After 1930

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This photograph depicts the school cemetery after it was relocated in 1927. It was taken in conjunction with a project to compile the names of those buried. The report was prepared by Paul Adams Yates, James Ramsay Humer, and William Bentz Carroll.

In "The Carlisle Indian School Cemetery: A List of Those Buried There," this photograph is…

This photograph depicts the school cemetery after it was relocated in 1927. It was taken in conjunction with a project to compile the names of those buried. The report was prepared by Paul Adams Yates, James Ramsay Humer, and William Bentz Carroll.

In "The Carlisle Indian School Cemetery: A List of Those Buried There," this photograph is…

This photograph depicts the school cemetery after it was relocated in 1927. It was taken in conjunction with a project to compile the names of those buried. The report was prepared by Paul Adams Yates, James Ramsay Humer, and William Bentz Carroll.

In "The Carlisle Indian School Cemetery: A List of Those Buried There," this photograph is…

This photograph depicts the school cemetery after it was relocated in 1927. It was taken in conjunction with a project to compile the names of those buried. The report was prepared by Paul Adams Yates, James Ramsay Humer, and William Bentz Carroll.

In "The Carlisle Indian School Cemetery: A List of Those Buried There," this photograph is…

The headline reads: Honorary Greenway Referee

The caption reads: The stocky man ictured yeing the stop-watch once was referred to by a king as "the greatest athlete the world has ever known". Previously, one of America's outstanding gridiron coaches called him "the greatest football player that ever lived". He is…

The caption reads: DISTRICT SCHOOLBOYS HONORED - Three football playing teen-agers from Washington were among the many football stars honored at last night's Touchdown Club banquet at the Hotel Statler, receiving their awards from Jim Thorpe, sports star of another era. Left to right they were: Leo Speros, Wilson High School back;…

A photograph from around 1990 of several rows of headstones belonging to Carlisle Indian School students in the School cemetery.

A photograph from around 1990 of several rows of headstones belonging to Carlisle Indian School students in the School cemetery. 

This folder contains documents related to Charles E. Dagenett's time in the Indian Service as Supervisor of Indian Employment. Dagenett enrolled at Carlisle in 1887 and graduated in 1891. Though he did work on and off in the Service in the 1891-1905 period, this folder only covers Dagenett's employment from 1905 onwards, (see his Service Record…

This folder contains documents related to James Riley Wheelock's employment and applications for employment in the Indian Service. It covers the second period of his employment at the Sherman Institute, Carlisle Indian School, and Genoa Indian School from 1914-1920. Then it touches on Wheelock's repeated attempts to be reinstated as a band…

This folder has two sets of material. The first half of the folder includes a few papers related to research inquiries into Carlos Montezuma's Indian Service employment records. The second half includes an exchange of letters between William Lightfoot Visscher and Secretary of the Interior Franklin Lane about letters that Montezuma had sent to…

Kish Hawkins worked very briefly as Assistant Disciplinarian at Carlisle until June 9, 1891 (having started in February of 1891). Then he worked at the Cheyenne and Arapaho school until 1898. The rest of his government service was from 1912-1919 and 1921-1933 in various positions at the Shawnee School and Cheyenne & Arapaho Agency. His…

These materials include documents, correspondence, and legal documents related to a number of bequests and inheritances made to the Carlisle Indian School. The correspondence largely deals with questions of whether and how such bequests should be accepted, what they could be used for, and how they should be reallocated once the Carlisle Indian…

These materials include correspondence, official records, and other documents related to the closure of the Carlisle Indian School in 1918. Discussed topics include the transfer of the land from the Department of the Interior to the Department of War, the transfer of property to other Indian schools, and the discharge and transfer of students…

This material is a collection of correspondence received by the Office of Indian Affairs between 1918 and 1966, all related to the Carlisle Indian School. As the Carlisle Indian School closed in 1918, the majority of these letters are either requesting information about the school and its graduates, or inquiring to see if the school is still…

Personnel file of Oscar Hiram Lipps, who served as Superintendent of the Carlisle Indian School from July 1, 1915 to March 31, 1917. Lipps also was temporarily the Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School from February 1914 to June 1915, after Moses Friedman was suspended from duty. Lipps worked in the Department of the Interior for…