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.
School Employees - General
Use when referring to issues regarding all employees or regarding an unspecified group of employees.
January 15 - August 31, 1912
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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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February 19, 1913
Superintendent Moses Friedman informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that Georgie H. Kelly and Edith W Kinkead have resigned. He recommends that, in the future, employees who will stay at the school on a more permanent basis be hired.
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Letters/Correspondence
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July 19, 1913
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman forwards a Requisition for Funds for the first quarter of 1914 and asks that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs immediately pays the salaries of Friedman's employees.
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February 28, 1914 - March 13, 1914
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman forwards employee payroll from the month of February to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt forwards the same payroll to Carlisle Indian School Supervisor in Charge Oscar H. Lipps to make corrections regarding how three employees are…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
May 12, 1914 - July 6, 1914
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps provides a list of employees that do not have quarters at the school and therefore have to rent or own their own living spaces in the town of Carlisle. He informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that many of these employees cannot afford their living expenses on their current…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
May 1, 1915
These materials include an inspection report of J. H. Dortch for his visit to the Carlisle Indian School. His report includes discussions of new staff, the school's physical plant and curriculum, and continued disciplinary changes being enacted under Superintendent Oscar Hiram Lipps.
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Reports
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History of the Carlisle Indian School, School Employees - General, Inspection of the School, Discipline - General, Student Living Conditions, Buildings and Grounds - General Descriptions, School Curriculum, Industrial Training - General, Tobacco Use at the School, Interactions with Local Population, Inspection Reports
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May 20-29, 1915
These materials include a report and correspondence regarding H. B. Peairs' investigation of discipline at the Carlisle Indian School in May, 1915. The report notes numerous improvements that were made and should be pursued. Superintendent Oscar Hiram Lipps addresses the report's recommendations.
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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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July 3, 1917 - July 21, 1917
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent John Francis Jr. acknowledges receipt of an Allotment of Funds and asks the Commissioner of Indian Affairs if a $5,000 fund for increased employee compensation has to be included in the per capita cost per pupil.
Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt tells Francis not to include the fund in the…
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Letters/Correspondence
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December 13-19, 1917
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent John Francis Jr. requests that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs appropriates $108 from the "Indian Moneys Proceeds Labor, Carlisle School" account to pay for a 10% raise for three employees.
The next day Francis Jr. requests a $500 allotment from the "Miscellaneous Receipts, Class 4" account…
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August 18, 1918 - September 3, 1918
J. F. Carr requests to be appointed the Superintendent of Brick and Tile Work at the Carlisle Indian School.
Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informs Carr that the school has been transferred from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Department of War, so if Carr wants an appointment, he should write to the Secretary…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration