United States Sanitary Commission, Cleveland Branch (Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio) Records


Descriptive Summary
History of the United States Sanitary Commission, Cleveland Branch (Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio)
Scope and Content
Statement of Arrangement
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Administrative Information
Detailed Description of The Collection
Dated and undated manuscript items relating to the work of the United States Sanitary Commission, including an undated memoir of the activities of the Commission. Generally, this material has been arranged chronologically without regard to author or recipient. Aside from letters and memoranda, some lists, vouchers, registers, invoices, and other business documents have been included
Reports and abstracts of reports
Acknowledgements of hospital equipment received from the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio central depot, including printed forms and letters
Military claims and official discharge documents and correspondence (this material has no special arrangement, though an attempt has been made to keep items together which pertain to separate individuals)
Bank drafts, tickets, and passes
Miscellany relating to the United States Sanitary Commission
Bound volumes of correspondence to the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio from Ohio branch societies of the United States Sanitary Commission (some loose documents are to be found scattered among the bound material)
Bound volumes of correspondence from other cities (non-Ohio), departments and districts to the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio
Bound volumes of correspondence of claimants to the Free Claim Agency of the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio
Bound correspondence and other documents between United States federal government agencies and the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio
Bound volumes of correspondence received relating to the work of the Department of Special Relief, Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio
Bound volumes of correspondence from camps, hospitals, and homes in Ohio; clerks and field agents of the United States Sanitary Commission; miscellaneous letters and testimonials; and Laws and Information of the Free Claim Agency of the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio
Bound record volumes of varying in size and depth, arranged according to size in a series of boxes (smaller volumes preceding); several of the record books contain loose documents inserted among the volumes; descriptions of each volume are general
Bound record volumes not housed in containers; volumes are arranged according to appearance, size, and depth with few exceptions; volumes are very generally described; loose manuscript items occasionally to be found inserted in volumes