Student file of Monroe Abrams, a member of the Seneca Nation, who entered the school on February 3, 1918, and departed on August 1, 1918. The file contains an application for enrollment, student information cards, certificates of promotion, and correspondence related to his departure from Carlisle when the school closed in 1918.
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These materials include legal documents and correspondence regarding charges filed against Superintendent Moses Friedman after an inspection and investigation of the Carlisle Indian School. Included in the documents are the official charges against Friedman, his answers to those charges, correspondence regarding the charges, and the…
The typed transcript of George Abrams' testimony before the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs. At the time Abrams was the gardener at Carlisle.
In his testimony Abrams explains the size and crop of the garden he cares for and explains how male students are assigned to him.
In the published version of this testimony…
These materials include correspondence regarding requests from numerous employees for salary increases and on-campus housing provisions. During the 1914 Congressional Investigation, investigator Edward Linnen noted the need for salary increases for many employees, and for more on-campus housing to counter the high cost-of-living for employees…