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Accounts of Materials Used in Industrial Schools and Miscellaneous Lists

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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.

The single volume of accounts of materials used in industrial schools and miscellaneous lists, 1863–68 (98), is arranged by type of record. The volume includes the following: lists of contrabands and articles debited or credited, June 1863; list of articles received by D. B. Nichols, superintendent of contrabands for the Department of Washington, June–April 1863; register of deaths at Mason's Island, VA, February–June 1865; register of freedmen seeking employment, August 1866–August 1867; and accounts of materials used in industrial schools, February–March 1868.

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 / 3.1.4: Other Records
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Catalog reference: NMAAHC.FB.M1902, Item 3.1.4.5

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

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