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Miscellaneous Records Relating to the Issuance of Supplies to Planters

Feb.–Nov. 1868

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Cataloged as “Miscellaneous Records Relating to the Issuance of Supplies to Planters”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, Item 5.33.10.1
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Miscellaneous Records Relating to the Issuance of Supplies to Planters — Marksville (Agent and Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

Date not recorded

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Unbound miscellaneous records relating to the issuance of supplies to planters, February–November 1868, are arranged chronologically. Included are monthly reports of supplies received and issued, lists of planters receiving supplies, bonds of planters for…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 5.33.10
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Miscellaneous Records — Rice Hope Plantation

Date not recorded

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Unbound miscellaneous records, 1867–68, are arranged by type of record. The series consists of applications for rations, lists of stores received, abstracts, fuel reports, reports of persons and articles hired, and invoices of subsistence stores.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1910, File 5.46.6
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Miscellaneous Records — Rocky Mount (Assistant Superintendent)

1865-68

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Unbound miscellaneous records, 1865–68, are arranged by type of record. Included are affidavits, rosters, returns of quartermaster stores, ration returns, and bills of lading.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1909, File 4.41.6
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Miscellaneous Records (Roll 57)

1863–65

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Cataloged as “Miscellaneous Records (Roll 57)”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1907, Item 3.52.25.1
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Miscellaneous Records (Roll 58)

1863–65

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Cataloged as “Miscellaneous Records (Roll 58)”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1907, Item 3.52.25.2
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Miscellaneous Records — Russellville (Subassistant Commissioner)

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Unbound miscellaneous records, August 1866 and March–May 1868, are arranged by type of record. The records include reports of schools (March–May 1868); a monthly report of persons and articles hired (March 1868); a monthly report of operations (March…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1904, File 4.29.6
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Miscellaneous Records — Salisbury (Superintendent of the Western District)

1865–68

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Unbound miscellaneous records, 1865–68, are arranged by record type. Included are affidavits, receipts and liens upon crops, transportation orders and associated receipts, bonds, deeds, indenture reports, oaths, and school reports.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1909, File 4.42.20
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Miscellaneous Records — Sardis (Agent)

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Unbound miscellaneous records, January 1866–December 1868, are arranged by the type of record. Included in the series are reports of persons and articles hired; reports of the number of persons issued rations, clothing, and medicines; reports of prisoners;…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1907, File 3.46.4
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Miscellaneous Records — Savannah (Subassistant Commissioner)

July 1865–Apr. 1872

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Unbound miscellaneous records, July 1865–April 1872 are arranged by type or subject of record. Included are bills of lading, records relating to the distribution of corn in 1867, and records relating to the Rice Hope Plantation, the colony at Belleville,…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1903, File 3.81.14
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Miscellaneous Records — Seguin (Subassistant Commissioner)

May 1866–Feb. 1868

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Unbound miscellaneous records, May 1866–February 1868, are arranged by type of record. This series includes reports of persons and articles hired, statements, abstracts, accounts current, estimates of funds, abstracts of advances, and reports of freedmen's…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1912, File 4.40.3
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Miscellaneous Records — Selma (Subassistant Commissioner)

1856–69

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Unbound miscellaneous records, 1856–69, are arranged by type of record. The series includes labor contracts (January 1866–March 1869), lists of Bureau stores received and transferred (June–September 1865), reports of registration of white and black voters…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1900, File 4.25.11
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Miscellaneous Records — Series 11: Miscellaneous Records

1865–69

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Cataloged as “Miscellaneous Records”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1027, File 11.1
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Miscellaneous Records — Series 5: Miscellaneous Records

1865-68

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Cataloged as “Miscellaneous Records”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1026, File 5.1
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Miscellaneous Records — Shreveport (Agent and Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

Date not recorded

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Unbound miscellaneous records, September 1865–June 1868, are arranged by type of record. Included are inspection reports (July–October 1866 and June 1868); reports of numbers of acres overflowed (May 1866); accounts current (February–March 1867); receipt…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 5.61.8
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Miscellaneous Records — Shreveport (Hospital)

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Unbound miscellaneous records, June 1867–October 1868, is arranged by type of record. Included are abstracts of issues to hospital (December 1867); monthly reports of attendants employed (December 1867–March 1868); statements of hospital fund (January–May…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 5.63.8
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Miscellaneous Records — Skipwiths Landing (Subcommissioner)

Date not recorded

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Unbound miscellaneous records, August–December 1865, are arranged by the type of record. The series includes oaths, court papers, and a list of leased plantations.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1907, File 3.47.2
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Miscellaneous Records — Smithfield (Assistant Superintendent)

1866–1867

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Unbound miscellaneous records, 1866–67, are arranged by type of record. The series consists of bills of lading, descriptions of persons claiming property, reports of outrages, contracts, ration returns, and orders.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1909, File 4.45.7
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Miscellaneous Records — St. Joseph (Agent and Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

Date not recorded

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Unbound miscellaneous records, 1865–68, are arranged by type of record. Included are bills of lading, monthly reports of money received and expended, monthly reports of abandoned lands, lists of stores, and other reports.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 5.58.13
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Miscellaneous Records — St. Louis, MO (Disbursing Officer)

1872–76

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Unbound miscellaneous records, 1872–1876, are arranged by type of record and thereunder chronologically. The records include quarterly returns of public property, monthly reports of persons and articles hires, and deposit slips with the U. S. Assistant…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M2029, File 1.12.10
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Miscellaneous Records — Statesville (Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

Jan. 1866–Dec. 1867

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Unbound miscellaneous records, January 1866–December 1867, are arranged by type of record. Included are letters received and reports of persons and articles hired.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1909, File 4.47.6
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Miscellaneous Records — Summerville (Subassistant Commissioner)

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Unbound miscellaneous records, 1866–68, are arranged by type of record. The series consists of indentures, reports of persons and articles hired, reports of rations issued, ration returns, bills of lading, lists of orphans, oaths of loyalty, summonses,…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1910, File 5.53.9
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Miscellaneous Records — Superintendent of Education

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Unbound miscellaneous records cover the period January 1867 and February 1869. This series includes one–third of a semiannual school report of the state superintendent (January 1867), and one report of schools, teachers, and buildings (February 1869).

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1907, File 2.1.7
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Miscellaneous Records — Surgeon in Chief

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Unbound miscellaneous records, January 1864–March 1868, are arranged by type of record. Included in the series are returns of medical and hospital property; reports of Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Persons; "per diem statement of patients in Freedmen's Bureau…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1907, File 2.4.14
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