Miscellaneous Reports Relating to Schools
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content: Records of the New Orleans Field Offices, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: Records of the New Orleans Field Offices, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 4: Records of the Assistant Subassistant Commissioner for Iberville and West Baton Rouge Parishes and Predecessors
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content: 1866–68
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1483, Subseries 4.8
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content: Archival materials
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content: The miscellaneous reports relating to schools, 1866–68, are arranged in three subseries and thereunder chronologically. The first subseries consists of district superintendent's monthly school reports, September–December 1868. On these tabular forms, entries for individual schools include information about school societies and patrons, finances, teachers, buildings, pupils, attendance, and students' educational attainments. This subseries also includes the assistant subassistant commissioner's monthly reports, October–December 1868, which contain comments on public sentiment toward education of freedmen and the feasibility of establishing self–supporting schools. The second subseries consists of abstracts of accounts, monthly reports of schools, and receipts for expenditures in the support of schools, May–December 1868. The third subseries consists of tabular monthly returns, abstracts, and lists of school property received and issued, May 1866–December 1868.