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Pine Hill Plantation Papers, 1832-1926, Date acquired: 07/31/1965

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Includes materials on the American Civil War, the Bradford-Eppes family including Susan Bradford Eppes and Dr. Edward Bradford, plantation life, land and mortgages, banking, tomb inscriptions from the cemetery in Pine Hill, Florida, sheet music for "Twenty Years Ago" by J. E. McCullune, pamphlets from Orlando and Jacksonville, Florida, as well as genealogical data on the Eppes-Bradford family. Photographs include members of the Bradford-Eppes family, John Wilkes Booth, Louise Covington, and a United States Coast Guard Signal Service Station in Palm Beach, Florida. Includes manuscripts for the books Negro of the Old South and Through Some Eventful Years, both by Susan Bradford Eppes.

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Levi Marrero Collection, bulk date unknown

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Cuban historian Levi Marrero author of a multi-volume "Cuba, economía y sociedad" donated a large manuscript collection of the documents used to write his book. In addition he donated other research materials, items selected for inclusion in his books and correspondence. This archive represents his personal papers donated to FIU.

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Cantor Morton Pliskin Collection, 1890-1986

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The collection of Cantor Morton Pliskin consists of manuscript music, print music, personal songbooks, personal papers, programs, and pictures relating to his professional life as a cantor. Music books have been cataloged and relocated to Rare Books. Audio recordings have been relocated to Judaica Sound Archives. Cantor Pliskin was known as a "wunderkind" cantor who started singing next to his father who was a cantor at the age of 13. After his family moved to Chicago he studied at the Hebrew Theological College of Jewish Studies in Chicago, the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and the University of Northern Illinois (where he focused on cantorial history). After graduating and serving as a cantor in Minneapolis for a few years he returned to Chicago where he served at the congregations of Lincolnwood Jewish Congregation and A.G. Beth Israel. Cantor Pliskin also had well established relationships with Cantor Moses Silverman and Dr. Bauer. He passed away on January 9, 2008.

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Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Papers, 1957-2015

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The collection consists of papers and memorabilia related to civil rights history in Jacksonville and Hurst's experiences as a member of the NAACP Youth Council in the 1960's. The collection focuses on the NAACP sit-ins of stores in James Weldon Johnson Park, formerly known as Hemming Park or Plaza, and Hurst's book about Ax Handle Saturday.

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Florida Audubon Society Maitland records, 1900-2000

Richard N. Peters collection, 1942-1945, November 17, 2003, Date accessioned: 2003-12-02

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This collection relates to First Lieutenant Richard N. Peters who served as a pilot in the Army Air Corps in the European Theater of Operations in Italy with a troop carrier squadron. This collection contains an oral history interview transcript and three flight training yearbooks.

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Cantor Ackerman Collection, 1902-2004, bulk 1954-1990

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The collection of Cantor Shabtai Ackerman consists of manuscript music, print music, personal songbooks, personal papers, programs, and pictures relating to his professional life as a cantor. Music books have been cataloged and relocated to Rare Books. Audio recordings have been relocated to Judaica Sound Archives. Cantor Ackerman was a world-renowned cantor with a powerful dramatic tenor voice. He was wounded by the Nazis in World War II and chanted services in the great Moscow Synagogue as a refugee in 1945. After the War, he was appointed permanent Cantor of the Baron De Rothschild and Ahavas Achim (Fraterna) Synagogue in Bucharest. He also served as Chief Cantor for the Great Synagogue of Tel-Aviv, Congregation Beth Abraham Hillel Moses in West Bloomfield, Michigan, and Temple Beth Israel in Deerfield Beach, Florida. He received an honorary doctoral degree in music from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where scholarships in his name have since been established. Cantor Ackerman received two Kavod awards from the Cantors Assembly of America. He passed away on July 27, 2007.

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Early 20th Century Dance Band Music Collection, 1891-1922

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This collection contains 218 popular music dance band selections from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Composer represented here include: Spencer Adams; Russell Alexander; Harry L. Alford; Egbert van Alstyne; Will R. Anderson; Bert R. Anthony; Fred T. Ashton; Charles L. Van Baar; Ernest R. Ball; Ashley Ballou; A.W. Bauer; C.W. Bennet; Irving Berlin; Leo E. Berliner; Milton D. Blake, H.B. Blank and Schwartz; N. Bousquet; E.L. Bowman; Edmund Braham; R.H. Brennen; Louise Breau; G.B. Brigham; Fred C. Brooks; Shelton Brooks; Will M.S. Brown; Ernest Bucalossi; Benjamin Burt; Carl Carlton ; Ivan Caryll; W.P. Chambers; James P. Conlin; Charles L. Cooke ; G.F. Daniels; Denni; Herbert Dillea; Will E. Dulmage; O.R. Farrar; Carl Fischer; Bayard E. Foote; A. Ford; Rudolf Friml; Joseph Gearen; T. Mayo Geary; Gilbert, Friedland and Morgan; Gilbert and Muir; L. Wolfe Gilbert; Vivian Grey (Mabel McKinley); Gumble and Blake; Fred W. Hager; John T. Hall; R.B. Hall; Edward Hazel; Milt H. Hall; H.L. Heartz; J. Fred Helf; S.R. Henry; Victor Herbert; Pierre Heyendal; Williams Hill; Louis H. Hirsche; Abe Holzmann; Joseph E. Howard; Raymond Hubbell; Fred K. Huffer; Herbert Ingraham; Bob Irving; Victor Jacobi; Walter Jacobs (publisher); Carrie Jacobs-Bond; Jerome and Schwartz; Ben M. Jerome; Frank H. Jimerson; Charles L. Johnson; Archibald Joyce; Ruby Kalmar; Kapulè Kanoa; Mel Kaufman; F. Henri Klickmann; John N. Klohr; Clare Kummer; J. Bodewalt Lampe; L.P. Laurendeau; Sidney Leroy; John Leubrie Hill; Harry J. Lincoln; Edward Llewellyn; E.E. Loftis; F.H. Losey; Gustav Luders; Cecil Mack and Chris Smith; W.H. Mackie; Gifford Mellor; J.W. Menges; Roy O. Myers; Kerry Mills; E. Milok; Neil Moret; Theo F. Morse; Theo Moses-Tobani; Lewis F. Muri and Maurice Abrahams; Gilbert Muir; O'Donnell and Smith; William C. O'Hare; Lee Orean Smith; William Penn and Edward Hutchinson; Clarence J. Penney; William Frederick Peters; Al Piantadosi; Georg Porepp; Arthur Pryor; Add J. Ressegue; Henry Restorff; F.R. Seltzer; J. Lawrence Ritchie; Charles J. Roberts; Walter Rolfe; Selden-Ingraham and Kendis-Payley; Shannon and Johnson; Albert Sirmay; Arthur Sizemore and Egbert van Alstyne; Maurice F. Smith, Jack Snyder, Ted Snyder, Richard Stahl, B.H. Starks, George Stevens, G. Van Stone, John Stromberg, Thurban and Berger; Ludomir Thomas, Harry von Tilzer, George J. Trinkaus, C.E. Vadersloot, Paul Wachs, E. Waldteufel, Charles B. Ward, Freddy Watson, R.L. Weaver, Arthur Wellesly, Percy Wenrich, Wenrich and Blanke-Belcher, Wenrich and Dunlap, Werden and Gladdish, E.M. Wheatley, White and Lloyd, H. Lane Wilson, L.O. De Witt, L. Wolfe Gilbert and Robert E. Keiser Arthur Wood, Pedro de Zulueta, Wooster and Smith, Ellen Wright, Jack Yellen and Abe Olman, C.F. Zerbe and Harry Zickel. Arrangers represented include: Harry L. Alford; Hilding Anderson; J.C. Arnold; Emile Asher; Fred T. Ashton; Frank E. Barry; C.F. Bauer; Robert Russell Bennett; J. Lampe Bodewalt; M.I. Brazil; Geo. F. Briegel; Charles F. Carey; Carl Carlton; J.W. Chattaway; Tom Clark; F.W. Clement; James P. Conlin; H.A. Dahlman; Ribé Danmark; Ivan L. Davis; S. Deshon; C. Dotzler; C.A. Egener; Everett J. Evans; Herman Friederich; John T. Hall; R. L. Halle; J.C. Heed; T.W. Hindley; S. Jergensen; Charles L. Johnson; Stephen Jones; Stephen O. Jones; Dave Kaplin; Louis Katzman; Carl Kiefert; F. Henri Klickmann; John N. Klohr; Arthur Lange; Otto Langey; L. P. Laurendeau; F.H. Losey; W.H. Mackie; James C. McCabe; McKee; J. Messina; Charles Miller; Theo- Moses-Tobani; William C. O'Hare; D. Onivas Charles Puerner; Charles Quinn; William M. Redfield F.; Robert Recker; J. Ringleben Jr.; Charles J. Roberts; E. Rosales; Frank Saddler; 'La Salle;' Schaefer; E. R. Schremser; William Schul; Lee Orean Smith; Maurice S. Smith; Fred White; Carl F. Williams; L. O. Witt; and Arthur Wood. Statement on Potentially Harmful Content: Many of the items in our collections are reflective of the time period in which they were created, rather than the current beliefs and values of our institution. They may contain offensive or outdated language and imagery because of content relating to ability, gender, race, religion, sexuality, sexual orientation, and other categories. While some descriptions in our finding aids are written by staff, others reflect language that was used by the people and organizations that created the material. When we encounter problematic language that we believe a staff member created, we update it. Language that comes from the original archival material can provide information about the people who created it. In such cases, library staff members strive to provide additional context whenever possible.

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Sy Canton Collection, 1884-1975, bulk 1916-1949

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The collection of Sy Canton (1918- ) consists primarily of American popular sheet music.

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Joy Postle papers, 1910-2015

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Joy Postle papers, 1910-2015 contains books, manuscript material, and fine art by and about Joy Postle documents her work and her legacy as an artist, muralist, naturalist, poet, writer, and entertainer. These papers contain correspondence, news clippings, drawings, paintings, a scrapbook and many photographs documenting Joy Postle's life and work, providing insight into her personal life and creative process. Most of the collection is devoted to her art in all its forms and images that she used for inspiration. Katherine Joy Postle was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1896. She studied music and art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Upon graduation in the 1920s, Postle moved to the Snake River Canyon area of Idaho establishing herself as an artist and interior decorator. In Idaho, she met her husband, journalist Robert Blackstone. The couple traveled throughout the West, Southwest, and South living. Arriving in Florida in 1934, the couple continued their nomadic lifestyle until purchasing a small home on Lake Rose, near Orlando, in 1942. In addition to painting and drawing, Postle wrote poetry and worked for the WPA Florida Art Project. Around 1937, Postle and Blackstone conceived "Glamour Birds," a unique entertainment show combining recorded bird songs and music with Postle singing, painting birds, and teaching her audience about wildlife and conservation.

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