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Clement Acton Griscom Papers
Collection — Box: 516
Identifier: MSS 1988-009
Scope and Contents
These papers include a letter from Clement Acton Griscom to his son Lloyd, who served as a foreign diplomat to Japan in the early 1900s. Also included is a small Christmas gift card signed "From Bronson Winthrop," and a small envelope addressed to Col. Lloyd Griscom, care of Miss Griscom, Water Oak Plantation, Tallahassee, Florida. The fourth item in the collection is a letter from G. Leslie Isaac to "Col. Griscom" at Luna Plantation, Tallahassee, concerning a trip to a fair and a car purchase. Includes MSS 0-304.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1904, 1940
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Dr. Edward Bradford Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1964-028
Scope and Contents
Contains personal and business correspondence, documents, bills, receipts, etc., of Dr. Edward Bradford, general merchant and plantation owner. Collection also includes a letter of introduction of James E. Broome, Tallahassee, Fla., to Hon. Jacob Thompson, Washington City, and a long handwritten letter of Governor Bragg, Raleigh, N.C., and other important papers show that Dr. Bradford was a well-known and prominent citizen.
For the period before 1840 there are only a few scattering bills, receipts, and notes, but from 1840 to 1866 records of the plantation, commission merchants, forwarding agents, and New York cotton brokers evidence that a prosperous business was transacted....
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1830-1871
Found in:
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El Destino and Chemonie Plantation Papers
Collection — Box: 516
Identifier: MSS 0-85
Scope and Contents
The collection relates to the El Destino and Chemonie plantations located a short distance from Tallahassee, Florida. These papers consist of records and documents of the executors and administrators of the estate of William B. Nuttall. The materials discuss sale of cotton and other agricultural products, conveyance of land and slaves, as well as reports and accounts related to the estate. Some papers are signed by Mary W. Savage (Nuttall), Hector W. Braden and George Noble Jones. Digital Copies Available This collection is available digitially in ...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1822-1859; Other: Date acquired: 11/01/1969
Found in:
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Gamble Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 1-05
Scope and Contents
Online Copies Available
Biographical information, extracts from the journal of Major Robert Gamble, plantation record book, and "Gambles Hill: a Rebirth of and Elegant Richmond" by Vera Palmer.
Online Copies Available
Select materials from the Gamble Family Papers have been digitized and are available through the FSU Digital Library.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1818-1853, 1898, 1962
Found in:
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J. S. Lester Plantation Papers
Collection — Box: 516
Identifier: MSS 1965-167
Scope and Contents
The J.S. Lester Plantation Papers include an 1895 doctor's bill, a transmittal letter, and a 4-page list of receipts (1868) for money received by fourteen ex-slaves; the plantation was located in Leon County, Fla. Also known as MSS 0-167.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1868-1895; Other: Date acquired: 08/31/1965
Found in:
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Pine Hill Plantation Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0-204
Scope and Contents
Includes materials on the American Civil War, the Bradford-Eppes family including Susan Bradford Eppes and Dr. Edward Bradford, plantation life, land and mortgages, banking, tomb inscriptions from the cemetery in Pine Hill, Florida, sheet music for "Twenty Years Ago" by J. E. McCullune, pamphlets from Orlando and Jacksonville, Florida, as well as genealogical data on the Eppes-Bradford family. Photographs include members of the Bradford-Eppes family, John Wilkes Booth, Louise Covington, and a United States Coast Guard Signal Service Station in Palm Beach, Florida. Includes manuscripts for the books Negro of the Old South and ...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1832-1926; Other: Date acquired: 07/31/1965
Found in:
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Red Hills of Florida Collection
Collection — Container: OS Box 1
Identifier: MSS 1994-002
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of the background files, notes, correspondence, permission, maps, manuscripts, and other materials that were collected or created by Clifton Paisley during the writing of his work, Red Hills of Florida. Included among these items are biographical sources, census data, maps and surveys of the Red Hills region, letters to and from local organizations and persons, newspapers, and interviews. The majority of the collection consists of those materials which actually played a part in the publication of the book. These items include notes, manuscripts, galley proofs, camera ready copies, and photographs mainly dating from the 1970s...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1820-1994
Found in:
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Weymouth Tyree Jordan Papers
Collection — Box: 857
Identifier: MSS 79-7
Abstract
This collection contains a wide variety of materials realted to Weymouth Tyree Jordan, his life and his career. Includes biographical materials, correspondence, articles, photographs, writings, research materials, announcements, books, and related materials.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1822-1970
Found in:
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Winthrop Family Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 0-266
Scope and Contents
Business, personal, family and military papers, correspondence, orders, bills, pictures, publications, engineering diagrams and blueprints. This collection contains the business papers of John S. Winthrop and Mrs. Susan Winthrop, including correspondence, plantation records, bills, orders, mortgages, tax information and bookkeeping records. There are also personal and family papers of the Winthrop family, including pictures of persons such as Sindey Alder and members of the Winthrop family, as well as the military papers for Captain Guy L. Winthrop. The collection contains a set of eight blueprints and designs, the business papers of Francis B. Winthrop, and a map of Burrow Hill...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1592-1970; Other: Majority of material found in 1841-1941; Other: Date acquired: 12/01/1969
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