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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September 15, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs authorize Agent Miles' expenses incurred while transporting a party of six Cheyenne and Arapaho chiefs and their children as well as Daniel Tucker from the Carlisle Indian…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Cover Traveling Expenses of a Cheyenne and Arapaho Party252.81 KB
September 17, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt acknowledges receipt of two packages of letter paper with "United States Indian Service" printed on the top of each page. Pratt requests that, in the future, he receive blank letter paper, so he can use the Carlisle Indian…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Blank Letter Paper in the Future134.79 KB
September 17, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests to hire Dr. C. H. Hepburn as the Carlisle Indian School physician at $900 per year. Hepburn will exclusively treat students and employees, live on campus, and deliver weekly health lectures to the students.
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Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Hire Dr. Hepburn as School Physician197.45 KB
September 18, 1880
Estimate of Funds for the fourth quarter of 1880 amounting to $1,880 for beef and flour, $1,000 for clothing and material to manufacture clothing, and $700 for fuel, stamps, water, and other contingencies.
Note: This item was copied from U…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Estimate of Funds, Fourth Quarter 1880211.86 KB
September 18, 1880
Estimate of Funds for the fourth quarter of 1880 amounting to $9,180 for subsistence, employee pay, clothing, repairs, and contingencies.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which were filmed from…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Estimate of Funds, Fourth Quarter 1880 (Report)801.3 KB
September 18, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that he's sending samples of goods manufactured by Carlisle Indian School students, including tin ware, double harness, and repaired shoes, to the annual Indian Fair. Pratt believes…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Plan to Distribute Student-Manufactured Goods at the Annual Indian Fair218.9 KB
September 25, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt states that the Carlisle Indian School currently has 196 students with 20 Navajos and 10 Pueblos on the way, increasing enrollment to 226. He believes that they have room for 300 total students and requests that Major Berry…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Recruitment of Navajo, Pueblo, and Ute Students294.27 KB
September 27, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt lists the cash and property accounts for the quarter ending June 30, 1880 to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which were filmed from the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Cash and Property Accounts, June 1880211.63 KB
September 27, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that he desires a hospital that is purposely designed to be a hospital, isolated from the rest of the school, and on higher ground. He requests to spend $4,550 to construct a new hospital…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Plans to Construct a New Hospital, Problems with Current Hospital1.02 MB
October 2, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests 50 blank Bills of Lading and 50 blank Invoice forms.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which were filmed from the original documents found in Record Group 75, Entry…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Requisition for Stationary, October 1880136.32 KB
October 8, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to travel to the Sisseton, Green Bay, and La Pointe agencies in order to recruit 25 new students. As he would like more than half to be girls, he also requests to bring a female assistant on the trip.
…Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Recruit Students from the Sisseton, Green Bay, and Lapointe Agencies142.62 KB
October 9, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests funds to recruit students from the Sisseton, Green Bay, and La Pointe agencies and to install steam heating in the buildings at the school.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Funds for Recruiting and to Install Steam Heat at the School142.28 KB
October 9, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests to spend $250 on "fitting up and furnishing" five teachers' rooms.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which were filmed from the original documents found in Record…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Funds to Fit up and Furnish Teachers' Rooms138.43 KB
October 9, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests to spend $150 to redo the wash on the exterior brick walls of buildings. Pratt notes that they have just finished painting all the buildings' tin roofs and are now painting the wooden exterior walls, so he desires to…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Building Repairs and Expansions
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Redo the Wash on Exterior Brick Walls of Buildings139.56 KB
October 11, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to purchase two tailor's heavy Singer sewing machines amounting to $70 for the school's tailor shop.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which were filmed…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Purchase two Sewing Machines for the Tailor Shop127.26 KB
October 13, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt transmits his Report of Irregular Employees for September 1880.
Note: The report itself was missing from the microfilm reels at the National Archives.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - General
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Report of Irregular Employees, September 1880124.27 KB
October 13, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt describes the benefits of photography in assuaging parents' fears of sending and keeping their children at the Carlisle Indian School and believes that it would be similarly beneficial to send photographs to Indian agents,…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: The Benefits of Sending Photographs to Families and Indian Agents128.75 KB
October 14, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that he will be absent from the school from October 14 to November 6, 1880 to recruit students from the Sisseton, Green Bay, and La Pointe agencies. While absent, Alfred John Standing…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt to be Absent From the School for Recruiting137.87 KB
October 14, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests authorization to spend $40 to allow all the Carlisle Indian School's staff, teachers, and students to visit Cooper and Bailey's Menagerie "collection of animals" in Carlisle. Pratt believes the event will help educate…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Field Trips
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Attend Natural History Event141.33 KB
October 17, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt asks if he has authority to bring a female assistant on his trip to recruit new students and requests a book of sub-voucher blanks.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Employee Travel - Recruitment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Recruit Students with a Female Assistant93.01 KB
October 20, 1880
Sheldon Jackson informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that he's glad that the Carlisle Indian School accepted 10 more Pueblos, one Pima, and one student from the Mescalero Agency. Because the school cannot secure 50 Utes this season, Jackson…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Process of Securing Southwestern Indian Students for the Carlisle Indian School315.01 KB
October 22, 1880
Superintendent of Warehouse Frank D. Karr informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that the Acting Superintendent of Carlisle Indian School requested him to arrange the transportation of the school's goods to the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency in…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Issues with Transporting Goods to the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency239.28 KB
October 28, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests transportation for himself, an assistant, and 25 students from Milwaukee to Carlisle.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which were filmed from the original documents…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Travel to Enroll
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Transportation for Pratt, Assistant, and 25 New Students to Carlisle97.42 KB
November 8, 1880
A. W. Crain writes to Richard Henry Pratt on behalf of several Creek parents about the possibility of sending their children to the Carlisle Indian School. Crain adds that certain Seminoles would be interested as well. Pratt forwards Crain's…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Creek Parents' Desire to Send Children to be Carlisle Students202.4 KB
November 8, 1880 - January 14, 1881
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a letter from the U. S. Indian Agent at the Green Bay Agency, E. Stephens. Stephens writes Pratt requesting to enroll forty students from his agency from three tribes: the Menominee, Oneida, and Stockbridge. Stephens…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Enroll 40 Children from the Green Bay Agency681.61 KB