Registers of Contracts
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content: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872
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content: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 / Series 3: Subordinate Field Offices / 3.21: Memphis (Subassistant Commissioner – Subdistrict of Memphis)
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1911, File 3.21.18
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content: Archival materials
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content: The two volumes of registers of contracts, 1 (163) and 2 (164), cover the period December 1866–August 1867. Volume 1 (163), is arranged numerically and covers the period December 1866–August. 1867. Volume 2 (164) is arranged by the initial letter of the surname of the employer and covers the year 1867 only. Volume 1 (163) also contains a register of persons admitted into the smallpox hospital, and a "list of persons contracted away as vagrants."