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Records Relating to Supplies — Clinton (Agent and Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

1868

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Unbound records relating to supplies, dated 1868, are arranged by type of record. Included are applications and affidavits of planters for supplies, bonds of planters for supplies, monthly reports of supplies issued planters, and receipts for supplies.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 5.12.15
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Records Relating to the Division of Crops on Cotton Plantations

1867–68

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Cataloged as “Records Relating to the Division of Crops on Cotton Plantations”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1907, Item 3.51.10.1
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Records Relating to the Division of Crops on Cotton Plantations — Vicksburg (Subcommissioner)

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Unbound records relating to the division of crops on cotton plantations, 1867–1868, are arranged by the name of the plantation or "case." The series includes affidavits of freedmen, receipts of freedmen for cash and supplies, accounts of freedmen, and…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1907, File 3.51.10
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Records Relating to the Industrial School — Alexandria (Superintendent)

Apr. 1867–May 1868

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Unbound records relating to the industrial school, April 1867–May 1868, are generally arranged by type of record. Included are letters received, vouchers, accounts, and receipt rolls of articles manufactured in the school and sold to destitute freedpeople.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.2.27
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Records Relating to the Issuance of Rations — Fort Monroe (Department of Negro Affairs, 1863–65) Departments of Virginia and North Carolina

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The three volumes of records relating to the issuance of rations, 1 (201), 2 (202), and 3 (203), cover the period 1863–65. Volume 1 (201) contains ration accounts (July 1864–Feb. 1865) and memorandums relating to rations and quartermaster stores drawn and…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.64.3
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Records Relating to the Wharf at Bluffton

Feb. 1867–Sept. 1868

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Cataloged as “Records Relating to the Wharf at Bluffton”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1910, Item 5.6.17.1
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Records Relating to the Wharf at Bluffton — Beaufort (Subassistant Commissioner)

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Unbound records relating to the Wharf at Bluffton, February 1867–September 1868, are arranged by type of record. The series consists of abstracts of claims against the Wharf, returns of receipts and disbursements, accounts due freedmen for labor on the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1910, File 5.6.17
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Redoshi

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Redoshi (c. 1848 – 1937) was a West African woman who was enslaved and smuggled to the U.S. state of Alabama as a girl in 1860. Until a later surviving claimant, Matilda McCrear, was announced in 2020, she was considered to have been the last surviving…

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Register 1 (30)

May–Oct. 1865

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Cataloged as “Register 1 (30)”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M752, File 1.2.2
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Register 1 Nos. 1 – 94

Sept. 1865

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Cataloged as “Register 1 Nos. 1 – 94”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1909, Item 4.45.6.1
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Register 1 — Registered Letters Received

1866-1867

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Cataloged as “Register 1”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M822, File 3.1.1
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Register 10 (42)

June–Aug. 1867

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Cataloged as “Register 10 (42)”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M752, File 1.8.2
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Register 11 (44)

Sept. 2–Dec. 31, 1867

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Cataloged as “Register 11 (44)”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M752, File 1.9.2
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Register 12 (46)

Jan.–June 1868

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Cataloged as “Register 12 (46)”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M752, File 1.10.3
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Register 13 (49)

July–Dec. 1868

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Cataloged as “Register 13 (49)”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M752, File 1.11.3
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Register 14 (52)

Jan. 1–July 31, 1869

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Cataloged as “Register 14 (52)”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M752, File 1.12.2
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Register 15 (54)

Aug.–Dec. 1869

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Cataloged as “Register 15 (54)”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M752, File 1.13.2
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Register 16 (56)

Jan. 1, 1870–Aug. 6, 1870

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Cataloged as “Register 16 (56)”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M752, File 1.14.2
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Register 17 (58)

Aug. 8, 1870–Jan. 5, 1871

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Cataloged as “Register 17 (58)”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M752, File 1.15.2
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Register 18 (60)

Jan. 3, 1871–May 9, 1873

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Cataloged as “Register 18 (60)”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M752, File 1.16.2
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Register 2 (33) A – M — Registers 2 and 3

Oct. 1865–Feb. 1866

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Cataloged as “Register 2 (33) A – M”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M752, File 1.3.1
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Register 2 Nos. 95 – 145

Sept.–Dec. 1865

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Cataloged as “Register 2 Nos. 95 – 145”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1909, Item 4.45.6.2
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Register 2 — Registered Letters Received

1868-1870

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Cataloged as “Register 2”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M822, File 3.1.2
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Register 3 (34) N – Z — Registers 2 and 3

Oct. 1865–Feb. 1866

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Cataloged as “Register 3 (34) N – Z”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M752, File 1.3.2
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