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U.S. Marshals Service Southern District Correspondence

Collection

Identifier: PKY 88.023

Abstract

The official correspondence of the U.S. Marshals in the Southern District (Key West) from 1849-1862.

Dates: 1849-1862

Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

Visionaires Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0508

Abstract

The Visionaires was founded in February 1938 by eight women who sought to establish a community organization that could foster civic, cultural, and social affairs for African American women in Gainesville, Florida. The Visionaires Collection consists of minutes of their meetings, records of financial transactions, scrapbooks, photographs, and other materials that document the organization's participation in school and community activities.

Dates: 1938 - 2013

Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

Walter Lanier "Red" Barber Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS Group 071b

Abstract

Scrapbooks, correspondence, photographs documenting the life of Red Barber and the history of sports and broadcasting.

Dates: 1925-1992

Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

W.E. Manis Collection

Collection

Identifier: MS Group 143

Abstract Includes photographic prints, letters and ephemera collected or created by W. E. Manis. The collection pertains to the collector's life and work as a Rubber Planter and later in change of the research department of Firestone Plantations Co. in Liberia, West Africa (1940-41). Manis took the photographs and selected items for inclusion in the two scrapbook albums that constitute this gift, complete in 80 pages of 224 black and white photographs, with about 133 sheets of mostly unpublished...

Dates: 1939-1941

Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

Wells M. Sawyer Collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 229

Abstract

Correspondence, drawings, and other papers related to Wells M. Sawyer's life, travels, and the 1895-1897 Pepper-Hearst Expedition in Florida.

Dates: 1893-1961

Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

West Indies Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS Group 012

Abstract

Correspondence of the various colonial governors of the British West Indies together with financial accounts and pay warrants.

Dates: 1771-1829

Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

Wilbur L. Floyd Photographs

Collection

Identifier: Ms Coll. 037

Abstract

Photographs documenting Gainesville, Alachua County, the East Florida Seminary, the University of Florida, and the Floyd Family.

Dates: 1875-1940

Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

Will McLean Florida Folk Music Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0401

Abstract The private and professional life of Florida's "Black Hat Troubadour," Will McLean (aka the "Father of Florida Folk"), from his birth in Chipley, Florida in 1919 to his passing in 1990. The collection also represents the 20th Century Florida Folk scene populated with many of Will McLean's friends, colleagues and collaborators including Margaret Longhill ("The Matriarch of Florida Folk"), Gamble Rogers, Cousin Thelma Boltin, Dale Crider, Don Grooms, Donna Green-Townsend, Kate Bostrum, Red...

Dates: 1885 - 2000

Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida