Letters Received and Other Records Relating to Freedman's Hospital, 1872–1910

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Letters Received and Other Records Relating to Freedman's Hospital, 1872–1910

1872-1910

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This series consists chiefly of letters received with some reports, transcripts of testimony, congressional documents, and printed regulations governing the administration of the hospital. The records relate to the transfer of the hospital from the War Department to the Department of the Interior in 1874, appropriations and other financial matters, rental of buildings from Howard University, conflicting authority of the Department and the government of the District of Columbia over the hospital, investigations, admission policy, personnel, supplies, and other subjects.

1 linear foot, 4 linear inches

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National Archives at College Park

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Howard University

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Howard University is a private, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. Tracing its history to 1867, from its outset Howard has been nonsectarian and open to people of all sexes and races. The institution was named for General Oliver Otis Howard, a Civil War hero who was both the founder of the university and, at the time, commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. The U.S. Congress chartered Howard on March 2, 1867 and much of its early funding came from endow...