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Inmate Telephone List with notes made by Herman Wallace while incarcerated

after 1972

Angola, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A printed form on a single sheet of yellowed paper. At the top is printed [INMATE TELEPHONE LIST] in bold and underlined text. Beneath this are spaces for "Name" and "DOC No," which have been completed by hand with "Herman Wallace" and "76759." Along the left side is a numbered table with telephone numbers entered by hand. There are various notes made to the list: "Out" and/or "X" has been added to several lines and some telephone numbers have been crossed out. Surrounding the numbered list and on both sides of the sheet are numerous additional notes, names, and telephone numbers in black and red inks. The paper has been folded into twelve sections.

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Catalog reference: A2018.36.1.4.4

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