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...

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...