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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April 8-16, 1910
Chief Clerk C. F. Hauke requests Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman to create a report on student outings from July 1, 1909 to April 1, 1910. A few days later Hauke asks for a statement outlining the overall plan for the outing…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Outing Program Administration
View Document: Outing System Rulebook and Forms 1.37 MB
April 8, 1910
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to spend $160 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1910" account to purchase and install a freight elevator for the girls' dormitory.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Building Repairs and Expansions
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Request to Install a Freight Elevator in the Girls' Dormitory115.19 KB
April 14 - May 10, 1910
These materials include a request from Joseph Loudbear to return home following his graduation. Loudbear desired to assist his uncle on working Loudbear's property. Loudbear later rescinded his request in order to finish his term of enrollment on…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Return Home by Joseph Loudbear916.04 KB
April 14 - May 9, 1910
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to release Max Mixsooke from his term of enrollment at the Carlisle Indian School. The request was granted.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Return Home of Max Mixsooke339.93 KB
April 25, 1910 - May 19, 1910
These materials include correspondence regarding student Judson Bertrand's work at the office of Carlisle dentist Dr. C. E. Wogan. There was some dispute about Bertrand's role as well as where he could pursue training as a dentist.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Dispute Regarding Judson Bertrand and Outing System1.63 MB
April 26 - May 5, 1910
Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to sell 250 bushels of rye. Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. G. Valentine grants Friedman permission to do so.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Farms - Selling Produce
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Sell 250 Bushels of Rye174.26 KB
April 28 - May 16, 1910
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.…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Regarding the Students' Performance in the Opera "The Captain of Plymouth"187.97 KB
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.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Nancy Connors for Summer Break996 KB
May 6 - 31, 1910
These materials contain correspondence regarding the number of students on the outing program, and their potential competition with white workers.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Outing Placement Statement for 1910207.88 KB
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…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Issues with the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1910" Account370.12 KB
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.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Return Home of Ida Coon Sands540.91 KB
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…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Outing Patrons
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request from New Jersey to Procure Female Students for Housework101.39 KB
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…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Policy Against Female Students Working as Servants while on Outing401.67 KB
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.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Recordkeeping at the School
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Arrivals and Departures of Pupils Report for 1910 Third Quarter110.01 KB
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…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Admission from Two Cherokees410.24 KB
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…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Information about the Outing System181.06 KB
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.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Leave by Louis Webster1.35 MB
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.…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Native Art and Industry Program
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Sale of Art Manufactured in the Native Indian Art Department168.14 KB
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…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Contracts for Supplies, Fiscal Year 1910-19111.42 MB
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…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Stauffer Personnel Folder Part One6.7 MB, Stauffer Personnel Folder Part Two7.71 MB, Stauffer Personnel Folder Part Three1.31 MB, Stauffer Personnel Folder Part Four4.08 MB
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…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Personnel File of Nellie Robertson Denny, Clerk and Outing Manager4.45 MB
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…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Personnel File of Wallace Denny, Assistant Disciplinarian5.14 MB
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…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Philadelphia Art Director's Thoughts on Carlisle Student Artwork1.92 MB
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.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Press Coverage of Robert Doyle and Jesse Teleskie Runaway281.72 KB
June 20, 1910 - August 27, 1910
These materials include correspondence regarding the grandsons of E. A. Pierce, Seneca Clarke Cook and Howard Jones.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Report Concerning Grandsons of E. A. Pierce946.5 KB