This collection contains postcards related to Northeast Florida's agricultural, shipping, manufacturing, and tourism industries and is part of a larger ephemera collection related to region. The collection was donated over several years by UNF library staff. Postcards range in date from the late 19th century through the late 20th century, with the bulk dates falling between 1900 and 1950. The collection is arranged alphabetically by series and chronologically within each series. Series in this collection include the following:
Two booklets from Volume 1: Nineteen Songs for High Voice of "Obbligato-Songs: A Collection of Songs with Accompaniment of Piano and Violin (or Violoncello)." Pieces by various composers, edited by Max Spicker. Written in pencil on the viewer's top right of the front page, "Mary Münchhoff." Copyright G. Schirmer. Years of copyright range from 1887-1905.
The Olin Norwood collection consists chiefly of holograph French documents and correspondence, but there are also a variety of other materials, such as British, American, German and Belgian holograph, typed and printed correspondence and historical materials, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, pictures, and other materials. The materials in this collection cover topics such as the American Civil War and World War II, military issues such as the Battle of Kings Mountain or the bombardment of cities. Other materials discuss searching and seizing foreign vessels, people fleeing their country, slavery and the sale of enslaved peoples in areas such as South Carolina, and the collection also contains materials on poets and there is a picture from the world premiere of Gone with the wind.
bound issue from April 4, 1888; Vol XXIII, no. 578. Lithographs address various topics, including: the Republican nominees for the 1888 election after James G. Blaine's withdrawal as nominee; tariffs and their effect on the poor vs monopolists; Jason "Jay Gould, railroad robber barron, and his control of western railroads, specifically the Missouri Pacific Railroad. Lithographs include "On the Sly" (title page; shows a little boy dressed as a police man, a baton held in his hands behind his back. The boy is peering from behind a corner at a group of Republican Senators sneaking into the "family enterance" of a brick store, tis windows boarded up and locked. A sign is posted to the front statting "I have CLOSED UP [so far as it is in my power to do so] J.G. Blaine]. Senators include Ingalls, Reid, Depew, Boutelle, and Elkins); "The Political Poor Relation--An Unwelcome Guest" (shows an "unprotected farmer" asking for a seat at a table of monopolists. The monopolists are portly and well-dressed, drinking "free whiskey" and looking at a "monopolist menu." Behind the group, on serving trays, are a "trust roast" and "monopoly pudding." Servers are seen giving "free tobacco." Food is seen cooking in a "Congressional Kitchen" with "War Tariff" smoke rising from the food); "The Wall Street Bluebeard" (shows a scene in a lavish, gilded palace of Jay Gould holding a kukri knife against a woman's [labeled "Missouri Pacific"] throat. Behind them, Fellows is seen peeking through a large curtain holding a sword labeled "Prosecution" and a document labeled "Hewitt's Recommendation")