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Board Regents minutes from May 29, 1929: Records bids received for building the Tuberculosis ward at the State Hospital in Columbia, and the decision to accept the lowest bid, proposed by Mechanics Contracting Co., of $22,981.

An excerpt from the Annual Report for the year 1909-Superintendent's Report summarizing previous annual reports in order to convey a need for a second building for African American patients

Lists 9 white male workers. This is the highest number of workers recorded by the annual reports found.

Mattress Factory is part of "supply division" during this time. It made 3,372 mattresses and 1,828 mattress covers this year.

The Mattress Factory was part of the "Supply Division" during this time. In 1957 it produced 2,476 mattresses and 1,733 mattress covers.

The functions of the Mattress Factory are only mentioned very briefly now. These activities are still done by workers and they are regarded as Industrial Therapy.

Cost for mattress factory supplies listed as $35. No salary or pay for the patients.

Lists 4 white males as working in the factory. The year before, the first time the building was mentioned, there was an employee working at the factory instead of patients.

$82.50 spent on bedsprings during this year.

It notes the purchase of $30 of cotton and $112 of duck remnants. These are materials that were used to re-purpose mattresses. This voucher is for July.