Thomas and Georgine Mickler Sermon Collection, 1880-1933
Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Mickler, Thomas, 1912-1997
- Mickler, Georgine, 1914-1998
- Abstract:
- A collection of over 200 sermons, eulogies, speeches, addresses, orations and correspondence dating from the late 19th and early 20th Century. The sermons are possibly all the work of one person, Congregationalist Reverend George Loring Hanscom.
- Extent:
- 3 Linear Feet 3 Boxes
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
Thomas and Georgine Mickler Sermon Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.
Background
- Scope and content:
A collection of over 200 sermons dating from the late 19th and early 20th Century. The sermons are possibly all the work of one person, a Congregationalist Reverend George Loring Hanscom. In addition to the sermons, there is a small collection of funeral sermons and eulogies; speeches, addresses and orations; correspondence; manuscripts and typescripts; and other miscellanea also believed to be authored by Reverend Hanscom.
The documents are primarily hand-written and are are divided by subject matter. They are contained in individual, numbered archival envelopes and housed in acid-free boxes.
- Biographical / historical:
Thomas and Georgine Mickler ran a small publishing company, Mickler House, and a thriving mail-order business, Mickler's Antiquarian Books, out of their Chuluota home for almost 40 years. Called Florida Breeze, it was built by Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railroad in 1913. The Mickler's focused on tracing out-of-print publications about Florida and ultimately collected more than 40,000 books and other historical pieces of paper memorabilia that filled their home. Thomas Mickler, a native Floridian, was 84 when he died in 1997. Georgine, his wife of 35 years, died the following year. 84 at the time of her death, Georgine was born in Chicago and had moved to Orlando in 1961. The Mickler's shared a love of Florida and its history with each other and the librarians, historians and professors, who were invited to Florida Breeze each month to browse through the Mickler's collection.
- Acquisition information:
- UCF was one of six state university libraries that arranged to purchase materials on Florida from the Estate of Georgine Mickler, founder and owner, with her husband Thomas, of Mickler's Antiquarian Books. In 1999 (CFM1999_04), the UCF Library entered into a purchase/donation arrangement in which the library received a remarkable collection of books, maps, diaries, sermons, postcards, photographs, and ephemera from the Mickler Estate.
- Processing information:
Collection processed by April Karlene Anderson; finding aid prepared by April Karlene Anderson.
The diaries are housed in acid-free boxes.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
The entire collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
Unpublished records are protected by copyright. Permission to publish quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.
- Preferred citation:
Thomas and Georgine Mickler Sermon Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.
- Location of this collection:
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John C. Hitt Library12701 Pegasus Drive, Building 2OrlandoFL32816-8030USA
