- Collection:
- Leo M. Frank Collections
- Title:
- the Leo Frank Exhibit Collection
- Creator:
- Frank, Rachel Jacobs, 1859-1925
Roan, Leonard Strickland, 1849-1915 - Date of Original:
- 1913/1915
- Subject:
- Trials (Murder)--Georgia
Frank, Leo, 1884-1915--Trials, litigation, etc.
Frank, Leo, 1884-1915--Family
Collier's (Magazine)
Investigative reporting
Journalists
Judges--Georgia--Correspondence
Judges--Georgia--History--20th century
Clemency
Executive power--Georgia
Justice, Administration of - People:
- Frank, Leo, 1884-1915
Connolly, C. P. (Christopher Powell), 1863-1935
Frank, Rachel Jacobs, 1859-1925
Roan, Leonard Strickland, 1849-1915
Rosser, Luther Z., 1857-1928
Arnold, R. R. (Reuben Rose), 1868-1960
Brandon, Morris, Sr., 1862-1940 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Massachusetts, Berkshire County, North Adams, 42.70092, -73.10871
United States, New York, Kings County, Brooklyn, 40.6501, -73.94958 - Medium:
- family papers
correspondence
photocopies - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- This folder contains a January 18, 1915 letter to "Mr. Connolly" (C. P. Connolly, an investigative journalist working for Collier's Weekly) from Ray Frank, mother of Leo Frank, thanking him for a copy of his book "The Truth About the Frank Case..." (New York: Vail-Ballou Company, 1915), and requesting the return of family photographs when he is done using them for his writing work. The next item is a letter from L. S. Roan, the judge who presided over Leo Frank's original case in Fulton County, to Frank's legal team requesting executive clemency that Frank's sentence be commuted to life imprisonment.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/breman_lmfc_breman_lmfc_2017-17vf-f
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/breman_lmfc_breman_lmfc_2017-17vf-f#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/breman_lmfc_2017-17vf-f/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 13 pages; 8.5 x 11 inches
- Original Collection:
- the Leo Frank Exhibit Collection [2017 addition]
- Holding Institution:
- William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum
- Rights:
-
