More than 356,000 individual records from select collections housed in the State Library and Archives of Florida. Most collections on this page have been digitized in their entirety.
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.
The confirmed and unconfirmed Spanish land grant claims related to the territory that Spain ceded to the United States in 1821.
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.
The State Archives of Florida has digitized its collection of Confederate pension records with over 13,000 pensions available online.
This collection of Works Progress Administration (WPA) church records is from the State Library of Florida's collections
General Thomas Sidney Jesup commanded military operations in Florida during the early stages of the Second Seminole War (1835-1842). The diary gives his personal account of the conflict from October 1, 1836, to May 30, 1837.
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.
The Florida Constitutions of 1838, 1861, 1865, 1868 and 1885 are available with transcripts and digitized images of the original documents.
In 1843, Dr. John M. W. Davidson of Gadsden County began recording medical recipes and treatments in a small, leather-bound notebook.
Before television, radio, and the internet, Florida society communicated widely and often through broadsides, advertisements, flyers and other ephemera.
Kingsley was a wealthy planter and slave owner in Northeast Florida. His heirs were his wife, an African American named Anna M.J. Kingsley, and their children.
The stories presented here were created by writers working for the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Project Administration (WPA) in Florida.
In 1591 Dutch engraver and goldsmith Theodor de Bry published Grand Voyages, which contained the earliest known European images of Native Americans in what is now Florida.
These finding aids are intended to identify and describe related records housed in the State Library and Archives of Florida.
A timeline of the Florida governors from the territorial governors to the present. Included are links to relevant gubernatorial and executive collections in the State Library and Archives of Florida and other repositories.
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)
This resource guide is intended to present an overview of the resources that are available for the study of African American history
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.
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 State Archives of Florida's film and video collection contains approximately 2,500 movies and video tapes.
