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Box 1

 Container

Contains 52 Results:

To Ralph and Mary Moore from Sylvia and Obediah Bardo, Nov. 2, 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. 2, 1925

To Lela and Chauncey Myers from Sylvia and Obediah Bardo, Nov. 20, 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. 20, 1925

To Ruth McPeak from Sylvia and Obediah Bardo, Nov. 30, 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. 30, 1925

To Ruth and Earl McPeak from Sylvia and Obediah Bardo, 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 and Earl McPeak from Sylvia and Obediah Bardo, Dec. 26, 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. 26, 1925

To Ruth and Earl McPeak from Sylvia and Obediah Bardo, Jan. 29, 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: Jan. 29, 1926

To Ruth and Earl McPeak from Sylvia Bardo, March 6, 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: March 6, 1926

To Lela Myers from Obediah Bardo, March 13, 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: March 13, 1926

Letters from Obediah and Sylvia Bardo, Transcriptions

 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 from Mary Moore and Obediah and Sylvia Bardo, Bulk: Nov. 23, 1925 - May 6, 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: Bulk: Nov. 23, 1925 - May 6, 1926