"A Suggestion for the Use of Convict Labor on the Cape Cod Canal"

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Manuscripts

Date

undated

GUSN

GUSN-293244

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Nina Heald Webber Cape Cod Canal collection
Manuscripts and drawings
Histories of Cape Cod Canal and surrounding areas
"A Suggestion for the Use of Convict Labor on the Cape Cod Canal"
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Nina Heald Webber Cape Cod Canal collection
- Manuscripts and drawings
  - Histories of Cape Cod Canal and surrounding areas
    - "Onisett Village"
    - List of captions
    - "New Bedford"
    - "Use Prisoners, Let them Labor on Cape Cod Canal"
    - "Town of Bourne"
    - "A Suggestion for the Use of Convict Labor on the Cape Cod Canal" (current record)
    - "Wareham"
    - "Preface"
    - "50th Anniversary of the Cape Cod Canal Certificate Guarantee"
    - Untitled manuscript
    - My Cranberry Scrapbook
    - The United Cape Cod Cranberry Company
    - The New England Hurricane of 1938 manuscript

Description

A handwritten manuscript titled "A Suggestion for the Use of Convict Labor on the Cape Cod Canal," creator unknown. A note on the manuscript indicates that it is a handwritten copy of something published in the Boston Journal on January 12, 1898.

Details

Descriptive Terms

drafts (documents)
manuscripts (document genre)

Physical Description

1 handwritten manuscript (4 sheets)

Collection Code

MS028

Collection Name

Nina Heald Webber Cape Cod Canal collection

Reference Code

MS028.02.002.006

Places

Cape Cod Canal (Massachusetts) [canal]

Record Details

Material Type

manuscripts (document genre)

Description Level

Item

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