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Goulding Family Collection, 1830-1967, Date acquired: 03/03/1973

 

Summary

Extent:
301.00 items
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Goulding Collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/MSS_0-128.

Background

Scope and content:

Manuscripts, typescripts, diaries, photo albums, and government documents related to Mr. and Mrs. R.L. Goulding of Tallahassee, Florida and their ancestors, including materials on the American Civil War, Key West (1830-1863), rationing during World War II, YMCA activities during and after World War I, Florida bank notes (1860, 1870), and souvenir photo albums and guidebooks from global tourist destinations (1905-1911).

Select materials from the Goulding Family Collection are available through the FSU Digital Library.

Biographical / historical:

William R. Hackley (aka William Randolph Beverley Hackley, William Beverley Randolph Hackley, W.R. Hackley) was born near Richmond, Virginia in 1806.  He attended William and Mary College from 1823-1824 and then settled near relatives in the vicinity of Tallahassee in 1826.  Hackley was admitted to the Florida Bar and the following year moved to Key West.  he served as district attorney for the southern district of Florida from April 1849 to May 1857.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Goulding
Arrangement:

By accession date

Accruals:

MSS 0-127 received by FSU Libraries July 15, 1969

MSS 0-128 received by FSU Libraries on March 3, 1973

Physical / technical requirements:

Manuscript diary pages in Boxes 171B and 171C are fragile and not available to researchers without permission of the Manuscript and Instruction Archivist or the Associate Dean for Special Collections and Archives.  Reference copies can be found in Box 171A or on microfilm (FILM 9652) in the Scholars Commons, Strozier Library, Florida State University.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Terms of access:

Permission of Dr. Goulding (or his heirs) is required before publishing any part of the William R. Hackley diary.

Preferred citation:

Goulding Collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/MSS_0-128.

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA