Convict Wagon Floorplan
Item
Identifier
https://documentinghistory.clemson.edu/studentprojects/admin/item/xxx
Title
Convict Wagon Floorplan
Type
Image
Format
image/jpeg
Language
Source
Matthew J. Mancini, Portable work house from "What Shall We Do With Our County Convicts?" in One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866-1928 (Chattanooga: Converse Bridge Company, c. 1897. Southern Pamphlets, Rare Book Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 61.
Rights
Date
c. 1910
Description
Floor plan illustration of mule-drawn convict wagons. These 'rolling cages' contained two tiers of bunks, a stove, and a toilet, as well as a small compartment for two guards.