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 9 , 1908
The Carlisle Indian School requests authority for transportation.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Transportation67.71 KB
June 9 - July 1, 1908
Assistant Cook Marie McCloud submits her resignation in order to accept a position in Alaska. Superintendent Moses Friedman forwards her resignation to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Assistant Commissioner C. F. Larrabee accepts…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Resignation of Assistant Cook Marie McCloud307.42 KB
June 10-19, 1908
These materials include correspondence and legal documents concerning former student Esther Moose, and any entitlements she may hold right to government annuities under the treaties of 1837 and 1851.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Claim for Annuity Payments by Esther Moose588.31 KB
June 11 - August 29, 1908
These materials include a petition and correspondence regarding a request by a group of Alaskan students to be returned to their homes.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Petition of Alaskan Students to Return Home1.22 MB
June 13 - July 1, 1908
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Theresa Green to have her daughter, Marie Arteshaw, returned home.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Marie Arteshaw to Return Home650.34 KB
June 16, 1908 - December 31, 1908
This material includes correspondence regarding Martha Cornsilk and her outing record in 1908. Specific information is given regarding Cornsilk's training as a nurse at the German Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, her experience after leaving New…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Nursing Training
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Martha Cornsilk Outing Case4.58 MB
June 16-26, 1908
W. A. Russell from the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company informs Superintendent Moses Friedman that he has not yet received a voucher covering Hugh Taylor's trip from Kentucky to Carlisle.
Friedman encloses an estimate of funds…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Reconciling Accounting Errors2.4 MB
June 17, 1908 - July 24, 1908
This material includes information regarding Nellie Cox and her noncompetitive teacher examination upon graduating from the Bloomsburg State Normal School. Includes the results of the examination.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Nellie Cox Teacher Examination471.31 KB
June 19 - July 1, 1908
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Sara Avery McIlhenny to allow the Carlisle Indian School to continue its previous policy of recruiting Chitimacha students from around Charenton, Louisiana. Previously, agents from…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Continue Recruitment of Chitimacha Students1005.88 KB
June 23-26, 1908
These materials contain correspondence regarding authorization to return 83 students to their homes in 1908 at the end of their period of enrollment.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Returned Students List for June 19081.06 MB
June 24, 1908 - September 28, 1908
These materials contain correspondence regarding a dispute about the release of students from New York State, as pursuant to Bureau of Indian Affairs policy changes regarding the enrollment of students from New York.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Dispute Regarding Release of New York Students4.73 MB
June 24, 1908
Charles E. Mullin recommends Sewall S. Daniell to fill a vacant Disciplinarian position at the Carlisle Indian School. C. F. Larrabee informs Mullin that there is no such vacancy exists.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Lack of a Vacancy in the Disciplinarian Office226.86 KB
June 25, 1908
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman encloses two contracts totaling $444.44 and asks for departmental approval. The contracts are for bacon and leather. He also encloses a bid for flour.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Bacon and Leather Contracts and Flour Bid156.18 KB
June 27 - July 21, 1908
Haskell Institute baker John E. Olson applies to transfer to the Carlisle Indian School to be their baker and to secure a raise from his $540 annual salary. Carlisle Superintendent Moses Friedman tells Olson that he could pay him $600, but Olson…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Accusation that Superintendent Friedman is Stealing Haskell Institute Employees721.31 KB
June 27, 1908
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman writes to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to send him an equation regarding the school's annual appropriation. Friedman argues that an additional credit of $448.13 should be placed to the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Potential Credit to the School's Appropriation258.1 KB
June 30, 1908 - June 14, 1912
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Ellis Oberholtzer to have 70 students from the Carlisle Indian School participate in an historical pageant celebrating the 225th anniversary of the founding of the city of…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Parade and Public Appearances
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Students' Participation in Historical Pageant2.16 MB
July 1 - 7, 1908
These materials contain correspondence regarding an authorization to return students to their homes in July 1908 at the end of their period of enrollment.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Returned Students List for July 1908685.64 KB
July 2-11, 1908
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests information on the process of hiring a business teacher, who he wants to be male as well as unmarried. Acting Commissioner of Affairs C. F. Larrabee informs Friedman that, unless he…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Process of Hiring a Business Teacher771.21 KB
July 4, 1908
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman forwards balances of three contracts that total $1,044. The three contracts are for paint supplies, "gym slippers," and lumber.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Balances of Contracts for Materials and Gym Slippers92.9 KB
July 4, 1908 - June 22, 1909
Superintendent Moses Friedman requests $400 for fiscal year 1908 in order to pay the lease of the Henderson Tract, which is used for "pasture and other purposes." A year later, Friedman asks to renew the lease at the same price for fiscal year…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Farms - Land Transactions
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Extend Henderson Farm Lease326.86 KB
July 11, 1908
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman provides a detailed breakdown of how the "Indian Moneys, Proceeds of Labor, Carlisle School" fund had been spent.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: The "Indian Moneys, Proceeds of Labor, Carlisle School" Fund Explanation140.63 KB
July 14, 1908
The Civil Service Commissioner informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that they will be holding examinations for the Business Teacher position and that they will be paid $1,000 annually.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Civil Service Examination for Business Teacher Position81.07 KB
July 15-24, 1908
These materials contain correspondence regarding Moses Friedman's plans to send an agent through territories to gather statistics on former students.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Gathering Statistics on Former Students1.86 MB
July 16, 1908
Estimate of funds for the fourth quarter of 1908 amounting to $82,254.55 for buildings, proceeds of labor, regular and irregular employee pay, supplies, and transportation of Indian supplies. An explanatory cover letter is attached.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Estimate of Funds, Fourth Quarter 19081.59 MB
July 4-16, 1908
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests funds to make emergency repairs to buildings. Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs C. F. Larrabee grants permission.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Building Repairs and Expansions
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Funds for Emergency Repairs to Buildings229.31 KB