Series 1575: Correspondence and Office Files. 1840-1932; undated.
Corrections, Dept. of (RG 49). Penitentiary.
As of 01/20/2023
Series 1575: Correspondence and Office Files. 1840-1932; undated.
Corrections, Dept. of (RG 49). Penitentiary.
A wide variety of correspondence and general office documents including, but not limited to, the following: reports, orders for issuance of pay warrants, statements, depositions, a wide variety of receipts, monthly reports of convicts employed on farms, convict labor contracts, property inventories and appraisals, blueprints, plats, well logs, receipts for discharged convicts, freight bills, treasurer’s records, lists of lands constituting the Sunflower County plantation, escapee certificates, cotton reports, plantation reports, travel vouchers, pay rolls, requisitions, livestock reports, physician’s monthly reports, chaplain’s reports, maps, and oaths. Arrangement is chronological by year.
See also:
Series 2678: Penitentiary Accounting and Administrative Records. 1836-1910.
Series 2851: Judiciary Receipts - Jailer Account. 1820-1873. (RG 29)
| Cotton reports, 1901-1903 | 07704 |
| Cotton reports, 1904-1911 | 07705 |
| Discharge receipts, 1895-1906, 1932 | 07706 |
| Inventory lists, 1868, 1898-1912 | 07707 |
| Live Stock reports, 1895-1909 | 07708 |
| Pay Roll Reports, 1902-1904 | 07709 |
| Pay Roll Reports, 1905-1906 | 07710 |
| Pay Roll Reports, 1907 | 07711 |
| Physician Reports, 1900-1907 | 07712 |
| Physician Reports, 1908-1913 | 07713 |
| Plantation Reports, 1894-1901 | 07715 |
| Plantation Reports, 1904 | 07714 |
| Plantation Reports, 1905 | 07716 |
| Plantation Reports, 1906 | 07717 |
| Plantation Reports, 1907 | 07718 |
| Requisition Forms, 1907-1908 | 07719 |
| Oversize materials Convict Employee Monthly Reports, 1899-1901 Plat, Sunflower County, 1900 Blueprint, Double Box Friction Cotton Press, 1905 Plat #3, Yazoo Valley, No Date Plats, Leflore County, No Date Blueprint, Mattson Extension, Sunflower County, 1905 Well Logs, 1912 Plat, Washington County, 1900 Treasurer’s Disbursements, 1901 State Farm Plat, Yazoo County, 1900 List of Lessor’s, 1896-1899 Plat #2, Yazoo County, No Date Plat, Sunflower County, No Date Plat, Sunflower / Leflore Counties, No Date Illinois Central Railroad Map, N. D. | 07722 |
| Penitentiary Correspondence, 1863-1864, 1891, 1895-1908 Expense Receipts, 1898-1910 | 35784 |
| Legislative Report on Treatment of Prisoners, 1840-1841 “What shall we do with our convicts,” undated draft Board of Trustees Report, 1907 Secretary's Reports, 1907 Board inspection reports, 1907 Warden Reports, 1899 Superintendent Reports, 1910 Physicians Reports, 1907 Chaplain’s Reports, 1901, 1907-1913 Expense Reports, 1900-1907 Tobacco Reports, 1901 Trustee Appointments, 1912 Employment Recommendation Letters, 1902-1913 Correspondence re Convict Transfers, 1892, 1902-1906 Coroner Inquests, 1906-1907 Death Certificates, 1900-1902 | 35785 |
| Commissary Requisitions, 1907-1908 Cotton Receipts, 1901-1911 Escaped Convict Certificates, 1900-1906 Escaped Convict Warrants, 1934 Fugitive Order (Governor Longino), 1901 Freight Receipts, 1900-1907 Pay Station Attendant Reports, 1906 Penitentiary Certificates, 1898-1906 Telegraph Receipts, 1901-1906 Plantation Prescription Receipts, 1909 Employee Oaths, 1909-1912 Contracts, 1875, 1895-1910 | 35786 |