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South Carolina Archives Series Description

Shoe Account Books, 1871-1876  

 


CALL NUMBER:        S 132053


 

CREATOR:  Central Correctional Institution (S.C.)

 

TITLE:  Shoe account books

 

DATE:  1871-1876

 

VOLUME:  1.00 volume

 

ARRANGEMENT:  Series arranged chronologically.

 

SUMMARY SCOPE NOTE:  This series consists of an accounting of work at the state penitentiary's shoe shop.  This volume contains three separate lists.  The first is a list of shoes produced for customers outside of the prison population.  Information includes name of customer, date, type of work, and cost.  The second list details work done (primarily repairs) for convicts.  Information includes date, type of work, prisoners' numbers, and cost.  This volume also contains a list of convicts who worked in the shoe shop from April 1873 to March 1876.

 

LINKING NOTE:  A separate record, entitled Agency history record, has been written for the Dept. of Corrections describing the functions and history of the agency.

 

HIERARCHICAL NOTE:  Forms part of the records of the Central Correctional Institution of the Dept. of Corrections.