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Convict Labor vs. Honest Labor.

Description: Circular formatted as a letter to state legislator from Harris County constituents, calling for state-level legislation to quit employing prisoners within Texas.
Date: 1891-07-15~
Creator: Smith, D. C.; Charlton, James; Ashe, S. S.; Hamilton, H.; Campbell, E. A.; Harris, Jonathan et al.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: Lena Armstrong Public Library

[Letter from Laura Jernigan to Charles B. Moore, March 23, 1891]

Description: Letter from Laura Jernigan to Charles Moore in which she updates him on her family's health, the weather, and the crops. She discusses her children's schooling, as well as the hired hands and complains that she has not heard from some family members. She writes of receiving photographs of family members and request images of the Moore family.
Date: March 23, 1891
Creator: Jernigan, Laura
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Travis County Clerk Records: Record of Convict Hirings

Description: Record of convicts hired out by Travis County from January 1898 to July 1907 to pay court costs and fines incurred, showing file number, name of convict, by what court and at what term sentenced, amount of fine and costs, date of contract, on what type of labor employed, name of party hiring, time employed, price of labor, dates and amounts of payments, and remarks. Arranged numerically by file number and chronologically by date of contract. Index included.
Date: 1898-01/1907-07
Creator: Travis County (Tex.). Clerk's Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Travis County Clerk’s Office

[Scrapbook Page: Chain Gang]

Description: Scrapbook page with a photograph of several men standing in a loose semi-circle, with two hounds in the foreground. Horses hitched to wagons are visible in the background. A handwritten note below the image says "About 60 yrs ago, people who were picked up and put in jail worked their fines out by working on the roads. They were chained together while they worked. And bloodhounds were carried along. (This picture brot. [sic] by the "Rose Twins" Bertie & Myrtle, 1960)." We think that this mi… more
Date: [1890,1900]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Portrait of David Monticello "Bud" Ballew and Amy Bear and Carrie]

Description: Two Native American women in a portrait with lawman David Monticello "Bud" Ballew. The women are seated and wrapped in traditional Indian blankets. The lawman is standing behind the women and has a bandana around his neck. Both women are Kiowa. Amy Bear is wife of Bert Bear, and Carrie is daughter of Iseeo and wife of White Fox.
Date: 1890~
Creator: Snearly, Alice & Kelley, Lon
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Clay County Historical Society
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