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William Finney wanted poster
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United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia |
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1907 |
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One wanted poster with a sixty-dollar reward for the arrest of William Finney. Mr. Finney was an African American man who
escaped the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia. He had been sentenced to three years and six months for robbing
a post office.
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ms4399 |
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Hargrett Library |
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African American FBI wanted posters
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Unknown |
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1949 June 8-1954 February 11 |
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This collections includes 18 posters of African American men wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation mailed to the Fisher
Body Plant Chief of Police in Detroit, Michigan, as well as one poster of an African American man wanted by the Ohio State
Bureau of Criminal Indentification and Investigation. The posters include photographs, finger prints, decriptions, signatures,
criminal records, aliases, and charges the men face. Complaints include murder, attempted murder, robbery, assault, and burglary.
Includes complaints from Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Virginia, Wisconson
and Athens and Atlanta, Georgia.
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ms4408 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Stanford Brown collection
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Brown, Stanford |
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1863-1961 |
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Collection includes a booklet for The Grand Theatre Program from 1925-1926, a photograph of an election crowd in Atlanta,
Georgia in 1880, a photograph of Eugene O'Neill by Carl Van Vechten, 1920's photographs, Farmer's Banking Co. records, Marilyn
Campbell's photographs of African American families in Georgia during the 1940's, and a photograph from Fort Valley State
College Campus. Also included are broadsides for a program on Palestine and Egypt from 1879, a white supremacy flyer, a Civil
War Island Minstrels concert, a roster of officers from the Thirty-third U.S. Infantry, an advertisement for a concert by
the Brass Band of the 33rd Mass in Atlanta, Georgia, Civil War Union General Orders, a supplement of the Marietta Journal,
a wanted poster for African American men Cornelius and Leon Cooper from 1933, and an ink drawing of the Battery Seymour on
Ossabaw Island.
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ms4434 |
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Hargrett Library |
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