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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
Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

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
Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

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