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Carter Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0-269
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two documents, one a sales contract in Old German, and the other an executory contract in the Danish language.
The sales contract is a manuscript document in Old German script on parchment, dated Altona, Germany, November 25, 1782, and signed by the Provisor of the Town Church, Holy Spirit Church. The contract is between the Holy Spirit Church and Mrs. Sophia Hedwig Witt, whereby she purchased the rights to certain burial grounds in the Church Cemetery of Altona, with the right to build a burial vault for up to 46 bodies.
The other document is an executory contract written in the Danish language and dated Copenhagen, Denmark, November 10,...
Dates:
Created: 1782-1841
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Cinema Corporation of America Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2004-008
Abstract
The Cinema Corporation of America Collection documents the history of this film distribution company, and American producer and director Cecil B. DeMille's role in its founding.
Dates:
Created: 1925-1981; Other: Majority of material found in 1925-1932
Found in:
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Dr. F. A. Byrd Papers
Collection — Box: 516
Identifier: MSS 1968-042
Scope and Contents
Personal, family, and business correspondence, land deeds, letter of testamentary, papers of the administrator of the estate of Dr. F.A. Byrd. Business and personal papers, certificates of membership, licenses to practice as Physician and Surgeon, 13 early envelopes (some with stamps attached); business correspondence, statements, invoices, and one bound account book.
Orders and invoices for marble slabs and headstones for family graves (with names, etc.); declaration of taxable property, tax receipts, note payable to Harrison Reed, Governor of Florida; certificate of "Amnesty Oath;" codicil to a Last Will, letter testamentary. Sales of land, land deeds, bill of...
Dates:
Created: 1819-1892; Other: Date acquired: 03/22/1968
Found in:
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Erasmus H. Tomlinson Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2008-001
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of materials of the E.H. Tomlinson and Son Real Estate Company from 1893-1958. The series include client records, correspondence, day books, maps, blueprints, and scrapbooks. Contained in these series are family correspondence, financial records, legal documents, deeds, contracts, reports, photographs, newspaper clippings, postcards, and pamphlets.
The collection documents the activities of the E.H. Tomlinson and Son Real Estate Company during the last decade of the Nineteenth Century and the first half of the Twentieth Century. The collection contains considerable business and family correspondence that gives a first hand account of Florida real estate...
Dates:
Created: 1893-1958; Other: Majority of material found in 1906-1944
Found in:
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Fallschase Development Reference Files
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2009-006
Scope and Contents
The Fallschase Development Reference Files includes newspaper articles which documented the Fallschase development process; agreements and other legal materials; minutes from public meetings held in 2005 and 2006; Fallschase development proposals, maps/surveys of the land of the proposed Fallschase community; memorandums to and from the Board of County Commissions; correspondence to and from Robert Rackleff and other Leon County commissioners.
Dates:
Created: 1974-2007; Other: Majority of material found in 2004-2007
Found in:
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Florida Railroad Company Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 1968-115
Scope and Contents
The Florida Railroad Company Papers document the early history of this company during its period of construction from Fernandina to Cedar Key, FL., and includes articles of agreement, articles of copartnership, deeds, and a resolution. It is significant to researchers studying the history of Florida's 19th Century railroads.
The collection consists of 8 manuscript documents signed by various officials: the charter of the company, certificates of agreements for financing and constructing the railroad from Fernandina to Cedar Key; David L. Yulee was president, Joseph Finegan & Co. were to build and equip the railroad with certain cars; papers also include land deeds along the...
Dates:
Created: 1855-1860; Other: Date acquired: 03/01/1968
Found in:
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Watkins Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 1956-058
Abstract
The Watkins Family Papers contain personal letters, business records, bible correspondence course materials, legal documents, memorabilia, and newsclippings.
Dates:
Created: 1877-1931
Found in:
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