Pritchard, Harold - Photographs, undated
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, photographs, writings, and other materials by or about J. Carson Pritchard, J. Warren Pritchard, and extended family members.
The collection includes a letter written in December 1944 by a cousin of J. Carson Pritchard, Damon Webb, who was then serving in World War II in Belgium. Damon Webb was a student at West Georgia College in 1933, on the editorial staff of The West Georgian student newspaper, and on the baseball team.
Materials... also include a document from Heflin Baptist Church about J. Carson Pritchard and church activities that seems to indicate the church was in opposition to some of his actions. According to son, W. Stratton Pritchard, in a telephone call with the Head of Special Collections in April 2021, J. Carson Pritchard was protesting poll taxes in Alabama and got in trouble with his church.
Correspondents with J. Carson Pritchard include: Charles Addams, Robert J. Blakely, John Carr, Mildred English, Julian Harris, Miles Horton, Margaret Long, Elmore McKey, L.E. Roberts, Jay Sheffield, Guy H. Wells.
The collection also includes a file of newspaper articles, published in Pickens County Progress newspaper in 2016, which reprinted an account of J.A. Roberson, a Farmers Alliance recruiter, that was originally published as a series in the Carroll County Times in August 1922, about moonshine and moonshining in Pickens County, Georgia. Warren Pritchard found the 1922 Carroll County Times issues in a home in Carroll County and then shared them with the Pickens County newspaper. Pritchard guesses that Roberson's experience in Pickens County likely occurred around 1885.
Also included in the papers is a photograph of Judith Stogner's maternal grandfather, Seth Williams, and another family member with a string of fish, taken in Waco, Georgia.
Dates
- undated
Creator
- From the Collection: Pritchard, J. Carson, 1911-1964 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Open to all users; no restrictions
Extent
From the Collection: 1.26 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
Language
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the University of West Georgia Special Collections Repository
Special Collections, Ingram Library
University of West Georgia
1601 Maple Street
Carrollton GA 30118-2000 United States
special@westga.edu