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Visual Arts

Apparelled In His White Alb, Saint Remus Gossypium Hirsutum, Stoic Before His Sanguine Colored Buskins

2020

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A painting depicting the central figure of "Saint Remus," standing in a bright, sunny field surrounded by flora and fauna. Remus, depicted as an older Black man, stands gazing at the viewer, wearing all white and with a white-painted face. His garments…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.104
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Applications for and Records Relating to Restoration of Property — Wilmington (Treasury Department Agent and War Department Financial Agent)

Date not recorded

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The single volume of applications for and records relating to restoration of property, September 1865–May 1866 (274), is arranged chronologically. The volume also contains complaints relating to the restoration of property (September 1865).

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1909, File 4.54.3
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Applications for Bounties — Vicksburg (Agent for Payment of Bounties)

Date not recorded

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Unbound applications for bounties, September 1868–March 1872, are arranged by the initial letter of the surname of the applicant.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1907, File 3.53.6
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Applications for Employment — Norfolk (Subassistant Commissioner, 1st District)

Date not recorded

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The single volume of applications for employment, March–June 1865 (344), is arranged chronologically. The volume also contains receipts for rent and memorandums relating to bounties.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.69.10
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Applications for Extensions of Time on Bonds Made to the Commission on Liens — Claim Division

Date not recorded

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Unbound applications for extensions of time on bonds made to the commission of liens, 1868–69, are arranged alphabetically by initial letter of surname of applicant. These are numbered by the commission's case number in the unbound series of planters'…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1910, File 4.1.12
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Historical photographs & documents

Applications for Lease of Abandoned Plantations if Competition Not Awarded

Sept. 1863–Jan. 1864

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Cataloged as “Applications for Lease of Abandoned Plantations if Competition Not Awarded”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1907, Item 3.52.16.1
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Applications for Lease of Abandoned Plantations if Competition Not Awarded — Vicksburg (Special Agent of the Treasury Department)

Date not recorded

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Unbound applications for lease of abandoned plantations if competition not awarded, September 1863–January 1864, are arranged chronologically.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1907, File 3.52.16
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Applications for Lease of Abandoned Plantations — Vicksburg (Special Agent of the Treasury Department)

Date not recorded

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Unbound applications for lease of abandoned plantations, 1863–1865, are arranged by the initial letter of the surname of the applicant.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1907, File 3.52.15
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Applications for Rations

Apr. 1867–Apr. 1868

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Cataloged as “Applications for Rations”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, Item 5.43.14.1
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Applications for Rations — Baton Rouge (Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

Feb.–Mar. 1868

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Unbound applications for rations, February–March 1868, are arranged by initial letter of surname of applicant.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 5.6.13
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Applications for Rations for Destitutes — Columbia (Agent and Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

May–June 1867 and Feb.–April 1868

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Unbound applications for rations for destitutes, May–June 1867 and February–April 1868, are arranged chronologically.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 5.13.7
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Applications for Rations — Morganton (Subassistant Commissioner)

June–July 1867

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Unbound applications for rations, June–July 1867, are arranged chronologically.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1909, File 4.28.7
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Applications for Relief — Commissary of Subsistence

bulk Jan. 1866, May–July 1867, May 1868

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Unbound applications for relief, January 1866, May–July 1867, and May 1868, are arranged chronologically. This series consists of sworn statements of applicants indicating why they can't work and information concerning their dependents.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1900, File 3.1.10
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Applications for Relief — Goldsboro (Subassistant Commissioner)

Mar. 1865–Aug. 1867

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Unbound applications for relief, March 1865–August 1867, are arranged chronologically with undated applications at the end.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1909, File 4.12.10
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Applications of Freedmen for Rations — Other Records

Date not recorded

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Unbound applications of freedmen for rations, 1868, are arranged alphabetically by initial letter of the surname of the individual. Most of the applications are on a printed form, which gives the name of the landowner, the name of the freedman, the number…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1869, File 1.4.4
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Applications of Planters to Purchase Supplies

Mar.–June 1865

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Cataloged as “Applications of Planters to Purchase Supplies”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1907, Item 3.52.20.1
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Applications of Planters to Purchase Supplies — Vicksburg (Special Agent of the Treasury Department)

Date not recorded

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Unbound applications of planters to purchase supplies, March–June 1865, are arranged chronologically.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1907, File 3.52.20
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Slavery and Freedom Objects

Appraisal of a plantation owned by Elisha King listing 43 enslaved persons

1852

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An appraisal conducted on September 10, 1852 on a plantation owned by Elisha F. King in Bibbs County, Alabama. The appraisal is handwritten with blue ink, recorded on both sides of a single sheet of blue paper, folded in half to make four pages. Written in…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.43.4
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