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Chain gang prisoners working on Georgia highway, with printer annotations, 1931
Photo of chain gang prisoners working on a Georgia highway. Printer's annotations, most likely from the "Daily Worker", show how the image was to be cropped for the newspaper. Notes from Spivak on the back read, "A Georgia chain gang at work on a…
Prisoner chained in iron collar in the Muscogee county, Georgia prison, 1931
Photo of a black prisoner in Georgia wearing an iron collar and sitting in the wooden cage that functioned as housing. Notes by Spivak on the back read, "Chained by neck and feet to iron cage: Muscogee county, Ga. near Columbus, Ga. This convict had…
"Wooden cage with iron bar network in which are housed black and white convicts of the Seminole county (Ga.) camp," 1931
Photo of the prisoner housing at a Georgia prison. Notes written by Spivak on the back say, "Wooden cage with iron bar network in which are housed black and white convicts of the Seminole county (Ga.) camp."
"Seminole county (Ga.) warden in front of his county-supplied home at the convict camp," 1931
Photo of a Georgia warden standing in front of his home at the convict camp. Notes written by Spivak on back.
Letter to legislator
Letter to legislator
The Struggle of the Texas Farmworkers Union
Pamphlet authored by supporters and members of the TFWU
Buttons, CIOAC (left) Texas Farm Workers' Union (right)
Buttons from the Texas Farmworkers Union and the Central Independiente de Obreros Agrícolas y Campesinos
Convicts in a Georgia Chain Gang, with printer annotations, 1931
Photo of black convicts working as part of a Georgia chain gang in the early 1930s. Photo edited for publication in a newspaper. Printers notes on back.
Clipping from Providence R.I. Journal, 1932
Journal clipping reviewing Spivak's fiction novel and explaining the prison conditions he encountered during his investigation