| sle_colleges-state-universities_01 | University of Florida's Pamphlet "Community Health: How the Public Schools will Help Combat Disease," 1919 | text | Epidemics
Preventive health services
Communicable diseases--Prevention | /fmp/selected_documents/thumbnails/sle_colleges-state-universities_01.jpg |
University of Florida's Pamphlet "Community Health: How the Public Schools will Help Combat Disease," 1919
- Date
- 1919-11
- Description
- This pamphlet is describing the need for civic biology and nature study courses in Florida's communities so that epidemics throughout the state can be prevented in the future. The pamphlet is calling for interested elementary school teachers, parents, and members of the local board of health, to name a few, to come together and participate in educational programs to learn about measures to prevent epidemics.
- Collection
| n2017-139_b001_f01_01 | Thomas Benton Ellis - Civil War Recollections, 1913 | text | Civil war
Civil War, 1861-1865
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/collections/broadsides/thumbnails/n2017-139_b001_f01_01.jpg |
| s2153_b001_f05_01 | Territorial Census Returns, 1838 and 1840; Election Returns, 1838-1845 | text | Elections | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/collections/broadsides/thumbnails/s2153_b001_f05_01.jpg |
Territorial Census Returns, 1838 and 1840; Election Returns, 1838-1845
- Date
- 1845
- Description
- This document includes the territorial census for 1838 and 1840. There are also election returns for the election of members of the convention and council, October 1838; elections for delegates in 1839, 1841 and 1843; elections for members of council, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843 and 1844; and numbers of votes in each county, according to the estimate of the members of the present legislature, 1845.
- Collection
| m85-5_b001_f16_x01 | Starke USO Theater Performance Poster, 1942 | text | Theater -- Florida -- Alachua County -- Gainesville
Performing arts -- Florida -- Alachua County -- Gainesville
World War II
WWII
World War, 1939-1945 | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/collections/broadsides/thumbnails/m85-5_b001_f16_x01.jpg |
| m76-139_b001_01 | Robert Watson Civil War Diary, 1861-1865 | text | United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Florida--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Civil war | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/collections/broadsides/thumbnails/m76-139_b001_01.jpg |
Robert Watson Civil War Diary, 1861-1865
- Date
- 1861 (circa)
- Description
- A typescript copy of a diary kept by Robert Watson of Key West from September 1861 through March 1865. Watson describes the movements of the 7th Florida Infantry Regiment from Key West around Florida and then to Tennessee. The diary includes descriptions of weather, news, meals, illnesses and deaths.
- Collection
| n2013-6_b001_x05 | Resolution Ceding the District of Elotchaway in the Republic of East Florida to the United States, 1814 | text | Legislative councils
Patriotism
Loyalty | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/collections/broadsides/thumbnails/n2013-6_b001_x05.jpg |
| m76-134_b001_f02_01 | Reminiscences of the War Between the States by a Boy in the Far South at Home and in the Ranks of the Confederate Militia by Joshua Hoyet Frier, 1859-1865 | text | United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Florida--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Natural Bridge (Fla.), Battle of, 1865 | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/collections/broadsides/thumbnails/m76-134_b001_f02_01.jpg |
Reminiscences of the War Between the States by a Boy in the Far South at Home and in the Ranks of the Confederate Militia by Joshua Hoyet Frier, 1859-1865
- Date
- 1895 (circa)
- Description
- A photocopy of a transcribed journal of reminiscences written by Joshua Hoyet Frier from 1895 to 1903. Frier describes the period immediately before and during the American Civil War. The journal documents his service in the First Florida Reserves from 1864 to 1865. He discusses the prewar debate over secession; the early enthusiasm of some volunteers and the reluctance of others; the shortages of food, salt and other materials as the war progressed; a slave hunt; Frier's acquaintance with Lewis Thornton Powell (Lewis Payne) of Hamilton County, who later gained notoriety as one of the John Wilkes Booth conspirators; his participation in an expedition to capture deserters; his work taking up rails; a duel fought between two officers; and his relationship with the other men in his unit. Frier's narrative includes a vivid description of the Battle of Natural Bridge in March 1865, in which his unit participated. He also describes the execution of two Confederate deserters captured in Union uniforms. His narrative closes shortly before the Confederate surrender in May 1865. The journal was transcribed by the donor, J.W. Hart, and there is an introduction by J. Hoyet Frier III.
- Collection
| s1814_v001_01 | Record of Permits to Cut Timber on State Lands, 1879-1885 | text | Lumber trade
Licenses | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/collections/broadsides/thumbnails/s1814_v001.jpg |
Record of Permits to Cut Timber on State Lands, 1879-1885
- Date
- 1879 (circa)
- Description
- Ledger containing a record of permits issued to private individuals to cut timber on state lands in Florida. For each numbered permit, the ledger lists the name of the permit holder, his county of residence, the kind of timber to be cut, where it could be cut from, and where it was to be delivered after cutting. This ledger documents an important source of income for Floridians in the late 19th century. Many of the permit holders were farmers who cut timber for additional cash.
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| n2013-6_b001_x06 | Petition to the United States Congress Signed by 105 Citizens of the District of Elotchaway, 1814 | text | Patriotism
Loyalty | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/collections/broadsides/thumbnails/n2013-6_b001_x06.jpg |
| s2153_b003_f57_01 | Petition to Establish the East Florida Seminary in Alachua County, 1852 | text | Higher education and state | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/collections/broadsides/thumbnails/s2153_b003_f57_01.jpg |
Petition to Establish the East Florida Seminary in Alachua County, 1852
- Date
- 1852
- Description
- A petition calling upon the General Assembly to establish a seminary for East Florida at Newnansville, which was then the county seat for Alachua County. Written in 1852 and signed by 150 white male residents of Alachua County, the petition provides the names of a substantial number of the total population of Alachua County (2,524) in 1850. The petitioners envisioned the seminary as a military school, an institution of secondary or college education common in the antebellum South. The military aspects of the schools were primarily intended to provide discipline for the students, not to prepare them for a military career.
- Collection
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