The Southern Alamanac, 1870

Title:

The Southern Alamanac, 1870

Date:

1870

Creator (Personal):

Gourdin, Peter, 1813-1893

Description:

Volume Three in the Cote Bas and Mepkin Plantations Collection is a Southern Almanac for the Year of our Lord 1870 repurposed as a journal by Peter Gourdin. Entries include planting, farming and irrigation information from Cote Bas and Mepkin Plantations. Other entries concern rice, cotton, payments made for goods and services, social activities and clippings on various topics such as the Union Reform Party and voting for freedmen.

Collection Title:

Cote Bas and Mepkin Plantations Journals, 1865-1877

Contributing Institution:

South Carolina Historical Society

Media Type:

Manuscripts

Personal or Corporate Subject:

Gourdin, Peter, 1813-1893

Topical Subject:

Account books, Rice, Cotton, Diaries, Freedmen, Almanacs, Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.), Plantations, Rice farming, Voting, Nineteenth century, Political party organization, and Plantation workers

Geographic Subject:

South Carolina

S.C. County:

Berkeley County, S.C.

Language:

English

Shelving Locator:

34-185-3

Date Digital:

2021-09

Digitization Specifications:

600 dpi, 24-bit depth, color, Epson Expression 10000XL. Archival masters are tiffs.

Format:

image/jpeg

Copyright Status Statement:

Public Domain.

Access Information:

For more information and re-use requirements contact the South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston, SC, 29401.

Admin ID:

261985