The Documents section features digitized copies of documents relating to the history of the school. These documents include correspondence, graduation pamphlets, and other forms of ephemera, and have been digitized by Digital Resource Center staff. Today, these documents are preserved in a number of locations, including the Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections as well as private collections.
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June 26, 1897
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to pay $600 in rent for the Hocker Farm during fiscal year 1898. Pratt additionally forwards the lease with the request that it be extended for one year.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Farms - Land Transactions
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Requests Authority to Pay Hocker Farm Rent for 1898 Fiscal Year202.46 KB
June 26, 1897
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to pay $400 for the rent of the Henderson Tract during fiscal year 1898.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Farms - Land Transactions
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Rent the Henderson Tract for the 1898 Fiscal Year219.69 KB
June 26, 1897
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to spend money in the transportation of students to and from Carlisle during the 1898 fiscal year.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Spend Money Transporting Students to and From Carlisle, 1897231 KB
June 26, 1897
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to spend money visiting outing pupils during the 1898 fiscal year.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Outing Program Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Spend Money Visiting Students on Outing, 1897239.57 KB
June 29, 1897
Richard Henry Pratt forwards teacher Rosa Bourassa's request for a 21-day leave of absence due to eye trouble.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - Illness
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Rosa Bourassa's Request for Leave of Absence 266.79 KB
July 1, 1897
Richard Henry Pratt forwards Ella G. Hill's application for a 24-day annual leave of absence. Hill works as a laundress.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Ella G. Hill's Application for Annual Leave of Absence 249.76 KB
July 1, 1897 - July 3, 1897
Mariette Wood requests a transfer to the Carlisle Indian School as a teacher. Richard Henry Pratt forwards and endorses the application.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Mariette Wood Requests Transfer to Carlisle as a Teacher750.83 KB
July 1, 1897
Richard Henry Pratt forwards assistant matron Prudence Miles' application for a 30-day annual leave of absence.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Prudence Miles' Application for Annual Leave of Absence 248.4 KB
July 1, 1897
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.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Legal and Government Documents
View Document: Requisition for Blanks and Blank Books, July 1897585.5 KB
July 2, 1897
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to alter the salaries of several teachers at the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - Teachers
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Alter Salaries of Several Teaching Positions at Carlisle277.93 KB
July 3, 1897
Captain Richard H. Pratt forwards a telegram to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs requesting he places funds in his account and approves his irregular employee reports for May and June.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Attention Called to Report of Irregular Service, May and June 18971.01 MB
July 3, 1897
Richard Henry Pratt forwards nurse M. S. Barr's application for a 50-day leave of absence, 30 days of annual leave and 20 days to attend post-graduate instruction at Boston City Hospital.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: M. S. Barr's Request for Leave of Absence 260.25 KB
July 5 - August 30, 1897
Richard Henry Pratt forwards thirteen certificates of attendance for employees: W. Grant Thompson (disciplinarian), Emma A. Cutter (senior teacher), Florence M. Carter (teacher), Jennie P. Cochran (teacher), Carrie E. Weekley (teacher), J. W.…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Thirteen Certificates of Employees' Attendance at Summer School3.1 MB
July 6-16, 1897
Bessie Barclay applies for a transfer to the Carlisle Indian School as a lower grade teacher from the Winnebago Agency. Richard Henry Pratt forwards the application to the Office of Indian Affairs along with his recommendation.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Bessie Barclay Applies for Transfer to Carlisle as Teacher1.63 MB
July 6, 1897
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs of Fanny W. Noble's service and time at the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Provides Information on Fanny W. Noble182.74 KB
July 7 - September 1, 1897
Richard Henry Pratt forwards laundress Ella G. Hill's application for a 30-day leave of absence. Pratt also forwards physicians' certificates confirming Hill's leave of absence was related to illness.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - Illness
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Ella G. Hill's Request for Sick Leave of Absence 737.11 KB
July 7, 1897
Richard Henry Pratt forward clerk Nana Pratt's application for a 25-day annual leave of absence.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Nana Pratt's Application for Annual Leave of Absence 252 KB
July 7, 1897
Richard Henry Pratt forwards dairyman William B. Gray's application for a 9-day annual leave of absence.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: William B. Gray's Application for Annual Leave of Absence 259.67 KB
July 9, 1897
S. L. Diven, the school physician, compiles the monthly sanitary report for June 1897.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Illness
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Monthly Sanitary Report of Diseases and Injuries, June 1897698.77 KB
July 10-14, 1897
Captain Richard H. Pratt submits oaths of office from twelve newly appointed employees (Gertrude E. Simmons, Louisa Geisdorff, Mabel M. Buck, Delia Randell, Cora Wheeler, Alex B. Upshaw, Vincent Nahtailsh, James R. Wheelock, James D. Flannery,…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Oaths of Office, July 18972.69 MB
July 13, 1897
Richard Henry Pratt requests the Office of Indian Affairs increase the expenditure for services of an attending physician to $600.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Increase Expenditure of Attending Physician424.33 KB
July 19, 1897
Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter explaining his decision to not renominate Rose Bourassa and Martha Hench for continued employment at Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Responds to Decision to Not Renominate Hench or Bourassa503.78 KB
July 20, 1897
Richard Henry Pratt forwards clerk Anna S. Luckenbach's application for a 24-day annual leave of absence.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Anna S. Luckenbach's Application for Annual Leave of Absence253.56 KB
July 20, 1897
Richard Henry Pratt forwards assistant seamstress Lizzie C. Jacobs' application for a 28-day annual leave of absence.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Lizzie C. Jacobs' Application for Annual Leave of Absence 256.86 KB
July 20, 1897
Richard Henry Pratt submits a supplemental estimate of funds for the fourth quarter of 1897 amounting to $1,840.00 to close the account for the fiscal year.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Supplemental Estimate of Funds, Fourth Quarter 1897504.51 KB