H. C. Edlridge compliments Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. G. Valentine by saying that he was greatly impressed by the Carlisle Indian School's students' performance in his opera "The Captain of Plymouth," which was performed at Commencement. Valentine thanks Edlridge for the compliment and states that he was impressed as well.
1910
April 28 - May 16, 1910
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April 28 - July 14, 1910
These material include correspondence regarding a request by Mitchell Connors to have his daughter Nancy Connors returned home for the summer break from Carlisle.
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May 6 - 31, 1910
These materials contain correspondence regarding the number of students on the outing program, and their potential competition with white workers.
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May 9, 1910 - May 13, 1910
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman provides receipts from the Assistant Treasurer for the account "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1910" totaling $161, 719.97 of the total $164,000 appropriation.
Chief of the Finance Division of the Department of the Interior H. Dimick provides Friedman a list of discrepancies that…
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May 12, 1910 - August 10, 1910
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from James N. Coon to return his niece Ida Coon Sands to her home.
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May 19, 1910
Chief Clerk C. F. Hauke encloses a letter to Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman. The letter, from Hattie E. Hudson, requested to secure female students for housework in New Jersey. Hauke requests that Friedman send Hudson information on the outing system.
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May 24 - June 18, 1910
Walter S. Davis asks Congressman John H. Rothermel to influence the Carlisle Indian School for him because he would like to have "two of the trained servants" from the school, but the school's policy is to not send students to cities the size of Reading, which is where Davis lives.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. G. Valentine…
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May 26, 1910
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs returns triplicate copy of Arrivals and Departures of Pupils for the third quarter of 1910.
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May 31 - July 20, 1910
Acting Supervisor Elsie E. Newton from Muskogee, Oklahoma asks Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman if "two Cherokee boys" from the "unrestricted class of Indians" could attend his school and how much it would cost. Friedman sends two applications to Newton and informs her that board and tuition costs $167 and that the potential…
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May 31 - June 2, 1910
Education Division Chief J. H. Dortch requests that Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman send information about the outing system to J. J. Gardner. Friedman informs Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. G. Valentine that he has sent Gardner an outing application and a copy of Outing Rules.
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June 5, 1910 - September 14, 1910
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by Louis Webster to return home early from an outing due to the expiration of his enrollment period.
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June 9, 1910 - June 18, 1910
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to sell nine art bowls, five silver bracelets, six brass candlesticks, and four art plates manufactured in the Native Indian Art Department. Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. G. Valentine grants permission.
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June 10 - July 14, 1910
Superintendent Moses Friedman forwards contracts that the Carlisle Indian School is engaged in to secure annual supplies. Second Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs Hauke also forwards 27 contracts between Carlisle and various companies for annual supplies to the Returns Office of the Department of the Interior.
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June 11, 1910 - July 16, 1914
This folder includes documents related to Stauffer's time working at Carlisle as the school musical director or band leader. Two thirds of the material relate to how Stauffer left the school. Having been suspended after the 1914 investigation into the school, Stauffer was not formally fired, but his job position was abolished. The other third…
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June 11, 1910 - May 1, 1918
Personnel file of Nellie Robertson Denny, who served as the Clerk of the Carlisle Indian School from 1900 to 1912 and from 1914 to 1918. She also served as Outing Manager for the Carlisle Indian School from 1908 to 1912. Robertson Denny was a graduate of Carlisle's class of 1890, and was married to Wallace Denny.
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June 11, 1910 - September 2, 1918
Personnel file of Wallace Denny, who served as Assistant Disciplinarian of the Carlisle Indian School from sometime before 1910 until 1918. Denny was a member of Carlisle's class of 1906, and was married to Nellie Robertson Denny.
The file contains quarterly employee reports, letters of resignation, complaints from students, a photograph…
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June 13 - August 9, 1910
Robert G. Valentine compliments Howard Fremont Stratton, Director of the Art Department at the Philadelphia School of Industrial Art of the Pennsylvania Museum, for his article published in The Red Man. Stratton thanks Valentine for the kind words about his article, which was about "Indian education in art," and discusses the…
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June 16 - 29, 1910
These materials contain correspondence and a newspaper clipping regarding press coverage of the arrest of Robert Doyle and Jesse Teleskie (misspelled Gilleski in the article) for running away from their outing home to Paterson, New Jersey.
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June 20, 1910 - August 27, 1910
These materials include correspondence regarding the grandsons of E. A. Pierce, Seneca Clarke Cook and Howard Jones.
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June 24 - July 6, 1910
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Antonio Florez to enroll at the Carlisle Indian School. Florez was informed that he should consider enrolling at a closer school to his home and should make direct contact with the superintendent of the school.
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June 24, 1910 - October 19, 1910
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Raymond Kennedy to be released from the Carlisle Indian School in order to continue with his machinist trade in one of Carlisle's outing districts. Kennedy's request was denied, but he was given the ability to access his money held at Carlisle.
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July 5, 1910 - July 6, 1910
Second Assistant Commissioner C. F. Hauke informs Commissioner of Indian Affairs Moses Friedman that a beef contract has been approved. Friedman asks for more explicit information regarding this approval and contract. Hauke explains that the contract for beef was with Brelsford Company.
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July 5, 1910 - August 3, 1910
These materials contain correspondence regarding the enrollment and tuition of Paul Vargas, a student from Puerto Rico and the Caribbean Islands.
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July 5 - August 27, 1910
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Ida Logan to enroll her son Harold Bishop to the Carlisle Indian School. Bishop was under the standard age of enrollment. The Indian Office allowed Bishop's admission pending the status of his formal application.
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July 6 - September 20, 1910
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to spend $500 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1911" account for special medical treatment for students, taking students to Philadelphia for treatment, and for medicine and food for the school hospital. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs F. H. Abbott requests that…
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