These materials include correspondence containing a request from Fred Skenandore, a former student, regarding the status of the Carlisle Indian School. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informed Skenandore that the school had been closed, but that the Haskell Institute was still operating as usual.
1918
September 11, 1918 - October 17, 1918
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
September 11- 17, 1918
These materials include correspondence concerning the transfer of funds from students at Carlisle who were transferred to the Chilocco Indian School upon the closure of Carlisle in 1918.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 8-19, 1918
These materials include a request from George Cushing to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells, asking for permission to take the students' course in automobile manufacturing at the Ford Motor Company factory in Detroit, Michigan. Cushing's request is denied, due to his current work in shipbuilding at the Hog Island ship yards in…
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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
October 17, 1918 - May 19, 1919
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Alice E. Patterson to have her two sons Robert and Burnell transferred to another Indian School upon the close of Carlisle. Also included is correspondence between R. A. Cochran, Superintendent of the Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School, and E. B. Meritt regarding the…
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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
October 20, 1918 - November 6, 1918
This material includes correspondence between Sadie Ingalls Feder and Assistant Commisioner E. B. Merritt concerning former student Henry Ingalls McClellan and his desire to be drafted to the Army.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 21, 1918 - May 14, 1920
This material includes correspondence between Corporal Frank J. Mitchell, his wife, and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merrit concerning Mitchell's marriage.
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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
November 15, 1918 - December 4, 1918
These materials include a inquiry by Loren Jackson on the whereabouts of his son Jacob Jackson following the close of the Carlisle School. Jackson was informed his son had returned to his outing home under S. W. McKeehan in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
November 20 - December 3, 1918
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Isaac Willis about ending his enlistment in the United States Navy early and entering college.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
November 23, 1918 - June 10, 1938
This material includes correspondence between former student Leon A. Miller and John Collier, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Miller was attempting to start post-graduate work at a local university and was requesting his school records. Miller had also hoped to obtain a diploma for his work at Carlisle, as well as the Ford Motor Company.…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
November 29, 1918 - April 19, 1966
This material is a collection of correspondence received by the Office of Indian Affairs between 1918 and 1966, all related to the Carlisle Indian School. As the Carlisle Indian School closed in 1918, the majority of these letters are either requesting information about the school and its graduates, or inquiring to see if the school is still…
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Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines
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National Archives and Records Administration
November 30, 1918 - February 26, 1919
These materials include correspondence regarding the health of Clara Shunion. Shunion stayed in Pennsylvania on outing following the close of the Carlisle School, and developed tuberculous. After residing for some time in the Bryn Mawr Hospital, the Osteopathic Hospital of Philadelphia, and the home of former outing patron Elizabeth D. Edge,…
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
December 4, 1918
These materials include correspondence pertaining to a request by the Arthur C. Bachmeyer, Commanding Officer of U.S. Army General Hospital 31, for records relating to the land of the former Carlisle Indian School. Those records, not included here, were forwarded by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
December 30, 1918 - January 19, 1919
These materials include correspondence regarding unclaimed letters sent to the outing home of patron Virginia Allen, where former student Nellie Thompson remained following the closing of the Carlisle Indian School.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration