A white female teacher and a female student posed seated at a piano, as if having a music lesson. A label identifies the teacher was "Mrs. Sawyer;" according to school records, Rebecca Sawyer was an assistant music teacher in 1896.
Sawyer, Rebecca J.
Richard Henry Pratt forwards assistant music teacher Rebecca J. Sawyer's application for a 30-day annual leave of absence.
Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs circular letter reporting on the music teachers at the Carlisle Indian School as well as the band leader.
Richard Henry Pratt forwards assistant music teacher Rebecca J. Sawyer's request for a 60-day leave of absence, 30 days for annual leave and 30 days to attend summer school at the Metropolitan College of Music in New York. Included is a lengthy letter from Sawyer explaining her experience.
Richard Henry Pratt forwards thirteen certificates of attendance for employees: W. Grant Thompson (disciplinarian), Emma A. Cutter (senior teacher), Florence M. Carter (teacher), Jennie P. Cochran (teacher), Carrie E. Weekley (teacher), J. W. Hendren (teacher), Fannie I. Peter (teacher), Nellie V. Robertson (teacher), Mary Bailey (assistant…
Alfred John Standing forwards a statement regarding teachers at the Carlisle Indian School.
Note: Gertrude Simmons later became known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin and Zitkala-Sa.
Richard Henry Pratt provides a list of staff and the location and number of rooms assigned for their use at the Carlisle Indian School.
Note: Gertrude Simmons later became known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin and Zitkala-Sa.
Report of Carlisle Indian School employees with a salary of over $300 and their legal residence and date of the entrance into the Indian Service as a permanent employee.
Richard Henry Pratt forwards twenty-one employees' leave of absence applications: Florence M. Carter (teacher), Mariette Wood (teacher), Jeannette L. Senseney (music teacher), Carrie E. Weekley (teacher), Jenny Ericson (sloyd teacher), O. H. Bakeless (principal teacher), Rebecca J. Sawyer (music teacher), Nellie V. Robertson (teacher), Emma A.…
Richard Henry Pratt forwards ten employees' certificates of attendance at various summer schools: Emma A. Cutter (senior teacher), Mariette Wood (teacher), Florence M. Carter (teacher), Jennie P. Cochran (teacher), Fanny G. Paull (teacher), Bessie Barclay (teacher), Rebecca J. Sawyer (teacher), Jeannette L. Senseney (teacher), W. Grant Thompson…
Cover letter of report correcting the legal residences of various employees of the Carlisle Indian School.
Richard H. Pratt forwards nineteen requests for leave of absence for several employees: Lida B. Given (matron), Sadie E. Newcomer (teacher), Jessie L. McIntire (teacher), Nellie V. Roberston (teacher), Clara L. Smith (teacher), Mariette Wood (teacher), Elmer Simon (teacher), Florence M. Carter (teacher), Fanny G. Paull (teacher), Jennie P.…
Cover letter forwarding cards covering the qualifications of the teachers at the Carlisle Indian School for the 1900 school year.
Major Richard Henry Pratt submits a report that lists new employees (Paul A. Walter and Josephine R. Walter) and those who have left the school (C. E. Dagenett, Dennison Wheelock, Carrie L. Miller, Rebecca J. Sawyer, Esther M. Dagenett, and George W. Kemp). The reports include position title, salary, date of departure, and reason for departure…
Richard H. Pratt provides a list of seventeen employees that would like to attend summer school. Pratt lists the school that they would like to attend as well as the dates.
Major Richard Henry Pratt submits a report that lists all of the employees at the school to start the 1900-1901 fiscal year (A. J. Standing, O. H. Bakeless, W. B. Beitzel, W. Grant Thompson, Dennison Wheelock, M. Burgess, A. S. Ely, W. H. Miller, Fannie I. Peter, M. S. Barr, Benjamin F. Bennett, Kate S. Bowersox, Jessie W. Cook, Mariette Wood,…
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that music teacher Rebecca J. Sawyer requests a transfer to another school.