Geographic Files, circa 1813-2007

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Geographic Files contain tourism brochures, information on local historical societies, local business advertisements and newspaper clippings related to the different geographic areas of Florida, divided into Central, North and South. The subseries on Central Florida is the largest of the Geographic subseries, and contains information on nine Florida counties. Cities with a large amount of information are divided out, and there are separate files for Orlando, Winter Park, Daytona and Deland. The Orlando subseries contains a two files related to Heather Paul, a Florida college student. Although most of her materials are related to Rollins College other school materials included are from Jacksonville University, Orlando Junior College, the Stenotype Institute of Jacksonville, and Landon Junior-Senior High School. The Orlando files include copies of Orlando Leisure Magazine from August 2003 until October 2006 and the Winter Park files contain information on Rollins College. The subseries on North Florida consists of materials related to the counties north of Central Florida. This includes the cities of Jacksonville and Palatka, as well as Columbia County. Areas with a large amount of material are divided out, including Alachua County, Pensacola, Tallahassee and St. Augustine. Alachua County files contain information about the University of Florida, and Tallahassee includes information about Florida State University as well as state capitol building ephemera. The subseries on South Florida contains materials concerning counties that lie south of Central Florida. This includes information on LaBelle, Clewiston, Sebring, Arcadia and the Peace River, Sanibel Island and Vero Beach. Areas with an abundance of information were also separated out, and there are files on the Everglades, Hillsborough County (Tampa), Key West and Miami-Dade County, which includes the cities of West Palm Beach, Boca Raton and Coral Gables.

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