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Henry George Carrison Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss-0033
Introduction

Henry George Carrison was a civic leader, businessman, and plantation owner in Camden, South Carolina. Original account books, letter press copies of correspondence, and financial transactions indicate that H.G. Carrison was the owner of large pieces of property and businesses, including the Hermitage Cotton Mills, in Camden.

Dates: 1876 - 1933

John Jenkins farmhand daybook

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0190
Scope and Contents The daybook is "The Rural accountant: a complete and simple system of keeping plantation and farm accounts for the use of the practical planter and farmer," published by Walker, Evans & Cogswell of Charleston, SC, in 1876. It contains general agricultural information such as weights and measures, prices, wage scales and planting guides. There are several individual accounts of sales or transactions and what may be a monthly time roll entered into the daybook. At the back of the book is...
Dates: 1876 - 1877

William G. Hinson Records

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0108
Scope and Contents The collection contains five volumes of farm records of William Godber Hinson, James Island, Charleston County, SC. Three of the books are accounts with farm laborers, "Freedmen" and "Freedwomen," 1866-1868. Entries reflect net proceeds of cotton crops, amount due employers, sickness records, cash advances, and cost of rations. Individual accounts include those of Amelia Goodwin, Moses Brown, Amos and Sam Watson, Thomas Young, Jeffry Campbell, Israel Knights, Eve Gourdin and Francis Gadsen....
Dates: 1866-1881

Wofford Benjamin Camp Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss-0165
Abstract

The Wofford B. Camp Papers consist of subject correspondence files, magazine articles, speech memorabilia, newspaper clippings, and photographs documenting Camp's career from his days as a student at Clemson Agriculture College through the operation of the W. B. Camp & Sons Inc. agribusiness in California.

Dates: 1919 - 1983; 1943 - 1983

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Brown, Moses 1
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