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Box 1

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Contains 52 Results:

Collection Information

 File — Box: 1
Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence and transcriptions written by a northern family who came to Florida at the peak of the 1925-1926 Land Boom, but left when they discovered that work and good pay was hard to find. Most of the letters and penny postcards are from Ralph and Mary Moore and Obediah and Sylvia Bardo, addressed to each other or to their children. Obediah's letters include routine descriptions of life in Florida at a time when many people were moving there: as he notes "10,000...
Dates: 1925-1957; Majority of material found within 1925-1926

Postcards to Ruth and Earl McPeak from Mary Moore, Nov. 13, 1925 - March 8, 1926

 File — Box: 1
Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence and transcriptions written by a northern family who came to Florida at the peak of the 1925-1926 Land Boom, but left when they discovered that work and good pay was hard to find. Most of the letters and penny postcards are from Ralph and Mary Moore and Obediah and Sylvia Bardo, addressed to each other or to their children. Obediah's letters include routine descriptions of life in Florida at a time when many people were moving there: as he notes "10,000...
Dates: Nov. 13, 1925 - March 8, 1926

Postcards to Lela Myers from Mary Moore, Nov. 13, 1925 - May 14, 1926

 File — Box: 1
Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence and transcriptions written by a northern family who came to Florida at the peak of the 1925-1926 Land Boom, but left when they discovered that work and good pay was hard to find. Most of the letters and penny postcards are from Ralph and Mary Moore and Obediah and Sylvia Bardo, addressed to each other or to their children. Obediah's letters include routine descriptions of life in Florida at a time when many people were moving there: as he notes "10,000...
Dates: Nov. 13, 1925 - May 14, 1926

To Ruth and Earl McPeak from Ralph Moore, Nov. 25, 1925

 File — Box: 1
Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence and transcriptions written by a northern family who came to Florida at the peak of the 1925-1926 Land Boom, but left when they discovered that work and good pay was hard to find. Most of the letters and penny postcards are from Ralph and Mary Moore and Obediah and Sylvia Bardo, addressed to each other or to their children. Obediah's letters include routine descriptions of life in Florida at a time when many people were moving there: as he notes "10,000...
Dates: Nov. 25, 1925

To Ruth and Earl McPeak from Mary Moore, Nov. 27, 1925

 File — Box: 1
Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence and transcriptions written by a northern family who came to Florida at the peak of the 1925-1926 Land Boom, but left when they discovered that work and good pay was hard to find. Most of the letters and penny postcards are from Ralph and Mary Moore and Obediah and Sylvia Bardo, addressed to each other or to their children. Obediah's letters include routine descriptions of life in Florida at a time when many people were moving there: as he notes "10,000...
Dates: Nov. 27, 1925

To Ruth and Earl McPeak from Mary Moore, Dec. 6, 1925

 File — Box: 1
Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence and transcriptions written by a northern family who came to Florida at the peak of the 1925-1926 Land Boom, but left when they discovered that work and good pay was hard to find. Most of the letters and penny postcards are from Ralph and Mary Moore and Obediah and Sylvia Bardo, addressed to each other or to their children. Obediah's letters include routine descriptions of life in Florida at a time when many people were moving there: as he notes "10,000...
Dates: Dec. 6, 1925

To Lela Myers from Mary Moore, Dec. 7, 1925

 File — Box: 1
Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence and transcriptions written by a northern family who came to Florida at the peak of the 1925-1926 Land Boom, but left when they discovered that work and good pay was hard to find. Most of the letters and penny postcards are from Ralph and Mary Moore and Obediah and Sylvia Bardo, addressed to each other or to their children. Obediah's letters include routine descriptions of life in Florida at a time when many people were moving there: as he notes "10,000...
Dates: Dec. 7, 1925

To Ruth McPeak from Mary Moore, Dec. 10, 1925

 File — Box: 1
Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence and transcriptions written by a northern family who came to Florida at the peak of the 1925-1926 Land Boom, but left when they discovered that work and good pay was hard to find. Most of the letters and penny postcards are from Ralph and Mary Moore and Obediah and Sylvia Bardo, addressed to each other or to their children. Obediah's letters include routine descriptions of life in Florida at a time when many people were moving there: as he notes "10,000...
Dates: Dec. 10, 1925

To Earl McPeak from Ralph Moore, Dec. 11, 1925

 File — Box: 1
Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence and transcriptions written by a northern family who came to Florida at the peak of the 1925-1926 Land Boom, but left when they discovered that work and good pay was hard to find. Most of the letters and penny postcards are from Ralph and Mary Moore and Obediah and Sylvia Bardo, addressed to each other or to their children. Obediah's letters include routine descriptions of life in Florida at a time when many people were moving there: as he notes "10,000...
Dates: Dec. 11, 1925

To Ruth McPeak from Mary Moore, Dec. 11, 1925

 File — Box: 1
Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence and transcriptions written by a northern family who came to Florida at the peak of the 1925-1926 Land Boom, but left when they discovered that work and good pay was hard to find. Most of the letters and penny postcards are from Ralph and Mary Moore and Obediah and Sylvia Bardo, addressed to each other or to their children. Obediah's letters include routine descriptions of life in Florida at a time when many people were moving there: as he notes "10,000...
Dates: Dec. 11, 1925