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Flagler Enterprises Papers, 1884-1917, Date acquired: 06/01/1972

 

Summary

Extent:
2927.00 items
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Flagler Enterprises Papers, Special Collections, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-0-108

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of materials related to the Florida East Coast Railway and other Flagler enterprises. The papers indicate that they maintained offices in Jacksonville and St. Augustine, Florida. There are job descriptions, blueprints, plans, maps, and permission documents from various government officials to proceed with construction.There is also historical information, such as the corporate history of the Atlantic and East Coast Terminal Company.

Within the documentation, there are change orders to provide separate waiting rooms for white and black customers in Jacksonville, Mayport, Orange City, East Palatka, Palm Beach, Rockledge, San Mateo, Stuart, Titusville, West Jupiter, and Lake Helen. There are also engineering books and a log book in the collection. Other subjects in the collection include: John M. Cook, Pablo Beach, bridge construction, West Palm Beach, piers, Atlantic Ocean, Guarantee Construction Company, Florida East Coast Hotel Company, wharf construction, Whitehall, Miami, William Ranger, Robert Shaw Oliver, Homestead, Florida Keys, Jensen Beach, San Sebastian River, Eau Gallie, Cocoa, Dania, Hallandale, Hastings, Melbourne, segregation, St. Johns River, steam locomotives, Interstate Commerce Commission, conductors, right of way, sale of lands, and Anna S. Elliott.

Materials from this collection have been digitized and are available through the FSU Digital Library.

Acquisition information:
Purchased from Mickler's Floridiana
Processing information:

July 1972

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers.

This collection is in an offsite storage location. Please contact lib-specialcollections@fsu.edu with requests for access or for more information.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

Flagler Enterprises Papers, Special Collections, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-0-108

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