William A. Mercer provides an estimate for the 1907 fiscal year in addition to providing an overview of the physical plant and the need for various buildings.
Outing Program – Overview/Statistics/Success of
August 18, 1905
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
January 3, 1907
William Mercer submits the Monthly School Report of the Carlisle Indian School for December 1906.
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Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
February 21, 1907
Monthly report of the Carlisle Indian School for the month of January 1907.
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Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
March 4, 1907
William Mercer submits the Monthly School Report of the Carlisle Indian School for February 1907.
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Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 4, 1907
William Mercer submits the Monthly School Report of the Carlisle Indian School for March 1907.
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Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
February 11, 1908
Richard Henry Pratt sends the draft of his pamphlet "The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, PA. Its Origin, Progress, and the Difficulties Surmounted" to William Miller of the Hamilton Library Assocation in Carlisle. Pratt notes that his purpose in writing the pamphlet is due to his feeling that government is becoming opposed to non-…
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Books and Pamphlets, Letters/Correspondence
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Cumberland County Historical Society
May 16, 1908
These materials include an inspection report performed by Superintendent of Indian Schools Estelle Reel in May, 1906. Reel's report mentions the buildings and grounds (including the new hospital), improvements since the previous visit, student oratory work, and student artwork.
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Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
July 31, 1909 - August 6, 1909
These materials include correspondence and a draft of Superintendent Friedman's 30th Annual Report for the Carlisle Indian School, reflecting the period ending July 31, 1909. Friedman forwarded the draft to a Bureau official, along with information on how to have news published in Carlisle's student newspaper. The annual report includes…
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Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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History of the Carlisle Indian School, Printing Department, BIA Policy and Policy Changes, Carlisle Indian School Policy and Policy Changes, Discipline - General, Student Illness, Industrial Training - General, Building Repairs and Expansions, School Farms - Statistics, Outing Program – Overview/Statistics/Success of, School Museum, Native Art and Industry Program, School Entertainment, Music Instruction, Enrollment Statistics, School Band Performances, Enrollment Policies
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National Archives and Records Administration
January 26, 1910
Richard Henry Pratt thanks Dr. Charles Francis Himes for his comments on his paper and his previous support from Dickinson College. Pratt comments on his work at the Carlisle Indian School and the formation of his policy at Fort Marion. Further, he details the outing program and its benefits for assimilation compared to the new policy of native…
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Letters/Correspondence
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Cumberland County Historical Society
May 6 - 31, 1910
These materials contain correspondence regarding the number of students on the outing program, and their potential competition with white workers.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
November 9, 1910
These materials contain a report detailing the number of students in the outing program, the types of trades they were engaged in, and the total amount of earnings, for the third quarter of 1910.
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Financial Documents, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
June 30, 1911
The Annual Report, U.S. Indian School, Carlisle, PA , for the year ending June 30, 1911, by M. Friedman, Superintendent, Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The annual report contains statistical information related to the school's enrollment, former students and training/industrial programs. The report also contains narrative accounts of former…
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Books and Pamphlets, Legal and Government Documents
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Cumberland County Historical Society
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.
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Letters/Correspondence
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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
July 18 - 23, 1912
These materials contain correspondence referencing positive experiences of a patron and student on the outing system at Carlisle.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
August 27 - September 5, 1912
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs returns his report on the statistics of Indian students on outing and on Indians employed by the Government because it was unfinished when Friedman initially sent it to the Commissioner. Second Assistant Commissioner C. F. Hauke declines…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
February 14, 1914
These materials include a draft and final letter to Oscar Hiram Lipps, Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School, regarding a new form, Form 5-249, for method reporting. The letter also explains new reporting procedures regarding enrollment and outing students.
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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
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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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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 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
December 2, 1916
These materials include correspondence responding to a request for data comparing the costs of pupils who remain at the school versus those who are outing. Superintendent Lipps includes a copy of the July 1916 Carlisle Arrow (Vol. 13, No. 1) that includes a statistical Outing Report for the fiscal year ending June 1916.
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Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines
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National Archives and Records Administration
December 18, 1917 - January 7, 1918
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent John Francis Jr. writes to the Commissioner of the Indian Affairs to share an idea he has in which World War I orphans from France and Belgium could be brought to the school and sent on outing. Francis argues that many of his students do not want to go to farms on outing anymore because manufacturing pays…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration