1912
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Ellis Oberholtzer to have 70 students from the Carlisle Indian School participate in an historical pageant celebrating the 225th anniversary of the founding of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Further correspondence...
Personnel file of Nellie Robertson Denny, who served as the Clerk of the Carlisle Indian School from 1900 to 1912 and from 1914 to 1918. She also served as Outing Manager for the Carlisle Indian School from 1908 to 1912. Robertson Denny was a graduate of Carlisle's class of 1890, and was married...
Personnel file of Wallace Denny, who served as Assistant Disciplinarian of the Carlisle Indian School from sometime before 1910 until 1918. Denny was a member of Carlisle's class of 1906, and was married to Nellie Robertson Denny.
The file contains quarterly employee reports, letters of...
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to enroll Charles Edward Stuck at the Carlisle Indian School. Stuck was denied enrollment due to the policy of not admitting students who lived close to a public school. One letter indicates that Stuck's guardian had written that Stuck...
These materials include correspondence concerning the closure of the school bank account of Henry Vilcan.
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to enroll Katie Ray, a member of the Catawba Nation, in the Carlisle Indian School. Ray's request was denied because the Catawba Nation had not recently received assistance in educating its youth from the Federal Government.
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Samuel Sixkiller enroll his nephew Raymond Ross at the Carlisle Indian School. The request was denied as Ross was a member of the Cherokee Nation and not eligible to receive government assistance.
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Moses P. Kogechiwan to enroll at the Carlisle Indian School as well as letters of recommendation.
These materials include correspondence regarding requests for Henry P. Sutton to enter the Carlisle Indian School in order to take a commercial course. Sutton was initially due to his physical health but was later enrolled after paying his own transportation to the school.
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by John McInnis to be released from the Carlisle Indian School. McInnis wished to work at his trade as a shoe and harness maker to support his mother and brother.
This material includes information regarding a noncompetitive engineer examination for Maxie Luce.
These materials include correspondence, a supplies list, and a survey of unserviceable materials at the Carlisle Indian School. Some of the condemned materials were approved for sale on the open market.
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to return home Tillie Catfish.
These materials include correspondence and financial documents related to the re-enrollment and disposition of funds of Peter Jackson. There were disputes over how Jackson's earnings and annuities should be paid out.
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...
These materials include an inspection report of Charles F. Pierce, Supervisor of Indian Schools, on the Carlisle Indian School in early 1912, as well as correspondence regarding the reports. Pierce makes a number of recommendations, in particular regarding the business and telegraph departments...
These materials include correspondence regarding students' heritage. Specifically, officials sought information on students' blood quantum, as changing policy barred the enrollment of students considered to have less than one-fourth degree Indian blood. Also included are total enrollment...
This document contains reports and correspondence about eye examinations of Carlisle's students, performed in 1912. Included are statistics and lists of students in need of specific eye treatments, as well as recommendations on preventing further eye infections from spreading through the school...
These materials includes correspondence regarding students who were sent to the Mount Alto Sanitarium in Pennsylvania to recover from tuberculosis.
This document contains correspondence concerning the results of student eye examinations, performed by Dr. Daniel White in 1912. The results stated that 396 students had no eye problems, 190 had trachoma, 5 had follicular conjunctivites, and 29 had conujunctivites.
These materials include an excerpt of Charles F. Pierce's inspection report of January 1912, and Superintendent Moses Friedman's responses to his recommendations. Friedman rejected many of Pierce's recommendations regarding the chain of authority and command at the school. Other recommendations...
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Mary M. Redthunder to enroll her sisters Elizabeth and Martha in the Carlisle Indian School after receiving treatment from Dr. Fox in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
These materials include correspondence regarding a miscommunication regarding the role of Nora McFarland, the sister of Francis McFarland, as an interpreter.
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from John E. Frey to enroll his son in the Carlisle Indian School. Frey's request was denied due to the age of his son, and because he lived within easy access to public schools in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
These materials include correspondence, financial documents, and legal documents regarding a request by Carlisle Superintendent Moses Friedman to give financial power of attorney to the school's financial clerk during Friedman's absences. The request was denied.
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