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The Woman Suffrage Movement In Florida, A. Elizabeth Taylor Apr 2021

The Woman Suffrage Movement In Florida, A. Elizabeth Taylor

Florida Historical Quarterly

Early in the nineteenth century many persons began feeling acute dissatisfaction with the status of American women. Because of this sentiment they wrote, spoke, and organized for the purpose of changing this status. By the latter part of the century their efforts were producing results. In ever increasing numbers women were attending institutions of higher learning. They were engaging in many professional and business activities. In the political realm also their status was improving, and a few states were even allowing them to vote.

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Gavino Gutierrez And His Contributions To Tampa, Jess L. Keene Apr 2021

Gavino Gutierrez And His Contributions To Tampa, Jess L. Keene

Florida Historical Quarterly

Seventy three years ago the inhabitants around Hillsborough Bay never dreamed of the vast possibilities hidden in the scrub and native forest about them. They never dreamed that a large city was to be built at their own doors and by their own hands.

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Florida And Iowa: A Contemporary View, Franklin A. Doty Apr 2021

Florida And Iowa: A Contemporary View, Franklin A. Doty

Florida Historical Quarterly

Within the span of one generation after the admission of Florida and Iowa to the Union, the citizens of the two states confronted each other in the awful strife of the Civil War. Portents of this bitter separation had been discernable in the birthing of the states, but who could have said with assurance that these two frontier communities, having so many more roots and inheritances in common than they had fatal divergencies, would shortly stand drawn in battle array against each other? Regardless of their common institutional origins, the two communities came to subordinate themselves to, and form a …

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The Florida Ship Canal, Benjamin F. Rogers Apr 2021

The Florida Ship Canal, Benjamin F. Rogers

Florida Historical Quarterly

A few miles south of Ocala four huge bridge piers tower out of the underbrush to puzzle most tourists and many Floridians. These piers are monuments to a project which was pictured the moment the Spanish realized Florida was a peninsula, which was considered by Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and John C. Calhoun, which was surveyed and re-surveyed during the administrations of Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover, which was undertaken and abandoned under the leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and which still stirs the imagination of many Floridians - the trans-Florida canal.

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Birthplaces Of The Conquistadors, Karl A. Bickel Apr 2021

Birthplaces Of The Conquistadors, Karl A. Bickel

Florida Historical Quarterly

Ever since I started dabbling into the business of Spanish Conquistadors; particularly Balboa, Cortes, Pizzaro and our own first great tourist Hernando De Soto, I have been interested in looking more closely into the birthplaces of these men - a topic rather lightly treated by the greater historians - and trying to find after a fashion, some of the things that made them “tick.” The thing that really started me off, however, was a paragraph in a book by Ruth Matilda Anderson of the Hispanic Society of America. The book is titled Spanish Costume - Extramadura and without question it …

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Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 36, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents

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Contents Of Volume Xxxvi, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Contents Of Volume Xxxvi, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 36

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Contributors, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contributors to the issue, new members

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News And Notes, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

News And Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Local centennials, activities of local and regional historical societies, Tequesta,

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of The Basic Ideas of Alexander Hamilton. Edited by Richard B. Morris. (New York, Pocket Books, 1957. 451 pp. $.35.); The Growth and Culture of Latin America. By Donald E. Worcester and Wendell G. Schaeffer. (New York, Oxford University Press, 1956. 963 pp.)

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Indian Presents: To Give Or Not To Give: Governor Whites's Quandary, Richard K. Murdoch Apr 2021

Indian Presents: To Give Or Not To Give: Governor Whites's Quandary, Richard K. Murdoch

Florida Historical Quarterly

At the close of the Eighteenth Century the use of presents to obtain loyalty, friendship, neutrality or allegiance was an old story to the nations of Western Europe, dating back to the days of the Greeks and Romans. Later presents were employed for the same purpose in the feudal period and in the campaigns of the Crusaders in the Holy Land. In the early years of the modern era the Portugese used presents to obtain peaceful entry into African ports as prelude to the slave trade. And finally presents were employed in the Americas by all the colonizing powers as …

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A Guide To Spanish Florida Source Material, Charles Arnade Apr 2021

A Guide To Spanish Florida Source Material, Charles Arnade

Florida Historical Quarterly

As the years pass the Spanish period of Florida still remains the longest of its history. Not until the year 2091 shall our American era have reached the same length as the Spanish rule. Yet historical research on Hispanic Florida is now all but stagnant compared to what is being done an thy American period. Serious research on the Spanish epochs is largely dependent on what is available from Spanish sources.

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The Early Sugar Industry In Florida, Wilbur H. Siebert Apr 2021

The Early Sugar Industry In Florida, Wilbur H. Siebert

Florida Historical Quarterly

During the score of years of British occupation little sugar was produced in Florida. The cultivation of sugar-cane was tried only experimentally and was practically limited to small plots of land on the plantations of Lieutenant Governor John Moultrie and Richard Oswald, Esq. In 1776 only one hogshead of sugar and another of molasses were exported, although the number of barrels, casks, and puncheons of rum shipped totaled seventy-eight.

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Early Newspapers Of Ocala, Eloise Robinson Ott Apr 2021

Early Newspapers Of Ocala, Eloise Robinson Ott

Florida Historical Quarterly

During the more than one hundred years since the printing of the first newspaper in Ocala, this community has had an important and unique part in the journalistic history of Florida. Statehood had been achieved but two years before when, in 1847, the Ocala Argus began publication. Within the next two decades, seven other newspapers were established here. Several existed but a few months, others from four to six years, but the last of this group, the East Florida Banner (later the Ocala Banner) was to have a distinguished career of usefulness, with a record of editorship and ownership within …

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Florida's Overseas Railroad, David L. Willing Apr 2021

Florida's Overseas Railroad, David L. Willing

Florida Historical Quarterly

Soon after leaving the village of Florida City, the midtwentieth century auto traveler driving to the Florida Keys rounds a curve and comes on to the roadbed of the Overseas Highway. If he looks quickly, the driver may see mile post 397 of the Florida East Coast Railway, a few rods west of the highway. This lonely sentinel of the Everglades sawgrass, standing literally “at the end of the line,” marks the beginning of what was the Overseas Extension of the Florida East Coast Railway - a marvelous work of construction which ranks among the wonders of the world as …

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Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 35, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents

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Contributors, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

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News And Notes, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

News And Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notice of the annual meeting, local and regional historical society

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Higher Education and Florida’s Future. 2 volumes. (Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press, 1956. Vol. I, Recommendations and General Staff Report. By A. J. Brumbaugh and Myron R. Blee. xxviii, 87pp. Tables and index. $1.50. Vol. II, Florida’s Economy - Past Trends and Prospects for 1970. Prepared by the Economic Research Staff, Wylie Kilpatrick, Coordinator. xii, 180pp. Tables and index. $2.50.); The Seminole Trail. By Dee Dunsing. (New York, Longmans, Green and Company, 1956. 211 pp. Illustrated by Larry Toschik. $3.00.)

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Horace Greeley, Presidential Candidate: A Floridian's View, Willard E. Wight Apr 2021

Horace Greeley, Presidential Candidate: A Floridian's View, Willard E. Wight

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the presidential election of 1872, Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, was the candidate of the Liberal Republican Party and of the Democratic Party. Nominated first by the Liberal Republicans at their convention in Cincinnati, Greeley had been named by the Democrats at Baltimore in July, 1872. The Democrats not only adopted the candidate of the Liberal Republicans but also adopted their platform verbatim.

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The Call To Arms: Secession From A Feminine Point Of View, Samuel Proctor Apr 2021

The Call To Arms: Secession From A Feminine Point Of View, Samuel Proctor

Florida Historical Quarterly

Address of the Ladies of Broward’s Neck through Editors of the Papers, to the Politicians of Florida, as to their Present and Future Protection against Abolition Emmissaries of the North.

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The Trials Of Captain Don Isidoro De Leon, Lucy L. Wenhold Apr 2021

The Trials Of Captain Don Isidoro De Leon, Lucy L. Wenhold

Florida Historical Quarterly

Few historians can tell you what Florida was like in 1745. Yet those were the days when the governor of the province spoke of “the terror men feel when they even hear the name of Florida,” and swore to defend it “to the last drop of my blood.”

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Dudley Warren Adams, Pioneer, Harriett M. Bryant Apr 2021

Dudley Warren Adams, Pioneer, Harriett M. Bryant

Florida Historical Quarterly

In December, 1875, a tall, spare man in middle life arrived in a small village in interior Florida. He strolled silently about the town, asked no questions of any of the citizens, moved into the wilderness westward of the village, and walked through the deep sand around the heavy scrub of palmetto growth into the forest of tall pines. No human habitation or evidence of human activity appeared as he continued his way in the wood. On his right he caught the gleam of a small lake, He followed a narrow opening into a cypress woods, draped with fairy-like grey …

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The 1913 Campaign For Child Labor In Florida, Emily Howard Atkins Apr 2021

The 1913 Campaign For Child Labor In Florida, Emily Howard Atkins

Florida Historical Quarterly

So minutely prepared and well conducted was the campaign for a child labor law for Florida in 1913 that the advocates were surprised when the proposed bill was challenged by a solitary newspaper, The Florida Times Union. According to an official of the National Child Labor Committee, this strong objection on the part of the Jacksonville, Florida newspaper would have wrecked the legislation had it not been for the astute thinking on the part of the authors of the bill when the opposition first appeared.

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Alabama And West Florida, Hugh C. Bailey Apr 2021

Alabama And West Florida, Hugh C. Bailey

Florida Historical Quarterly

Even before the Alabama Territory came into being, the inhabitants of the area north of West Florida coveted the land which lies west of the Apalachicola River. As early as 1811 two hundred sixty three residents of the Mississippi Territory petitioned the Congress of the United States to add West Florida to their jurisdiction. Not only would this give the territory sufficient population for admission to statehood, they asserted, but it would promote the interests of the people of both sections. After pointing out that many of the rivers of the Mississippi country flowed through West Florida, the petitioners stated …

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The Florida Plan: An Ante-Bellum Effort To Control Cotton Sales, Weymouth T. Jordan Apr 2021

The Florida Plan: An Ante-Bellum Effort To Control Cotton Sales, Weymouth T. Jordan

Florida Historical Quarterly

For a number of years historians have been familiar with the work of the so-called commercial conventions which were held in the South during the pre-Civil War period. Three professional studies have been written on the subject of these conventions. These conventions had their beginnings during the troubled times of the panic of 1837; the first one met in 1839; most of them convened during the 1850’s. They were held in the leading cities of the Old South; they were attended by hundreds of men seeking to promote what has come to be known as “southern nationalism;” they did a …

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Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 35, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents

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News And Notes, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

News And Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Gifts, news of the Society, local and regional historical societies

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Book Review: Freedom River: Florida 1845, Agnes Gregory Apr 2021

Book Review: Freedom River: Florida 1845, Agnes Gregory

Florida Historical Quarterly

A review of Freedom River: Florida 1845. By Marjory Stoneman Douglas. (New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953. 264 pp. Illustrations. $3.00)

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Book Review: A Provisional Gazeteer Of Florida Place-Names Of Indian Derivation, John W. Griffin Apr 2021

Book Review: A Provisional Gazeteer Of Florida Place-Names Of Indian Derivation, John W. Griffin

Florida Historical Quarterly

Review of A Provisional Gazeteer of Florida Place-Names of Indian Derivation, Either Obsolescent or Retained, Together with Others of Recent Application. By J. Clarence Simpson. Edited by Mark F. Boyd. (Tallahassee, Florida Geological Survey, Special Publication No. 1, 1956. X+ 158 pp. Maps.)

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