These materials include correspondence regarding a letter written by Pascal Sherman, who was being sent to St. Martin's College in Lacey, Washington by Carlisle Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps.
Sells, Cato
June 5 - 9, 1915
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
June 17-24, 1915
This document contains correspondence concerning an arrangement with the General Electric Company to take four apprentices from Carlisle to work in the electrical department.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
July 2, 1915 - December 4, 1915
Newly-hired Carlisle Indian School Football Coach Victor M. Kelley writes to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells regarding what his goals for the team should be and asks if he would like to travel from Arizona to California to have a meeting. Sells informs Kelley that he is coming to California and would like to see him.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
August 19 - October 2, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to enroll Henry J. Flood at Carlisle in order for Flood to attend Conway Hall or Dickinson College.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
September 8-13, 1915
This material includes correspondence between Carlisle graduate A. H. Nash and Commissioner Cato Sells. Nash and The American Art Works had created a daily-date calendar which he sent to the largest Indian Schools, including Carlisle.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 1, 1915 - November 23, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding the church attendance of Benjamin Black Elk while on outing. Upon receiving an answer to his inquiry, William H. Ketcham, the Director of Catholic Indian Missions, objected to the placing of pupils in homes where they were unable to attend Mass regularly.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
January 2 - 20, 1916
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Pablo Herrera for the enrollment of his younger brother William Herrera at Carlisle. According to the school, Herrera was denied admission due to having access to a similar school nearby his home.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
January 3 - 10, 1916
These materials include correspondence regarding a plan of Stanley R. Yarnell, of the Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to admit Mexican students to the Carlisle Indian School.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
January 21 - March 27, 1916
This document contains correspondence regarding a $20 mileage book, which former Superintendent Moses Friedman purchased from the Cumberland Valley Railroad and charged to the Athletic Association. After careful discussion about the legitimacy of the purchase, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells authorizes current Superintendent O. H.…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
January 21, 1916 - February 3, 1916
This document contains correspondence between Joseph A. Shooter and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merritt concerning the former's desire to use his student funds to build a house.
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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
January 22 - February 7, 1916
Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry A. D. Melvin informs Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells that when Dr. F. I. Winant tested Carlisle's cattle herd for tuberculosis in January of 1916, 34 were found to be healthy and 2 were found to be "suspicious."
Sells tells Carlisle Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps to slaughter the 7 infected…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
February 7 - March 13, 1916
Supervisor of Schools H. B. Peairs provides a report on Carlisle's food, dining room, clothing, floors, rooms and decoration, and physical training. Based on his report, Peairs makes a series of recommendations based on his report to Carlisle Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps. Lipps forwards it to various Carlisle employees and endorses the…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
February 7- December 31, 1916
These materials include correspondence, ledger pages, inspection reports, and government forms regarding multiple health topics connected to the Carlisle Indian School. Included is an Inspection Report of H. B. Peairs for February 1916, Physician's Semiannual Reports for the first and second halves of 1916, statistical reports of diseases for…
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Ledgers, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Reports
Topics:
Student Illness, Inspection of the School, Discipline - General, Buildings and Grounds - General Descriptions, Athletic Program Administration, School Library, Student Nursing Training, Industrial Training - General, School Farms - Animals and Livestock, Outing Program – Overview/Statistics/Success of, Student Living Conditions
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National Archives and Records Administration
February 7 - August 26, 1916
Supervisor of Schools H. B. Peairs' report on the Academic and Industrial Departments at Carlisle focuses on methods of instruction (i.e. too much written work), attendance, industrial department trades, outings of trade students, agriculture, domestic departments (cooking, sewing, laundering, home training and nursing), religious organizations…
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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
February 7 - March 13, 1916
Supervisor of Schools H. B. Peairs writes an Inspection Report of the Carlisle Indian School. He calls attention to the most important needs of the school, which he deems to be the fire escapes, small boys building annex, lockers, hospital porches, and establishing quarters for married employees.
Assistant Commissioner of Indian…
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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
February 8, 1916 - March 4, 1916
These materials include correspondence regarding a possible lapse in federal appropriations for the Carlisle Indian School. School Supervisor Oscar Hiram Lipps suggests to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that the Carlisle Indian School could be closed, relocated to Fort Harrison in Montana, or turned into an aviation or manufacturing…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
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.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
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 Dudley Field Malone vouches for Anspacher. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
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 farming knowledge.
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Blueprints/Architectural Drawings, Letters/Correspondence, Maps
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National Archives and Records Administration
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 correspondence this is the Fort Terry Training Camp.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
August 1, 1916 - September 21, 1916
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to by Congressman Charles D. Carter to enroll Herbert S. Burgevin in the Carlisle Indian School. Burgevin was permitted to enroll under the condition that his traveling expenses and tuition be paid.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
September 9, 1916 - January 22, 1918
This document contains correspondence about new policies encouraging vocational nursing training for female students in Indian schools. Included is an extensive pamplet from the professional nursing training program at Fort Dearborn Hospital, Circular letters ordering the transfer of all students interested in nursing training to the Carlisle…
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Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
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National Archives and Records Administration
September 22 - October 4, 1916
These materials include correspondence regarding the enrollment of Pablo Molino in Carlisle for additional training as a printer.
Note: Molino is referred to as Pablo Moreno and Pablo Moleno in these materials.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 19, 1916 - November 3, 1916
These materials include correspondence regarding the income students made in the fiscal year 1915-1916 on the outing system, and the distinction between outing program income and income made through the industrial departments.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
December 21 - 26, 1916
These materials include correspondence regarding holiday greetings between a group students to Cato Sells along with Sells reply.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration