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1 Title:   Georgia Penitentiary Company No. 3 account book  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Penitentiary Company No. 3 (Georgia)  
  Dates:   1877-1879  
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The collection consists of an account book from Georgia Penitentiary Company No. 3 from 1877-1879. The first page with handwriting states: "1877 amount of cotton sold and who road this morning," and names include Thomas Alexander Ried, W. A. Culver, W. W. Sampson.
  
  Identifier:   ms3618  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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2 Title:   Letters regarding Georgia convict labor  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Park, Robert Emory, -1909  
  Dates:   1897, 1901  
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This collection contains two letters regarding the use of convicts for labor. One letter describes a prisoner, Floyd Clements, working out his sentence in the household for J.L. Roberston. The other letter is a petition from Robert E. Park to the Georgia State Legislature making the case for using convicts to dig canals to drain the swamps of Southern Georgia in order to create farm land.
  
  Identifier:   ms4007  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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3 Title:   Photographs of African American chain gang in Thomasville, Georgia  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Unknown  
  Dates:   1890-1899  
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The collection consists of two small photographs of predominantly African American chain gangs in Thomasville, Georgia. One photograph depicts chained men carrying shovels and other work implements on their shoulders, as they march by the "Mitchell House." A second photograph depicts chained men wearing striped jumpsuits, working at the edge of a grove of trees.
  
  Identifier:   ms3382  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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4 Title:   Georgia convict camp padlock  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Georgia  
  Dates:   undated  
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The collection includes one iron padlock with the name plate inscribed, "Property of Georgia Convict Camp."
  
  Identifier:   ms3849  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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5 Title:   Atlanta Prison Farm photo identification cards  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Atlanta Prison Farm  
  Dates:   1956-1972  
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This collection contains photo identification cards of inmates of the Atlanta Prison Farm during the late 1950s through the early 1970s. Each card includes a photograph, fingerprints, physical description, and information about sentences.
  
  Identifier:   ms4283  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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6 Title:   Reward notice for escaped convicts  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Wier, John Walker, 1848-1907  
  Dates:   1905  
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This collection contains a postcard from Sheriff John W. Wier of Athens, Georgia advertising a reward for the capture of two escaped convicts, William Henderson and Joe Haney, as well as a physical description of them.
  
  Identifier:   ms4365  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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7 Title:   Rebecca Latimer Felton papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Felton, William H. (William Harrell), 1823-1909  
  Dates:   1851-1930  
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The collection consists of the papers of Rebecca Latimer Felton, from 1851 to 1930. The papers include correspondence, speeches, articles, and scrapbooks; all reflecting her lengthy public career as author, newspaper columnist, lecturer, as she actively pursued her interests in politics, religious issues, penal and temperance reform and women's political rights. The papers reflect her involvement in the World's Columbian Exposition (1890-1894), the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta (1895), and as a delegate to the Progressive Republican Convention in Chicago (1912). Correspondents include readers of her articles and letters and those involved in Exposition matters. Other correspondents include General John B. Gordon, Alexander Hamilton Stephens, James Longstreet, William H. Hidell, Bertha Honore Palmer, Lafayette McLaws, Florence Williams Olmstead, President Rutherford B. Hayes, Georgia Governors A. H. Colquitt, Joseph Emerson Brown and William Yates Atkinson and family members, husband William H. Felton, son Howard Erwin Felton, and Charles and Eleanor Swift Latimer.
  
  Identifier:   ms81  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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