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 Florida
Folklife Collection
The Florida Folklife Collection is a rich collection of folklife
records documenting the ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity reflected
in the communities of our state. |
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 Spanish
Land Grants
The confirmed Spanish land grant claims related to the territory
that Spain ceded to the United States in 1821.
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 World
War I Service Cards
The World War I service cards provide name; age; serial number;
race; place of birth; and residence; for service men and women who were
either from Florida or who entered service in Florida. |
 Florida
Confederate Pension Application Files
The Florida State Archives has digitized its collection of
Confederate pension records with over 13,000 pensions available online.
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 Florida's
Early Constitutions
The Florida Constitutions of 1838, 1861, 1865, 1868, and 1885
are available with transcripts and digitized images of the original documents. |
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Family and Brevard Family Papers
This collection contains correspondence, writings, and other
papers of Richard Keith Call, territorial governor of Florida, and his family.
Particularly significant among the Call papers is correspondence between
Richard Keith Call and Andrew Jackson. |
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 Papers
Concerning the Will of Zephaniah Kingsley, 1844, 1846
Kingsley was a wealthy planter and slave owner in Northeast
Florida. His heirs were his wife, an African American named Anna M.J. Kingsley,
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 Florida broadsides and other ephemera, 1800-2000
Before television, radio, and the internet, Florida society communicated widely and often through broadsides, advertisements, flyers, and other ephemera. This online collection consists of more than 200 broadsides and forms of paper communication from the State Library and Archives of Florida. |
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| Selling, Telling, and Yelling: Florida broadsides and other ephemera, 1800-2000 Before television, radio, and the internet, Florida society communicated widely and often through broadsides, advertisements, flyers, and other ephemera. |
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Florida Blues Each of our neighboring southern states has placed a unique brand on the music’s form and sound—Florida hasn’t done a bad job of that in its own right. |
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Florida Cigars: Artistry, Labor, and Politics in Florida’s Oldest Industry Commercial cigar rolling first came to Florida in the 1830s and in the decades after the Civil War it became one of the most important industries in the southeastern United States. |
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Florida broadsides and other ephemera, 1800-2000
Before television, radio, and the internet, Florida society communicated widely and often through broadsides, advertisements, flyers, and other ephemera. This online collection consists of more than 200 broadsides and forms of paper communication from the State Library and Archives of Florida. |
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A Guide to Florida Governors and the Florida Cabinet
A Guide to Civil War Records at the State Archives of Florida
Filming Florida: Images of the Sunshine State
