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1920WRCAM54681Hastings Fl 1920. Two volumes. Eighteen sepia-toned photographs each approximately 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. Oblong quarto. Contemporary black leatherette all photographs linen-backed and bound in on stubs. Mild shelf wear. Photographs in excellent condition. A very interesting pair of photo albums with large-format images featuring African- American field workers and other manual laborers working for Superior Brand New Potatoes in Florida in the early 20th century. The photographs were professionally produced by the Higginbotham Photo Company of Dallas Texas with their paper label affixed to the inside front cover of each album. Ten of the eighteen photographs feature African- American laborers in the fields on tractors posed outside the processing area or on trucks loading freight trains. Of the ten photographs four are unique examples and three are present in duplicate. In addition to the African-American workers several shots feature poor white laborers processing potatoes including one shot of workers using a Boggs Potato Grader. <br> <br> Hastings became the "Potato capital of Florida" in the early 1900s after Thomas Horace Hastings established a 1569-acre plantation to grow winter vegetables. Soon he switched to potatoes and by 1917 he enjoyed great success. Hastings remains an important agricultural center today serving as the packing and shipping center for a tri- county consortium of potato farmers with farms that also produce cabbage onions eggplant and other vegetables. hardcover books
1821158541821. Gales & Seaton 1821. 4pp. Sewn. J.W. Walker was President of the Convention. <br/><br/> The first Alabama was proposed in 1819. The Convention requested that part of West Florida be annexed to Alabama. Shaw and Shoemaker 7370 locating 2 copies. unknown books
197628116Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee 1976. First Edition. Square quarto 22.75cm.; original photo-illustrated card wrappers; 100pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Wear from handling especially at spine foot; toning and light dampstaining to spine edge of upper wrapper; About Very Good. Showcasing the worst housing available in each Alabama county including shacks located on the property of John D. Garrett state director of the Farmers Home Association. American Friends Service Committee unknown books
193523762United States of America: Not Published 1935. Album of approximately 220 black and white images; loosely corner-mounted to stiff black construction paper; about 60 photos with equestrian subjects horse events dressage family horses Grange fair travel; about 70 images identified as from various locales in New Jersey several from Troy Meadows trips Taylortown Colesville; also Florida areas during family journeys including; DeFuniak Springs St. Augustine Ft. Marion inland Florida farms Cypress Gardens several Bok Tower Lakeland Sarasota Naples Beach Tamiami Trail "Scenes to and from Key West" Englewood Ft. Myers Merritt Island more; average image size approx. 2 3/4" x 4 1/2" size a few larger some smaller; photos dated 1935 - 1940 many with identification; contained in a oblong format dark blue pebbled cloth photograph album approx. 7 1/4" x 11" size; album covers very worn especially at corners and edges; a few photos detached & loose a couple with some creasing or wear; generally well-taken clear and in very good condition. Photography. Photograph Album. Very Good. Not Published Hardcover books
195623527Pensacola Florida: Not Published 1956. 4 pages written in ink in a good legible hand; G.C. Pierzchanowski in Special Services at Corry Field writing friend George Tuthill stationed at NAS Lakehurst NJ; missing his friend he requests more letters; commiserates with Tuthill concerning relationship entanglements and confusions discussed; evidently there has been competition and break-offs among several inter-related people with some violence: ".I'm glad that Shirley finally got sense enough to break off with John. He's no dam good to her going around slapping her and telling her off all the time. John deserves what he's got now "nothing"."; and relating some of his own story ".I'm playing football here on the varsity team for Pensacola and so I haven't had much time to see this girl here in town who I've been going with for quite a while."; and going on to graphically describing a sexual incident; he tells of 'dumping' this woman and pines for another back home; drinking is a large part the friends' activity and he has some 4 incarcerations with the Shore Patrol ".and a fifth time won't hurt any."; looking forward to Christmas visiting and getting drunk together and perhaps re-uniting with a former lover; on lined 8" x 10 1/2" notepaper with the original mailing envelope 3c stamp canceled Pensacola Nov. 5 1956; envelope with opening at side edge torn away; old fold lines to notepaper in very good condition; a small and lively bit of evidence of the life of this U.S. Navy serviceman. Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published Paperback books
2058glsDepartmento de Comercio de Florida y International Center of Florida 1979. Octavo brown cloth hardcover gilt letters 257 pp. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear that includes chipping. From dust jacket: Florida tierra de flores de doradas playas y de belleza subtropical es tambien la tierra de la oportunidad para el comerciante extranjero. El proposito de este libro es contestar las preguntas gue mas a menudo surgen en cuanto a establecerse o invertir en la Florida. Es obvio que la Florida esta surgiendo como un centro comercial internacional. En este libro se analizan detalladamente los ultimos acontecimientos ocurridos como resultado de los esfuerzos del estado por proporcionar incentivos en las actividades siguientes del comercio exterior: zonas de libre comercio; faciliades bancarias ultramodernas beneficios tributarios; puertos de aguas profundas y redes de transporte superdesarrolladas. Entre los muchos temas tratados a fondo con el fin de dar a conocer el estado a los hombres de negocios del exterior estan los siguientes: aspectos del financiamiento de las transacciones comerciales; aduanas; immigracion leyes laborales y oportunidades en bienes raices. hardcover books
182713398Washington 1827. Broadside. Light tan Very Good. unknown books
188137307Tallahassee Fla.: Printed at the Floridian Book and Job Office 1881. XVI 1302 pp. Bound in modern legal buckram with title stamped on spine. Margins of title and a couple of other leaves reinforced. Rubberstamp on title page. Else clean and Very Good.<br/><br/> The Digest includes the Constitutions of the United States and Florida; Ordinances declaring Secession null and void ratifying the post-War Reconstruction Amendments and surveying the laws in alphabetical order from "Adjutant-General" to "Witnesses in Criminal Cases." Like many States Florida forbade marriage between whites and "any negro mulatto or quarteroon or other colored person."<br/> An Appendix prints "Charters of Railroad Canal and Telegraph Companies." A detailed Index is printed at the end.<br/>Babbitt 77. Printed at the Floridian Book and Job Office unknown books
1831WRCAM31652Tallahassee 1831. 123pp. Original half calf and boards printed label. Spine heavily chipped front board detached boards spotted and edgeworn. Front free endpaper excised pencil notation on p.3 contemporary ink signature illegible on p.5. Light scattered foxing. A good copy. Prints a list of the officers of the Territory of Florida acts and resolutions of the legislative council laws of the United States relative to the Territory and the text of the Treaty of Washington. Includes important early laws relating to Indian affairs transportation commercial development etc. Servies locates only one copy in Florida. SERVIES 1541. AII FLORIDA 132. GILCREASE p.335. hardcover books
18872347741887. 26 leaves with 63 mounted albumen prints most 4-1/2 x 7-7/8 inches all captioned in ink. 1 vols. 4to. Recent red morocco and original red cloth over boards. One photograph with clean split across image no loss. Some fading generally fine and clear. 26 leaves with 63 mounted albumen prints most 4-1/2 x 7-7/8 inches all captioned in ink. 1 vols. 4to. The Florida Frontier 1887. Assembled by a party of men on an extended tour and hunting expedition in the area the album documents numerous locations in southwest Florida in the period immediately following the extension of the Florida Southern Railroad into the Peace River region in 1886. All of the photographs are captioned in ink and all but the first nine which were taken at Interlachen near Gainesville relate to southwest Florida. The album includes scenes of the grounds of Charles Francis Jr. at Interlachen and the residence of Goerge Long; the railway station an office car and a street scene at Trabue; views of the Hotel Punta Gorda under construction; waterfront scenes along the Punta Rassa; views of Fort Myers; a Spanish Fishing village; a "Cracker" family and their orange grove; Judge Ziba King and his house at Fort Ogden; scenes of the Myakka River Bartow and Zolfo Springs and a number of hunting and camping scenes. Nineteenth century photographic albums of Florida are very scarce; the present album shows the rural landscape of southwest Florida at the dawn of the modern age. unknown books
1788WRCAM54472London 1788. 579-584pp. Dbd. Folio. Pinholes at gutter margin. Light tanning. Very good. Very scarce official printing of this Parliamentary act relating to the settlement of compensation for those whose property was lost by the return of Florida to the Spanish in the Treaty of Paris. ESTC locates three copies and OCLC locates a fourth. ESTC N58773. unknown books
1788WRCAM54471London 1788. 779-787pp. Dbd. Folio. Stab holes at gutter margin. Light tanning. Very good. Very scarce official printing of this act of Parliament that made provisions for those who lost their property when Great Britain ceded Florida back to Spain as a part of the Treaty of Paris in 1783. ESTC locates five copies. unknown books
187231647Tallahassee: Charles H. Walton State Printer 1872. Stitched untrimmed and uncut. 350 2 blanks 76 pp. Except for a spotted title page which is chipped at the blank corners a clean Very Good copy.<br/><br/> An informative Journal recounting Floridians' resistance to Radical Reconstruction. Governor Harrison Reed's Message addresses ongoing disturbances and "fatal and disgraceful violence. Nine-tenths of the suffering induced has fallen upon Republicans and mainly upon colored citizens-- giving unerring evidence that these excesses have been strongly tinctured by if they have not entirely originated in political prejudice." Many murders and disruptions had occurred in Calhoun and Jackson Counties forcing citizens to flee their homes and seek shelter in other parts of the State. A Committee of Five was appointed "to examine into the cause of said murders and to ascertain why the perpetrators have not been brought to justice." The Committee concluded that "there exists an organized band whose object is to resist the laws and who are the supposed authors of the many murders and outrages committed in the county." Threats of violence and a "reign of terror" had deterred witnesses from coming forward. In Jackson County "no less than one hundred and eight -four murders fifteen of the number being women and children and almost the entire number being colored people brutally assassinated by this band of outlaws for daring to think for themselves." Similar outrages occurred in Lafayette and other counties. <br/> Governor Reed Florida's governor from 1868-73 faced impeachment charges from this Assembly as he had in 1868 and 1870. He was later charged in sixteen Articles with illegally issuing state bonds embezzlement and bribery. The charges were dismissed. The Assembly treated other matters of government including special elections marred by violence; "an act to incorporate Brown's Theological Institute" now Edward Waters College founded in 1866 to educate former slaves and considered the oldest historically black college in Florida. Senate Bill No 82 "to be entitled an act to incorporate the Buckingham Smith Asylum for the colored people of St. Augustine" was passed. Charles H. Walton, State Printer unknown books
184229240Washington 1842. 27th Cong. 2d Sess. HD206. 27 1 blank pp. Disbound and lightly toned. Three pieces of clear adhesive tape at spine. Else Very Good.<br/><br/> Florida entered the Union in 1845. unknown books
1828WRCAM50429Washington 1828. 7pp. plus one folding chart. Dbd. Minor staining light foxing. Good. A rare report on officers who have died while in service in Florida. "List of officers of 4th Artillery Regiment who died 1821-1825; of the 16 named 11 of the men died at St. Augustine" - Servies. The folding chart records expenses for the movements of the first through fourth regiments to and from the Gulf region. Rare with only three copies in OCLC. SERVIES 1410. SHOEMAKER 36253. OCLC 79171277. unknown books
188931803Tallahassee 1889. Eleven volumes library cloth binding gilt-lettered red morocco spine labels. Old library rubberstamps and bookplates else Very Good. The volumes are a complete picture of Florida's legislative responses to Reconstruction and the decade after the end of Reconstruction. <br/><br/> a FIRST SESSION 1868. THE ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF FLORIDA AT ITS FIRST SESSION 1868 UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF A.D. 1868.Tallahassee: 1868. x 231 xx pp. Lightly toned.<br/> b SECOND SESSION 1869. THE ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS.AT ITS SECOND SESSION. Tallahassee: 1869. 49 1 blank li-lvi pp. Text is dirty first several leaves torn at outer margin with loss to the side margin notes. <br/> c EXTRA SESSION 1869. THE ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS. EXTRA SESSION BEGINNING JUNE 8 1869. Tallahassee: 1869. 52 3 lvi-lxi pp. bound with<br/> d THIRD SESSION 1870. THE ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS. THIRD SESSION. Tallahassee: 1870. 139 2 cxlii-cxlx pp. bound with<br/> e EXTRA SESSION 1870. THE ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS. Tallahassee: 1870. 29 2 xxxii pp. Some light spotting upper blank margin of title page repaired. bound with<br/> f FOURTH SESSION 1871. THE ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS. Tallahassee: 1871. 54 3 LVIII-LX pp.<br/> g Bush Allen H.: A DIGEST OF THE STATUTE LAW OF FLORIDA OF A GENERAL AND PUBLIC CHARACTER IN FORCE UP TO THE FIRST DAY OF JANUARY 1872. Tallahassee: 1872. 4 838 pp. With the 1868 Constitution abolishing slavery repudiating the Ordinance of Secession guaranteeing suffrage to all adult males. <br/> h FIFTH SESSION 1872. THE ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS. Tallahassee: 1872. 120pp. Blank margin of title page repaired small hole in last several index pages affect several letters. bound with<br/> i SIXTH SESSION 1873. THE ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS. Tallahassee: 1873. 55 viii pp. bound with<br/> j SEVENTH SESSION 1874. THE ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS. Tallahassee: 1874. 139pp. bound with<br/> k EIGHTH SESSION 1875. THE ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS. Tallahassee: 1875. 98pp. Closed tear to one leaf no loss.<br/> l NINTH SESSION 1877. THE ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS. Tallahassee: 1877. 219pp.<br/> m TENTH SESSION 1879. THE ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS. Tallahassee: 1879. 224pp.<br/> n ELEVENTH SESSION 1881. THE ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS. Tallahassee: 1881. 282pp. bound with<br/> o TWELFTH SESSION 1883. THE ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS. Tallahassee: 1883. 207pp<br/> p THIRTEENTH SESSION 1885. THE ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS. Tallahassee: 1885. 180pp.<br/> q CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA ADOPTED BY THE CONVENTION OF 1885 TOGETHER WITH AN ANALYTICAL INDEX BY A.H. KING. Jacksonville Fla.: 1887. 64pp.<br/> r FIRST SESSION 1887. THE ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS. Tallahassee: 1887. 353pp. Title page margin-chipped and laid down.<br/> s EXTRA SESSION 1889. THE ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS. Tallahassee: 1889. 4 20 pp. bound with<br/> t REGULAR SESSION 1889. THE ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS. Tallahassee: 1889. xix 386 pp. Last several index leaves with some chipping and bit of loss. unknown books
186917890Tallahassee Fla.: Edw. M. Cheney State Printer 1869. 52 2 lv-lxi pp as issued. Original printed wrappers chipped with wrapper title as issued stitched into modern wrappers. Partly uncut light wear and age-toning. One gum label on blank portion of title page. Good. <br/><br/> The Session ratified the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution the last of the Reconstruction constitutional amendments prohibiting racial discrimination in the exercise of the franchise. <br/>FIRST EDITION. I Harv. Law Cat. 705. Edw. M. Cheney, State Printer unknown books
1821WRCAM39560St. Augustine: Richard W. Edes & Co. 1821. 4pp. Cut of the Seal of the United States in masthead. Early horizontal fold. Neatly separated at center fold unobtrusive tape repair at head of center fold on pp.1 and 4. Light foxing small ink stain in upper margin of first page not affecting text. Very good. The fourth issue of the FLORIDA GAZETTE the first American newspaper in Florida. The GAZETTE began publication in July 1821 at the time of Spain's cession of the Floridas to the United States; Florida Territory was organized the following year. This issue of the weekly newspaper prints the names of the St. Augustine city council an account and description of the "Creoles of Louisiana" from the LOUISIANA ADVERTISER a lengthy article on the treatment of dysentery various advertisements letters a notice on the capture of five escaped slaves and local news including a story on a "splendid ball" thrown by the American officers of the St. Augustine garrison for the Spanish ladies and gentlemen of the town. OCLC lists only five institutions holding any issues of the GAZETTE. Edes died of yellow fever in October and the last recorded issue dates from Dec. 22 1821. A rare early Florida imprint. SERVIES 1075. Richard W. Edes & Co. unknown books
1868WRCAM16338Boston 1868. 20pp. Self wrappers. Stitched as issued. Bit tanned otherwise very good. Early promotional guide encouraging New Englanders to move to Florida. A wealth of information on Florida's hotels climate natural resources land prices and agriculture. Grudgingly but honestly admits the only two drawbacks of the region: insects and reptiles. The second edition of a work that must have convinced many a Northerner to move to Florida. SERVIES 5093 another ed. unknown books
18802391081880. Albumen prints on thick printed card curved corners. A trifle dusty one card with adhesive burn else images near fine. Albumen prints on thick printed card curved corners. Views include Palemettos on the St. John's River St. Augustine market and entrance to the city a staged hunting scene with a heron and alligator a canals and a wagon hitched to a cow titled "The Lightning Express; Or the Team of a Florida Cracker". unknown books
1861WRCAM19664Tallahassee 1861. 33338pp. Modern cloth leather label. Very good. Floridian Confederate imprint recording the House proceedings at the start of the Civil War. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 2745. SERVIES 4586. hardcover books
19255323Chicago: Rand McNally & Company 1925. 44pp. Sextodecimo 16.5 cm Brown printed wrappers. Attached to rear inside panel: Color map 65 cm x 47 cm on a single sheet 71 cm x 53 cm that folds into brown printed covers 17 cm x 10 cm. Map has folds as issued. Map is bright and in nice condition. City and town index in the left margin. Nice early twentieth century Florida state map that identifies and locates county lines state lines and steamship routes overprinted in red. List of railroads 44 page booklet lists and locates Florida: Counties creeks islands lakes rivers towns and air service landing fields. Reverse prints a road map for the state. Rand McNally & Company unknown books
18341686223rd Cong. 1st Sess.: HR368. 1834. 41 1 blank pp disbound. Scattered foxing. Very Good. HR368. unknown books
1826WRCAM51041Washington 1826. 12pp. Dbd. Very good. A rare Congressional publication concerning relief for damages among residents of East Florida during the War of 1812 as outlined in the treaty with Spain in 1819. "The claims were disallowed since the losses in 1812 were not covered by the 9th article of the Treaty of Washington" - Servies. Includes memorials of some of those affected by the invasion including Spanish subjects and residents of East Florida one of whom argued in a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury that the losses suffered "constitute an obligation upon the U.S." Rare with only four copies in OCLC. SERVIES 1303. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 27095. OCLC 79155586. unknown books
1858WRCAM31659Tallahassee 1858. 45672pp. Gathered signatures stitched. Exterior leaves edgeworn and wrinkled. Uniformly tanned scattered foxing. Good untrimmed and unopened. Lacks final two leaves of the "Documents Accompanying the Governor's Message." Prints several government reports including those from the state Comptroller and Treasurer and on all manner of public affairs such as issues dealing with Indians and railroads. Also includes Gov. Madison S. Perry's annual message and the appendix contains "Documents Accompanying the Governor's Message." SERVIES 4374. AII FLORIDA 298. McMURTRIE FLORIDA 216. unknown books
