A. Commerce Office files, 1880-1950
- Extent:
- 19 box(es) and (8.75 linear feet)
- Scope and content:
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The Commerce Office files subseries is divided into seven sub-groups. Included in the correspondence files are multiple letters from U.S. Senator A.O. Bacon, U.S. Representative Thomas M. Bell, Colorado Governor Henry A. Buchtel, Georgia Governor A.D. Chandler, George Foster Peabody (on the subject of prohibition), and Richard B. Russell, Sr. (asking for support as Superior Court Justice). Topics discussed include temperance, the 1904 Jackson County primary election returns, Hardman's campaign expenses for 1914, Georgia State College of Agriculture finances, dam and water mill specifications, land surveys, tuberculosis treatments, and monthly reports from the Hardman Roller Mills. Bills and receipts date primarily from 1921 to 1924 and are for hardware, medical supplies and other expenses. Bills, telegrams and titles includes bills of lading and freight bills for cotton shipments, private correspondence from 1901 to 1905, telegrams, titles to property owned by the Hardman family, and documents pertaining to bonded employees from the period 1888 to 1918. Contracts, correspondence and receipts features correspondence from 1910, business receipts from 1901 to 1918, and various contracts with employees, tenant farmers and independent contractors for the years 1900 to 1915. Commerce High School contains documents on new building construction, school board policies, finances, and applications for teaching and superintendent positions for the period 1922 to 1924. The Harmony Grove Mills papers in this subseries span the years 1922 to 1924 and consist of correspondence relating to audits, equipment purchases, and the hiring of a plant superintendent. Finally, there is registration information on Berkshire hogs, Jersey cattle, and Duroc-Jersey hogs--as well as records of cattle and hogs dead or sold--contained in Bills paid and cattle. The files are in chronological order within alphabetical arrangement.
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