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TitleUntitled Typed Manuscript
CreatorCunningham, Minnie Fisher, 1882-1964
DescriptionTyped manuscript recalls the business arrangement they had to supply food and produce to railroad customers; at first the railroad would stop at the farm itself, later packages of goods were picked up at New Waverly station. The manuscript also details the arrangement her father made to pay for the passage of several Polish families to work on the farm as hired help, thus paying back their passage in farm labor. She also recalls how her father would sometimes go into debt to help another person in need.
GenreManuscripts
Subject (Name)Cunningham, Minnie Fisher, 1882-1964
Subject.Topical (LCSH)Indentured servants; Cotton farmers;
Subject.Topical (TGM)Cotton plantations
Railroad stations
Subject.Topical (Local)Waverly, Texas
Original CollectionWomen's Archives Minnie Fisher Cunningham Papers, 1914-1944 02/2006-010 http://archon.lib.uh.edu/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=235
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