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 11-20, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Louisa Jordan to enroll her daughter Winona Isabell Jordan at the Carlisle Indian School to learn the dressmaking trade. The request is denied, and Jordan is recommended to enroll her…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment of Winona Isabell Jordan253.99 KB
August 12, 1914 - May 4, 1926
This material includes a request the Louis Lange Publishing Company, publishers of the German magazine Abendschule, for information about the history of the Carlisle Indian School. This information, along with a list of further readings…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Information about the Carlisle Indian School by Abendschule381.29 KB
August 15 - September 16, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by S. S. Kempton to have an exemption granted so his three children could enroll at the Carlisle Indian School. The request is denied.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Enroll Kempton Children948.87 KB
August 17, 1914 - September 17, 1914
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps writes to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs regarding a $5,000 donation from sisters Mary P. and Eliza O. Ropes in 1908. He states that the money was given to former…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Donation from Ropes Sisters in Massachusetts227.02 KB
October 22, 1908-November 13, 1917
These materials primarily consist of correspondence between the Office of Indian Affairs and the U. S. Department of Justice, in particular an Assistant Attorney General Charles Warren. In this correspondence, officials discuss whether or not…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Discussing Potential Federal Trial of Siceni Nori and Moses Friedman 21.52 MB
August 19, 1914
Two memos between government officials which discuss what laws or court cases are relevant to the investigation into the mishandling of money of the students of Carlisle. These were compiled in the wake of the 1914 Congressional Investigation at…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Memorandum Concerning Policy for Handling Student Funds2.79 MB
August 20, 1914
A list of documents related to the charges against Moses Friedman and Siceni J. Nori in the aftermath of the 1914 Congressional Investigation at Carlisle as prepared by the Department of Justice.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: 1914 Congressional Investigation
Format: Reports
View Document: Memorandum related to Letter from Department of Justice for Nori Case1.22 MB
August 26, 1914
This document contains correspondence concerning the appendicitis case of Sarah Parkhurst. This includes a medical bill.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Illness, Medical Care at School
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Notice of Illness of Sarah Parkhurst142.06 KB
August 31, 1914 - October 10, 1914
These materials include correspondence on the topic of industry, which arose from the 1914 Lake Mohonk Conference.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Lake Mohonk Conferences
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Discussion of Industry at the Lake Mohonk Conference, 1914361.4 KB
August 31, 1914
Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt informs Chief Special Officer Henry A. Larson that Carlisle Indian School Supervisor Lipps would like to commissioner one of his school employees, Edward Corbett, as a deputy. Lipps would like Corbett to be…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Indian School System, Student Alcohol Use
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Commission a Deputy to Halt the Sale of Liquor152.61 KB
September 3-5, 1914
These materials include a request from Superintendent Kelsey of the Union Agency to have a police officer escort three boys from Carlisle to Oklahoma.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Police Escort from Carlisle to Oklahoma171.48 KB
September 4, 1914 - March 6, 1915
Supervisor in Charge Oscar H. Lipps requests to spend $100.00 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1915" fund for the payment of incidental expenses incurred in the administration of the school. A few weeks later, he calls attention to his…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
View Document: Request to Expend $102.80, Fiscal Year 1914-1915677.12 KB
September 18-28, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to enroll Hampton Thomas, a member of the Choctaw Nation, who sought an exemption to enroll due to being over the age of 21.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment of Hampton Thomas219.87 KB
September 19-24, 1914
These materials include a request by H. M. Lippincott, Secretary of the General Alumni Association of the University of Pennsylvania, for a copy of the final report of the 1914 Congressional Investigation into the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: 1914 Congressional Investigation
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for 1914 Investigation Report by H. M. Lippincott869.44 KB
September 19-29, 1914
These materials include correspondence and a circular internal to the Carlisle Indian School regarding economy and waste in the school's industrial departments.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: School Circular Order on Economy and Waste272.54 KB
September 21 - October 12, 1914
These materials include a request by D. H. McMillan to be granted an exception in order to enroll at the Carlisle Indian School as a student over the age of 21. The request was denied as McMillan was from Robeson County, North Carolina in…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Enroll from D. H. McMillan224.44 KB
September 21 - October 5, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Dora B. McCauley that her brother Eugene McCauley be granted a release from Carlisle in order to take up stenographic work at the Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas. Eugene…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Permit Enrollment of Eugene McCauley at Haskell323.26 KB
September 22-25, 1914
These materials include a request by Representative J. Washington Logue for a copy of the final report of the 1914 Congressional Investigation of the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: 1914 Congressional Investigation
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for 1914 Investigation Report by J. Washington Logue226.27 KB
September 24 - November 2, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding the education of members of the Cherokee Nation from Robeson County, North Carolina.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Education of Cherokee Nation Students from Robeson County483.69 KB
September 24 - October 5, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to re-enroll Charles Pratt, whose term of enrollment had expired, through the remainder of the school year or until a position of baker in the Indian Service became open.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Reenrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Re-enroll Charles Pratt227.91 KB
September 25 - October 3, 1914
Carlisle Indian School Physician Dr. Walter Rendtorff informs Supervisor in Charge Oscar H. Lipps that he has found no evidence of communicable diseases among school employees. Lipps forwards Rendtorff's report the Commissioner of Indian Affairs…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - Illness
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Absence of Communicable Diseases Among School Employees238.93 KB
September 25, 1914
A contractual agreement is made between Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School and Robert Thompson for Thompson to supply the school with coal.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Contract for Coal with Robert Thompson1.11 MB
September 28 - October 10, 1914
Second Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs C. F. Hauke informs Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps that they have just sent two color maps of the parts of Europe that are in conflict and suggests hanging them up…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Academic Supplies, School Library, Football, World War I
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Display of World War I Maps and Questions Regarding Students Attending Football Games742.85 KB
September 29, 1914 - October 12, 1914
These materials include correspondence related to recommendations made by Emma D. Goulette, Vice-President on Education for The Society of American Indians. Goulette, in response to the 1914 Congressional investigation of the Carlisle Indian…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: 1914 Congressional Investigation
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Recommendations from Emma D. Goulette690.43 KB
October 1 - 21, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding the enrollment of Joseph Guyon at the Keewatin Academy in Prarie Du Chien, Wisconsin. The headmaster of the Keewatin Academy claimed the Carlisle Indian School administration and Coach Glenn "Pop"…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Enrollment of Joseph Guyon at the Keewatin Academy2.54 MB