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A
Albritton, A.D. (Mrs.) 055
Tallahassee/Florida

Tallahassee and Quincy, Florida; 1920-1940; building and construction business during Depression; social activities and race relations

Alvarez, Ken 939 Florida Florida Park Service
Anderson, Pete 851
Florida Florida Park Service; John Pennecamp Coral Reef State Park
Arbolyea, Carlos J. 285
Florida Cuban refugee; Barnett Bank, Miami, Florida
Auzanne, George 373
Florida Teachers’ strike in Florida in early 1970s

B
Bannerman, Gloria 1331 Tallahassee Tallahassee, Florida during World War II
Barnes, William H. 039
Florida Miami, FL; 1930-1940s; high school fraternities; FDR; post-war South Florida
Baust, John A. 849
Florida Florida Park Service
Berninger, George W. 1004 .
Florida Florida Park Service
Berry, John L. (Mrs.) 053
Tallahassee Tallahassee, Florida; Maclay family history 1920-1960s; Maclay Gardens; Maclay School
Betts, Thomas M., Jr. 1181
Florida Florida Highway Patrol 1957-1983
Blanton, Fred 169
Florida Local Primitive Baptist churches.
Blanton, Harold H. 1576
Tallahassee Desegregation in Tallahassee, Florida schools
Botifoll, Luis J. 262
Florida Banker, Republic National Bank, Miami, Florida
Bower, George 1569
Florida Wakulla Springs State Park, boat driver 1974-1983; Labor Day drowning 1974; filming of “Airport 77" at springs
Bozeman, Barbara 292
Tallahassee Smokey Hollow, predominantly black Tallahassee community that the city demolished to make room for state office buildings
Braswell, Ernest G. 082
Florida Harbeson City, Florida; logging: canal transportation; living conditions; segregation; Depression
Brown, Annie May 041
Tallahassee Tallahassee, Florida 1920s-1930s; Edward Waters College, Jacksonville; race relations
Browning, Lily 080
Florida Miccosuki Indian tribal life; reservation in Everglades
Bruner, Vincent Michael 367 Florida Fort Walton, Florida; politics in Florida panhandle; Bob Martinez; Dempsey Barron
Burch, James 831
Florida Florida Park Service
Burkett, Bobby R. 1194
Florida Florida Highway Patrol 1955-1993; director

C
Cameron, Don 380 Florida Teachers’ strike in Florida in early 1970s
Carey, Eunice and Jefferson 370
Florida Jacksonville, Florida, during World War II
Cofer, RH 033 Florida Hernando County, Florida 1913-1918; Cumberland Lumber Co; convict labor gangs in turpentine industry
Conti, Bud 1283
Florida Florida Space Coast 1950s-1970s
Cook, Sandy 1570
Florida Florida Park Service, Wakulla Springs
Cooper, Jim 002
Tallahassee Leon County, FL ca. 1900; farming, sharecropping: cotton, sweet potatoes, boll weevil; work on plantations
Corliss, Carlton J. 032 Florida Florida East Coast Railway, Key West extension; hurricanes; railroads in Florida during 1920s

Couch, Theo 042

Tallahassee Tallahassee police department 1920s-1950s
Coulter, Clinton H. 011
Florida FL Division of Forestry, 1927-1969; reforestation and pine nurseries; fighting forest fires
Cox, James 1198
Florida Florida Highway Patrol 1950-1997
Cromartie, Grady C. 009 Tallahassee Leon County, FL; living conditions for blacks; celebration of Emancipation Day
Cronk, Harry A. 1175
Florida Florida Spacecoast
Crosby, Lyon B. 056
Florida Bradford County, Florida; farm work ca. 1910
Curls, James Henry 043
Florida Pinellas County, Florida 1920-1950s; citrus industry during 1920s; Bay Pines Veterans Hospital

D
Dasher, T. I. 074
Florida Live Oak, Florida; farm life 1920-1930s; Depression
Davis, Anna S. 044
Florida Madison, Greenville, Florida 1910-1930s; Florida tourism in St. Petersburg in 1930s
Davis, Rodney 375
Florida Teachers’ strike in Florida in early 1970s
Davis, Sarah M. 273
Tallahassee Los Robles subdivision, Tallahassee, Florida since 1930
Destin, John 071
Florida Destin, Florida; Destin-Marler family history; origins of Destin township
Diamond, Ruby 012 Tallahassee Tallahassee, FL 1910-1950s; Diamond family history; European travel; Tallahassee society 1910-1920s; FL legislators and governors
Domroski, Dick 884
Florida Florida Park Service

E
Edge, Jessie Alma 174
Florida Niceville, FL history; economic impact of WW II
Edwards, Claudia 382
Florida Teachers’ strike in Florida in early 1970s
Edwards, Ray 383
Florida Teachers’ strike in Florida in early 1970s
Ervin, Richard W. 057
Florida Florida politics 1930-1950s; Florida Attorney General; Florida Supreme Court

F
Fincher, Dick 031 Florida Miami, Florida 1940-1970s; Florida politics 1960-1970s; auto business 1940-1950s; establishment of junior [community] college system
Folsom, John P. 045
Tallahassee Tallahassee, Florida 1960s; racial problems 1963-4; integration of Leon High School 1963
Francisco, Hugh D. 076
Florida Orlando, Florida 1920s: prohibition; police corruption; Depression; WPA construction work
Frink, Inez 182 Tallahassee Lively Vocational School; David Walker Library

G
Gaines, Henry Jr. 046
Tallahassee Tallahassee, Florida 1910-1920s; Depression; celery harvesting
Gandy, Norman 280
Florida Havana, Florida; focus on grocery business, impact of World War II
Gardner, Mary Lee 077
Tallahassee Leon County, Florida 1910s; farming; field work; life for blacks in 1910s
Gates, Rosalie 035
Florida St. Petersburg, Ft. Myers, FL; Gilchrist's gubernatorial campaign; driving first automobiles
Gavin, Don 1579
Florida Wakulla Springs State Park
George, Paul S. 058, 385
Florida Miami, Florida 1940-1960s; Cuban refugees; Miami 1896-1920
Gettings, Hal 1178
Florida Florida Space Coast, Banana River Naval Air Station; race relations, social and recreational activities
Gieger, Jim 381 Florida Teachers’ strike in Florida in early 1970s
Gillian, Jack 934
Florida Florida Park Service
Giordan, Catherine F. 059
Florida Miami, Florida during WW II; post-war growth
Goodman, William H. 030
Florida Banking in Florida 1920-1930s; Florida East Coast Railway
Graf, Olive Pierce 029
Florida Florida tourist facilities 1917; Florida 1942
Gramling, Cay 014
Florida Family and Florida history; 1900-2000
Graveline, Robert P. 1215
Florida Florida Spacecoast computer engineer and data analyst; Snark (Northrup) and Agena (Lockheed); NASA Ranger and Gemini programs
Gray, Richard W. Jr. 028
Florida Miami, FL 1911-1935; tracking hurricanes

H
Haisten, Oliver 143
Florida Cocoa Beach, Florida
Hall, Christie 005
Tallahassee Tallahassee, FL; teaching school 1910s; Board of County Commissioners 1950-62; growth controversies in 1960s Tallahassee; city drainage project
Hardee, Ellison 829
Florida Florida Park Service; John Pennecamp Coral Reef State Park
Harner, Carl 379
Florida Teachers’ strike in Florida in early 1970s
Hartsfield, Pete 960
Florida Florida Park Service
Hartsfield, Ralph M., Jr. 952
Tallahassee FSU campus in the late 1940s.
Hauck, John D. 060
Florida Miami, Florida during WW II; Eastern Airlines; hurricane of 1947; postwar expansion
Henderson, Ed B. 018
Florida Tampa, Florida history; family history; Florida Superintendant of Public Instruction 1946; education in FL since 1940s
Herndon, Sarah 950
Tallahassee First Presbyterian Church, Tallahassee 1928-1980s
Hobbs, Robert Dayton, Jr. 287
Florida Santa Rosa County, Florida since 1815; founded Grace Bible Church in Milton, Florida
Hoffman, Lila Hancock 047
Tallahassee Tallahassee, Florida; visits by Theodore Roosevelt; flu epidemic after WW I
Holloway, Ethel 048
Florida Milton, Tallahassee, Florida; farm life 1920-1930s; FDR and WPA road projects
Holton, Hope Myers 279
Tallahassee Tallahassee 1950s-present; on being Jewish in the South.
Hopping, Wade 378
Florida Teachers’ strike in Florida in early 1970s
Howell, Robert 201
Florida Division of Vocational, Adult, & Community Education, Florida Department of Education
Hubbell, Flosse B. 078
Florida Ft. Myers, Florida 1917-1920s; hurricane 1926

J
Jahoda, Glorida 027
Tallahassee Tallahassee, FL 1920-1940s; Dr. Raymond Bellamy
Johnson, Edward A. 049
Florida Gainesville, Orlando, Florida; Depression; Rollins College after WW II; post-war central Florida; 1926 hurricane
Johnson, Gilbert D. 283
Florida University of Miami 1975-1994
Jones, Calvin 015
Florida Archaeologist, Bureau of Historic Sites and Properties, Florida Department of Archives and History; Spanish mission site, Buck Lake Road area
Jones, Edna 277
Tallahassee Tallahassee, FL 1946-1994; emphasis on downtown area

K
Keith, Clay 927
Florida Florida Highway Patrol 1939-; Ed Ball, Fuller Warren
Kelly, Vershe 061
Tallahassee Tallahassee, Florida 1910-1940s; first automobiles in town; segregation; Depression; WW II
Knoll, Joe 823
Florida Florida Park Service
Knox, Phebe Messer 274
Tallahassee Family owned land now San Luis Archaeological and Historic site 1939-1962
Kogan, Gerald 202
Florida Florida ggubernatorial politics 1960s; judicial politics in Florida
Kuenzler, Arnold 922
Florida Florida Park Service

L
Landrum, Ney 860
Florida Director of Florida Park Service from 1969-mid 1990s
Lawless, Florence 034
Florida Midland, Florida; Bartow, Florida; segregation; Depression; citrus farming; "Great Freeze" of 1895
Lawrence, John E. 272
Florida Bureau Chief, Adult and Community Education, Department of Education; adult education 1970s
Levy, James 062
Tallahassee/Florida Tallahassee, Florida 1920s; building of FSCW Reservation 1928; University of Florida 1946
Lewis, George E. 003
Tallahassee Tallahassee, FL 1900-1960s; Lewis State Bank and FL banking; lumber mills in N. FL
Lewis, Paul (Mrs.) 050
Tallahassee/Florida Gretna, Florida; Quincy, Florida; flu epidemic of 1918; Lewis family history
Lopez-Castro, Amadeo 261
Florida Banker, President International Finance Bank, Miami, FL
Lucas, Elcee R. 154
Florida Jacksonville, Florida history

M
Macon, Annie Mae 335
Tallahassee Life in a North Florida black community pre-1950
Madigan, John 798
Tallahassee Post World War II Tallahassee; Frank and Claude Pepper
Marr, John 723
Tallahassee Owned and operated a motel business on Tennessee Street
Martin, Kathryn L. 1176
Florida Florida Space Coast 1950s-1980s; daily life
Maxwell, Bill 1034
Florida Florida Park Service
May, Robert 958
Tallahassee TBUF 1947
McCarter, Harriette 1578
Tallahassee Nursery school and daycare in Tallahassee, Florida
McCaul, Boyd 1177
Florida Florida Space Coast; surveyor, quality assurance manager 1960s
McClellan, Howard W. 1281
Florida Florida Space Coast, Boeing engineer 1965-1985
McQuillin, Charlotte 037 Florida Orlando, Florida 1920s; Depression; Mediterranean fruit fly in citrus groves 1929
Menendez, Aberlardo 063
Florida Tampa, Florida; Ybor City cigar industry and restaurants; origins of Gasparilla celebration
Mertins, Faye Diamond 069
Florida Escambia County, Florida; dairy farming; Depression
Mickler, Delia 361
Tallahassee Goodwood Plantation, Steve’s Store, Knott House, Appleyard ancestral home, St.George Island 1920s-1940s
Midyette, Payne 006
Tallahassee Tallahassee, FL 1920s; Chamber of Commerce; insurance business; post-war problems
Miller, G. Ulmer 369
Tallahassee Banking in Leon and Jefferson counties; FSU Business School
Miller, George Jr. 326
Florida Crescent City, FL history
Moor, Frank 007, 064
Tallahassee Co-founder, Midyette Moor Insurance Agency; father's medical practice in Tallahassee; telephones and city utilities; 1924 centennial celebration; Sidney Catt’s gubernatorial campaign; Prohibition; civil rights; segregation
Murray, Robert 993
Florida Wakulla Springs; Ed Ball

N
Newell, Barbara 1421
Florida Chancellor, Florida Board of Regents 1981
Newman, Inez 036
Tallahassee Tallahassee, Florida 1910-20s; FSCW student; asst librarian, Walker Library; Depression

O
O'Blak, Richard 168 Florida Fire Chief, Ft. Walton Beach
Ortmann, Jesse W. 1559
Florida Plant City, Florida family history
Osceola, Tina Marie 363
Florida Seminole heritage; Indian rights

P
Paisley, Clifton 267
Tallahassee/Florida Florida and Tallahassee historian, author; FL legislature during 1950s
Palmer, George S., M.D. 886 Tallahassee/Florida Tallahassee in the 1920s-1930s; Leon High School, 1933; University of Florida; practice first established on Duval Street; polio epidemic of 1954
Pichard, Marion 004
Tallahassee Tallahassee, FL 1920s; lumber and building materials business during WW II; post-war growth; land development in Tallahassee
Posey, T.J. 025
Florida St Marks, FL 1920-30s; Posey’s restaurant 1932; Depression; tourism
Pridgen, Ila 019
Florida University of Florida College of Law Assistant Librarian 1929-1955; WW II and UF Law School; Lawton Chiles, Reuben Askew, George Smathers
Principe, Phyllis 026
Florida Brevard County, FL 1950-1960s; early space programs

R
Ramsay, Maud Blount 145
Tallahassee/Florida FSCW 1911; Duval County Education Association; state history; Jacksonville history
Rhoden, Lloyd 008
Tallahassee Leon County, FL 1940s; agricultural youth programs 1960s; county fairs; Agricultural Extension Service; farming 1950-1960s
Roberts, B.K. 1454
Florida Florida Supreme Court justice; interaction with Ed Ball, the DuPont family
Roberts, John D. 081
Florida Caryville, Florida 1925-29; lumber industry; 1927 flood; Depression
Ryor, John 377
Florida Teachers’ strike in Florida in early 1970s

S
Sastre, Aristides R. 260
Florida Banker, Vice Chairman of the Board, Republic National Bank, Miami, FL
Saunders, Charles W. 1108
Florida Florida Highway Patrol 1951-1983; state Traffic Safety Coordinator
Schott, Robert Schuyler 038
Florida Jacksonville, FL 1910-1970s; Depression; Ration Board during WW II
Scruggs, William M. 072
Florida Jefferson County, Florida; Superintendant of Public Instruction 1920-28; farm and social life; decline of agriculture in Florida 1910-1930s
Shuler, Jay 200
Florida University of Florida 1907; Apalachicola history
Smalley, Marilou D. 070
Florida Escambia County, Florida; dairy farming; Depression
Smith, Lee Roy 360
Tallahassee Memories of Senator and Mrs. Hodges, owners of Goodwood Plantation 1920s-1980s
Sorenson, Larry 374 Florida Teachers’ strike in Florida in early 1970s
Speed, Dan B. 068 Tallahassee Tallahassee, Florida 1956 bus boycott
Springer, John Rice 016
Florida University of Florida student life 1910s; Democratic party dominance in state politics
Stephon, Roger 376
Florida Teachers’ strike in Florida in early 1970s
Stevenson, James 845
Florida Naturalist, Florida Park Service
Stipanovich, John "Mac" 255 Florida Manager of Bob Martinez’s gubernatorial campaigns and administration
Stone, Mode Lee Jr. 203
Tallahassee Leon High School, Florida High School, drinking in Tallahassee
Strickland, Charles H. 1195
Florida Florida Highway Patrol 1960-1987; head of Florida Highway Patrol Auxiliary

T
Taddie, Pete & Breyer, Bill 1524
Florida Florida Space Coast; Boeing; Apollo, Skylab
Thornton, Hensylee T. 022 Florida Key West, FL 1910-1920s; Ernest Hemingway; Miami 1920s; 1926 hurricane; tourists
Torano, Jerald Anthony 403
Florida Key West, Miami during 1940s-1950s
Tucker, Donald L. 155
Florida University of Florida law school; Florida House of Representatives 1966-1978, Speaker 1974-1978
Tully, Winnie 065
Tallahassee/Florida Wakulla County, Tallahassee, Florida; Depression; WCTU; murder of husband
Turlington, Ralph D. 317
Florida Florida House of Representatives’ Speaker, Commissioner of Education
Turnley, Mrs. 020
Tallahassee Tallahassee, FL; history of David S Walker Library; residents of Park Avenue
Tyre, Jesse 052
Florida Hamilton County, Florida; farming and rural life 1920s; cotton, tobacco crops

V
Vernon, Kathryn 364
Tallahassee Goodwood Plantation 1940s
Vizcarrondo, Carolyn & Wingfield, Barbara Stoutamire 1686
Tallahassee/Florida Tallahassee, Florida during World War II; Governor Martin’s house

W
Wahnish, S.A. 013
Tallahassee/Florida Tallahassee, FL; cigar manufacturing; Assistant State Auditor 1925-1936; state sales tax
Walsh, Miles 021
Florida Gadsden County, FL history
Ware, Otway 023
Florida Marianna, FL 1890-1900s; salt works during Civil War
Watson, Snelling 066
Tallahassee Tallahassee 1950s
Weiss, Ron 1571
Florida Florida Park Service, Wakulla Springs
Wetherell, Thomas Kent (T.K.) 321
Tallahassee/Florida Florida House of Representatives, Speaker; President, Tallahassee Community College; President, FSU
Whaley, Raney C. 067
Tallahassee/Florida Wakulla, Leon counties 1910-1920s; oyster farming; cotton; Depression; WW II
White, Armer E. 484
Florida Loury Electric Company, Coral Gables, FL; real estate in S FL
Willis, Rick 384
Florida Teachers’ strike in Florida in early 1970s

Y
Yaeger, Jack 010 Tallahassee/Florida Tallahassee, FL 1910s; Jacksonville 1920s; Depression
Younker, Don 975
Florida Florida Park Service

Z
Zingarello, Maude M. 054
Florida Fountain, Florida 1920-1970s
Zirnfus, Edward R. 1217
Florida Florida Spacecoast engineer, worked on Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs

 
 
                                                                                  
                                                                            
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