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Registers of Branches of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company

National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Registers of Signatures of Depositors in Branches of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, 1865–1874
Archival Repository
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Identifier
NMAAHC.FB.M816, Series 1
Type
Archival materials
Collection Citation
Courtesy of the U. S. National Archives and Records Administration, FamilySearch International, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Scope and Contents
This includes indexes to 42 volumes of deposit ledgers. The registers and ledgers are arranged alphabetically by name of State, thereunder by name of city, and thereunder by name of depositor; by name of city where the bank was located, there under chronologically by date when the account was established, and there under numerically by account number. It is arranged alphabetically by name of city in which the branch was located, gives the date of organization of the branch, account numbers, and numbers of the rolls of microfilm on which the registers are reproduced. As the indexes to the deposit ledgers include the depositor's account number they can serve as a finding aid to the registers of signatures, which is not indexed. There's an index that gives the location and the date of organization of the branch and the depositor's account numbers. A few are out of numerical order. The volume for Philadelphia, PA, dated January 7, 1870, to June 26, 1874 contains signatures of officers of societies. Many account numbers are missing. Many registers seem to be missing. Other related records include loan and real estate ledgers and journals, 1870–1916, arranged roughly in chronological order; inspectors' reports, minutes of meetings of committees and a journal of the board of trustees, 1865–1874; dividend payment records, 1882–1889, arranged alphabetically by name of city and there under by depositor's account number; and letters received by the commissioners of the Company and by the Comptroller of the Currency as ex officio commissioner, 1870–1914. Interspersed among their records are legal papers, canceled checks, payrolls, expense checks, and passbooks.
Collection Restrictions
Freedmen's Bureau Digital Collection, 1865–1872, is a product of and owned by the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution. Copyright for digital images is retained by the donor, FamilySearch International; permission for commercial use of the digital images may be requested from FamilySearch International, Intellectual Property Office, at: [email protected].
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ebl-1594040413915-1594040413926-0
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/io3585d0875-770c-4367-b2cd-300a893752ea

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