{"id":401,"date":"2013-08-06T14:05:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T14:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/?p=401"},"modified":"2013-08-09T01:12:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T01:12:53","slug":"401","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/2013\/08\/06\/401\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlisle Indian Industrial School records digitized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: Tahoma;font-size: small\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/carlisleindian.dickinson.edu\/sites\/all\/files\/carlisleindian-header.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"306\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: Tahoma;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif\">With support from an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Digital Humanities grant, and from the College\u2019s Research and Development Committee, Jim Gerencser (College Archivist), Susan Rose (Professor of Sociol<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: black;font-family: Tahoma;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif\">ogy, Director Community Studies Center), and Malinda Triller Doran (Special Collections Librarian)\u00a0have spent this summer working with a team of four interns to\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif\">digitize<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif\"> materials relating to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carlisle_Indian_Industrial_School\" target=\"_blank\">Carlisle Indian Industrial School<\/a> held at the National Archives in Washington, DC. In the past two months the three undergraduate interns, along with Kacee Cooke (Friends of the Library Intern), <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif\">have scanned 2101 student files, comprising roughly 18,200 page images. In addition, Pierce Bounds photographed <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif\">twelve bound ledge<\/span><span style=\"color: #1f497d;font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif\">r<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif\">s, totaling roughly 2000 pages: &#8220;Registers of Pupils (1890-1906),&#8221; &#8220;Conse<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: black;font-family: Tahoma;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif\">cutive Record of Pupils Enrolled (1905-1918),&#8221; &#8220;Attendance Books (1884-1891),&#8221; &#8220;Enrollment Status Book (1898-1902),&#8221; &#8220;Data Concerning Former Students (1898),&#8221; &#8220;Registers of Outings (1881-1887, 1912-1918),&#8221; and &#8220;Register of Visitors (1909-1917).&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif\"><br \/>\nAlong with the materials from the National Archives, the<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif\"> interns scanned items from the college&#8217;s special collections, <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif\">which include 20 letters written between Richard Henry Pratt and Dr. Cornelius Rea Agnew, 6 commencement programs and invitations, and 3 souvenir programs. At this time, at least half of the student files from the National Archives records\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif\">have been placed online. To learn more about the pro<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: black;font-family: Tahoma;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif\">ject and the materials uploaded, check out the website: <a title=\"CIIS Cover Page\" href=\"http:\/\/carlisleindian.dickinson.edu\/\">http:\/\/carlisleindian.dickinson.edu\/<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Matthew J. Kochis (kochism@dickinson.edu)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With support from an Andrew W. 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