Showing Collections: 1 - 8 of 8
Bird and Ulmer Papers
Collection — Box: 138
Identifier: MSS 1964-020
Scope and Contents
The Bird and Ulmer papers consist of photocopies of correspondence, land deeds, tax papers, political and other speeches, resolutions, and papers pertaining to church, lodges, last will, accounts of executors of estates, reports of estate, division of land, and division of slaves with values assigned. These papers pertain chiefly to the plantations of Bunker Hill, Nacossa, and Freelawn, which flourished before the Civil War. The majority of the papers are dated from the 1850s through the late 1800s, although a handful are from the 1920s.
Also known as MSS 0-20.
Dates:
Created: 1851-1922; Other: Date acquired: 10/30/1964
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
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:
Created: 1830-1871
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
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:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Fairbanks Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 0-104
Scope and Contents
Personal, business and family correspondence, books, business records (account books), and writing materials of George R. Fairbanks. This collection contains 1473 original material items, as well as 567 items which are copies of original materials. The collection contains biographical sketches of George Rainsford Fairbanks and his family history, his will, papers about personal matters, the Civil War, St. Augustine before and during the war, sale of slaves, photographs of Fairbanks, Charles Locke Beard, Charles Massey, and sketches of places such as a church in Palatka, Florida. There is a great deal of Civil War correspondence, including persons such as Senator David Levy Yulee and...
Dates:
Created: 1817-1942; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1966
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Hollingsworth Papers
Collection — Box: 513
Identifier: MSS 1968-140
Scope and Contents
The Mount Vernon Plantation (the name was later changed to Pickney Hills) was located in Jefferson County about seven miles east of Monticello, Florida with a view overlooking "Razor Lake," so named by Mr. Hollingsworth because of its shape. The number of slaves listed, the livestock listed, records of sales of farm products, purchases of supplies, and descriptions of different parcels of land shown in the Last Will of John Hollingsworth indicate that Mount Vernon Plantation covered rather extensive acreage. The will also shows that he owned a home near Edgefield, South Carolina, which was situated on "about eleven hundred acres."
The papers consist of...
Dates:
Created: 1768-1887, 1916; Other: Majority of material found in 1788-1887
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Olin Norwood Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 0-192
Scope and Contents
The Olin Norwood collection consists chiefly of holograph French documents and correspondence, but there are also a variety of other materials, such as British, American, German and Belgian holograph, typed and printed correspondence and historical materials, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, pictures, and other materials. The materials in this collection cover topics such as the American Civil War and World War II, military issues such as the Battle of Kings Mountain or the bombardment of cities. Other materials discuss searching and seizing foreign vessels, people fleeing their country, slavery and the sale of slaves in areas such as South Carolina, and the collection also contains...
Dates:
1621-1945; Other: Date acquired: 03/28/1956
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
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:
Created: 1832-1926; Other: Date acquired: 07/31/1965
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Ruby Diamond collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 0-90
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, papers, records, journals, cashbooks (or account books), scrapbooks, newspaper articles, passport, currency, manuscripts, books, songs, pictures, stamps, clippings and legal papers. This collection contains a wide variety of materials. The correspondence, papers, records, bookkeeping journals and cash books of Julius Diamond reflect the economic conditions of the time and are good examples of how merchandising business was conducted. The scrapbook, assembled by John W. Trench, contains manuscripts, Civil War letters and clippings, describing events such as the battles of Gettysburg, Bull Run and Vicksburg. There is an original holograph passport issued by Consul General...
Dates:
Created: 1773-1981
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Slavery 6
- Plantations--Southern States 5
- Financial Records 4
- Plantations--Florida 4
- Florida--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 3
- Leon County (Fla.) 3
- Slavery--Florida--Leon County 3
- Amnesty oath 2
- Antebellum Florida, 1845-1861 2
- Correspondence 2
- Cotton 2
- Cotton growing--Florida--Leon County 2
- Deeds 2
- Formulas, recipes, etc. 2
- Jefferson County (Fla.) 2
- Jefferson County (Fla.)--History 2
- Manuscripts 2
- Plantation owners--Florida--Jefferson County 2 + ∧ less
- Names
- Confederate States of America 3
- Ambler, Brush & Fairbanks 1
- Andersonville Prison 1
- Antonio Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza, 1679-1731 1
- Appleyard, T. J. 1
- Apte, Day J. 1
- Apte, Robert Williams 1
- Bailey, Abraham 1
- Beauvoir, Roger de, 1806-1866 1
- Bellamy, Ruth 1
- Bird Family 1
- Bloxham, William Dunnington, 1835-1911 1
- Bradford family 1
- Bradford, Edward 1
- Bryant, James W. 1
- Buford, Rivers H. (Rivers Henderson), 1878-1959 1
- Bunker Hill Plantation (Jefferson County, Fla.) 1
- Byrd, Flavius Augustus, 1822-1874 1
- Carlton, Doyle Elam, 1885-1972 1
- Catts, Sidney Johnston, 1863-1936 1 + ∧ less
- Florida State University Special Collections & Archives
∨ more
∨ more
Staff Interface | ArchivesSpace.org | Hosted by Lyrasis 