1914

Displaying 76 - 100 of 183 records
Request to Install a Sound System and Educational Motion Pictures
April 15, 1914 - May 27, 1914

The Musolaphone Corporation writes to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells to invite him to a presentation of their "sound transmission" equipment and "educational talking pictures." Musolaphone informs Sells that they will be holding a voting contest of the schools in Carlisle, and the winner will receive a free installation of their…

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Books and Pamphlets, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Arnold Holliday Trip to Washington D. C.
April 21, 1914

These materials include correspondence regarding a trip for Arnold Holliday to visit his uncle Henry Holliday in Washington D. C.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Request to Return Francis Obern
April 24 - 25, 1914

These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to return Francis Obern to his home from Carlisle.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Request for Funds for the 1914 Fourth Quarter
May 2, 1914

Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps requests funds from the Department of the Interior for the fourth quarter of 1914.

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Financial Documents
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Money Owed to John J. Campbell
May 3, 1914 - July 3, 1914

These materials include correspondence concerning the transfer of money in John J. Campbell's account to the Sisseton Indian School in Sisseton, South Dakota. 

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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Correspondence Regarding 1914 Congressional Investigation
May 4, 1914 - October 25, 1918

These materials include correspondence and legal documents regarding the 1914 internal and Congressional investigations into Superintendent Moses Friedman and Chief Clerk Siceni J. Nori of the Carlisle Indian School. Included is copied and original correspondence regarding the resignation of Friedman and Nori, legal discussions regarding…

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Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Attempt to Quarter or Give Raises to Employees who Live Off-Campus
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
Request for Authorization to Pay Students for Summer Work on School Farm
May 13, 1914

This material includes documents regarding Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps' request for authorization to pay students to work on the farm over the summer.

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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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Superintendent is a Civil Service Position
May 20-28, 1914

State Normal School History and Social Service Professor S. H. Dodson applies for the Superintendency at the Carlisle Indian School. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informs Dodson that the position is only open to the executive civil service, so he is not eligible.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Fund Request for Two Accounts Granted
May 21-22, 1914

Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that the "Indian Moneys Proceeds Labor" and "Indian School Transportation" accounts are exhausted and requests funds to fill these accounts. 

Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt informs Lipps that the funds are being issued…

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Request to Spend $100 for General School Purposes
May 22, 1914

Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests authority from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to spend $100.00 "for general school purposes."

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Financial Documents
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Sells Requests Carlisle Print Form Letters for Citizenship Essay Contest
May 25, 1914

Cato Sells requests the Carlisle Indian School print various form letters for use in the Citizenship Essay Contest. Sells includes one of the form letters.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Request to Send Isabel Bourbonnais to New Home
May 26, 1914 - June 10, 1914

Aaron Bourbonnais requests that his daughter, Isabel Bourbonnais, be sent to his new home in New Mexico rather than their previous home in Oklahoma.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Civil Service Requirement for Teacher and Principal Positions
May 27-29, 1914

United States Senator Miles Poindexter forwards high school principal Bruce Bartholomew's application for an appointment to the Carlisle Indian School to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells. Sells informs Poindexter that principal and teacher positions are executive civil service positions, and that Bartholomew would have to apply through…

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Correspondence Regarding an Unpaid Claim allegedly Owed to Gettysburg & Harrisburg Railway Co.
May 27 - October 2, 1914

Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps encloses correspondence involving the school, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Gettysburg & Harrisburg Railway Company to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Second Assistant Commissioner C. F. Hauke then forwards the enclosed correspondence, which revolves around the…

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Request for Information to be Sent to Jackson Moore
May 29, 1914 - June 5, 1914

These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Congressman Carter D. Moore to send material concerning the Carlisle Indian School to Jackson Moore.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Complaint of Refused Applications from the Hogansburg Industrial School
June 3-12, 1914

C. E. Cahel complains to the Bureau of Indian Affairs that students attending the Hogansburg Indian School were being prevented from applying to the Carlisle Indian School. Cahel claims that Hogansburg school officials refused to sign students' application forms for Carlisle.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Large Percentage of Students Afflicted with Trachoma
June 4-22, 1914

Supervisor in Charge Oscar H. Lipps informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that The Report of the Joint Congressional Investigating Committee found that a "large percentage" of the student body have trachoma. Lipps requests that the Commissioner sends one of his special trachoma physicians to the school. 

Second Assistant…

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Request to Expend Funds from Indian Moneys, Proceeds of Labor Account
June 4, 1914 - June 25, 1914

Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests $100 for Indian Moneys, Proceeds of Labor. Lipps also forwards how he spent that $100 and requests another $100 under authority 56002.

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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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Request for Funds for 1914 Fourth Quarter
June 15-24, 1914

Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests funds for the fourth quarter of 1914. He later requests that that the request for $1,000 for "Industrial Work and Care of Timber, 1914, (Field Matrons)" be removed.

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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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Request to Return Home Melissa Anderson
June 15 - August 31, 1914

These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Elvira Anderson to have her daughter, Melissa Anderson, returned home.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Request for 1914 Investigation Report by W. F. Graham
June 22-27, 1914

These materials include a request by W. F. Graham for a copy of the final report of the 1914 Congressional Investigation into the Carlisle Indian School.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Resolutions from YMCA Middle Atlantic Student Conference
June 23-29, 1914

These materials include correspondence and a resolution regarding the YMCA Middle Atlantic Student Conference of 1914. A delegation of four Carlisle Indian School students attended the conference, and adopted resolutions "for the betterment, elevating and promoting Christian fellowship of the Indian Race."

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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
Request for 1914 Investigation Report by Albert N. Stecher
June 24, 1914

These materials include a request by Albert N. Stecher for a copy of the final report of the 1914 Congressional Investigation into the Carlisle Indian School.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Request for Funds for Transportation
June 24, 1914

Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps requests $500 for School Transportation. Second Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs C. F. Hauke informs Lipps that $500 has been transferred to his account.

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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration