Collection Items
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 1 of [The Renns] 1923 Pettigrew St West Durham N C July 19 1938 I L M THE REfiNS Wesley Renn lives in the mill village in one of the better houses which has a comfortable...
- Contributor: I.L.M. - Renn, Wesley
- Date: 1938-07-19
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 2 of [The Renns] him that if they did fulfill this hope the money with which they bought the lana would not be made on the other mans lend When in 1899 cotton went to four...
- Contributor: I.L.M. - Renn, Wesley
- Date: 1938-07-19
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 3 of [The Renns] fall of 1899 he was without a gin operator and he offered the job to Wesley who had proven himself a good steady worker and a man who got along with Negroes...
- Contributor: I.L.M. - Renn, Wesley
- Date: 1938-07-19
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 4 of [The Renns] With money from his job as gin operator still in his pockets Wesley Henn was enabled to make a choice of the kind of mill work he wished to do Instead of...
- Contributor: I.L.M. - Renn, Wesley
- Date: 1938-07-19
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 5 of [The Renns] would come in the mill with their shovels and actually scrape up piles of filth where the help had spit all the year long and no attention at all being paid to...
- Contributor: I.L.M. - Renn, Wesley
- Date: 1938-07-19
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 6 of [The Renns] 6 Wesley moved several more times during the next few years each time with the expectation of higher wages He knows now that many of the moves were not wise but in...
- Contributor: I.L.M. - Renn, Wesley
- Date: 1938-07-19
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 7 of [The Renns] two average years That year his landlord marketed five thousand dollars worth of tobacco and half of that money was Wesleys When he got through paying the merchant who had furnished him...
- Contributor: I.L.M. - Renn, Wesley
- Date: 1938-07-19
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 8 of [The Renns] The children are proud of their home and the two who are working spend a good part of their wages in buying new furniture on the installment plan They are particular ly...
- Contributor: I.L.M. - Renn, Wesley
- Date: 1938-07-19
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 9 of [The Renns] respectability Sadie too is likely to add a tired smile when one of her children becomes so absorbed in a book that he pays no attention to some auestion address ed to...
- Contributor: I.L.M. - Renn, Wesley
- Date: 1938-07-19