The Bookbinding teaching collection, 1790-1850, is an artificial collection created by UCF Special Collections & University Archives staff. It contains a variety of rare books acquired for the purpose of teaching book history, bookbinding, and to allow hands-on learning. It includes examples of American historical stab binding and traditional eastern stab binding.
This folder contains "The Story of the Atlantic Coast" booklets, "The Florida Special" songbook, a booklet on agricultural and horticultural scenes along the Atlantic coastline, and a guidebook to Highlands County and South Central Florida.
Documents in manuscript and three printed forms filled out in manuscript originating in British East and West Florida, Territorial Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi, dating from 1773 to 1868.
The Bryan Family Collection documents the Bryan family and theirr life in Fort Lauderdale during the early 20th century through photographs and other materials.
This collection of tourism brochures, pamphlets, maps and newspaper clippings documents the islands of the West Indies. The collection encompasses the Greater and Lesser Antilles, as well as the islands and nations of South America, and includes Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Surinam.
This research collection primarily looks at African American Legacy in small town Florida, including Eatonville, Apopka, and Ocoee. Through photographs, manuscripts, census data, historic home registers, and so much more; you can dive deep into researching these historic African American cities. Delve into the historic homes and their inhabitance of these historic cities through this collection. The documents in this collection are primarily photocopies, or photographs of original documents. The documents in this collection as a result were printed or created recently.
Collection includes letters with holograph poems, one of which was by Ernest Dowson. Newspaper clippings, newsletters and two pictures - one of Governor John W. Martin and one of Major John W. Tench.