Employment Register

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.

The single–volume "Employment" register, July 1867–October 1868 (88), is arranged chronologically. The register gives the names and addresses of applicants for servants, the kind of help desired, and the wages offered. The register usually gives the names, ages, and addresses of servants sent to the applicant. The volume also contains names of men sent to work on an arsenal and to work for General Michler repairing the streets.

Collection

Records of the Field Offices for the District of Columbia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1870

Archival grouping

Records of the Field Offices for the District of Columbia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1870 / Series 3: Subordinate Field Offices / 3.1: Local Superintendent for Washington and Georgetown / 3.1.3: Records Relating to Employment of Freedmen

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