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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![1913 Commencement Program [copy 1]](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/image-document/PI-5-4_001.jpg?itok=9K6OHPUG "1913 Commencement Program [copy 1]")
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
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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 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
April 9 - May 24, 1913
Supervisor of Indian Funds Benton informs Commissioner of Indian Affairs F. H. Abbott that $35,000 of Carlisle Indian School students' money is held in the Farmers Trust Company in Carlisle, and the school handles all business and all record-…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Rules Governing the Management of Students' Money2.09 MB
April 11-14, 1913
This document contains correspondence concerning the death of Frank Peshlakie.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Deaths, Student Illness
Format: Letters/Correspondence
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April 11-14, 1913
This document contains correspondence concerning the appendicitis case of Josephine Warren.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Illness
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Notice of Illness of Josephine Warren317.13 KB
April 12, 1913 - April 22, 1913
Greenhut-Siegel Cooper Co. informs the Department of the Interior that they have an unpaid invoice of $73.80 for blue-check material.
Chief of the Finance Division of the Department of the Interior Frank Govern encloses the letter to…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Allegedly Unpaid Invoice for Blue-Check Material193.02 KB
April 18, 1913 - April 18, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to enroll Milford Henderson at the Carlisle Indian School. Henderson was initially denied admittance to the School due to his proximity to attend a local public school. However, upon…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
View Document: Request for Enrollment of Milford Henderson3.99 MB
April 23, 1913
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to spend $350 from the "Indian Moneys, Proceeds of Labor, Carlisle School" account for water supply required for domestic purposes.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Utilities
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Request to Purchase Water Supply for Domestic Purposes for Fiscal Year 1913175.82 KB
April 29, 1913 - May 6, 1913
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Friedman informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that the claim from Greenhut-Siegel Cooper Co. for an unpaid invoice for blue-check material is void. Friedman states that the material was not the same as…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: False Claim for Blue-Check Material195.13 KB
April 30, 1913
Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs F. H. Abbott tells Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman to make a full report on all of the students who are leaving the school at the end of the academic year.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for a Report on Students Leaving at the End of the Academic Year187.28 KB
May 6-14, 1913
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman advises against abolishing the Teachers' Club during July and August because he does not believe it is a good idea for employees to cook their own meals in their room. Acting Commissioner of…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Decision Against Abolishing Teachers' Club231.76 KB
May 7, 1913
These materials include a report on Fred Lookout and Julia Pryor, under the Osage Superintendency, who were both Carlisle Indian School alumni.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Report on Fred Lookout123.07 KB
May 8-13, 1913
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Montreville Yuda to F. H. Abbott, Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to leave the Carlisle Indian School while remaining in the borough of Carlisle to work. School officials were…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Discipline - General
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Remain in Carlisle Upon Departure by Montreville Yuda591.94 KB
May 17 - July 1, 1913
Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry A. D. Melvin informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that Dr. F. C. Bigelow tested four cows for tuberculosis at the Carlisle Indian School and found one to be infected. Melvin requests that the infected…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Results from Tuberculosis Test of Four Cattle, 1913558.71 KB
May 21, 1913 - June 13, 1913
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to return home Agnes Bartholomeau and Edith Rainey.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Discipline - General
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Home Agnes Bartholomeau and Edith Rainey343.1 KB
May 22-29, 1913
These materials include a request from William Reichert to enroll his son at the Carlisle Indian School. The request was forwarded to the Bureau of Indian Affairs by House Representative Scott Ferris of Oklahoma.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment for Son of William Reichert415.58 KB
May 23 - August 1, 1913
These materials include correspondence regarding the allotments of Zella and Marcellus Eagle Eye, as well as the enrollment of Marcellus at the Carlisle Indian School. Marcellus was denied due to his access to local public schools being available…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Application and Allotment of Marcellus Eagle Eye1.81 MB
May 24, 1913
This material includes correspondence between Superintendent Moses Friedman and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs concerning accusations made by John Jackson. Jackson blamed Annie and Jean Richards for his allegations, which he recanted. …
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Complaints by John Jackson318.07 KB
May 26, 1913 - June 12, 1913
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman provides a list of appropriations needed for running the school for 1913 and requests that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs sends him a statement of warehouse invoices and explains why he…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Dispute Regarding Funds and Accounts for 1913476.23 KB
June 1 - September 6, 1913
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Emily Hardt Floyd to have her brother Edward Paul Bauer enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School. Floyd's request was denied as Bauer lived in a city and had access to local public…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment for Edward Paul Bauer1.14 MB
June 1, 1913 - November 11, 1913
These materials include correspondence concerning the account balances of three pupils; William Waupoose, James Welch, and Leslie James.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Request for Funds by William Waupoose, James Welch, and Leslie James1.57 MB
June 6, 1913
These materials include a typed and hand-written copy of a letter from J. F. Murray, praising the Carlisle Indian School. Murray discusses numerous topics, including Carlisle's assimilationist mission, appropriations and finances, discipline,…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Praise for Carlisle by J. F. Murray713.39 KB