Christian Bauer is a University of Central Florida Professor who was on the Task Force that wrote numerous ordinances to regulate Big Box Stores. He collected meeting minutes and newspaper clippings that documented the work of the Task Force.
The Coe's Sundries Interior, Parramore Avenue photograph, 1947 is an 8x10 photograph of the inside of Coe's Sundries convenience store on Parramore Avenue in Orlando, Florida. Pictured are the owners, a man and a woman, who are not named. The inscription on the back says "North Parramore St Orlando Across from Jones High." This collection provides insight into Parramore Avenue and convenience stores in the late 1940s. According to the inscription on the back of the photograph, Coe's Sundries was located on Parramore Avenue across the street from Jones High School. Jones High was a historically Black school founded in 1895 and integrated in 1970. Jones High was located on Parramore Avenue and Washington Street until 1952. Parramore Avenue is a historically Black neighborhood founded in 1880, when the mayor at the time, James B. Parramore, designated this segregated area for Black workers. The Wells'Built Hotel, was one of few central Florida lodgings to be listen in the Green Book.
S. F. Travis Company was established in September 1885 by Colonel S. F. Travis, who served in the American Civil War. He sold various merchandise to locals mainly to the settlements along the riverbanks by traveling on a boat going up and down the St. Johns River from Jacksonville to Fort Pierce. The collection includes his business transactions from 1921 to 1935. The ledgers show each transactions reflect the sale of general merchandise, such as dry goods, notions, ladies' and gents' furnishings, groceries, and hardware.
