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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August 28 - September 24, 1913
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by the parents of Wilson Silas to have him returned home from the Carlisle Indian School. The Superintendent suggested that Silas would benefit from more schooling but should be allowed…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Wilson Silas Home696.25 KB
September 4, 1913
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests funds from the Department of the Interior for the first quarter of 1914.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Request for Funds for the 1914 First Quarter232.18 KB
September 5, 1913 - September 24, 1913
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells forwards letter and statement from Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company relative to unpaid freight bills to Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman.
Friedman informs Sells…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Allegedly Unpaid Invoices for Freight Bills242.56 KB
September 5 - October 11, 1913
These materials include correspondence regarding the enrollment of Jose Prado Arias, from Puerto Rico, at the Carlisle Indian School. Arias' father, Thomas Prado Landron, was notified that Arias could be enrolled upon payment of transportation…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Enroll Jose Prado Arias433.62 KB
September 11 - October 9, 1913
Chicago Warehouse for Indian Supplies Superintendent Frank Sorenson writes to Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman, enclosing an expense bill and bill of lading from Corrugated Bar Company to cover freight charges from Pittsburgh…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Reimbursement to Corrugated Bar Company for Freight Charges349.81 KB
September 11, 1913 - February 11, 1914
These materials include correspondence concerning former student John Jackson's request to access personal funds from his account.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Funds by John Jackson5.35 MB
September 12, 1913 - January 22, 1914
These materials include correspondence concerning the funds of a group of students, and how large checks for individual pupils should be deposited and controlled by the Superintendent. This includes students from the Pawnee and Winnebago Nations…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Policies Regarding Large Deposits for Student Accounts1.74 MB
September 12, 1913
This document contains correspondence concerning a check sent to Edward Paul.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Request for Funds for Edward Paul83.04 KB
September 16 - October 1, 1913
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to spend $250 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa, 1914" account for general traveling expenses associated with the Outing System and for expenses incurred while visiting the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Outing Program Administration
View Document: Request for Funds for Outing System Expenses670.63 KB
September 19, 1913 - October 2, 1913
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Louis C. Brown for reimbursement of his tuition as Carlisle did not offer professional work suited to Brown.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Tuition Reimbursement by Louis C. Brown290.46 KB
September 26, 1913 - March 24, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding the enrollment of Esther and Georgianna Collins at the Carlisle Indian School. Some materials relate to the efforts of their mother, Rose Trombly Collins, to secure their enrollment at the school.…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Enrollment of Esther and Georgianna Collins915.88 KB
September 30, 1913
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that he has implemented an evening study hour for this academic school year and that he, and the rest of the school, are very happy with the results.…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Implementation of an Evening Study Hour for New Academic Year169.91 KB
October 1 - November 6, 1913
Rev. Mark E. Stock, the Catholic priest whose church Carlisle students attend, asks Superintendent Moses Friedman to allow female students to walk to his church without a chaperone or to assign a chaperone for them.
Friedman forwards Stock…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Request for Chaperone to Escort Girls to Church (Correspondence) 1.67 MB, Academic Calendar for 1913-19142.23 MB
October 4-15, 1913
These materials include correspondence concerning an article about the arrest of alleged former student Sam Morris. The article, published by the Native American, the student newspaper of the Phoenix Indian School, notes that…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Contested Article Regarding Alleged Former Student500.25 KB
October 11-20, 1913
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to return home Lucinda Welch and Marie Le Sieur.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Home Lucinda Welch and Marie Le Sieur558.92 KB
October 16 - November 10, 1913
Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to spend $50 for general school purposes from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1914" appropriation. Second Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt asks Friedman how he spent the money from a previous, similar…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
View Document: Request to Spend $50 for General School Purposes1.06 MB
October 17-20, 1913
These materials contain correspondence regarding the return of Stansil Jumper to Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Students Running Away
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Return of Stansil Jumper638.64 KB
October 20, 1913 - January 22, 1914
These materials include correspondence concerning a request by DeForest Doxtater to approve checks and close his student account.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Closure of Account of DeForest Doxtater506.34 KB
October 20, 1913 - December 5, 1913
These materials include correspondence concerning a request by Anna Pierce to approve checks closing out her account.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Request for Funds by Anna Pierce287.94 KB
October 22, 1913 - November 8, 1913
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of a fire in the clothing room of the Small Boys' Quarters. The fire was caused by a stove, which is normally used to heat flat irons for clothes,…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Fires at the School, Fire Prevention
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Report of a Small Fire in the Small Boys' Quarters195.11 KB
October 24, 1913 - November 20, 1913
These materials include correspondence regarding the enrollment of Tony B. M. Tommie (referred to as B. H. Tommie in this file), a member of the Seminole Nation of Florida, at the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment of Tony B. M. Tommie375.51 KB
October 24, 1913 - January 10, 1914
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request from an outing patron to employ Esther Moore under the outing system.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Outing Patrons, Students on Outings
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Employ Esther Moore on Outing1.25 MB
October 27, 1913 - October 29, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding requests by Congressman Asher C. Hinds of Maine to enroll at Carlisle the three children of Thomas Canadian. The oldest daughter was forwarded an enrollment application and notified that she would…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment of Thomas Canadian Family2.89 MB
October 27, 1913
These materials include correspondence concerning a request by John Martinez to withdraw money from his account.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Request for Funds by John Martinez82 KB
November 2, 1913 - January 2, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a complaint made by Mamie Vilcan that Anna Ridenour, Matron, was opening her mail. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs asked Superintendent Friedman to look into the affair, and later reiterated…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Employees Reading Students' Mail
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Complaint by Mamie Vilcan1.09 MB