2 items found
Collection ID is exactly "40" AND Geographic Term contains "Tamiami Trail "
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Letter from Devereux Butcher to Governor Millard Caldwell, 1948

Letter from Devereux Butcher to Governor Millard Caldwell, 1948

Date
1948-02-18
Description
Letter from Devereux Butcher, executive secretary of the National Parks Association, to Florida Governor Millard Caldwell describing his visit to Everglades National Park. Butcher suggests a big cypress as a main attraction for tourists who visit the park and describes a forest with royal palms and cypress trees owned by Lee Cypress Company that could be set aside for the park.
Collection
News Release Including Florida's Response to Martin Luther King Jr.'s Assassination, 1968

News Release Including Florida's Response to Martin Luther King Jr.'s Assassination, 1968

Date
1968-04-09
Description
News release describing how Floridians and other Americans responded to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and information about King's funeral and who was attending. There is also other Florida news about Governor Claude Kirk being sued by J. A. Maloney; Floridians fighting in the Vietnam War; a car accident along the Tamiami Trail; an arrest at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami; the murder of William Guffey of St. Louis; and Boca Raton police sergeant Robert Lynch being charged with embezzling money.
Collection
Identifier Title Type Subject Thumbnail
s576_b026_f03_x01Letter from Devereux Butcher to Governor Millard Caldwell, 1948TextParks -- Florida -- Everglades
National parks and reserves -- Florida -- Everglades
Protected areas -- Florida -- Everglades
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s923_b085_f02_01News Release Including Florida's Response to Martin Luther King Jr.'s Assassination, 1968TextVietnam War, 1961-1975
Florida--Race relations
Civil rights movements
Riots--Florida--Tallahassee
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