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| What
is the Florida Memory Project?
The Florida
Memory Project is an online exhibit of over 450,000 audio recordings,
documents, photographs and video clips
from the collections of the State Archives of Florida. Here
is a brief introduction to the five primary components of the Florida
Memory Project.
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1)
The Florida
Photographic Collection:
a nationally recognized component of the Florida State Archives.
Over 150,000
photographs have been scanned and placed on this
web site.
The
collection spans a wide range of visual images from copies of
mid 15th Century maps to current photographs. Together, they form
the most complete portrait of Florida available--one that draws
its strength from family photographs, the homes of Floridians,
their work, and their pastimes.
The film
and video tapes in the Florida Photographic Collection
date from 1917 to the 1980s, and have been described by other
film archives
as "unique
in the nation."
Short
clips from fifty of these films have been placed on this web
site. The
films and video tapes selected date from 1916 to the 1980s and
cover a variety of topics including education, environment, family
life, industry, integration, politics, sports, and World War
II.
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2)
The Online
Classroom: designed to help educators use photographs
and documents from the Florida State Archives. Lesson plans are
correlated to the Sunshine State Standards.
The
Online Classroom also showcases collaborative projects between
the Florida State Archives and Florida schools. These projects
help students make a personal connection to the primary source
documents that tell the stories of their communities.
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3)
Highlights
of Florida History: provides images of historically
significant documents from the Florida State Archives' collections.
These
documents represent some of the formative events in Florida history
and offer an important resource to researchers and students.
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4)
Collections:
selected historical and genealogical collections, databases,
and finding aids.
Includes
maps, military records, government records, and folklife audio
files.
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5)
Timeline:
a timeline of people and events featured on the Florida
Memory Site.
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| NEW AND
NOTEWORTHY
ON FLORIDA MEMORY |
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| Selling, Telling, and Yelling: Florida broadsides and other ephemera, 1800-2000 Before television, radio, and the internet, Florida society communicated widely and often through broadsides, advertisements, flyers, and other ephemera. |
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Florida Blues Each of our neighboring southern states has placed a unique brand on the music’s form and sound—Florida hasn’t done a bad job of that in its own right. |
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Florida Cigars: Artistry, Labor, and Politics in Florida’s Oldest Industry Commercial cigar rolling first came to Florida in the 1830s and in the decades after the Civil War it became one of the most important industries in the southeastern United States. |
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