TY - GEN AU - Nichols,D.B. TI - D.B. Nichols scrapbooks, KW - Collins, N. R. KW - Greene, Elias M. KW - American Missionary Association KW - Howard University KW - Massachusetts Sabbath School Society KW - Freedmen KW - United States KW - Virginia KW - Sabbath schools KW - Illinois KW - Iowa KW - Massachusetts KW - Slavery KW - Freedman's Village (Arlington County, Va.) KW - History KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 KW - Washington (D.C.) KW - Social life and customs KW - Educators KW - itoamc KW - Librarians KW - Missionaries N1 - Open to research N2 - Scrapbooks containing correspondence and newspaper clippings pertaining chiefly to Nichols's Civil War service as superintendent of the Freedman's Village, Arlington County, Va., and to his involvement with the American Missionary Association and with Howard University, Washington, D.C. Also mentions his work with the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society promoting the Sabbath School in Illinois and Iowa. Subjects include the arrival of contrabands and freedmen; rations; supplies; requests for slaves or freedmen to work on construction projects and farms or as servants; and life in Washington, D.C., following the Civil War. Correspondents include Elias M. Greene and N.R. Collins ER -