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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January 28, 1913
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests information regarding providing living quarters and an office for the Y. M. C. A. Secretary on school grounds.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - Housing
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Information Regarding Providing Quarters for Y.M.C.A. Secretary95.46 KB
February 6, 1913
The Carlisle Indian School Principal Teacher encloses teachers' theses to the Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs and informs him that four theses will be sent later because teachers are sick. (Theses are not included.)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - Teachers
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Enclosure of Teachers' Theses to Commissioner of Indian Affairs129.62 KB
February 14 - March 7, 1913
These materials include correspondence related to the enrollment of Edward Woods. Woods, orphaned as a child, spent a number of years drifting across the United States before ending up in Baltimore, where he was picked up as a vagrant and taken…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Enrollment of Edward Woods845.04 KB
February 17, 1913 - April 8, 1913
These materials include correspondence concerning Emma Newashe's request to have unrestricted use of her trust funds on deposit to her credit.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Request for Unrestricted Trust Funds by Emma Newashe1.25 MB
February 19, 1913
Superintendent Moses Friedman informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that Georgie H. Kelly and Edith W Kinkead have resigned. He recommends that, in the future, employees who will stay at the school on a more permanent basis be hired.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - General
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Resignation of Georgie H. Kelly and Edith W. Kinkead176.76 KB
February 23, 1913
William P. Campbell worked as a teacher and disciplinarian at Carlisle from 1882 until approximately 1894. This is a page from his personnel folder for work for the Department of Interior.
The page that is posted here shows a…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
View Document: Selection from Personnel Folder of William P. Campbell1.94 MB
February 24-27, 1913
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Alfonso Rodart to enter a government-run school such as Carlisle. C. F. Hauke rejected the request, as Rodart did not specify a trade and he already had the equivalent of Carlisle's…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment by Alfonso Rodart552.91 KB
March 4-8, 1913
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Joseph K. Griffis to have his daughter enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment of Daughter of Joseph K. Griffis431.06 KB
March 6, 1913 - March 18, 1913
J. Webster Henderson informs Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman that the Carlisle Borough is planning to build a sewage tunnel that will go underneath the school grounds and the Henderson Farm. Friedman then forwards Henderson's…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Plans to Build Sewer System Underneath School Grounds and Henderson Farm451.1 KB
March 13-27, 1913
Nell C. Splitstone, children's editor of The People's Home Journal, asks the Department of the Interior for a complete record of former Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt's time at the Carlisle Indian School.
Acting…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Request for Information About Pratt's Time at Carlisle1.16 MB
March 18, 1913
Assistant Secretary of the Interior Lewis C. Laylin informs J. Webster Henderson that he grants permission for the Carlisle Borough to begin the construction of a sewer underneath the school's grounds and the Henderson Farm.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Permission for Installation of a Sewer System under School Grounds and Henderson Farm164.61 KB
March 18-31, 1913
Acting Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry A. M. Farrington informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that they tested the cattle herd at the Carlisle Indian School for tuberculosis in January, 1913. Of 46 total cows, 34 were healthy. The…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Results from Cattle Tuberculosis Test, 1913211.47 KB
March 24 - April 3, 1913
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by K. C. Steele, an American citizen, to enroll an acquaintance from the Six Nation Reserve in Brantford, Canada at the Carlisle Indian School to study dentistry. Steele's request is…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Enroll Member of Six Nations Reserve of Canada443.68 KB
March 24, 1913 - November 23, 1916
Edward McKean served briefly as disciplinarian at Carlisle from April 16, 1913 until June 17, 1914. This post includes selections from his employee paperwork collected by the Bureau of Indian Affairs while he worked in the Indian Service. …
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Selections from Personnel Folder of Edward McKean18.47 MB
March 30, 1913
This pamphlet for the 1913 Baccalaureate of the Carlisle Indian School includes the program for both the Baccalaureate Services and the Union Meeting of Christian Associations, which both took place on Sunday, March 30. A number of hymns and…
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Topics: Graduation
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
View Document: 1913 Baccalaureate Program2.57 MB
March 31 - August 12, 1913
These materials include an inspection of accounting and office practices at the Carlisle Indian School, performed by Supervisor H. T. Brown in August, 1913. The report includes a lamp inspection form as well as discussions of accounting, record-…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Reports
View Document: Accounting Inspection Report of H. T. Brown for August 19132.14 MB
April 1, 1913
Program for the 1913 commencement concert by the Carlisle Indian Band. The program also contains the names of the students in the band.
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
View Document: 1913 Commencement Concert Program 1.25 MB
April 1, 1913
Program for the commencement concert on April 1, 1913 by the Carlisle Indian School band.
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Topics: Graduation, School Band Performances
Format: Books and Pamphlets
View Document: Commencement Concert program, 19133.96 MB
April 1-14, 1913
This document contains correspondence concerning the appendicitis case of Antoine Petite.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Illness
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Notice of Illness of Antoine Petite1015.09 KB
April 2, 1913 - April 28, 1913
George D. Branston, Treasurer of Manning, Maxwell & Moore Inc., informs Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman that the schools has not paid two invoices from the previous summer. The school owes $461 for a Barnes upright…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Allegedly Unpaid Invoices for Construction Equipment378.22 KB
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April 3, 1913
Program of the 1913 graduation exercises of the Carlisle Indian School. The program includes the graduation exercises, the name of the graduating class, and students receiving industrial certificates.
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
View Document: 1913 Commencement Program [copy 1]447.66 KB
![1913 Commencement Program [copy 2]](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/image-document/PI-1-6-1913_001.jpg?itok=6DqzZwwN "1913 Commencement Program [copy 2]")
April 3, 1913
Program of the 1913 graduation exercises of the Carlisle Indian School. The program includes the graduation exercises, the name of the graduating class, and students receiving industrial certificates.
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
View Document: 1913 Commencement Program [copy 2]1.31 MB
April 6-11, 1913
These materials include a request by Robert Bruce to have the government pay his transportation back home. Bruce wished to leave Carlisle early to help his father plant the wheat crop at their home in Montana.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Transportation Home by Robert Bruce540.85 KB
April 7, 1913
This document contains a letter concerning the death of Alice Sowtea.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Deaths
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Notice of Death of Alice Sowtea178.87 KB
April 8-21, 1913
These materials include correspondence concerning a request to approve a check of Elizabeth La Vatta's.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Request for Funds by Elizabeth La Vatta327.21 KB