that the authorization on the part of the Office of Indian Affairs in granting this request will cause a large amount of trouble for Carlisle and that he might as well transfer all Chippewa…

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Pratt Provides Overview of Carlisle upon Inquiry of Commissioner
January 9, 1893

Richard Henry Pratt replies to a letter from Thomas J. Morgan providing him answers to various questions including the enrollment figures over the school's history and presently in 1893. He then discusses the education philosophy of the school when it comes to industrial training and the outing program. Pratt ends by noting the success Carlisle…

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Report of Irregular Employees, December 1892
January 11, 1893

Captain Richard H. Pratt submits a report that lists irregular employees and includes details on their compensation, position titles, race, and the number of days worked at the school in December 1892. Pratt distinguishes between the "White Labor," whose names appear on the first page, and the "Indian Apprentice Labor" listed on the subsequent…

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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
Proceedings of a Board of Survey Convened in January 1893
January 12, 1893 - January 17, 1893

Richard Henry Pratt forwards to the Office of Indian Affairs the proceedings of the Board of Survey concerning worn out, broken, or no longer usable items at the Carlisle Indian School.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Pratt Informs Office He is Unwilling to Obtain Resignations of Disgruntled Employees
January 14, 1893

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that he is not willing to acquire written resignations of employees who quit on short notice.

A note on the front indicates the original was returned to the Carlisle Indian School due to the intentionally discourteous nature of the letter.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Pratt Responds to Complaints of Bertha Parker
January 14, 1893 - January 20, 1893

Richard Henry Pratt responds to complaints of Bertha Parker regarding her brother Ely Parker and her cousin Nellie Kennedy both of whom are students at the Carlisle Indian School. Parker further claims that both have claimed that they are not getting enough food to eat and that Pratt is lying when he tells them that they are gaining weight. In…

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Response to Standing being Placed in Charge of Chicago Exhibit
January 14, 1893

Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding placing Alfred John Standing in charge of the building in Chicago. Pratt approves of the placement but notes that he does not agree with his salary being taken out of his funding during this period. He further asks for an increase in the daily allowance and the ability…

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Ballots for Col. Balch will be Delayed
January 17, 1893

Richard Henry Pratt informs Office of Indian Affairs that Colonel George T. Balch requesting the forms for notifying him of the results of the ballot along with the ballots. As a result this will delay sending out the ballots but that they should all arrive on time.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Requisition of Blanks and Blank Books, January 1893
January 18, 1893

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.

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Legal and Government Documents
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National Archives and Records Administration