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- Title
- Correspondence and news article regarding Florida land, 1925-1926.
- Creator
- Ranson, Robert., Moffat, Victor R., Crabtree, Hobart., Johnson & Moffat
- Date Issued
- 1925 - 1926, 1925, 1926
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/FA00000248.pdf
- Subject Headings
- Real estate investment, History, History
- Format
- E-book
- Title
- Cultural and spatial perceptions of Miami's Little Havana.
- Creator
- Cordoba, Hilton A., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Geosciences
- Abstract/Description
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Miami's "Little Havana" is known by many for its famous Southwest 8th Street, the Calle Ocho festival, and for the many Latin people, particularly Cubans, that live in the area. However, the current name of the neighborhood hides all of the dynamics of neighborhood change and creates the notion that Little Havana is a static monoculture neighborhood. This study measured people's perception of Little Havana by surveying 153 residents to identify the cultural associations and to capture the...
Show moreMiami's "Little Havana" is known by many for its famous Southwest 8th Street, the Calle Ocho festival, and for the many Latin people, particularly Cubans, that live in the area. However, the current name of the neighborhood hides all of the dynamics of neighborhood change and creates the notion that Little Havana is a static monoculture neighborhood. This study measured people's perception of Little Havana by surveying 153 residents to identify the cultural associations and to capture the participant's spatial perceptions of Little Havana. This study found that survey participants from inside the study area associated Little Havana more with Cuban culture and had more positive things to say about the neighborhood. Finally, this study suggests that the core of Little Havana was encompassed by West Flagler Street on the north, Southwest 8th Street on the south, Southwest 27th Avenue on the west, and Southwest 4th Avenue on the east.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2011
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3174508
- Subject Headings
- Cuban Americans, Social life and customs, History, Description and travel, Social life and customs
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Edna Pearce Lockett: lady of the house.
- Creator
- Dooley, Terry L., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis demonstrates how some women used the power of their ancestry and family name to run for political office, to become a positive role model for other women, and also to help pass laws favorable to the improvement of gender equality. Edna Pearce Lockett was unique, but also a reflection of the values of her community. Women who ran for office tended to have strong male figures in their lives that treated them as equals. They often were savvy enough to use the novelty of their gender...
Show moreThis thesis demonstrates how some women used the power of their ancestry and family name to run for political office, to become a positive role model for other women, and also to help pass laws favorable to the improvement of gender equality. Edna Pearce Lockett was unique, but also a reflection of the values of her community. Women who ran for office tended to have strong male figures in their lives that treated them as equals. They often were savvy enough to use the novelty of their gender to encourage positive press. Far from trying to be men, they accentuated their femininity through press accounts detailing their fashion sense, their dedication to feminine pursuits, and their ability to be ladies as well as serve their constituency. Edna Pearce Lockett's life also illustrates what society was like in central Florida during the first half of the 20th century for men and women living on and around the cattle industry.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2009
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/186679
- Subject Headings
- Political and social views, Frontier and pioneer life, History, Women in politics, History, Feminism, History and criticism, Women, History, History
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The First Thirty Years of Miami and the Bank of Bay Biscayne, 1896-1926.
- Creator
- Bank of Bay Biscayne (Miami, Fla.)
- Date Issued
- 1926
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/FA00000255.pdf
- Subject Headings
- Banks and banking, History
- Format
- E-book
- Title
- Florida Fancies.
- Creator
- Swift, F. R. (Frederick R.)
- Date Issued
- 1903
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/fa00000042.pdf
- Subject Headings
- Description and travel, Description and travel, History
- Format
- E-book
- Title
- Florida's Great Hurricane.
- Creator
- Reese, Joseph Hugh
- Date Issued
- 1926
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/fa00000038.pdf
- Subject Headings
- History, Hurricanes, Natural disasters
- Format
- E-book
- Title
- Glades period settlement patterns in the Everglades culture area.
- Creator
- Callsen, Paul., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
- Abstract/Description
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The manner in which human settlements are arranged across the landscape holds clues to a society's internal social relationships and may indicate how a society fits into its environment. This research investigates settlement patterns during the formative pre-historic periods in Southeast Florida, the three Glades Periods (BC 500- AD 1750). During this time span, the inhabitants of the region adapted to a changing climate and environment by occupying places that were conducive to their...
Show moreThe manner in which human settlements are arranged across the landscape holds clues to a society's internal social relationships and may indicate how a society fits into its environment. This research investigates settlement patterns during the formative pre-historic periods in Southeast Florida, the three Glades Periods (BC 500- AD 1750). During this time span, the inhabitants of the region adapted to a changing climate and environment by occupying places that were conducive to their particular hunter-gatherer way of life. However, while the Glades people moved from one locale to another, they never altered the manner in which they primarily sought sustenance; fishing and hunting. Evidence suggests substantial population increases beginning in the Glades II Period and shift of habitations due to flooding of earlier and lower sites.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/165672
- Subject Headings
- Ethnoarchaeology, Indians of North America, Antiquities, Land settlement patterns, History
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A Guide to Florida: "The Land of Flowers".
- Creator
- Olney, George Washington
- Date Issued
- 1872
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/FA00000003.pdf
- Subject Headings
- Agriculture, Description and travel, History, Economics and Society: Post-Civil War Florida, 1865-1913, Business, Agriculture, and Tourism, 1878-1897
- Format
- E-book
- Title
- The Home Designer.
- Creator
- Dixon, Walter W.
- Date Issued
- 1922
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/FA00000254.pdf
- Subject Headings
- Architecture, Domestic, History
- Format
- E-book
- Title
- In Florida's Dawn: A Romance of History.
- Creator
- Gold, P. D. (Pleasant Daniel)
- Date Issued
- 1926
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/FA00000268.pdf
- Subject Headings
- History, Fiction
- Format
- E-book
- Title
- In Lower Florida Wilds: A Naturalist's Observations on the Life, Physical Geography, and Geology of the More Tropical Part of the State.
- Creator
- Simpson, Charles Torrey
- Date Issued
- 1920
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/FA00000023.pdf
- Subject Headings
- Natural history, Physical geography, Description and travel, Description and travel, Earth sciences, History
- Format
- E-book
- Title
- Liberty Billings, Florida's forgotten radical Republican.
- Creator
- Asarch, Rhonda V., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
- Abstract/Description
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Unitarian preacher and Union Army officer Liberty Billings arrived in Florida in 1863 with the First South Carolina Volunteer Infantry. Billings settled in Fernandina and became active in Florida Reconstruction politics as a Radical Republican. Most ot the rhetoric regarding Billings focuses on his participation in the 1868 Florida Constitution Convention even though he went on to be State Senator and an influential citizen in Fernandina. This thesis examines the life of Liberty Billings...
Show moreUnitarian preacher and Union Army officer Liberty Billings arrived in Florida in 1863 with the First South Carolina Volunteer Infantry. Billings settled in Fernandina and became active in Florida Reconstruction politics as a Radical Republican. Most ot the rhetoric regarding Billings focuses on his participation in the 1868 Florida Constitution Convention even though he went on to be State Senator and an influential citizen in Fernandina. This thesis examines the life of Liberty Billings focusing on events preceding and following the Convention. In doing so, it argues that Billings' participation in Reconstruction politics derived from his experiences prior to the Civil War as did his transition from emancipationist to reconciliationist. By examining the earlier years of Billings' life as well as the evidence of his campaigns during 1867, his term as State Senator and Supreme Court cases, it will be demonstrated that Billings abandoned racial equality for class supremacy.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3356895
- Subject Headings
- Influence, History, Political parties, History, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Politics and government
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Oranges and inlets: an environmental history of Florida's Indian River Lagoon.
- Creator
- Osborn, Nathaniel, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
- Abstract/Description
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Nineteenth century settlers in Florida's Indian River Lagoon (IRL) region created an isolated fringe culture wholly dependent on the instable hydrological forces of the shallow lagoon system. These settlers were among the first to construct a built environment market by the dredging and filling that would define much of the twentieth century Sunshine State. There has been no period when the liminal IRL ecosystem was not without shifting barrier islands and dramatically varying salinity levels...
Show moreNineteenth century settlers in Florida's Indian River Lagoon (IRL) region created an isolated fringe culture wholly dependent on the instable hydrological forces of the shallow lagoon system. These settlers were among the first to construct a built environment market by the dredging and filling that would define much of the twentieth century Sunshine State. There has been no period when the liminal IRL ecosystem was not without shifting barrier islands and dramatically varying salinity levels due primarily to the oceanic interchange following the opening and closing of natural inlets. This paper suggests that attempts to "restore" the lagoon will necessarily declare an arbitrary historical form to be normative for the system. The first and last chapters provide an overview of the system's origins and recent history, while the core of the paper focuses on human-environment interaction of the lagoon in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3355868
- Subject Headings
- History, Environmental aspects, History, Environmental aspects
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Pelts, Plumes, and Hides: White Traders Among the Seminole Indians, 1870-1930.
- Creator
- Kersey, Harry A.
- Date Issued
- 1975
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/FA00000027.pdf
- Subject Headings
- History, Fur trade, History, Seminole Indians, Race Relations, Indians of North America -- Rites and ceremonies
- Format
- E-book
- Title
- Photograph Album of Florida Scenes, Palm Beach and Royal Poinciana Hotel.
- Abstract/Description
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Photograph album, consisting primarily of photographs of people in Florida locales in early part of the 20th century.
- Date Issued
- 1904
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/FA00000010.pdf
- Subject Headings
- Pictorial works, Description and travel, History, Economics and Society: Post-Civil War Florida, 1865-1913, Business, Agriculture, and Tourism, 1878-1897
- Format
- E-book
- Title
- Shipwrecks in the Vicinity of Jupiter Inlet.
- Creator
- Dubois, Bessie Wilson.
- Date Issued
- 1975
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/FA00000017.pdf
- Subject Headings
- Shipwrecks, Salvage, Historic sites, Folklore, History
- Format
- E-book