Unbound orders received, invoices and bills of lading, school reports, and miscellaneous retained copies of reports, 1865–68, are arranged by type of record.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.11.6
Unbound orders received, reports sent to the Assistant Commissioner, contracts, and miscellaneous court papers, 1865–68, are arranged by type of record and thereunder chronologically. Included in this series are school reports, land reports, ration…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1903, File 3.62.6
The single volume of orders sent to local citizens and a register of complaints, October 1865–December 1866 and May 1867–November 1868 (103), is arranged by type of record and thereunder chronologically. The orders are dated October 1865–December 1866, and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1903, File 3.8.10
Orindatus Simon Bolivar Wall (August 12, 1825 – April 26, 1891), also known as O.S.B. Wall, was an American attorney, politician, and former military officer. He was African American and born enslaved but, during the American Civil War, became the first…
Osborne Perry Anderson (July 27, 1830 – December 11, 1872) was an African-American abolitionist and the only surviving African-American member of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. He became a soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
The final subseries contains other unregistered letters and telegrams, February 1865–March 1869, and is arranged chronologically. Most of these letters and telegrams are dated June 1865–December 1866. A few letters and telegrams dated prior to June 1865…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M979, File 1.4.6
This dark brown, pink, and off-white overshot coverlet was hand woven on a four-harness loom with six treadles using a single-ply z-spun undyed cotton warp and weft with supplementary single-ply z-spun wool weft dyed brown and pink. The colored wool…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.202
A pea scale, also known as a cotton scale, balance scale, or a steelyard balance. At one end of the scale is a J shaped hook for hanging a sack of cotton. On the other end of the scale are weight measurement markings and notches at the top for holding the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.23.63
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