World Cotton Centennial (New Orleans, 1884)

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Excerpt from Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1885
1885

An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending 1885, containing the annual report of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The report includes a school population table as well as discussions of industry, academic work, dormitory expansions, and sanitary…

Format:
Book
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Request for Information on a Display for New Orleans
July 23, 1884

Richard Henry Pratt requests information from the Indian Affairs Office regarding an exhibit for New Orleans. Pratt mentions that Spencer Fullerton Baird of the Smithsonian Institute has mentioned building a display in conjunction with the Carlisle Indian School as well as an inquiry from General Eaton.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Proposal for Display at the Government Exhibition in New Orleans
July 31 - August 1, 1884

Alfred John Standing provides a copy of his letter to the Commissioner of the Patent Office Benjamin Butterworth to the Bureau of Indian Affairs regarding a potential Carlisle Indian School exhibit at the Government Exhibition in New Orleans. Standing provides an estimate of $2500 if the school is attend along with students, a teacher, and the…

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request of the French Government for Part of Exhibit
May 30 - June 8, 1885

Lyndon A. Smith requests from Richard Henry Pratt part of the Carlisle Indian School Exhibit at the Government Exhibition in New Orleans due to a request by the French Government. Pratt informs the Bureau of Indian Affairs that while he was planning on setting up the exhibit at Carlisle for visitors but that nothing in exhibit cannot be…

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Bureau of Indian Affairs Endorses Plan to Donate Exhibit to French
June 5, 1885

John D. C. Atkins, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, refers to the letter from Richard Henry Pratt regarding donating parts or the whole of the Carlisle Indian School exhibit at the Government Exhibition in New Orleans to the French Government in a letter to the Secretary of the Interior.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Inability to Add to Exhibits Currently in Washington D.C.
June 21, 1888

Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding an upcoming exhibit in Cincinnati. He notes that Carlisle cannot add to the exhibits currently in Washington D.C. at the Office of Indian Affairs and Senate Committee Room on short notice with the exception of some photographs of which he includes various size frames…

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration