- Collection:
- Coastal Heritage Society, Central of Georgia Rail Road Collection, Carpentry Shop Ledger
- Title:
- Central of Georgia Rail Road Carpentry Shop Ledger, part 3
- Creator:
- Central Rail Road and Banking Company of Georgia
- Date of Original:
- 1860/1899
- Subject:
- Account books--Georgia--Savannah
Scrapbooks--Georgia--Savannah
Central Rail Road and Banking Company of Georgia
Railroads--Georgia--Savannah
Railroad repair shops--Georgia--Savannah
Railroads--Freight--Georgia--Savannah
Carpentry--Georgia--Savannah
Railroads--Employees
African American railroad employees--Georgia--Savannah
Savannah (Ga.)--Economic conditions--19th century
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Poetry
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Savannah (Ga.)--History--19th century
Trials (Murder)--Georgia--Savannah
Love--Georgia--Savannah
Death--Georgia--Savannah
Bereavement--Georgia--Savannah
Caricatures and cartoons--Georgia--Savannah
Railroad trains--Maintenance and repair
Lumber--Georgia--Savannah
Forge shops--Georgia--Savannah
Railway mail cars--Georgia--Savannah
Building materials--Georgia--Savannah
Artillery--Georgia--Savannah
Railroad passenger cars--Georgia--Savannah
Slaves--United States
Slaves--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
- Medium:
- ledgers (account books)
scrapbooks
clippings (information artifacts) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Contents of the third of five sections of a nineteenth-century ledger and scrapbook documenting work conducted at the Carpentry Shop, within the Savannah Shops complex of the Central Rail Road and Banking Company of Georgia in Savannah, Georgia. This section of the ledger/scrapbook dates from 1860 to 1864 during the Civil War period, and contains details and financial data pertaining to the Central Rail Road and Banking Company of Georgia. Topics include: railroad passenger cars, railroad and train maintenance, artillery (gun carriages and platforms), forges, and mail cars. It also includes information about assorted projects, materials, hours worked, and wages earned by its white laborers and enslaved African Americans. Some entries record items fabricated such as hinges, bolts, and nails for projects such as the passenger shed (now the Savannah History Museum). Parts of this section of the ledger/scrapbook beginning on page 213 (page 23 of the PDF) and extending to page 278 (page 75 of the PDF) also include newspaper clippings from the 1870s to the 1890s pasted over earlier ledger entries. The clippings include poetry, illustrations, and newspaper articles related to love, death, murder trials, funerals, and topics surrounding bereavement. An inscription written in the front flyleaf of the ledger indicates that a Miss Laura Barthelmess began the scrapbook in 1870.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:chso_cgrc_rrl-c
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:chso_cgrc_rrl-c
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 100 pages
- Original Collection:
- Coastal Heritage Society, Central of Georgia Rail Road Collection, Carpentry Shop Ledger, 1991.54.1
- Holding Institution:
- Coastal Heritage Society (Ga.)
- Rights:
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