Keyword Year How to Search Advanced Search Showing 4767 ads Sort by: Title Refine search Source Select...Abilene Weekly Reflector (Abilene, KS)Afro-American (Baltimore, MD)Afro-American Advocate (Coffeyville, KS)Afro-American Ledger (Baltimore, MD)Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, VA)American Citizen (Canton, MS)Anglo-African (New York, NY)Anglo-African (New York)Appeal: A National Afro-American Newspaper (St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN)Arkansas Democrat (Little Rock, AR)Arkansas Weekly Mansion (Little Rock, AR)Asheville Daily Citizen (Asheville, NC)Atchison Daily Free Press (Atchison, KS)Atchison Weekly Champion (Atchison, KS)Baltimore Daily Commercial (Baltimore, MD)Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)Baptist Times (Garnett, KS)Baton Rouge Tri-weekly Gazette & Comet (Baton Rouge, LA)Battle Creek Daily Moon (Battle Creek, MI)Beaufort Republican (Beaufort, SC)Bee (Ripley, OH)Boston Post (Boston, MA)Brenham Weekly Banner (Brenham, TX)Brownlow's Knoxville Whig (Knoxville, TN)Bucyrus Journal (Bucyrus, OH)Buffalo Commercial Advertiser (Buffalo, NY)Buffalo Evening News (Buffalo, NY)Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, NC)Charleston Mercury (Charleston, SC)Charlevoix County Herald (East Jordan, MI)Chattanooga Daily Times (Chattanooga, TN)Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)Cincinnati Commercial Tribune (Cincinnati, OH)Clarksville Weekly Chronicle (Clarksville, TN)Cleveland Daily Leader (Cleveland, OH)Clinch Valley News (Tazewell Courthouse, VA)Colored American (Washington, DC)Commercial Advertiser (New York, NY)Daily Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, AR)Daily Chronicle (Knoxville, TN)Daily Dispatch (Richmond, VA)Daily Evening Bulletin (Maysville, KY)Daily Missouri Republican (St. Louis, MO)Daily Newbernian (New Bern, NC)Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA)Daily Press and Herald (Knoxville, TN)Daily Public Ledger (Maysville, KY)Daily Republican (Wilmington, DE)Daily Selma Messenger (Selma, AL)Daily State Gazette (Green Bay, WI)Dallas Express (Dallas, TX)Davenport Sunday Democrat (Davenport, IA)Dziennik ChicagoskiElyria Independent Democrat (Elyria, OH)Eufala Daily Times (Eufala, AL)Evening Post (Wilmington, NC)Evening Star (Washington, DC)Fannie to Norfleet Perry, December 28, 1862, Person Family Papers, 1754-1971 (Volume/Box: Box 1), David M. 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NMAAHC.FB.M999. https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662426480461-4?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bwife%2522%26page%3D1Globe (Nashville, TN)Globe (New York, NY)Gold Hill Daily News (Gold Hills, NV) (reprinted, with editorial commentary, from the Indianapolis Evening News)Greenville Advance Argus (Greenville, PA)Harrisburg Daily Independent (Harrisburg, PA)Harrisburg Telegraph (Harrisburg, PA)Herald of Kansas (Topeka, KS)Highland Weekly News (Hillsboro, OH)Huntsville Gazette (Huntsville, AL)Huntsville Journal (Huntsville, AL)Indianapolis Sentinel (Indianapolis, IN)Iowa State Bystander (Des Moines, IA)Isaac A. Rosenkranz to Lieutenant John M. Foot, letter, April 19, 1868, Records of the Field Offices for the State of North Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872, Subordinate Field Offices, Washington D.C., Letters Sent, Letters Sent, Volume 246, Roll 64, Jan. 1867-Oct. 1868. NMAAHC.FB.M1909. https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662424964359-3?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%25E2%2580%259Cmy%2Bdaughter%25E2%2580%259D%26page%3D4J. B. Littlejohn to Captain Hay, letter, April 15, 1867, Records of the Field Offices for the State of North Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872, Subordinate Field Offices, Franklinton (Assistant Commissioner), Letters Received, Roll 14, Jan.-July 1867. NMAAHC.FB.M1909. 1st Image: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662424860904-0?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3Dmy%2Bfather%26page%3D0 2nd image: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662424860904-1?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3Dmy%2Bfather%26page%3D0Jack Hannibal to “Mistress” (unnamed), August 9, 1878, Jack Hannibal Papers, 1878 (Sec. A Box 58 items1 c.1), David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University, https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE002567178.Jersey City News (Jersey City, NJ)Juniata Sentinel and Republican (Mifflintown, PA)Kansas City Globe (Kansas City, KS)Keowee Courier (Pickens, SC)Knoxville Daily Tribune (Knoxville, TN)Knoxville Press and Messenger (Knoxville, TN)Las Vegas Weekly Optic and Stock Grower (East Las Vegas, NM)Lawrence Daily World (Lawrence, KS)Leavenworth Daily Conservative (Leavenworth, KS)Liberator (Boston, MA)Livingston Journal (Livingston, AL)Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA)Lost Friends AdLouisville Daily Courier (Louisville, KY)Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY)Lucy Ross to General O.O. Howard, letter, October 31, 1866, Registers and Letters Received by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872, Letters Received, Entered in Register 8, R, Aug-Dec. 1866. NMAAHC.FB.M752. 1st Image: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662425788613-2?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bchildren%2522%26page%3D0 2nd Image: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662425788613-3?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bchildren%2522%26page%3D0Martha Cooley, Testimony to J.M. Kelly, Notary Public, Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869, Registered Letters Received, Entered in Register 1, E – L, 1865. 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NMAAHC.FB.M1909. https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662424871079-1?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bdaughter%2522%26page%3D3Records of the Field Offices for the State of North Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872, Subordinate Field Offices, Plymouth (Subassistant Commissioner), Registered Letters Received, June 1867-Dec. 1868. NMAAHC.FB.M1909. https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662424934570-4?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bsister%2522%26page%3D2Records of the Field Offices for the State of North Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872, Subordinate Field Offices, Rocky Mount (Assistant Superintendent), Letters Received, Dec. 1865-Aug. 1868. NMAAHC.FB.M1909. https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662424945206-0?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bdaughter%2522%26page%3D4Records of the Field Offices for the State of North Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872, Subordinate Field Offices, Salisbury (Superintendent of the Western District), Letters Received, 1867. NMAAHC.FB.M1909. 1st Image: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662424950828-2?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bdaughter%2522%26page%3D5 2nd Image: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662424950829-0?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bdaughter%2522%26page%3D5Registers and Letters Received by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872, Letters Received, Entered in Register 10, June-August 1867. 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