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Scarborough Papers, 1868-1945, Date acquired: 06/13/1966

 

Summary

Extent:
131.00 items
0.25 Linear Feet
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], Scarborough Papers, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-0-216

Background

Scope and content:

The Scarborough Papers include correspondence pertaining to mercantile business, land plats and deeds, a journal of mercantile business and plantation records. These materials about Scarborough's business afford a clear picture of early Florida merchandising and farming and contain many names of citizens of West Florida and of South Georgia. There are printed materials such as Hazeltine's almanac, The delineator and Literary digest. The 1907 Christmas issue of The delineator contains a number of Christmas songs, recipes and any amount of "styles of the month." The newspapers in the collection include six issues of The Sun, a Tallahassee, Florida, newspaper. These issues contain articles about the proposed project of draining the Everglades, and tobacco growing in Leon County.

Biographical / historical:

Edgar William Scarborough was born in 1855 in Gadsden county, Florida, and died there November 1, 1914. He was brought up on a farm near Chattahoochee and shortly after the Civil War established a mercantile business at Chattahoochee and called it Scarborough & Company; later the name was changed to Scarborough & Blout. One of the oldest mercantile firms in that section of the state, it has continued to operate since without interruption under a partnership which includes his son, Edgar Warren Scarborough, who became a partner in the business in 1925 after after graduated with a degree of B.S.A. at the University of Florida.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Mr. Edgar Warren Scarborough
Processing information:

Processed September 1967.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This 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:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], Scarborough Papers, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-0-216

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