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H5947Paperback. Very Good. Probably the Whitworth family but possibly the Glasglows and Dunkles -- Apollo PA appears to be the place of residence. Documents family get-togethers friends outings to Vandergrift or the Kiskiminetas River a trip to Atlantic City and the inevitable flat tire on the way there a few pictures of the Grand Canyon and a friend in Sydney Australia some of Niagara Falls and of a horse racing track and then the move in 1927 to Orlando Florida and pictures of other Florida points of interest including Hollywood and Miami. 14 x 9 inches recent sympathetic black paper covers with cloth spine contents inside generally very good well over 100 pictures. paperback
1920100096Miami Florida: Publicity Department of Florida Silk Producing Company circa 1920's. 1920's. Very good. - Octavo 10 inches high by 7 inches wide. Softcover bound in stapled off-white wraps titled & decorated in black. The front cover is lightly soiled & creased. 8 unnumbered pages including the covers with 2 full-page black & white illustrations. "From Daniel E. Ryan" is written in ink at the top of the cover. The brochure is folded twice vertically & horizontally. Very good. <p>A RARE promotional brochure for the Florida Silk Producing Company formed by Dr. Thomas DePamphilis using his special process. We have located no other copies of the brochure.<p>Laid into the brochure is a 2-page broadsheet by the fiscal agents Goodyear-Baker Company titled "The Investment Possibilities of Growing Silk in Florida".<p>The company is mentioned as seeking investment in the September 30 1924 issue of the Springfield News-Sun of Springfield Ohio. Miami, Florida: Publicity Department of Florida Silk Producing Company, circa [1920's]. paperback
5578TALLAHASSEE FLORIDA. DS. 1pg. June 21 1843. Jacksonville Florida. A letter concerning the fire that destroyed much of Tallahassee Florida in 1843. A brief unsigned note to Tallahassee Mayor Francis W. Eppes 1801-1881 donates to the relief efforts. Below it a note signed James B Gamble as treasurer of the relief committee records receipt of $10 from Eppes. F Eppes Mayor of Tallahassee Sir Having heard of the distress brot upon your city by the late conflagration and being desirous to do something especially for the relief of the needy I beg you will accept the enclosed note for that purpose. Your &c Tallahassee June 29/43 Recd from Wm. F. Eppes Mayor the above Ten dollars for the relief of the sufferers by fire. James B Gamble Treasurer Com of Relief. In good condition with general wear and a small tear. unknown
19639099Cocoa Beach Florida 1963. Octavo-sized metal post binding 21.5 x 14 cm 100 leaves printed rectos only. Illustrated. Author title and publication information from cover. A community cookbook with recipes attributed from the airmen and airmen's spouses living at Patrick Air Force. Patrick AFB is a significant location in the history of the American space program and 1963 just two years after the first manned space flight Gagarin and the first human-piloted space flight Shephard. Patrick Air Force base is now Space Launch 45 "the premier launch delta of the United States Space Force." Thor and Atlas Missiles as well as the Titan Booster were the stock in trade of PAFB from the time of this cookbook through the 1980s. The illustration of a space capsule on the front wrapper panel is of a Mercury capsule the capsule that carried John Glenn on the first American orbital flight in 1962. A bit of light soiling otherwise fine in publisher's gray card stock titled and illustrated in black. Unrecorded. OCLC locates no copies; no other references found online or otherwise. unknown
194112634N.p. likely Jacksonville Fl. 1941. 4612pp. Original pictorial wrappers stapled. Substantial creasing rubbing dust-soiling and overall wear to wrappers. Faint foxing and spotting to initial and terminal leaves but mostly clean internally. Very good. A rare pamphlet celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the Afro-American Life Insurance Company an important African-American-owned-and-operated insurance company in Florida. The work includes reproductions of congratulatory letters to the company from Florida governor Spessard Holland and others portraits and information on the company’s founders passages on the history of the company information on the successes of the company’s current operations and more. The work is interspersed throughout with a legion of photographs showing the company at work scenes from various branch offices the company’s Funeral Services Division and so forth.<br /> <br /> "Florida's First African-American Insurance Company -1901-2001. The Afro-American Insurance Company formerly the Afro-American Industrial and Benefits Association was founded in 1901 to provide affordable health insurance and death benefits to the state's African-Americans. Founded by the Reverend E.J. Gregg E.W. Latson Abraham Lincoln Lewis A.W. Price Dr. Arthur W. Smith J.F. Valentine and the Reverend J. Melton Waldron the Afro's first office at 14 Ocean Street was destroyed by the great Jacksonville Fire two months after it opened on May 3 1901. It then moved to 621 Florida Avenue the home of treasurer and future president Abraham Lincoln Lewis 1865-1947. From their next home office at 105 E. Union Street the company wrote millions of dollars of insurance policies and started district offices in Georgia Alabama Louisiana and Texas." - Historical marker at the site of the company's original location in Jacksonville.<br /> <br /> OCLC reports just two copies at Howard and the University of North Florida. unknown
18804993N.p. but likely Live Oak FL 1880. Very good. Albumen photograph 4.5 x 7.75 inches mounted on card. Card trimmed with pinholes at corners remnants of printed caption in bottom margin slight surface soiling and spotting. Penciled annotation on verso. A stunning original photograph featuring Rev. Joseph Leroy Atwell Fish 1828-1890 and his wife and children posed amongst their African-American students at an unnamed "colored school" which was very likely the Florida Baptist Institute. The images captures Fish his wife and probably his daughters in the middle of the frame standing in front of a large two-story schoolhouse surrounded by about eighty young Black men and women in suits and dresses. Revered Fish was a graduate of Amherst College and the Newton Theological Seminary who was ordained a Baptist minister in 1856. Fish was also a teacher who helped found Florida Memorial University Florida Baptist Institute in Live Oak in 1880 where he served as first president of the institution until his death there on March 26 1890. Florida Memorial University is the only HBCU in the southern part of the state. The penciled annotation on the present photograph provides some information on the photograph but is probably ultimately misleading in one regard: "Rev. J.L.A. Fish & wife In Virginia teaching a colored school -- He married my Father & Mother Mr. & Mrs. Milan Hills Lucy M. Williams Dec. 21 1875."<br /> <br /> The latter part of this inscription is indeed true. Reverend Fish married Milan Hills and Lucy Williams on December 21 1875 in Hebron New York where he was serving as a church pastor. But the historical record does not indicate that Reverend Fish ever taught at an African-American school in Virginia if he did it was so brief that it is now lost to history. Fish's first known foray into teaching African American students was a brief six-month stint in Natchez Mississippi in 1879. Immediately thereafter Fish was appointed to the Florida Baptist Institute where he served the last decade of his life. As such it is far more likely that the inscriber here meant to say that Reverend Fish and his wife were "In FLORIDA teaching a colored school."<br /> <br /> Reverend Fish's work at the Florida Institute is covered in the Obituary Record of Graduates of Amherst College for the Academical Year ending June 27 1883: "His chief work was with the Freedmen as he brought Florida Institute out of all its troubles financial and social changed the feeling of the whites from hatred to sympathy with his work and put the school on a permanent foundation. His aim was to educate leaders for the race and the principal effort of his school was to train teachers and preachers to go out through the state and by their example to lift up and educate both intellectually and morally the colored people. His influence was felt throughout the state both through his training of teachers and preachers and through his counsels given at conventions associations and other gatherings of the colored men and in private. He is mourned by both white and black. By the whites because they knew his teachings would help the colored people without causing trouble to them. By the latter because they miss their leader teacher and friend. unknown
19473905Palatka Fl 1947. Very good. 5pp. typed on folio sheets stapled. Old folds minor wear and creasing light dust-soiling. An unsigned petition from the Hallie Q. Brown Club asking "The Honourable City Commission of the City of Palatka Florida.to recognise its status as the 'Hattie Q Brown Club which the Commission gave leave to use certain City property in Block 81.in furtherance of the welfare of colored children." Apparently a splinter group of the club was also claiming to be the Hallie Q. Brown Club and was illegally collecting rents on the groups club house. In asking for official recognition the group details their history of helping African-American youth in the area "by equiping and over-seeing a playground for them." The authors then detail the internal conflicts which occurred amongst the club members the procession of club leadership including several named individuals and the circumstances which led to the club's incorporation ending with the filing of a charter with a Putnam County judge. The fourth section of the club's petition enumerates their activities and plans in "furtherance of the welfare of the colored children of Palatka." The first two points detail the land clearance and construction of the park and their further plans for same; the third point relates to a study the club has undertaken "of the problem of juvenile delinquency among the colored children." Part of their plan is to work with law enforcement "to work out a parole system for first offenders of tender age" as well as "provide a method and place for the incarceration of colored children accused of or guilty of infractions of the law who are less than 12 years of age so that such children may be kept safely in custody and yet not exposed to the bad example and toughening influence of imprisonment in the County jail." Hattie Quinn Brown was a pioneering African-American educator who actively sought the formation of African-American women's clubs throughout the country. unknown
1980List3013Miami Florida: Allied Printing 1980. Single sheet measuring 8 ½ x 11 inches. Worn with some folding at corners; very good plus. A flyer for a production of Louisiana playwright professor and journalist Norbert Davidson Jr.’s “El Hajj Malikâ€: The Life and Times of Malcom X. This production sponsored by the Florida State Conference of NAACP Branches was put on by the ‘M’ Ensemble Company. Established in 1971 and still operational as of 2025 the ‘M’ Ensemble is Florida’s longest-running African American theater company. Davidson’s El Hajj Malik was written when he was a college student at Dillard University in the 1960s and was widely performed nationally and internationally according to his obituary in the Louisiana Weekly.1<br /> <br /> 1 Ryan Whirty “Playwright professor and former editor of The Louisiana Weekly dies†The Louisiana Weekly May 6 2019. Allied Printing unknown
187934329DeLand Volusia County Florida: Codrington & Scovel 1879. Newspaper. Good. Two newspaper issues. Both issues are folded and uncut. First issue is dated Wednesday June 18 1879. Pages 33-40. Second issue is dated July 9 1879. Pages 57-64. Occasional light toning to the pages. Small pin holes at some of the folds. Previous owner inscription of "C H Hart Federal Point Fla" written in light pencil top of each issue. <br /> <br /> Contents include a variety of agriculture articles advice on beautifying homes selecting palm trees domestic economy an article titled "Our Orange Groves and Settlements. Part II." individuals listed in homestead patents illustrated advertisements and more. Codrington & Scovel unknown
183932459Washington DC: United States Senate 1839. Wraps. Good. Disbound folio wraps. 3 pages of content 4th page blank. This is an amendment to Senate Bill 61 in the House of Representatives in which "Mr. Lincoln submitted the following; which when the bill from the Senate No. 61 "for the benefit of the Alabama Florida and Georgia Railroad Company " shall be taken up for consideration he will move as an AMENDMENT. Abbreviation of the Amendment states:<br /> <br /> Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following be granted to the Alabama Florida and Georgia Railroad Company incorporated by the Legislatures of Alabama and Florida respectively the right of way through portions of the public lands as the said railroad in its course of location pursuant to the charter granted to said company shall pass over: Provided That the portion of the public land occupied by said railroad shall not exceed eighty feet in width." The amendment goes on to describe surveying taking of field notes materials for the construction of the railroad time frame and more. <br /> <br /> Light foxing to the paper. A couple of small edge tears to the paper. Good condition. United States Senate unknown
171862504Fort Marion Feb. 17 1865. one page. Fine. 12mo. A ms. account of about 70 words unsigned relating an attack on the garrison as they were engaged in improving the ditch; their retreat; and their rally. unknown
186334799Long Swamp Florida: n.p. 1863. Letter. Good. Manuscript letter written on blue paper. Approx. 10" x 8". 1 page of content. On the back side is written "J L McGahagin Seller Jany 25th 1863". Hand writing is difficult to read at times. Letter has multiple folds. The paper is in good condition with some small splits at the folds. Transcription below:<br /> <br /> Long Swamp Fla Jan 25th 1863<br /> Mr. H. L. Flast<br /> Dear Sir<br /> <br /> I received your letter with draft of $1500 on Maj Teasdale which I will not want to use at percent - 8 I was disappointed in getting the cotton at or near Wacahoota persons in that section have put is up to 45 cts I have about 15 Bales seed Cotton and 12 gined at Home. I will tomorrow to haul down more seed cotton which I think I will enough to make 20 Bales I went to Gainesville and got the draft of 1900 from Dawkins I will have to pay for cotton if I get any more at 'presant' I to pay 'presant' prices - I have not heard from the teacher as yet that you were to and we have an application from Miss Baker for a friends of hers and are waiting to hear from you let us hear soon<br /> <br /> Yours Respectfully signed J L McGahagin<br /> <br /> From find a grave dot com:<br /> <br /> His first wife Sarah Adeline Eubanks McGahagin 1830-1856 is buried on the north side of him. On his other side is his second wife Margaret Jane Leitner McGahagin 1838-1896. His brother William Emmit McGahagin and his brother’s wife Sarah Eliza McCormick McGahagin are buried about fifteen feet south of J.L. McGahagin's tombstone.<br /> Joshua L. McGahagin was a farmer a saw-mill owner and owned real estate. He owned property in Brazil as well as in this country. He owned a sawmill on Lake Weir. He would barge logs across the lake take them by ox cart to the Ocklawaha River where they were barged to Jacksonville. He was a Captain in the Confederate Army.<br /> <br /> "Longswamp was the name applied to a large area which extended from the site of the present Belleview south and southwestward to the Withlacoochee River. A post office under Joshua L. McGahagin was established for this region on August 29 1846. Frequently the office was in the home of the postmaster and mail was carried by rider once each week."<br /> <br /> "In August of 1850 panic followed after finding an Indian camp nearby on the Withlacoochee. As all Indians were supposedly within a reservation in the Everglades wild rumors were circulated. On the McGahagin plantation log barricades were hurriedly erected and settlers from isolated homes rushed here for protection. But the alarm was unjustified. An intensive search disclosed only eleven Indians. These Indians were soon deported back to the Everglades."<br /> <br /> These excerpts were taken from a history of Marion County called "Ocali Country Kingdom of the Sun" by Eloise Robinson Mrs. Roy V. Ott and Louis Hickman Chazal.<br /> <br /> One day several years after the Civil War a man who had served under Joshua Lucas MaGahagin's C.S.A. command entered the home of his eldest son William "Billy" Emmit. He saw his father's framed photograph over the mantel and exclaimed "Why that's the Ole Warhorse!"<br /> <br /> Joshua left for South America in 1868 taking one of his daughters Lula with him. He was back in Marion County in 1870 as he was listed in the Census that year.<br /> <br /> After surviving the Civil War and a trip to Brazil spending hours on horseback Joshua died when he was thrown from a horse. n.p. unknown
18905287Various locations in Cuba and Florida 1890. Very good. Twelve cabinet card photographs each measuring 3.5 x 4.5 inches on matching mounts measuring 5.25 x 6.5 inches all with manuscript captions on verso. Moderate dust-soiling minor overall wear a few small unobtrusive chips to corners. A dozen original photographs picturing a group of men traveling in Florida and Cuba around the turn of the 20th century. The men seem relatively well-to-do and visit several different locations in each place. Four of the photos emanate from Florida while the remainder picture scenes in Cuba. The photographs are all captioned on the verso which read as follows:<br /> <br /> 1 "In the Court of Ponce De Leon Hotel St. Augustine"<br /> 2 "A frozen fountain in St. Augustine Florida - the white is ice"<br /> 3 "Fishing in St. Augustine"<br /> 4 "A Tree in Tampa Florida where one tree runs up on another takes root up in tree then runs down & takes root in the ground again"<br /> 5 "A Street in Nevaelas Cuba"<br /> 6 "A Country Road in Cuba"<br /> 7 "Natives in Havana"<br /> 8 "In Morro Castle Havana Cuba. Prisoners braking sic rocks"<br /> 9 "On top of Morro Castle Havana Cuba"<br /> 10 "Country Scene in Cuba"<br /> 11 "Country Scene in Cuba" different image<br /> 12 "Plaza at south of the Prado Havana unknown
19095288Various locations mostly in Cuba and Florida: March 5 to April 1 1909. About very good. 21 leaves illustrated with 235 photographs all with typed captions. Oblong folio. Contemporary full dark brown cloth brad bound. Moderate staining and coiling to covers some edge wear. Bottom corners of all leaves chipped not costing content. Occasional minor wear to photos or captions. A well-organized and meticulously-captioned vernacular photograph album with significant content on Florida and Cuba in the first decade of the 20th century. The album is organized chronologically and features a family from Ohio traveling from home by train to Florida and thence to Cuba then returning home in the spring of 1909. The first seven and the last twenty-five photographs emanate from Ohio where the journey started Tennessee and Georgia but otherwise the album features Florida and Cuba in over 200 pictures. The scenes in Florida range from Jacksonville to Key West and other points in-between featuring the state in almost 120 photos both before and after the traveling party went to Cuba. The images capture portraits of the travelers numerous homes hotels businesses and other buildings including an ostrich farm in Jacksonville numerous scenes in Ocala including one image featuring "Mary and her old colored Mammy" various churches and other scenes in Tampa residences in Key West beach scenes at Long Key various hotels and agricultural fields in Miami and various buildings in Palm Beach Ormand and St. Augustine concluding with a front view of the "Old Slave Market" in the latter city.<br /> <br /> Most notably the album includes eighty-six photographs of Cuba the nexus point for the present trip where the party arrived on March 20. The Cuba scenes mostly feature Havana with several views of "Beautiful Residences" and other buildings plus some street views and other scenes in the city. Other interesting Havana scenes picture the railroad station "The Bone Yard -- Old destroyed Catacombs" scenes in the Malecon and more. Some of the street scenes in Havana picture local residents one of "Children on the street corner" and another showing "Children scrambling for pennies" in the middle of the street. The album also contains views of the wreck of the Maine Morro Castle the interior of Fort Cabanas and more. The travelers managed to wander outside Havana for a day when they ventured to the countryside and the town of Guines on March 23. While there the compiler took photographs of countryside outside Guines a railroad car full of sugar cane thatched houses a group photograph of the students at a "Spanish School in Guines" a "Child crying in the street" a group of locals outside a cafe captioned "Strangers in a strange land.Where we tried to get something to eat" other street scenes in the town and the local jail. The last photograph of Cuba here features a "Large Sugar Mill in Providencia." The group then returned through Florida Georgia and Tennessee where they spent a day at Lookout Mountain and Orchard Knob before their final stop in Dayton Ohio. A wonderful early-20th century travel album with significant views in Florida and Cuba. March 5 to April 1 unknown
191940735Washington D.C.: Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey 1919. Large folding nautical chart printed on heavy paper stock. Colored. A rare original coastal survey of Florida and Georgia from Sapelo Island to Amelia Island including St. Simons Island Sea Island Brunswick Jekyll Island Cumberland Island and Fernandina Beach.<br/> <br/> Established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 as the Survey of the Coast the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was the United States' first civilian scientific agency. This agency has followed its mission to survey the U.S. coastline create nautical charts of the coast and help increase maritime safety since its founding and has often played fascinating roles in significant chapters of U.S. history. It served in all theaters of the Civil War in the service of the Union Army and Navy pioneered acoustic exploration in the wake of the sinking of the Titanic and during WWI it worked to detect enemy submarines. In addition this agency worked to survey and produce detailed maps and renderings of the U.S. coast. These nautical survey maps commonly referred to as "T-sheets" provide fascinating insights into the history of the United States coastline which has and will continue to shift. These maps are the most important data source for understanding the physical and ecological characteristics of the U.S. shoreline. The present map is a highly detailed and accurate sea chart of the coastal border between Georgia and Florida and an important historical view of the developing states. Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey unknown
192140736Washington D.C.: Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey 1921. Large folding nautical chart printed on heavy paper stock. Colored. A rare original coastal survey of Florida and Alabama from Pensacola Bay showing Perdido Bay including Pensacola Perdido Key and Orange Beach.<br/> <br/> Established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 as the Survey of the Coast the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was the United States' first civilian scientific agency. This agency has followed its mission to survey the U.S. coastline create nautical charts of the coast and help increase maritime safety since its founding and has often played fascinating roles in significant chapters of U.S. history. It served in all theaters of the Civil War in the service of the Union Army and Navy pioneered acoustic exploration in the wake of the sinking of the Titanic and during WWI it worked to detect enemy submarines. In addition this agency worked to survey and produce detailed maps and renderings of the U.S. coast. These nautical survey maps commonly referred to as "T-sheets" provide fascinating insights into the history of the United States coastline which has and will continue to shift. These maps are the most important data source for understanding the physical and ecological characteristics of the U.S. shoreline. The present map is a highly detailed and accurate sea chart of the coastal border between Florida and Alabama and an important historical view of the developing states. Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey unknown
192264060Tallahassee FL & Buffalo & New York NY: Department of Agriculture Florida The Matthews-Northrup Works 1922. One large oblong double-atlas folio colour lithograph map sized 50 x 44 in. county lines and railroad lines demarcated in colours fold creases as issued minor dustsoiling edgewear to verso some very slight weakening to a couple fold creases otherwise a VG bright copy. First edition thus of this uncommon and updated sectional map of Florida incorporating the 1920 census numbers as well as updating the agricultural statistics farm properties and average acreage values at the outset of the Roaring 20’s. Also delineated are the railroads reaching into Florida including the Atlantic Coast Line Florida East Coast RR Seaboard Air Lines Georgia Southern & FLorida RR Louisville 7 Nashville RR and others. McRae 1870-1943 headed the Florida Department of Agriculture from 1912-1923. Worldcat locates 2 physical copies U of FL WI Hist. Soc. Department of Agriculture, Florida, The Matthews-Northrup Works, unknown
191138867New York: Moffat Yard & Co. 1911. 8vo. 16 235 1 pp. Photo frntsp. numerous photo plates. Red cloth gilt lettrng plate of Chief Osceola on the frnt cvr rubbng edgewear still a G copy. Revised & expanded edition of this classic anthropological work written to support and help the few hundred surviving Seminole Indians of Florida at the end of the 19th-century. Moffat, Yard & Co., hardcover
1872361607Tallahassee FL: Charles H. Walton State Printer 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A considerable portion of this year's session was consumed by the impeachment of the Republican governor Harrison Reed led by members of his own party. He was accused of fraud connected to the issuance of railroad bonds. While the Assembly formerly the House of Representatives prior to the 1868 post-Civil War constitution impeached Reed during this session the Florida Senate did not convict him. This was the second of two impeachments that Reed survived during his contentious four-year term as Florida's first Reconstruction governor.<br/> <br/> This legislative session was "Begun and held in the capitol in the city of Tallahassee on Tuesday January 2 1872" and concluded on February 17 1872.<br/> <br/> 350 journal 76 reports pages. Contents generally very good and clean. Title page self wrapper spotted and stained. Finely bound in three-quarter's leather and marbled paper-covered boards. The spine has raised bands and is stamped in gilt. A truly lovely period-style binding. Charles H. Walton, State Printer hardcover
1854308253Tallahassee FL: Office of the Floridian & Journal Printed by Dyke & Williams 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A nicely-bound volume collecting the Florida House and Senate proceedings for 1854–55.<br/> <br/> Each journal—the message of Governor James E. Broome to the legislature and a daily report of the activities of the legislative bodies—are followed by the same appendix of "Documents Accompanying the Governor's Message." <br/> <br/> House Journal pagination: 340 Journal 54 Documents pages.<br/> <br/> Senate Journal pagination: 337 Journal 54 Documents pages. With a final blank leaf. Contents generally very good no separate wrappers as issued. Pages tanned and foxed as usual. This volume is finely bound in three-quarter's leather and marbled paper-covered boards. The spine has raised bands and is stamped in gilt. A truly lovely period-style binding. Office of the Floridian & Journal, Printed by Dyke & Williams hardcover
1855308254Tallahassee FL: Office of the Floridian & Journal Printed by James S. Jones 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A nicely-bound volume of the daily log of this legislative session with the message of Governor James E. Broome and a number of state office reports issued as an appendix to the governor's message.<br/> <br/> 175 28 pages. Contents generally very good no separate wrappers as issued. This volume is finely bound in three-quarter's leather and marbled paper-covered boards. The spine has raised bands and is stamped in gilt. A truly lovely period-style binding. Office of the Floridian & Journal, Printed by James S. Jones hardcover
1858361605Tallahassee FL: Office of the Floridian & Journal Printed by Jones & Dyke 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. With most of the legislature's time taken up with questions of infrastructure particularly the Florida railroad Governor Madision S. Perry uses his annual address to warn of coming conflict with the north and to encourage the spread of slavery. This is a nicely-bound volume of the daily legislative log and the accompanying state office reports. The session ran from November 22 1858 to January 15 1859.<br/> <br/> In his prescient call for funding a militia an action that the legislature does not appear to have discussed seriously Gov. Perry warns that "the late elections in the non-slaveholding States forebode no good to us in the South. He would be a false sentinel who under the present aspect of affairs would cry peace" pp. 27–28. He then observes that many White Floridians are ambivalent about slavery and he encourages the legislature to make changes in the law to encourage slaveholding another action the lawmakers seem to have not spent much time on.<br/> <br/> Another subject that Perry devotes time to is the forcible removal of Native Americans from Florida. After twenty years of conflict the federal government had recently declared victory and ended the war. Both the governor and the legislature make appeals in this document to continue the effort until all the Seminoles and other tribes are gone from the state.<br/> <br/> 456 journal 70 reports pages. According to the daily log the print run of this issue was 700 copies. Contents heavily foxed; title page laid down on paper; some loss to the margins; fifth gathering duplicated in error; corner loss to final leaves of the reports section with no loss of text. Finely bound in three-quarter's leather and marbled paper-covered boards. The spine has raised bands and is stamped in gilt. A truly lovely period-style binding. Office of the Floridian & Journal, Printed by Jones & Dyke hardcover
19610904240097Peninsular Publishing Company 1961-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. Nice looking book has minor edge wear. [Peninsular Publishing Company] paperback
194638206St. Augustine: Private printing 1946. 1946. FLORIDA. 9" x 6" colorful pictorial wrappers. Foreword. 44pp. including wrappers. Black and white map of Florida high-lighting the Florida East Coast Railway from Jacksonville to Miami. Black and white photographs include a portrait of Henry Morrison Flagler the builder of the Florida East Coast Railway Flagler System Hotels and associated enterprises. A pioneer of the East Coast of Florida. "Linking the entire east coast of Florida with a transportation system and establishing tourism and agriculture as the basis of the state’s economy at the time was largely an uninhabited frontier demanded a great deal of foresight and perseverance. More than a century later the mainstays of Florida’s economy are still agriculture and tourism and Flagler’s incredible legacy as the inventor of modern Florida can still clearly be seen throughout Florida." This booklet is well written and provides an interesting summarized history of the Florida East Coast Railway and the development of the area it served. Soiling to wrappers a "Railroadians of America" sticker to front wrapper else a good copy of an informative booklet. Private printing, 1946. unknown
191015233St. Augustness: The Record Company 1910. First Edition. Pamphlet. Near fine. Promotional booklet for Orlando located in Orange County Florida published by The Record Company circa 1910. Oblong octavo 32pp. Publisher's maroon wrappers title printed in gold on cover bound at spine with staples. Sunning to covers staples beginning to rust. A scarce pamphlet showing the local infrastructure farming operations municipal buildings and churches all in half tone illustrations. Illustrations likely by Clarence E. Howard who worked as a photographer and newspaper editor. A reference to the first Automobile Carnival dates this pamphlet prior to 1912. OCLC 882242309 A scarce work. Orlando Florida traces its roots back to the 1830s during a period marked by the Seminole Wars where the U.S. Army built Fort Gatlin south of the present-day Orlando city limits to protect settlers from attacks by Native Americans. By 1840 the area around Fort Gatlin was settled leading to the growth of a small community that by 1856 was known as Jernigan named after the Jernigan family who established the first permanent settlement. The name Orlando was adopted in 1857 though the origin of the name is subject to various legends one of the most popular claims it was named after Orlando Reeves a soldier who allegedly died in the area during the Second Seminole War. The city was officially incorporated in 1875 and by the late 19th century Orlando became a significant hub for Florida's citrus industry. The Record Company unknown
