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  • Correspondence relating to efforts to procure loan to establish Florida Sugar Cane Plantations and rum distillery,

    Relates to plans to develop 10,000 acres along Tamiami Trail. Correspondents include Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, George R. Lynn, and W. H. Cralle.

    Contributor: Jaudon, James Franklin
    Site: American Memory-cultural
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Date: 1933

  • Correspondence relating to efforts to establish sugar plantations and a rum distillery in the Everglades,

    Jaudon was living in Ochopee, Cralle and Lynn in Ft. Myers.

    Contributor: Jaudon, James Franklin
    Site: American Memory-cultural
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Date: 1933

  • Archivo Nacional de Cuba collection pertaining to Spanish colonial rule in Louisiana and the Floridas, 1770-1911

    Transcripts of material found in the Cuban national archives pertaining to Spanish colonial rule in Louisiana and the Floridas. Includes correspondence of the Spanish governor of Louisiana, Bernardo de Gálvez, correspondence of ...

    Contributor: Archivo Nacional De Cuba
    Site: Finding Aids - Main Catalog
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
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  • Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, papers, 1776-1934

    Soldier and statesman. Correspondence, legal documents, clippings, broadsides, orderly book, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Lafayette's military service in Canada and Virginia, his tour of the United States from 1824 ...

    Contributor: Lafayette - Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier - Marquis De - Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier
    Site: Finding Aids - Main Catalog
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
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  • Alfred Carmon papers, 1859-1865

    Union army soldier. Chiefly letters written by Carmon to his family in Sand Lake, N.Y., while serving with Company H, 169th New York Infantry Regiment, during the Civil War, describing camp life ...

    Contributor: Carmon, Alfred
    Site: Finding Aids - Main Catalog
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
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  • Andrew Jackson papers, 1775-1874

    United States president, senator, representative, and army officer from Tennessee. Correspondence, military papers, and other papers reflecting most phases of Jackson's career.

    Contributor: Jackson, Andrew
    Site: Finding Aids - Main Catalog
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
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  • Cornelius Chase family papers, 1745-1974

    Clergyman, educator, and farmer. Correspondence, business and financial papers, subject files, reports, speeches, newspaper clippings, and miscellany relating to various members of the Chase family, especially Cornelius Chase, his son, Cornelius Thurston ...

    Contributor: Chase, Cornelius
    Site: Finding Aids - Main Catalog
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
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  • What are they doing to the Everglades?

    Unpublished manuscript. Discusses history of the Everglades and how man almost ruined it, particularly Napoleon Bonaparte Browards's efforts. Describes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan to restore the water flow.

    Contributor: Douglas, Marjory Stoneman
    Site: American Memory-cultural
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material

  • William Plumer papers, 1774-1845

    Governor of New Hampshire and legislator, United States senator from New Hampshire, essayist, and historian. Correspondence, diaries, letterbooks, autobiography, writings, notes, transcripts of poetry, essays, extracts, and other papers relating to Plumer's ...

    Contributor: Plumer, William
    Site: Finding Aids - Main Catalog
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
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  • William Wirt papers, 1802-1858

    Lawyer, politician, U. S. attorney general, and biographer. Correspondence, writings, and printed matter pertaining to Wirt's family and career as a lawyer, politician, and author.

    Contributor: Wirt, William
    Site: Finding Aids - Main Catalog
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
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  • Ethan Allen Hitchcock papers, 1793-1888

    Army officer and author. Collection includes correspondence, notes, speeches and writings, and printed matter relating to Hitchcock's military career and his interest in metaphysics and philosophy.

    Contributor: Hitchcock, Ethan Allen
    Site: Finding Aids - Main Catalog
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
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  • Stetson Kennedy and "Building Democracy in America," Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available

    "Stetson Kennedy, folklorist, social activist, and author, in conversation with Peggy Bulger, Director of the American Folklife Center."

    Site: Main Catalog
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Date: 2005

  • Nicholas Philip Trist papers, 1795-1873

    Diplomat and lawyer. Family and general correspondence, letterbooks, memoranda, notes, reports, legal and financial papers, writings, clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating to Trist's tenure as U.S. consul in Havana and ...

    Contributor: Trist, Nicholas Philip
    Site: Finding Aids - Main Catalog
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
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  • Samuel Peter Heintzelman papers, 1822-1913

    Union army officer. Correspondence, diaries, journals, and military papers detailing Heintzelman's service in the United States Army from his years at the United States Military Academy through the Civil War. Includes descriptions ...

    Contributor: Heintzelman, Samuel Peter
    Site: Finding Aids - Main Catalog
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
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  • Hans Peter Kraus collection of Spanish American documents, 1433-1966

    Bookman, collector, and bibliophile. Letters, decrees, order books, reports, instructions, dispatches, printed material, and miscellaneous legal documents concerning the history of colonial Spanish America, including the activities of the Mexican Inquisition.

    Contributor: Kraus, Hans Peter
    Site: Finding Aids - Main Catalog
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
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  • James Grant of Ballindalloch papers, 1740-1819

    British army officer, governor, and member of Parliament. Microfilm edition of selected items including diaries; correspondence; maps and plans; military commissions; regimental returns; financial, land, and plantation records; parliamentary acts and speech; ...

    Contributor: Grant, James
    Site: Finding Aids - Main Catalog
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
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  • Andrew Ellicott papers, 1777-1829

    Surveyor and mathematician. Correspondence, maps, charts, and reports of astronomical observations chiefly concerning Ellicott's work in surveying the boundary between the United States and Florida under the San Lorenzo Treaty (1795) and ...

    Contributor: Ellicott, Andrew
    Site: Finding Aids - Main Catalog
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
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  • James Monroe papers, 1758-1839

    United States president, secretary of state, secretary of war, and diplomat; delegate to the Continental Congress from and governor of Virginia. Correspondence relating primarily to negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, the Monroe-Pinkney ...

    Contributor: Monroe, James
    Site: Finding Aids - Main Catalog
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
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  • Burbank-Van Voorhis families papers, 1814-1913

    Members of the Burbank and Van Voorhis (Voorhees) families. Diaries, correspondence, and military papers of Burbank and Van Voorhis family members spanning the War of 1812, Mexican War, Civil War, and American ...

    Site: Finding Aids - Main Catalog
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
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  • Francis Winslow papers, 1833-1863

    Naval officer. Correspondence, journals, logs, and other papers documenting Winslow's naval career.

    Contributor: Winslow, Francis
    Site: Finding Aids - Main Catalog
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
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