Collections | Special & Area Studies Collections

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

William A. McRae Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0467

Abstract

Correspondence of military officers regarding the United Nations Security Council.

Dates: 1945

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

William Andrew Paton Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS Group 110-4

Abstract

William A. Paton's manuscripts and research material on various accounting subjects, as well as correspondence with Williard E. Stone and others.

Dates: 1944-1972

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

William Bauer Collection of Architectural Drawings Relating to Jacksonville

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0377

Abstract

Contains 81 architectural drawings created by four prominent Florida architects for the development firm Telfair Stockton and Co., Inc. in the late 1930s and other miscellaneous architectural drawings.

Dates: circa 1935-1950

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

William Crosbie Estate Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS Group 228

Abstract

The William Crosbie Estate Papers include correspondence concerning his estate and also his agent/manager, John Otto Bayer's land in Antigua.

Dates: 1792-1816

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

William Davenport Papers

Collection

Identifier: Ms 022

Abstract

Two small pocket diaries and personal and official correspondence of Davenport, who saw service in Florida during the Second Seminole War.

Dates: 1835-1842

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

William E. B. Hayman Sketches

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0585

Abstract

This collection of personal drawings documents four years that the artist William E.B. Hayman spent in St. Augustine and Deland, Florida. Unknown until this collection appeared, Hayman was one of the artists who worked on the rotunda of the Ponce de León Hotel, now Flagler College. He later bought land and built a house in St. Augustine.

Dates: 1884 - 1887

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