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2008Q-1885693818Fitness Info TechWest Virginia University 2008-01-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Fitness Info Tech,West Virginia University paperback
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21584Fair/Good. A comprehensive 26-page primary record of the 1897 Florida Chautauqua a premier late-Victorian 'Winter Assembly' that defined the cultural life of the Florida Panhandle. <br /> <br /> This program documents the 13th annual session February 18 to March 17 1897 serving as a fascinating snapshot of high-society educational tourism in the 19th century. Beyond the lecture schedules-which featured prominent figures like Hon. Wallace Bruce and Dr. W. L. Davidson-the booklet acts as a robust business directory for DeFuniak Springs showcasing a level of commercial sophistication Opera Houses Sanatoriums and Law Firms rarely seen in rural Florida during this era.<br /> <br /> KEY FEATURES <br /> Date: 1897 Stated on cover. <br /> Lecturer Archive: Includes portraits and bios of the 'Fine Talent Secured' including Hon. Wallace Bruce and musical director Dr. H. R. Palmer. <br /> Advertising Density: Contains over a dozen detailed full and half-page advertisements for local businesses like W. L. Gawthon & Co.'s Dry Goods The Opera House Store and the Albertson Sanatorium. <br /> Educational Content: Details the Department of Instruction including classes in China Painting Kindergarten methods and Physical Culture. <br /> Railroad Data: Features a 'Railroad Information section for the L. & N. Louisville & Nashville and B. & O. lines. <br /> Specs: Stapled paper wraps; 4 x 9.25 inches; 26 pages.<br /> <br /> CONDITION: Fair/Good -- Stapled wraps remain intact though the final page is detached. Age-related toning throughout. A fragile but complete surviving record of 19th-century Florida ephemera. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE --<br /> The Florida Chautauqua was essential to the 'New South' narrative proving that Florida could be a destination for intellectual rigor not just citrus or swamps. This document provides a rare look at the Walton County economy before the rise of the coastal tourism boom highlighting DeFuniak Springs as a major railway destination and a center for the Florida State Normal College.<br /> <br /> SUBJECTS: DeFuniak Springs Florida Panhandle History Chautauqua Movement Victorian Advertising 19th Century Education Walton County Ephemera Program Archive Social History Association Copy Regional. 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
184635409Pensacola 1846. Letter. Very good. Letter. 4 pages. Lined paper folded. 4 pages of content. Postal mark and address written center of the 4th page. Two small wax seals on the edges of page 4. <br /> <br /> Letter is addressed to William Roney Jr. Corner of Third & Branch Sts Philadelphia Pa. Letter written aboard the U.S. Frigate "Raritan" off Pensacola Navy Yard April 3rd 1846 and has a Pensacola post mark and date of April 6 . Written on the eve of the Mexican War April 24 1846 to February 2 1848. Content summarized:<br /> <br /> Thomas Roney Midshipman writes a lengthy letter to his brother about his situation in Pensacola and requests his brother's help with family debts. He writes:“There is very little news from Mexico the latest is that Mr. Slidell has been informed that the government could not receive a Minister from the United States but that there were ready to receive a Commissioner for the settlement of the Texas question. We had consequently demanded his passports and is expected here very shortly in the Ship Manzo. The Mexicans have been making every preparation for a war…were preparing to place Santa Anna at the head of the government again….†Roney had been transferred from the U.S. Brig Bainbridge back to the Raritan. He was relieved as “master†and appointed "midshipman". Roney has no problem with this because the Raritan is more comfortable. Roney recently returned from Rio de Janerio and had to take large advance to pay off debts. The only regret of his demotion to midshipman is that he can’t send money home to Mother any more hopes brothers can make it up. He complains of the cost of his “mess bill†and outfitting upon leaving the coast of Brazil. He writes "Any place is better than the coast of Brazil unknown
184635410Pensacola 1846. Letter. Very good. Letter. Folded to make 4 pages. 1 page of content 2 blank pages 1 page with address and postal mark from Pensacola Florida dated August 20 1846. Letter addressed to "Dear Sister" and signed "W Conway". Multiple folds and some creasing and toning to the paper. Red wax seal left edge page 1. Small paper tear from opening the letter. Good condition. Letter content summarized:<br /> <br /> US Frigate Potomac. W. Conway Pensacola Florida writes to sister Camden Goose River Maine while involved in the Blockade of Vera Cruz. USS Potomac sailed w/ships Cumberland Missippy sic Princeton Falmouth Truxton Somers Reefer Bonito and Petrel to mouth of river Alvarado off of Veracruz. Describes bombardment: “…the Commodore made rig to get spring word the cable to bring the broadsides to bear on the fort at 6 PM the firing Commenced and Continued about 2 hours we didi not land the next day we got under weigh and came back to our anchorage. we are waiting for orders from Washington to Attack the Castle of St. Juan Ola Fort San Juan de Ulúa offshore opposite Veracruz. unknown
19537284fd2Gainesville: University of Florida Department of Alumni Affairs 1953. Quarto stiff illustrated wrappers stapled 22 pp. Photos throughout. Very Good. University of Florida, Department of Alumni Affairs, 1953. unknown books
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
Outer dimensions: 10.75" x 14.5". Counties individually colored. Clean and unmarked with light wear. An attractive vintage copy. Bonus: includes separate extensive list of Florida counties and towns/cities, complete with their populations in 1889. Book
Outside dimensions 10.75" x 14.5". Unmarked with light wear and soiling. An attractive vintage copy. Book
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
1941249fdSt. Petersburg Florida: Mound Park Hospital School of Nursing 1941. Quarto cream fabricoid unpaginated. Very Good with light foxing age darkened spotting and edgewear; names noted in ink across the bottoms of a number of photographs. Mound Park Hospital School of Nursing, 1941. unknown 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
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