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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February 18-23, 1916
These materials contain a copy of The Carlisle Arrow (Vol. 12, No. 23) with a handwritten note on an article about former student James Walker as well as correspondence inquiring about Walker, including reports from Carlisle's…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Report on Condition of James Walker2.61 MB
February 19, 1916 - March 4, 1916
These materials include correspondence regarding concerns William Paul, a former student, had that a new domestic science course would replace the outing system.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Domestic Science Course and the Outing System1.22 MB
February 25, 1916 - March 15, 1916
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps requests $250 to pay for incidental expenses associated with the administration of the Carlisle Indian School. He also explains how funds requested from February 25 and March 3, 1916.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Request for Funds for Incidental Expenses and Explanation of Authorities234.58 KB
March 1 - 14, 1916
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from the guardian of Robin Daugherty to refund the unused portion of his tuition. The request was denied by E. B. Meritt.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Refund of Robin Daugherty's Tuition305.62 KB
March 18, 1916
This document contains a letter concerning the death of Charles Duncan.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Deaths, Student Illness
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Notice of Death of Charles Duncan254.84 KB
March 29, 1916 - May 17, 1916
These materials contain correspondence regarding the disciplining of William Thomas for fighting with another student.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Discipline of William Thomas906.71 KB
March 29, 1916 - April 19, 1916
These materials include correspondence regarding the enrollment status of Kiutus Jim. It was determined that Jim should be allowed to work to earn money to pay for his transportation back to his home through the outing system.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Enrollment Status of Kiutus Jim443.01 KB
March 29, 1916 - April 5, 1916
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Oscar H. Lipps that Meredith Crooks remain at Carlisle until Crooks could secure funds to reimburse the school for transportation to and from the school.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Retain Meredith Crooks268.77 KB
April 11 - 18, 1916
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by John Abbott to have his brother Charles White Horn, a student at Carlisle, visit him while Abbott was in Washington, D.C.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Allow Charles White Horn to Visit Brother685.04 KB
April 16, 1916 - April 22, 1916
Chief Engineer of the Department of the Interior William Reed gives a report on the Carlisle Indian School garden, which is receiving too much water and flooding. He suggests building a ditch and embankment to protect against flooding. Assistant…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Grounds - Land Issues
View Document: Blueprints and Plan for Building Ditch to Protect School Garden from Flooding808.97 KB
April 7, 1916
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps requests $250 to pay for incidental expenses associated with the administration of the Carlisle Indian School. He also explains how these funds have been and will be used.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Request for Funds for Incidental Expenses and Explanation of Authorities311.99 KB
April 23 - August 16, 1916
This document contains two newspaper clippings and a poster from the "Carlisle Indian Base Ball Club," a cross country-tour baseball team led by Kate J. Becker. It also features correspondence between Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Allegedly Fraudulent "Carlisle Indian Base Ball Club"7.13 MB
April 25 - May 5, 1916
This document contains correspondence concerning the death of Joseph Johnson.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Notice of Death of Joseph Johnson436.18 KB
April 29 - May 8, 1916
This document contains correspondence concerning Albert Foster and his diagnosis with tuberculosis. He was referred to the Sac and Fox Sanatorium for treatment.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Illness, Student Medical Travel
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Notice of Illness of Albert Foster272.71 KB
May 1 - July 7, 1916
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps requests $3,000 for the open-market purchase of supplies needed to repair buildings.
Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt writes to Lipps regarding holding…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Request for Funds for Building Repairs719.42 KB
May 2 - July 21, 1916
Rabbi Abraham S. Anspacher, who conducts Kamp Kewamee in Lackawanna County in Pennsylvania, requests to employ four Carlisle Indian School students at the camp to be waiters and play baseball at the camp. Treasury Department Collector of Customs…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Four Male Students Sent to Summer Camp to be Waiters and Play Baseball1003.85 KB
May 4-31, 1916
Military Training Camp for Boys Chairman T. Douglas Robinson encloses a bulletin from Fort Terry Training Camp and asks Carlisle Indian School students to enroll. Carlisle Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps informs the Commissioner that they could…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Invitation for Male Students to attend Military Training Camp in New York741.27 KB
May 4, 1916
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps requests $250 to pay for incidental expenses associated with the administration of the Carlisle Indian School He also explains how these funds have been and will be spent.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Request for Funds for Incidental Expenses and Explanation of Authorities292.4 KB
May 5, 1916 - May 20, 1916
Carlisle Indian School Agriculture Teacher Leo Marks forwards maps or blueprints of both school farms and provides an inventory of the school's livestock. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells thanks Marks' for his maps, inventory, and his…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Blueprints of Two School Farms and Inventory of School's Livestock7.67 MB
May 11, 1916 - May 17, 1916
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps encloses an abstract of authorities and asks to be informed of any differences. Second Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs C. F. Hauke returns the abstract with the differences marked in…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Differences in an Abstract of Authorities224.94 KB
May 11, 1916 - May 31, 1916
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps requests $250 to pay for incidental expenses associated with the administration of the Carlisle Indian School. He also explains how funds requested from May 11 were spent.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Request for Funds for Incidental Expenses and Explanation of Authorities300.31 KB
May 12 - 25, 1916
These files include correspondence regarding a request of Juan Herrera to have his sister Josephine Herrera, who was attending public school in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, enroll in the Carlisle School. Permission was denied as a result her…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment for Josephine Herrera284.13 KB
May 15, 1916
Cover letter from Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells regarding a circular and announcement advertising a military training camp for boys in New York to Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps.
Based on related…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Cooperation with Military Training Camp180.27 KB
May 22, 1916
J. H. Dortch inquires of Oscar H. Lipps if the Carlisle Indian School Library has a copy of the Indian Population in the United States and Alaska for 1910.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Library
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Office Inquiry Regarding School Library Holdings88.13 KB
May 29, 1916 - June 22, 1916
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by William Obern to have his two sons, Luke and Lawrence, sent home on vacation.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Vacation Request for Luke and Lawrence Obern713.09 KB