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Resources for the 2008-09 Florida History Fair

Sponsored by the Museum of Florida History, the Florida History Fair (FHF) is an annual, statewide activity that enhances the teaching and learning of history at elementary and secondary levels.

The Individual in History: Actions and Legacies
A Florida History Fair entry can address any person, event, or idea from any time or place in history, but it also must relate to the annual theme. The following are resources available online from the State Archives of Florida relating to this year's theme. This list gives examples of resources available, but is not comprehensive. Additional resources are available at the State Archives of Florida in Tallahassee and the Florida Electronic Library online.

Florida Topics

The list of Florida topics was developed by staff of the Museum of Florida History and the Division of Historical Resources, Florida Department of State.

• Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: Survivors in an Unknown Land
  • 1 image. Search Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Florida Photographic Collection.
• Betty Skelton and the Checkered Flag: Speed Records of a Florida NASCAR Driver
  • Betty Skelton Day. Film & video clips. Florida Photographic Collection.
    Footage of a ceremony honoring Betty Skelton, the U.S. Feminine Aerobatic Stunt Flying Champion, held at the Tampa, Florida Airport.
• Black and White on the Florida Frontier: The Family of Zephaniah Kingsley
  • Papers Concerning the Will of Zephaniah Kingsley, 1844, 1846. Collections.
  • Images of the Zephaniah and Anna Kingsley Plantation. Photo exhibit. Florida Photographic Collection.
• Black Men in Blue Coats: African American Soldiers at Florida’s Battle of Olustee
  • 3 images. Florida in the Civil War. Online Classroom.
• Breaking the Political Gender Barrier: Florida’s Senator Paula Hawkins
  • 2 images. Search Paula Hawkins portraits. Florida Photographic Collection.
• Casualties of Racial Prejudice: Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore
  • 2 images. Search Moore, Harry Tyson 1905-1951. Florida Photographic Collection.
• General Daniel “Chappie” James: Pensacola’s Black Eagle
  • 5 images. Search James, Daniel, 1920-1978. Florida Photographic Collection.
• Jacques LeMoyne: Images of La Florida
  • 56 images. Search Le Moyne de Morgues, Jacques, d. 1588. Florida Photographic Collection.
• Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Ever a Friend of the Everglades
  • The Everglades in the Time of Marjory Stoneman Douglas. Photo exhibit. Florida Photographic Collection.
• Mary McLeod Bethune and the School for Girls
  • Mary McLeod Bethune, Educator. Online Classroom.
  • 36 images. Search Mary McLeod Bethune. Florida Photographic Collection.
• Osceola, Micanopy, and Florida’s Seminoles: Fighting for Survival in the Second Seminole War
  • Seminole Portraits - Color portraits of Seminoles leaders and chiefs. Online Classroom.
  • Images of Florida Seminoles in the Sunshine State: Resistance and Removal. Florida Photographic Collection.
• Prejudice and Politics: Sydney J. Catts and His Rural Road to the Governor’s Office
  • 4 Broadsides. Selling, Telling, and Yelling: Florida broadsides and other ephemera, 1800-2000. Collections.
• Promoting Florida as Paradise: The Writings of William Bartram
  • 5 images. Search William Bartram. Florida Photographic Collection.
• Roxcy Bolton, Pioneer Feminist
  • Roxcy Bolton, Pioneer Feminist. Online Classroom.
  • Roxcy Bolton: A Force for Equality An Exhibit of Items from the Roxcy Bolton Papers at the State Archives of Florida. Florida Photographic Collection.
• The Failed Expedition of Panfilo de Narváez
  • 3 images. Search Narvaez. Florida Photographic Collection.
• Their Eyes Were Watching God: Florida Writer Zora Neale Hurston
  • Zora Neale Hurston, the WPA in Florida, and the Cross City Turpentine Camp. Online Classroom.
  • Sound recordings of Zora Neale Hurston. Florida Folklife Collection.
    A compilation of all of the known Zora Neale Hurston sound recordings created while she worked for the WPA in the 1930s.
• Violence in Florida: Andrew Jackson and the First Seminole War
  • Call Family and Brevard Family Papers. Collections.
    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.
• Walt Disney’s Disney World: Mickey Mouse and Company Come to Florida
  • Disney: Yesterday and Tomorrow. Film & Video Clips. Florida Photographic Collection.
    Gov. Haydon Burns introduces our "new neighbor" Walt Disney. Uses clips from Disney TV and movies and scenes from the California park to introduce Florida to its newest theme park.
    (Film clip availible online. Complete video available at the Archives.)

Guides to Collections at the Archives

• A Guide to Florida Governors and the Florida Cabinet
  This finding aid provides a timeline of the Florida governors from the territorial governors to the present. The guide includes links to relevant gubernatorial and executive collections in the State Archives of Florida, the State Library of Florida, and other repositories.
  
• A Guide to Civil War Records at the State Archives of Florida
  The purpose of this guide is to identify and describe the state, federal, and private records pertaining to Florida’s Civil War era (1860-1865) housed at the State Archives of Florida.
  
• A Guide to New Deal Records at the State Archives of Florida
  The purpose of this guide is to identify and describe those public records pertaining to Florida’s New Deal era (1933-1942) housed at the State Archives of Florida.
  
• The Black Experience: A Guide to African American Resources in the State Library and Archives of Florida
  This resource guide is intended to present an overview of the resources that are available for the study of African American history in the State Library and Archives of Florida.
  
• Collections Pertaining to Women's History and Women's Issues from the State Archives of Florida
  This guide to collections relevant to women's issues and women's history was compiled from the State Archives of Florida’s holdings of over 40,000 cubic feet of state and local government records and historical manuscripts.
  
• Filming Florida: Images of the Sunshine State
  The State Archives of Florida’s film and video collection contains approximately 2,500 movies and video tapes.

Additional Resources at the Archives

The Florida State Archives is located on the first floor of the R.A. Gray Building, 500 South Bronough Street, Tallahassee, Florida, two blocks west of the State Capitol. Our public research facilities are open from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday. The Archives is closed Sundays, on state holidays, and on the Saturdays of Friday or Monday holidays. Researchers are encouraged to check with the Archives to verify operating hours and records availability prior to visiting. Directions to the Archives are available in an on-line map.

• Mary McLeod Bethune
• Record Group Number: 900000
  Series/Collection Number: M95- 2
  Creator: Williams, Daniel M. 1890-1969.
  Title: Biographical records on Mary McLeod Bethune, 1890-1960.
  Amount: 1.25 cubic ft.
  

• Zora Neal Hurston
• Record Group Number: 000158
  Series/Collection Number: .S 1585
  Creator: Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs. Florida Folklife Archive
  Title: Stetson Kennedy Florida folklife collection, 1935-1991.
  Amount: 7.25 cubic ft.

 

• Representative Carrie Meek: First African-American woman elected to Florida Senate and U. S. House from Florida
• Record Group Number: 000155
  Series/Collection Number: .S 1810
  Creator: Florida. Dept. of State.  --Division of Historical Resources.
  Title: Florida legislative history oral history interview files, 2000-2002.
  Amount: 11.75 cubic ft.
• Stetson Kennedy—folklorist
• Record Group Number: 000158
  Series/Collection Number: .S 1584
  Creator: Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs. Florida Folklife Archive
  Title: Stetson Kennedy donation records, 1936-1989.
  Amount: 0.33 cubic ft.
  
• Record Group Number: 000158
  Series/Collection Number: .S 1585
  Creator: Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs. Florida Folklife Archive
  Title: Stetson Kennedy Florida folklife collection, 1935-1991.
  Amount: 7.25 cubic ft.