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Correspondence and news article regarding Florida land, 1925-1926
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
Cultural and spatial perceptions of Miami's Little Havana
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
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.
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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)
Edna Pearce Lockett
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
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.
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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)
First Thirty Years of Miami and the Bank of Bay Biscayne, 1896-1926
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
Florida Fancies
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
Florida's Great Hurricane
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
Glades period settlement patterns in the Everglades culture area
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
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.
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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)
Guide to Florida
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
Home Designer
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
In Florida's Dawn
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
In Lower Florida Wilds
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
Liberty Billings, Florida's forgotten radical Republican
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
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.
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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)
Oranges and inlets
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
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.
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Date Issued
2012
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3355868
Subject Headings
History, Environmental aspects, History, Environmental aspects
Format
Document (PDF)
Pelts, Plumes, and Hides
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
Photograph Album of Florida Scenes, Palm Beach and Royal Poinciana Hotel
Title
Photograph Album of Florida Scenes, Palm Beach and Royal Poinciana Hotel.
Abstract/Description
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
Shipwrecks in the Vicinity of Jupiter Inlet
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