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Leo M. Frank collections

Materials on Leo M. Frank, the superintendent of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, who was convicted of the murder of factory worker Mary Phagan in 1913; then lynched by a mob in Marietta in 1915 after Governor John M. Slaton commuted Frank's death sentence to life imprisonment.

More About This Collection

Creator
Frank, Leo, 1884-1915

Date of Original
1878/1988

People
Alexander, Henry A. (Henry Aaron), 1874-1967
Alexander, Marian Kline, 1895-1984
Arnold, R. R. (Reuben Rose), 1868-1960
Brandon, Morris, Sr., 1862-1940
Cahan, Abraham, 1860-1951
Carter, Annie Maud
Conley, James (Jim), 1886-ca. 1952
Connolly, C. P. (Christopher Powell), 1863-1935
Creen, William
Dorsey, Hugh Manson, 1871-1948
Frank, Lucille Selig, 1888-1957
Frank, Rachel Jacobs, 1859-1925
Freeman, Emma Clarke
Grice, Warren, 1875-
Haas, Herbert J., 1884-1953
Haas, Leonard, Sr., 1880-1969
Haas, Leopold, 1877-1958
Hall, Corinthia
Henson, Allen Lumpkin
Joseph Rucker and Clarinda Pendleton Lamar papers
Lamar, Joseph Rucker, 1857-1916
Lanford, N. A. (Newport Alonzo), 1861-1930
Lee, Newt
Liebman, Bernard S
Mangum, C. Wheeler
Mann, Alonzo M. (Alonzo McLendon), Jr., 1897-1985
Marshall, Louis, 1856-1929
Marx, David M., 1872-1962
Marx, David M., 1872-1962
May, Isaac, 1862-1953
Ochs, Adolph S. (Adolph Simon), 1858-1935
Peeples, Henry C. (Henry Cabaniss), 1857-1937
Phagan, Mary, d. 1913
Pitney, Mahlon, 1858-1924
Roan, Leonard Strickland, 1849-1915
Roberts, Wiley B., 1853-1934
Rosser, Luther Z., 1857-1928
Schiff, Herbert G. Sr., 1894-1938
Schwartz, Dale M., 1940-2021
Selig, Josephine Cohen, 1864-1933
Sherborne, Robert, 1950-
Slaton, John M.
Smith, William (-1949)
Smithline, Jeffrey S., 1974-
Stern, Marian Frank, 1886-1948
Stern, Otto, 1882-1963
Thompson, Jerry, 1940-
Watson, Thomas E. (Thomas Edward), 1856-1922
Wittenstein, Charles F., 1928-2013

Location
United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Baldwin County, Milledgeville, 33.08014, -83.2321
United States, Georgia, Cobb County, Marietta, 33.9526, -84.54993
United States, Georgia, Floyd County, Rome, 34.25704, -85.16467
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Fort McPherson, 33.70733, -84.43354
United States, Georgia, Rabun County, Mountain City, 34.91815, -83.38544
United States, Massachusetts, Berkshire County, North Adams, 42.70092, -73.10871
United States, Michigan, St. Louis County, Duluth
United States, New York, Kings County, Brooklyn, 40.6501, -73.94958
United States, New York, Tompkins County, Ithaca, 42.44063, -76.49661
United States, Virginia, 37.54812, -77.44675

Medium
family papers
correspondence
photocopies|affidavits
records
legal documents
transcripts
letterheads
photocopies
depositions
books
reports
briefs (legal documents)
transcripts
extracts (partial documents)
synagogue records
diaries
school records
newsletters
clippings (information artifacts)
letters (correspondence)
invitations
marriage certificates
diplomas
school records

Type
Still Image, Text

Description
Materials on Leo M. Frank, the superintendent of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, who was convicted of the murder of factory worker Mary Phagan in 1913. Frank was lynched by a mob in Marietta in 1915 after Governor John M. Slaton commuted Frank's death sentence to life imprisonment. The Leo M. Frank materials span several archival collections in the Ida Pearl and Joseph Cuba Archive for Southern Jewish History at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum. They are collocated inside this single digital collection.

Metadata URL
https://dlg.usg.edu/collection/breman_lmfc

Language
eng

Holding Institution
William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum

Rights