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Miscellaneous Records — Natchez (Southern District of Mississippi)

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Unbound miscellaneous records, August 1864–October 1865, are arranged by type of record. Included in the series are a list of registered plantations, reports of plantations, reports of asylums, school reports, reports of receipts and expenditures, estimates of expenses, telegrams, receipts, and reports of destitute persons receiving transportation. Most of these records are those of the provost marshal of freedmen.

Collection
Records of the Field Offices for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872
Archival grouping
Records of the Field Offices for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 / Series 3: Subordinate Field Offices / 3.34: Natchez (Southern District of Mississippi)
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Catalog reference: NMAAHC.FB.M1907, File 3.34.18

Collection: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872

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