Dena Snodgrass Collection

Correspondence, photographs, journals, and research files. The collection primarily consists of material related to her research of Jacksonville history, as well as the history of Northeast Florida and South Georgia. The bulk of the collection is comprised of subject files containing articles, news clippings, copies of legal documents, notes, interviews, as well as correspondence with the family and friends of the subjects being researched. Also included are a small amount of original documents created by the subjects themselves (e.g., correspondence, speeches, deeds, writings). Although most of the research conducted by Snodgrass spans the 1940s to the 1990s, these original documents and copies of original documents date as far back as 1812.

Of particular interest is her correspondence with other historians and authors, such as Canter Brown, Eugenia Price, Richard A. Martin, and Rembert Patrick. For example, there is a great deal of correspondence and historical material related to Price's writings and research on the Fleming Family plantation, Hibernia. Other prominent persons, families, and locations include the Clinch Family, Ft. Clinch, William J. Mills, Ft. George, Z. Kingsley, Fernandina, T. Frederick Davis, W.T. Cash, Charles MacNeill (McNeill), the Summerlin Family, John H. McIntosh, Ortega, and I.D. Hart. Other topics covered include the Civil War, the Jacksonville fire of 1901, the Florida Historical Society, American Indians, the Haile Plantation at Kanapaha, Kissimmee and Orlando, and Spanish land grants.

In addition to the correspondence and subject files, the collection includes a small number of her personal journals, covering 1974 to 1992. There are also numerous photographs, negatives, and slides, primarily covering the same subjects and dates as are covered in the correspondence and research files.