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Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 11, Issue 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Anthropology in Florida Rhea M. Smith
The First Landing Place of Ponce de Leon in Florida (map) T. Frederick Davis
Walker Anderson, 1801-1857 Julia J. Yonge
The First Session of the Legislative Council of Florida
Records of Panton, Leslie and Company

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 11, Issue 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

William Pope DuVal (frontispiece)
William Pope DuVal, Pioneer and State Builder James Owen Knauss
An Expected Attack on Pensacola, 1816 A letter of John Innerarity
Annual Meeting of the Florida Historical Society

• Minutes
• Annual report of the acting president
• Annual report of the treasurer

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 11, Issue 2, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Frederick C. Cubberly
Arthur T. Williams
How the Spaniards Evacuated Pensacola in 1763 Wilbur H. Siebert
The Wilderness and Spottsylvania May 4-12, 1864, Narrative of a private soldier, James W. Roberts
A Check List of Extant Florida Newspapers, 1845- 1876 Elmer J. Emig
Wilkinson’s Occupation of Mobile, April, 1813, A letter of James Innerarity to John Forbes

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 11, Issue 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Arthur Tilman Williams
The Record of Ponce de Leon’s Discovery of Florida, 1513 T. Frederick Davis
Racial Strains in Florida Rhea M. Smith
William Augustus Bowles

• A Talk of the Creek Nation, 1799
• Daniel McGillivray to William Panton, 1800

Grider, Dorothy, 1915-2012 (Mss 709), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 709. Correspondence, papers, sketches, drawings, mockups and other artwork documenting the career of Bowling Green, Kentucky native Dorothy Grider, an artist and illustrator of greeting and playing cards, filmstrips, advertisements for magazines, and numerous activity, coloring and story books for children.

Rondo Days, Kellian Clink

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The Rondo Days Festival, inaugurated in 1983, is a reunion of the Black community of the Twin Cities. It memorializes and mourns a neighborhood gone, a neighborhood where residents “learned to fill the gaps in American history (Fairbanks 1999, 141), learned about the contributions and tribulations of their people. The celebration remembers when the creation of I-94 meant the destruction of a vibrant neighborhood, moving hundreds of families from a community of truly gracious homes to “substandard housing with bad wiring” (Baker 1994). Rondo Days celebrates a sense of community sustained in defiance of institutional racism and urban planning run …

Finding Aid For The Juanita Brown Collection (Mum00048)

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Collection contains extensive Civil War correspondence, most notably the letters of J.H. Buford to his sisters.

Gossom, Cora Eliza, 1866-1926 (Sc 3566), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3566. Scrapbook, together with clippings and ephemera contained therein, of Cora Gossom, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Although many of its pages are missing, the book is a “Mark Twain’s Scrapbook,” containing pages coated with a light adhesive that required a slight application of moisture instead of glue. The contents relate primarily to news and local social events of interest to Cora, including her own debut. Loose items include a humorous novelty card warning of “fishing pox” and a postcard extolling William Jennings Bryan.

The Meaning Of Mcdonald's [(R)], Laura A. Heymann

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Bell Buckle, Tennessee - Relating To (Sc 3565), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3565. “Bell Buckle Spring,” a 7 page narrative by an unknown author, recounting a naval lieutenant’s reminiscences of his youth while a student in Bell Buckle, Tennessee. The story is a lyrical account of the natural features of the area and the excitement of witnessing a passing train. The story is inscribed as written in 1945 and “delivered” in May 1947.

Stamps Family (Sc 3564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3564. Genealogical data and related correspondence of the Stamps and Hills families of Warren County, Kentucky. Includes family group sheets, cemetery data and other compiled material.

Journal Of John Lee Williams, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Journal of a voyage from Pensacola to St. Marks and the district of country included between the rivers Ocholockney and Suwannee, in West Florida, during the months of October and November, 1823.

Journal Of Dr. W. H. Simmons, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Left St. Augustine and reached Buonavista, late at night, the road being impeded with water nearly the whole way. The flats being on the other side, there was no possibility of getting my horses over before the morning. I however passed over myself in a canoe and slept at Vibrillia.

The Selection Of Tallahassee As The Capital, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Mr. Wall, Chairman of a Special Committee on Examination of a Site for a Governor's Mansion, submitted the, following report: Sir— On the 15th of this month there was presented and read to this body a communication from the Council of the city of Tallahassee, in which they agree to give a "Fee Simple Title" to six town lots of land within the city for a Governor's Mansion, provided the Legislature will grant $20,000 to build the same. Therefore, I ask permission that the following history relative to these lands be presented in the Journal."

Indian Massacre In Gadsen County, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Sixteen miles southwest of Quincy, the county seat of the grand old county of Gadsden, and about a mile from the banks of the Tallogee creek, spelled on the maps Taliga, lives John K. McLane, now in his eighty-third, year, and a descendant of those, sturdy old Scotch colonists who have contributed so much to the history of this republic.

Origin Of The Shell Mounds, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Modern methods of traveling and the corresponding number of travelers, permitting easy access to all parts of the civilized world; and especially throughout the United States, cause many persons to spend their winters in a semi-tropical climate, thereby combining the opportunity to escape the rigor of winter and secure that change of climate condusive to health and happiness. To entertain this vast concourse of people, whose dispositions and tastes vary almost as much as their personal appearance, is no small matter. For the success of each city or locality, in obtaining its proportion of tourists is in proportion to their …

Catalogue Of Collections, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This is a list of books, pamphlets, maps, relics, and photographs.

Report Of President F. P. Fleming To The Annual Meeting Of The Florida Historical Society, Held November 19th, 1907, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Gentlemen of the Florida Historical Society— It gives me pleasure to again greet you on this occasion of the annual meeting of the society.

Major George Rainsford Fairbanks, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Major George Rainsford Fairbanks, the first president of the Florida Historical Society, whose likeness appears in this number, died at his summer home in Sewanee, Tennessee, on the third day of August, 1906, in the eighty-seventh year of his age. He was born in Watertown, New York, on July 5, 1820. At the age of nineteen, he graduated from the Union College, Schenectady, with the degree of B. A. Later he received the degree of M. A. from his alma mater, and the same degree from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. At the age of twenty-two he was admitted to the …

Prospectus, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Florida Historical Society was organized November 26, 1902. It was chartered as a corporation May 15, 1905. The objects of the Society, as set forth in its charter, are as follows.