Letters received by the Office of Education, Alaska Division
Subtitle: records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
Series: Indigenous Peoples: North America; Indigenous Peoples: North America
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1878
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 39
Subjects: Archives; Indians of North America; Education; Correspondence; United States. Bureau of Education. Alaska Division; United States; United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs
Description: The series consists of almost 21 linear feet of letters and other correspondence received by the Commissioners of Education concerning education in Alaska from January 1, 1878, to 1916. There are letters, telegrams, reports, lists, receipts, vouchers, and other papers relating to the administration of the Alaskan school system and the reindeer herding project. There are also copies of newspaper and magazine articles, pamphlets, advertisements for school supplies, samples of blank forms, copies of contracts and agreements, plans for construction of buildings and proposed sites for schools, job applications and teaching certificates of teachers, transcripts of meetings, petitions requesting establishment of schools, and other miscellaneous papers.
Notes: Date range of documents: 1878-1916.

Reproduction of the originals from the National Archives (United States).