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Tampa Bay In 1757: Francisco Maria Celi's Journal And Logbook, Part Ii, John D. Ware

Florida Historical Quarterly

Sunday, the 24th of April dawned with horizons and sky clear and wind favorable from the NE. At 6:00 A.M. after hearing the Holy Sacrifiice of the Mass, we departed the vessel with the longboat and canoe, both armed, in which the following men went: Frigate Lieutenant Don José Jiménez; Don Fraucisco Maria Celi; Don Juan Franco, a draftsman from the navy yard by the stream;55 the carpenter and the caulker of the xebec; and fifteen seamen. All this was in expectation of drawing a chart, and of surveying the forests and pines for masts, their quality, length, and thickness. …

Slavetrading In Antebellum Florida, Julia F. Smith

Florida Historical Quarterly

Much of the slave trade in Florida centered in Tallahassee, the heart of the cotton belt. New Orleans was perhaps the largest southern slave market. Negro-traders, characters looked down upon by all, purchased slaves there “from the block” at public outcry. Most of the supply for Florida planters was brought in by these traders. They came to St. Marks by ship and then on to Tallahassee to dispose of their cargoes. The blacks were kept in the public jail or in “slave pens,” special buildings designed with cells, until time of sale. The auctions were widely advertised in advance, and …

Claude Pepper And The Florida Canal Controversy, 1939-1943, Alexander R. Stoensen

Florida Historical Quarterly

The dream of a waterway across Florida from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico long has captured the imagination. In 1595 Spanish cartographers depicted one across the peninsula, a mistake assumed correct for nearly 200 years. During the British period in Florida, the royal government conducted a survey to determine if such a route existed, and in 1788 the United States army produced a sketch map of the area, although by that time it was clear no watercourse existed. Later, Thomas Jefferson’s administration exhibited the first high-level American interest in the construction of a waterway—an interest which has …

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 50, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents

Sixty-Ninth Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes and notes from the annual meeting

Publication Information, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Announcements and Activities; Local Historical Societies and Commissions;

Book Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

WesseIs, Born To Be A Soldier: The Military Career of William Wing Loring of St. Augustine, Florida, by George Buker; Carter, The Gulf Stream Story, by Charlton W. Tebeau; Wright, Gold, Glory, and the Gospel: The Adventurous Lives and Times of the Renaissance Explorers, by William R. Gillaspie; Kraus, Sir Francis Drake: A Pictorial Biography, by Paul E. Hoffman; Olson and Brown (eds.), Anglo-American Political Relations, 1675-1775, by Robert R. Rea; Clark, New Orleans, 1718-1812: An Economic History, by Jane De Grummond; Knight, Slave Society in Cuba During the Nineteenth Century, by Kenneth F. Kiple; Rayback, Free Soil: The Election …

Alexander Hamilton's Florida Policy, Gilbert L. Lycan

Florida Historical Quarterly

Alexander Hamilton had a greater interest in Florida and spoke of it more often than any other prominent American of his period. While still living in the West Indies, he worked for Beckman and Cruger at Christiansed, and during a part of that time he was in charge of their commercial activities. Whenever he looked at a map of North America, which he often did in the course of his activities, he saw first of all the peninsula of Florida pointing out toward his homeland. Throughout his life Hamilton was aware of the importance of Florida in the future of …

Tampa Bay In 1757: Francisco Maria Celi's Journal And Logbook, Part 1, John D. Ware

Florida Historical Quarterly

For almost two centuries following their discovery and exploration Tampa Bay lay virtually neglected by the Spanish. Then, in 1756, for a variety of reasons, they seemed to awake to the potential of the area, and they authorized two surveys. The first, made by Juan Baptista Franco in the closing months of 1756, was but briefly recorded. Perhaps because of the brevity of this report a second survey was sought by Señor Don Lorenzo de Montalbo, comisario ordenador de marina, principal naval minister in Cuba. The mission was entrusted to Don Francisco Maria Celi, pilot of the Spanish Royal Fleet, …

Florida After Secession: Abandonment By The Confederacy And Its Consequences, John F. Reiger

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the early months of 1861, some Florida citizens seemed to feel that the approaching conflict would be diversion rather than tragedy. On January 12, the day after the state seceded, a detachment of Florida and Alabama troops seized the navy yard at Pensacola. They were accompanied by a jovial throng of townspeople who found the event greatly entertaining. Other Floridians believed that the government would not fight to preserve the Union, or if it did fight, that the efforts would be cowardly and short. Throughout the state, prominent men offered to drink all the blood spilt in any struggle …

Tallahassee Through The Storebooks, 1843-1863: Antebellum Cotton Prosperity, Clifton Paisley

Florida Historical Quarterly

Few things stirred more interest than the planting, harvesting and marketing of cotton in mid-nineteenth-century Tallahassee. In April 1849, cotton was in the ground and prospects looked bright despite a severe freeze on April 15. There was some apprehension that the unexpected cold had badly damaged and perhaps had destroyed the young plants, but these fears were quickly allayed. The freeze was even more severe in the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, and the damage in those areas indicated a likely increase in cotton prices from the seven or eight cents a pound of recent years. In addition to cotton, …

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 50, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents

Book Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida Sesquicentennial; Arthur W. Thompson Memorial Prize in Florida History; Rembert W. Patrick Memorial Book Award; Award of Merit; Florida History Award; Announcements and Activities; Personals; Local Societies and Commissions; Notes

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Tebeau, A History of Florida, by Dorothy Dodd; Pierce, Pioneer Life in Southeast Florida, by Ruby Leach Carson; Murray, Plant Wizard, The Life of Lue Gim Gong, by Wyatt Blassingame; Burrus and Hammond (eds.), Homenaje a Don José María de la Peña y Cámara, by Jack D. L. Holmes; Bannon, The Spanish Borderlands Frontier 1513-1821, by William S. Coker; Debo, A History of the Indians of the United States, by Kenneth Wiggins Porter; DeRosier, Jr., The Removal of the Choctaw Indians, by Louis De Vorsey, Jr.; Hamer, Rogers, and Wehage (eds.), The Papers of Henry Laurens, Volume II: Nov. 1, …

Florida History In Periodicals, 1970, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This selected bibliography includes scholarly articles in the field of Florida history, archaeology, geography, and anthropology published in state, regional, and national periodicals in 1970. Articles, notes, and documents which have appeared in the Florida Historical Quarterly are not included in this listing since they appear in the annual index of each volume. The present listing also includes articles appearing in journals not published on schedule and which were not included in the list published in the July 1970 issue of the Quarterly.

East Florida Land Commission: A Study In Frustration, George C. Whatley

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Puritan soul of John Quincy Adams had been much mortified by the tissue of intrigue and double dealing that had surrounded his negotiations for the acquisition by his beloved United States of the Florida territory.

How To Escape The Yankees: Major Scott's Letter To His Wife At Tallahassee, March 1864, Clifton Paisley

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Middle Florida cotton plantation region that centered in Tallahassee had good reason in the spring of 1864 to fear an attack by Federal forces despite the impressive Confederate victory at the Battle of Olustee on February 20. After this bloody engagement Union troops retreated to Jacksonville, and pursuing Confederates stopped twelve miles short of the city at McGirt's Creek. They dug in there, and for months there was a standoff. Florida’s long and poorly defended shoreline provided abundant other opportunities for a Federal assault, however. Middle Florida had become particularly vulnerable to an attack with the withdrawal of Confederate …

The Female Protection And The Sun Light: Two Contemporary Negro Mutual Aid Societies, Bruce Ergood

Florida Historical Quarterly

Mutual Aid Societies were an integral part of the lifestyle of nineteenth-century American blacks. These precursors of contemporary insurance companies provided financial assistance to members in time of sickness and crisis and paid the burial costs of the departed member. Societies were founded in the East and throughout the South, both in rural and urban communities. Many of these societies— or burial clubs, as they are commonly called— continue to exist.

The Captives Of Florida, Eugene Lyon

Florida Historical Quarterly

In September 1565, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés of Spain sought out and attacked the Huguenot French in their Florida settlement. When his victory was won, a number of men, women, and children had become captives of the Spanish, while at least two Spaniards were prisoners in the hands of the French. Some of these people possessed noble blood; most were common sailors and soldiers. A few gained a degree of notoriety from their experiences– at least one of the captives was received at the court of Philip II of Spain, while another appeared before the Queen Mother of France. While …

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 50, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents

Contents Of Volume L, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 50

Wilk, Joseph Peter, 1926-1994 (Mss 728), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 728. Printed matter, photographs, and correspondence relating to a small number of commissions executed by Bowling Green, Kentucky architect Joseph P. Wilk. Also includes some biographical data.

Shirley Ann Williams And Joseph L. Williams Jr. -- Part 2, Kelli Johnson

Oral Histories – NPS AACR Civil Rights In Appalachia Grant

Part 2 of Kelli Johnson's oral history interview with Shirley Ann and Joseph L. Williams Jr..

This oral history is part of the National Park Service African American Civil Rights History and Appalachia Grant Program.

Book Review: The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence In Texas, Charles C. Weisbecker

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

No abstract provided.

The Grizzly, October 7, 2021, Layla Halterman, Brooke Hurley, Brittany Brubaker, Jenna Smith, Marie Sykes, Alena Deantonellis, Claire Hynes, Ava Compagnoni

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Single Room Scarcity • A Note from the Editor • A Brisk, Impending Winter • Meet the New English Department Chair • The Society of Physics Students Revival • Opinions: Favorite Meals at the Collegeville Diner • Wellness Tips for COVID Fatigue • Women's Tennis Succeeds at ITAs

Bowling Green Woolen Mills - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3616), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3616. Pages from a payroll ledger, March-July 1875, of the Bowling Green Woolen Mills, Bowling Green, Kentucky, listing employees’ names and wages paid. Includes data on scoured and unscoured jeans manufactured in 1874. Some data is incomplete due to damaged and mutilated pages. Also includes historical notes on the business collected in 1955 by WKU librarian Elizabeth Coombs.

Dietz #39 Standard Lantern, R. E. Dietz Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Dietz #39 Standard Lantern, circa. 1906. The Dietz #39 Standard came in a number of different styles among those was the "Vulcan" model which were manufactured without a bellbottom base like that of the "Empire" and "Vesta" models of lanterns. The "Vulcan" featured both twist off and insertion fuel founts, later models featured a flat top. It is estimated that production of this model ended in the 1950's

information provided is altered from W.T. Kirkman Lanterns. https://lanternnet.com/