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Ready Cash On Easy Terms: Local Responses To The Depression In Lee County, R. Lyn Rainard Dec 2021

Ready Cash On Easy Terms: Local Responses To The Depression In Lee County, R. Lyn Rainard

Florida Historical Quarterly

When the Great Depression spread to southwest Florida, it caught an unprepared population by surprise. In response, the people of Lee County united in an effort to use local public and private resources to alleviate want. Although moderately successful at first, community efforts alone could not surmount the hardship brought by the Depression. Only massive federal aid would accomplish that goal, bringing in its wake, however, other unforeseen results. New Deal programs did reduce economic trauma, but they also fundamentally altered attitudes about the causes of proverty and about the purpose of federal assistance. Ultimately, New Deal grants were used …


The Tony Tommie Letter, 1916: A Transitional Seminole Document, Harry A. Kersey, Jr. Dec 2021

The Tony Tommie Letter, 1916: A Transitional Seminole Document, Harry A. Kersey, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

On October 4, 1916, a young Seminole boy named Tony Tommie wrote a letter to his friend Frank Stranahan, the trading post operator at Fort Lauderdale on the New River. Tony was sixteen years of age at the time, and had completed one year of instruction at the Fort Lauderdale elementary school. His brief note contained a plea for a $10.00 loan with which he could purchase a number of items, the most interesting of these being some “little alligator[s]” to be raised for re-sale to tourists. Unfortunately, there is no record of Stranahan’s response. However, given his long-standing friendship …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

GOVERNOR LEROY COLLINS OF FLORIDA: SPOKESMAN FOR THE NEW SOUTH, by Tom Wagy, reviewed by Manning J. Dauer; HE-COON: THE BOB SIKES STORY, edited by Bobbye Sikes Wicke, reviewed by D. R. “Billy” Matthews; THE MIAMI RIOT OF 1980: CROSSING THE BOUNDS, by Bruce Porter and Marvin Dunn, reviewed by Robert P. Ingalls; MODERN FLORIDA GOVERNMENT, by Anne E. Kelley, reviewed by Allen Morris; RAILS ‘NEATH THE PALMS, by Robert W. Mann, reviewed by Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.; GEORGE WASHINGTON, A BIOGRAPHY, by John R. Alden, reviewed by Aubrey C. Land; THE PAPERS OF HENRY CLAY, VOLUME 8, CANDIDATE , …


A Swiss Settler In East Florida: A Letter Of Francis Philip Fatio, William Scott Willis Dec 2021

A Swiss Settler In East Florida: A Letter Of Francis Philip Fatio, William Scott Willis

Florida Historical Quarterly

A letter written by Francis Philip Fatio, who settled in East Florida in 1771 and remained there until his death in 1811, was recently discovered among some papers in a desk given to The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Florida for use in the Ximenez-Fatio House in St. Augustine. Written by Fatio from New Switzerland, his plantation on the St. Johns River, to his wife in St. Augustine, the letter is dated October 18, 1800. It provides not only intimate glimpses of life on an East Florida plantation during the Second Spanish Period …


A Second Chance: Cary Nicholas And Frontier Florida, Dennis Golladay Dec 2021

A Second Chance: Cary Nicholas And Frontier Florida, Dennis Golladay

Florida Historical Quarterly

On the morning of July 17, 1821, the inhabitants of Pensacola gathered around the town’s public square to witness the ceremony marking the transfer of the Floridas from Spanish to American control. Among the new American residents in the crowd was Cary Nicholas, a thirty-four-year-old transplanted Kentuckian who, like so many others, saw in the territory the prospect for a new start in a life too full of disappointments and failures.


Florida's First Women Candidates, Allen Morris Dec 2021

Florida's First Women Candidates, Allen Morris

Florida Historical Quarterly

The nineteenth amendment, the women’s suffrage amendment, having been ratified by the requisite thirty-eight states, was declared a part of the United States Constitution on August 26, 1920. Tennessee cast the deciding vote. The amendment had been first proposed by Congress on June 5, 1915. Florida was not among the thirty-eight states. Ratification did not come in this state until 1969, and then only as a symbolic recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the Florida League of Women Voters. Florida’s women unsuccessfully had urged their legislators since the 1890s to adopt woman’s suffrage. In 1917 the right to vote in …


First League Of Women Voters In Florida: Its Troubled History, Joan S. Carver Dec 2021

First League Of Women Voters In Florida: Its Troubled History, Joan S. Carver

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Florida League of Women Voters cites 1939 as the year of its establishment. In fact, this date marks the founding of the second league of women voters in the state. An earlier organization, the Florida State League of Women Voters (FSLWV) which receives no mention in current league publications, was organized in 1921 and was disaffiliated by the national organization in 1937. The stormy history of the first league illustrates the difficulties women’s organizations in the South experienced in carving out an appropriate role in the political arena in the years following the adoption of the suffrage amendment. It …


Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This list shows the amount and variety of Florida history research and writing currently underway, as reported to the Florida Historical Quarterly. Doctoral dissertations and master’s theses completed in 1984 are included. Research in Florida history, sociology, anthropology, political science, archeology, geography, and urban studies is listed.


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

FLORIDA AND THE AMERICAN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY 1898-1980, by Richard Alan Nelson, reviewed by Edward D. C. Campbell, Jr.; SPANISH COLONIAL FRONTIER RESEARCH, compiled and edited by Henry F. Dobyns, reviewed by John W. Griffin; HOMEWARD BOUND, A HISTORY OF THE BAHAMA ISLANDS TO 1850, by Sandra Riley, BAHAMIAN LOYALISTS AND THEIR SLAVES, by Gail Saunders, reviewed by Daniel L. Schafer; SLAVERY AND FREEDOM IN THE AGE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, edited by Ira Berlin and Ronald Hoffman, reviewed by George C. Rogers, Jr.; BLACK LIBERATION ON CUMBERLAND ISLAND IN 1815, by Mary R. Bullard, reviewed by Kenneth Coleman; THE …


Tourism Was Not The Only Purpose: Jacksonville Republicans And Newark's Sentinel Of Freedom, John T. Foster Dec 2021

Tourism Was Not The Only Purpose: Jacksonville Republicans And Newark's Sentinel Of Freedom, John T. Foster

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida tourism grew during the Reconstruction period, and it became a major force in the economy along the St. Johns River. Some of this development occurred as a result of stories about Florida published in northern newspapers and magazines. Among these articles are a series which appeared in a Newark, New Jersey, paper, the Sentinel of Freedom.


Master James Cook And Gulf Coast Cartography, Robert R. Rea Dec 2021

Master James Cook And Gulf Coast Cartography, Robert R. Rea

Florida Historical Quarterly

The acquisition by Great Britain of Florida and cis-Mississippi Louisiana in 1763 brought with it both the need and the opportunity for a significant expansion of cartographic knowledge of the shores of the newly-created colonies of East and West Florida. Spanish and French charts of the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico were rather more artistic than scientific; indeed, the tools for exact surveying had yet to be developed when the Union Jack was raised at St. Augustine, Pensacola, and Mobile. Fishermen from Havana and the occasional merchant engaged in the coasting trade might know the safe anchorages and …


History News, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Dr. Gary Mormino, Announcements and Activities, Obituaries


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

TAMPA: THE TREASURE CITY, by Gary R. Mormino and Anthony P. Pizzo, reviewed by Janet Snyder Matthews; MIZNER’S FLORIDA, AMERICAN RESORT ARCHITECTURE, by Donald W. Curl, reviewed by Ivan A. Rodriguez; STETSON UNIVERSITY: THE FIRST 100 YEARS, by Gilbert L. Lycan, reviewed by Charlton W. Tebeau; THEIR NUMBER BECOME THINNED, by Henry F. Dobyns, reviewed by Kathleen A. Deagan; CATHOLICS IN THE OLD SOUTH, edited by Randall M. Miller and Jon L. Wakelyn, reviewed by Michael V. Gannon; JOHN BELL HOOD AND THE WAR FOR SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE, by Richard M. McMurry, reviewed by K. Jack Bauer; THE SOUTH RETURNS TO …


Military Duty In Antebellum Florida: The Experiences Of John Henry Winder, Arch Fredric Blakey Dec 2021

Military Duty In Antebellum Florida: The Experiences Of John Henry Winder, Arch Fredric Blakey

Florida Historical Quarterly

Two Catholic priests escorted and partially carried a dying man to the gallows at the Old Capital Prison in Washington, D.C. The condemned man was Heinrich Hartmann Wirz. Branded by his executioners as the “beast of Andersonville prison,” he was hanged on November 10, 1865. He had been found guilty of conspiring to murder Union prisoners and was executed as a war criminal, the only such casualty of the Civil War.


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

THE OLDEST CITY, edited by Jean Parker Waterbury, reviewed by Eugene Lyon; SPANISH ST. AUGUSTINE: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF A COLONIAL CREOLE COMMUNITY, By Kathleen Deagan, reviewed by John S. Otto; FORT LAUDERDALE AND BROWARD COUNTY, by Stuart B. McIver, reviewed by Thelma Peters; EDGE OF WILDERNESS: A SETTLEMENT HISTORY OF MANATEE RIVER AND SARASOTA BAY, by Janet Snyder Matthews, reviewed by Steven F. Lawson; THE PLOT TO STEAL FLORIDA: JAMES MADISON’S PHONY WAR, by Joseph Burkholder Smith, reviewed by J. Leitch Wright, Jr.; DOGS OF THE CONQUEST, by John Grier Varner and Jeanette Johnson Varner, reviewed by Amy Turner Bushnell; …


Miami's Metropolitan Government: Retrospect And Prospect, Raymond A. Mohl Dec 2021

Miami's Metropolitan Government: Retrospect And Prospect, Raymond A. Mohl

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the past several years, the Miami metropolitan area has experienced fast-paced, almost frantic, urban change. The Liberty City and Overtown race riots of 1980 and 1982, Haitian-Cuban refugee problems, high rates of violent crime and murder, and a lucrative drug smuggling trade have all kept Miami in the national news. A new and dynamic urban economy based on international banking, foreign investment, and a prosperous Latin American-Caribbean trade has insulated Miami from the national economic recession. Indeed, during the past decade, Miami has been transformed into the trade and cultural capital of the Caribbean basin. New skyscraper construction in …


"Laying The Sins Of The L & N At Mr. Blount's Feet": William Alexander Blount's U. S. Senatorial Campaign, 1910-1911, George F. Pearce Dec 2021

"Laying The Sins Of The L & N At Mr. Blount's Feet": William Alexander Blount's U. S. Senatorial Campaign, 1910-1911, George F. Pearce

Florida Historical Quarterly

William Alexander Blount achieved many milestones during his illustrious career as an attorney in Pensacola, Florida. He began practicing law soon after receiving his degree from the University of Georgia in 1873. His exceptional legal mind, strong dedication to his work, and impeccable character soon won him a statewide reputation in the legal profession and attracted a large clientele. Among his corporate retainers was the Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N). In 1909, after thirty-five years of practicing law, Blount opted for a chance at a political career and announced himself as a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate. In …


Index To Volumne Lxii, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Index To Volumne Lxii, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

BECALMED IN THE MULLET LATITUDES, AL BURT’S FLORIDA, by Al Burt, reviewed by E. W. Carswell; FROM SCRATCH PADS AND DREAMS: A TEN YEAR HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA, by Daniel L. Schafer, reviewed by James P. Jones; THE PAPERS OF HENRY CLAY, VOLUME 7, SECRETARY OF STATE, JANUARY 1, 1828-MARCH 4, 1829, edited by Robert Seager II, reviewed by Edwin A. Miles; LIBERTY AND SLAVERY: SOUTHERN POLITICS TO 1860, by William J. Cooper, Jr., reviewed by F. N. Boney; THE RULING RACE, A HISTORY OF AMERICAN SLAVEHOLDERS, by James Oakes, reviewed by Julia Floyd Smith; BLACK SOUTHERNERS, …


From Orange To Green "Gold": The Roots Of The Asparagus Fern Industry In Florida, Robert D. Manning Dec 2021

From Orange To Green "Gold": The Roots Of The Asparagus Fern Industry In Florida, Robert D. Manning

Florida Historical Quarterly

Central Florida was a sparsely settled frontier at the end of Reconstruction. In the 1870s and 1880s, however, an influx of pioneers transformed this wilderness into a loose network of settlements. These early communities were linked by the steamships that navigated the St. Johns and Oklawaha rivers down through the chain-of-lakes— Lake Griffin, Haines Creek, Lake Eustis, Dead River, and Lake Harris.1 This river freight route, which ran from Jacksonville to Yalaha, soon became obsolete with the expansion of the railroad in the 1870s; regional development was no longer restricted by geographic proximity to navigable bodies of water. The increasing …


Changing Face Of Jacksonville, Florida: 1900-1910, James B. Crooks Dec 2021

Changing Face Of Jacksonville, Florida: 1900-1910, James B. Crooks

Florida Historical Quarterly

Compelled by a devastating fire, May 3, 1901, that laid waste to most of downtown, Jacksonville not only rebuilt, but changed notably in other ways during the first decade of the twentieth century. Its population more than doubled. New or expanding suburbs, skyscrapers, hotels, theaters, automobiles, streetcar lines, parks, and city services reflected urban development. Substantial economic growth took place in banking, trade, and transportation. Public and private efforts to provide health, education, and human services increased. In addition, the community’s popular culture became more diversified.


Dachy's Deaf, Hadassa Jean-Louis Dec 2021

Dachy's Deaf, Hadassa Jean-Louis

Diverse Families Bookshelf Lesson Plans and Activities

The student will be able to retell a text using story elements (characters, setting, beginning, middle and end) to enhance comprehension. ● The student will be able to identify ways people can make positive contributions in their community through kindness.


Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This list shows the amount and variety of Florida history research and writing currently underway, as reported to the Florida Historical Quarterly. Doctoral dissertations and masters’ theses completed in 1983 are included. Research in Florida history, sociology, anthropology, political science, archeology, geography, and urban studies is listed.


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

SELECTED LETTERS OF MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS, edited by Gordon E. Bigelow and Laura V. Monti, reviewed by Jim Haskins; THE SEMINOLE WORLD OF TOMMY TIGER, by Harry A. Kersey, Jr. and Voncile Mallory, FOREST IN THE SAND, by Marjory Bartlett Sanger with drawings by D. D. Tyler, reviewed by John Cech; LASALLE AND HIS LEGACY, FRENCHMEN AND INDIANS IN THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY, edited by Patricia K. Galloway, reviewed by Michael G. Schene; LETTERS OF DELEGATES TO CONGRESS, 1774-1789, VOLUME 9, FEBRUARY 1-MAY 31, 1778, edited by Paul H. Smith, Gerard W. Gawalt, Rosemary Fry Plakas, and Eugene R. Sheridan, …


Diary Of Kena Fries, Jean Yothers Dec 2021

Diary Of Kena Fries, Jean Yothers

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1870, a few Swedes led by Dr. William A. Henschen and his brother Esaias settled on Henry S. Sanford’s lands lying on the south shore of Lake Monroe. Other Swedes were not long in following them to central Florida. Sanford, in need of labor for the development of his new town and the care of his groves, employed Henschen as his agent to return to Sweden to recruit immigrants. In May 1871, Henschen returned with the first of two groups of Swedes. Many of their countrymen, hearing of the Swedish colony at New Uppsala near Sanford, came and established …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

ANATOMY OF A LYNCHING, THE KILLING OF CLAUDE NEAL, by James R. McGovern, reviewed by Raymond Arsenault; GEORGE GAULD: SURVEYOR AND CARTOGRAPHER OF THE GULF COAST, by John D. Ware, reviewed by Louis DeVorsey; THE LOG OF H.M.S. Mentor, 1780-1781, A NEW ACCOUNT OF THE BRITISH NAVY AT PENSACOLA, edited by James A. Servies, reviewed by Frank L. Owsley, Jr.; BONNIE MELROSE, THE EARLY HISTORY OF MELROSE, FLORIDA, by Zonira Hunter Tolles, reviewed by Merlin G. Cox; WILLIAM LAUDERDALE: GENERAL ANDREW JACKSON’S WARRIOR, by Cooper Kirk, reviewed by Frank Laumer; THE GLORIOUS CAUSE: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1763-1789, by Robert Middlekauff, …


Florida History In Periodicals, 1982, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Florida History In Periodicals, 1982, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This selected bibliography includes scholarly articles in the fields of Florida history, archeology, geography, and anthropology published in the state, regional, and national periodicals in 1982. 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 1982 issue of the Quarterly.


John Ellis, Royal Agent For West Florida, Roy A. Rauschenberg Dec 2021

John Ellis, Royal Agent For West Florida, Roy A. Rauschenberg

Florida Historical Quarterly

When Britain acquired West Florida in 1763, John Ellis was appointed royal agent for West Florida. Found only in Nova Scotia, Georgia, and East and West Florida, royal or crown agents were used in underdeveloped but strategically important colonies that lacked the revenue to finance their own government. In these cases the crown assumed the financial load, and the agent was the London-based fiscal officer— the comptroller— supervising the crown’s allocations to the colony. Though easily confused with the better known and more widely used colonial agent, the royal agent was an entirely different kind of office. The royal agent …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 62, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Florida Manuscript Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Florida Manuscript Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The following are recent manuscript acquisitions and accessions as reported by Florida universities, colleges, public libraries, and other institutions. Those interested in using particular collections should correspond with the library or archives in question.