These materials include correspondence regarding a request by John McInnis to be released from the Carlisle Indian School. McInnis wished to work at his trade as a shoe and harness maker to support his mother and brother.
Friedman, Moses
November 11, 1911 - January 16, 1912
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
November 23 - December 28, 1911
This document contains correspondence concerning the conditions and progress of Carlisle students who had been sent to the Monto Alto Sanitarium in Pennsylvania for tuberculosis treatment.
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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
November 24, 1911 - December 12, 1911
Supervisor in Charge of Indian Schools H. B. Peairs requests that the Indian School superintendents send him a list of all vacant school positions and salaries because he has received complaints that it is difficult to fill them. Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman informs Peairs that he has no issues filling open positions.…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
November 27, 1911 - December 2, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding an inquiry into the arrival of Stella Ellis and Ruth Moore at Carlisle. Both students arrived shortly thereafter.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
December 6 - December 22, 1911
Daniel W. White, the Department of the Interior Eye and Trachoma Expert, asks Carlisle Indian School Surgeon in Charge Dr. A. R. Allen to request, through Superintendent Friedman, to send White to Carlisle after the holidays. Allen forwards White's letter to Friedman. Friedman requests that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs send White to the…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
December 12, 1911 - January 6, 1912
This material includes information regarding a noncompetitive engineer examination for Maxie Luce.
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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
December 16, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding the enrollment of students from the Five Civilized Tribes. Anna Melton inquired about the expenses she had incurred and various discrepancies in how students are charged.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
March 12, 1912 - December 16, 1912
Superintendent Moses Friedman tells the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that he believes that Indian school superintendents should not offer positions to other schools' employees and then revoke their offers after the employees accept. Friedman forwards correspondence in which this happened to two of his employees, Frank J. Veith and Frances M.…
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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
December 18, 1911 - December 30, 1911
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman encloses three claim vouchers for approval. The vouchers are from the B. F. Sturtevant Company, Alfredy Lowry & Bro., and D. Klein & Bro. Makers of Army and Navy Uniforms.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
December 20, 1911
This is a monthly report for filled out by the Carlisle Indian School administration for the Department of the Interior. It is for the month of November, 1911, and includes ratings on a number of topics including the physical plant, cleanliness, truancy, moral conditions, and scholarship. The form is signed by Superintendent Moses…
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Reports
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
January 4 - February 1, 1912
These materials include correspondence, a supplies list, and a survey of unserviceable materials at the Carlisle Indian School. Some of the condemned materials were approved for sale on the open market.
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Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
January 5, 1912
Correspondence between Robert G. Valentine, Commissioner of Indian Affairs and Moses Friedman regarding the previous Carlisle Indian School Annual Report. Valentine compliments Friedman on the quality of the printing and design as well as the analysis of the outing system.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
January 5 - 16, 1912
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to return home Tillie Catfish.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
January 7, 1912 - June 14, 1912
These materials include correspondence and financial documents related to the re-enrollment and disposition of funds of Peter Jackson. There were disputes over how Jackson's earnings and annuities should be paid out.
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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
January 15 - August 31, 1912
These materials include correspondence, an excerpt from an inspection report, and memoranda concerning staff organization and salary changes at the Carlisle Indian School. After an inspection by Charles F. Peirce, the salaries of certain employees were frozen and readjusted, and the organizational hierarchy of the school was revised.
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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
January 15, 1912
These materials include an inspection report of Charles F. Peirce, Supervisor of Indian Schools, on the Carlisle Indian School in early 1912, as well as correspondence regarding the reports. Peirce makes a number of recommendations, in particular regarding the business and telegraph departments, and provides an overview of the schools various…
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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
January 20, 1912
These materials include correspondence regarding students' heritage. Specifically, officials sought information on students' blood quantum, as changing policy barred the enrollment of students considered to have less than one-fourth degree Indian blood. Also included are total enrollment statistics for the beginning of 1912.
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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
January 22-25, 1912
These materials includes correspondence regarding students who were sent to the Mount Alto Sanitarium in Pennsylvania to recover from tuberculosis.
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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
January 23, 1912 - March 6, 1912
These materials include an excerpt of Charles F. Peirce's inspection report of January 1912, and Superintendent Moses Friedman's responses to his recommendations. Friedman rejected many of Peirce's recommendations regarding the chain of authority and command at the school. Other recommendations, focused on industrial curricula and student…
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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
February 2, 1912
These materials include correspondence regarding a miscommunication regarding the role of Nora McFarland, the sister of Francis McFarland, as an interpreter.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
February 23 - March 8, 1912
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman acknowledges receipt of authority approved for $100 for "Purchase and Transportation Indian Supplies, 1912" and requests authority for a modification of 8597. The initial request and approval are attached for "Purchase and Transportation Indian Supplies, 1912."
Assistant…
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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
February 24, 1912 - April 6, 1912
These materials include correspondence, financial documents, and legal documents regarding a request by Carlisle Superintendent Moses Friedman to give financial power of attorney to the school's financial clerk during Friedman's absences. The request was denied.
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Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
February 26, 1912
These materials include correspondence regarding an inquiry by C. F. Hauke, the Second Assistant in the Office of Indian Affairs, into the work of Elizabeth Fish. Hauke was informed that the only Fish from the Carlisle Indian School was attending the Holy Cross Academy.
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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
March 11, 1912 - June 6, 1912
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Joseph Jocks to re-enroll at the Carlisle Indian School to complete is original period of enrollment after being sent home due to a change in policy. Jocks request was granted.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
March 13 - 19, 1912
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from W. H. Lyons to have his daughter Rosa Lyons, a student at the Carlisle Indian School, to visit him in Washington D. C.
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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration