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American Sunday School Union Papers, 1882-1905, Date acquired: 00/00/1982 82.00 items

American Sunday School Union

Photocopies of reports of West Florida missionaries of the American Sunday School Union, 1882-1905, Including Rufus D. Burrows, W. F. Watts, A. T. Sims, C. J. Hammitt, and G. E. Mize. The reports concern travels through West Florida, Sunday Schools visited or established, statistics such as enrollment, names of churches and ministers, and related data. [82 pieces]

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Anderson Family Papers, 1828-1931, Date acquired: 08/00/1981 179.00 items

Anderson Family

Photographs and personal papers, 1828-1931, of the Anderson, Craig, Hargis, Holden, Kryger, McConaughy, and Pape families of Mobile, Alabama; Pensacola, Tallahassee and Deland, Florida. Includes records concerning Dr. Warren E. Anderson and early hospitals in Pensacola including St. Anthony's Sanitarium and the Pensacola Infirmary among others, and early nurses training under F. Elizabeth Crowell.

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Anniversary "Memorias", 1886-1911 Box 87, Folder 1

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Another Hatchet Story, 1892 Box 1, Folder 38

bound issue from February 24, 1892; Vol XXXI, no. 781. Lithographs address Gover Cleveland winning the Democratic nominee for president in the 1892 presidential election and David B. Hill's loss; James G. Blaine's loss of the Republican nominee during the 1892 presidential election; general commentary on the 1892 election. Lithographs include "Another Hatchet Story" (title page; shows Democratic Senator David B. Hill chopping down a large tree, labeled "Cleveland's Popularity," with a small tomahawk labeled "Hill's Boom." The tree's roots are labeled various states in the U.S, such as Virginia, New York, New Jersey, and others); "The End of an Ambition" (shows James Blaine writing a letter of withdrawal [presumably for the presidential nomination] and preventing Columbia, wearing a stripes and stars robe labeled "Republican Party," from handing him a "Presidential Nomination" wreath. Behind them, the ghosts of Calhoun, Webster, Chase, Clay, and Seward are seen looking disapprovingly towards Blaine); "The Old Familiar Epidemic, 'Presidential Politics' Around Again" (shows a vignette of various people stating claims about the presidential nomination, the election, and its outcomes)

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Anthony P. "Tony" Pizzo collection, 1824-1994, Date acquired: 10/23/1982 126.00 Linear Feet 262 boxes

Pizzo, Anthony P. (1912-1994)

Publications, photographs, postcards, cigar labels, maps, realia, manuscripts, diaries, printed ephemera, artifacts, and other materials documenting the history of Tampa, Florida and its vicinity, with particular emphasis on the area's Cuban, Spanish, and Italian immigrant communities of Ybor City and West Tampa.

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Apopka, 1790-2010, Undated

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Apopka and Ocoee, 1790-2009, Undated

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Apopka Documents, 1892-1950, Undated

Contains material related to George Oden who owned four businesses and five parcels of land in Apopka, on which he maintained citrus groves. Mr. Oden was also a recipient of the City of Apopka's 50 years in business award. Michael Gladden, executor of the Oden estates, is a prominent figure on these documents as well, especially the legal documents after Oden's death in 1939. In 1933 George Oden donated the land for Pleasant View Baptist church, the church still sits on that land. Many of the documents in this portion of the collection are property deeds, receipts, tax documents and other legal materials relating to these groves. Also significant is a collection of documents from Ella Wall, an Apopka resident who was the inspiration for a character in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men. Ella Wall was born 1874 in Washington County, Pennsylvania and died in 1938 in Apopka, Florida. She came to Apopka as a widow and became a property owner and in four years she owned 4 parcels of land. As an entrepreneur and businesswoman, Mrs. Wall ran an Orange Grove and built small wooden structures that she rented to migrant workers. Mrs. Wall was a close friend and confidant of Michael Gladden, Jr. until her death.

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Archival Collection of Dr. Henry H. Nehrling from the Collection of Michael D. Kahn, 1855-1934 1.5 Linear Feet 2 Boxes

Nehrling, Betty Pooler Mitchell

These materials were in the possession of Betty Pooler Mitchell Nehrling, Henry Nehrling's second wife. Dr. Henry Nehrling was a horticulturist famous for his gardens in Gotha and Naples, Florida. The collection consists of letters, documents, photographs, postcards and monographs which provides insight into the familial and financial affairs of the Nehrling Gardens. It also offers a look at Henry Nehrling during the tumultuous years of Florida's boom and bust, and a glimpse of his failing physical and mental state while he sought refuge in a quiet communal colony in Southwest Florida.

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Arlyn Austin Katims Civil War Collection, 1861-1992, bulk 1861-1865 15.00 Linear Feet 17 boxes other_unmapped

The Arlyn Austin Katims Civil War Collection focuses upon the Civil War from the Union position. Within the collection are illustrations, currency, and a number of artifacts from the era. Items of special interest include an authentic mourning card from Abraham Lincoln's funeral and newspapers reporting Lincoln's death.

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