Special and Area Studies Collections Finding Aids - University of Florida Smathers Libraries

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On this page many, but not all, of the department's archival records and manuscript collections have been grouped according to topical coverage.

Please note that this is not meant to be a comprehensive listing of all our collections. To access all of the collections, you should use the Browse by Collection Title page or the Search page.
Note also that many collections are listed under more than one heading.
Several of the finding aids to our collections currently are not available online. In these cases, there will a link to the page that includes an abstract of that collection. For example, the finding aid to the Stephens Family papers is not online, so whenever that title is listed below it is followed in parentheses by a link to "Florida History Manuscripts".

Accounting, Economics, Banking and Finance

Accounting Archives
Alachua County Abstract Company (Gainesville, Fla.)
Beamer, Elmer G.
Birley Papers
Business Letters Describing Cuba Financial Market
Chambers, Raymond J.
Chase Papers (Sydney Octavius and Joshua Coffin)
Eaton, Marquis G.
Ewing, Charles Hull
Foster, Louis O.
Grady, Paul
Jennings, Alvin R.
Johns, Ralph S. (Accountants Certificates)
Klein, Hinds & Finke (Kreuger Match Case)
Lohman, Harold D. (Harry D.) (Florida History Manuscripts)
Paton, William Andrew

African Americans, Civil Rights, Slavery

American Civil Liberties Union of Florida
Bryant, Farris
Canney, Robert "Bob"
Chase Papers (Sydney Octavius and Joshua Coffin)
Cubberly, Frederick C.
Cunningham Funeral Home (Ocala, FL)
East Florida Papers
Education in Florida Subject Files
Gainesville Women for Equal Rights (GWER)
Glunt, James David
Hurston, Zora Neale
Jeremie Papers
Observations de la Chambre de Commerce, Marseille, France
Observations Importantes by Sugar Traders in Nantes, France
Simpson, John Milton Bryan
Slavery and Plantations in Saint-Domingue Collection
Stephens Family (Florida History Manuscripts)
United States Federal Bureau of Investigation St. Augustine Surveillance Files

African Studies

African Languages (General Manuscripts)
Allen, James de Vere
Berner, Lewis
Carter, Gwendolen M.
Cohen, Ronald
Fortune, George
Kennedy, Noel
Lemarchand, Rene
Lighthouses of Angola (Farois de Angola)
Manis, W.E.
Rikli, Martin
Shepperson, George

Agriculture, Horticulture, Citrus, Forestry, Animal Husbandry

Becker, Raymond Brown
Belling, John
Cary, Austin
Chase Papers (Sydney Octavius and Joshua Coffin)
Clark, Morita Mason (Florida History Manuscripts)
Davis, George Kelso
Florida Citrus Mutual (Lakeland, FL)
Florida Society of American Foresters
Growers and Shippers League of Florida
Hume, H. Harold
Mann, Austin Shuey
Mayo, Nathan (Florida History Manuscripts)
McPherson, Woodrow Wilson
Newell, Wilmon
Ocklawaha Nurseries, Inc.
O'Neill, James T.
Rolfs, Peter Henry
Sangster, Bruce Michel (Florida History Manuscripts)
Smith, Thomas Lynn
South Lake Apopka Citrus Growers Association Records
Southern Cypress Manufacturers' Association (Florida History Manuscripts)
Willoughby, Claude H.
Wilson Cypress Company
Woodman, Joseph H. (Florida History Manuscripts)

Art, Architecture and Landscape Architecture

Bannister, Turpin Chambers
Florida Federation of Art
Fulton, Guy Chandler
Hamilton, Jefferson M.
Holbrook, Hollis
Nims, Rufus
Potter, Edward T.
Reeves, F. Blair
Simonds, John Ormsbee
Skinner, Theodore H. (General Manuscripts)
Weaver, Rudolph
Williams, Hiram

Caribbean and Latin America

Barcena, Mariano
Barreto y Cardenas, Jose Francisco
Bartleman, Richard M.
Batista, Fulgencio
Braga Brothers
Brooking, Laura Mabel
Brown, Everett, C.
Business Letters Describing Cuba Financial Market
Carpenter, Leonard.
Cary, Samuel - St. Kitts
Crist, Raymond E.
Crosbie, William
Crosby, Platt Hiram
Crumbie, Frank R.
Cuba en 1925 Photograph Album
Duckworth, John Thomas
Elmendorf, Mary Lindsay
Goggin, John M. (John Mann)
Guerra, Ramiro
Guillen, Abraham
Guzman, Bartolome
Haitian Registries (General Manuscripts)
Haitiana Collection
Hile, B.S.
Historia de Cuba Photograph Album
Historia Grafica de la Maritima Parreno
Jeremie Journal
Jeremie Papers
Lang, Katherine Birdseye
Mangonès, Edmond
Miscellaneous Cuban Documents
Observations de la Chambre de Commerce, Marseille, France
Observations Importantes by Sugar Traders in Nantes, France
Page, James
Parker, John
Photographs of Sugar Mills in Puerto Rico
Pierce, Robert N.
Pierson, Donald
Prats y Salas, Antonio
Promisory Note Issued to Citoyen Tardy, St. Domingue
Rochambeau, Donatien Marie Joseph de Vimeur (General Manuscripts)
Rodriguez, Jose Ignacio
Roldan, Francisco Anibal and Roman Anibal
Rolfs, Peter Henry
Rosario, Francisco del
Saint-Domingue and Haitian Autograph Collection
Slavery and Plantations in Saint-Domingue Collection
Smith, Thomas Lynn
Spanish Volunteer Military in Cuba
Squier, E.G.
Taco Bay Commercial Company Records
Venezuela-Netherlands Documents
Wagley, Charles
West Indies Papers
Winsberg, Morton D.

Education

Caldwell, Millard Fillmore
Christian, Floyd T.
Culpepper, J. Broward (John Broward)
Education in Florida Subject Files
Graham, D. Robert "Bob"
Turlington, Ralph D. (Florida History Manuscripts)
Yonge, Philip Keyes (Florida History Manuscripts)
Kingsbury, Gilbert Dennis

Florida Subjects

Please refer to the complete Florida History Manuscripts list.

Human Sciences, Biological Sciences, Medicine

Blanding, Abram Ormsbee
Deevey, Edward S.
Elmendorf, Mary Lindsay
Fregly, Melvin J.
Kramer, Sol
Lang, Katherine Birdseye
Lashley, Claire Schiller
Lashley, Karl Spencer
Myers, Isabel Briggs
Schiller, Paul Harkai
Wagley, Charles

Jewish Studies

Bergen-Belsen Photographs
Emanuel Synagogue Seminar on Martin Buber (Transcript)
Hanna, Paul L.
Kaplan, Jacob H.
Pemstein, B.L.
Price Library of Judaica, Records
Relacion de la orden y manera de proceder del Santo Officio... de la Inquisicion
Robert Strassburg Collection of Ernest Bloch
Tau Epsilon Phi, Tau Alpha Chapter Records
University Religious Association Religion-in-Life Week Records
Weil, Joseph
Morton D. Winsberg Photographs of Colonia Baron Hirsch

Journalism, Broadcasting, News Media

Angas, Tracy L'Engle
Barber, Red
Dosh, Robert N. "Bert"
Emig, Elmer J.
Kay, Russell
Newton, Virgil Miller
Pennekamp, John D.
Weimer, Rae O.

Literature, Biography, Publishing, Book Arts

Music

Bachman, Harold B. - Band Collection
Bowles, Richard W.
Composers - Robert Strassberg Collection of Ernest Bloch
DeBruyn, John William
Florida Music Collection
Heney, John
Opera and Operetta Collection
Perfoming Arts Miscellanous Material (Photographs and Vertical Files)
Pratt, Lucy (General Manuscripts)
Sound of Radio and Television

Native Americans (Including Seminole Indians) and Early Florida

Capron, Louis Bishop
Davenport, William
DeVane, Albert
Goggin, John M. (John Mann)
Indian Affairs - Florida Seminoles Collection
Keenan, Edward T.
Knowles, Effie
Milanich, Jerald T.
Ormond, James (1819-1892) (Florida History Manuscripts)
Quinn, Rex
United States Indian Claims Commission. Seminole Indians of Florida vs. United States. (Florida History Manuscripts)

Natural Science, Environment, Natural Resources (Includes The Everglades)

Austin, Oliver L.
Broward, Napoleon Bonaparte
Carr, Archie Fairly
Chase Papers (Sydney Octavius and Joshua Coffin)
Deevey, Edward S.
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) (Florida History Manuscripts)
Culpepper, J. Broward (John Broward)
Dosh, Robert N. "Bert"
Florida Defenders of the Environment
Goggin, John M. (John Mann)
Graham, D. Robert "Bob"
Graham, Ernest R.
Grosenbaugh, Lewis R.
Harrisson, Tom
Hay, William Perry
Ingraham, James Edmundson
Jennings, May Mann
Mann, Austin Shuey (Florida History Manuscripts)
Marshall, Arthur R., Jr.
Morgan, Arthur Ernest (Florida History Manuscripts)
Pennekamp, John D.
Reed, Nathaniel P.
Rudloe, Jack
Sierra Club, Florida Chapter
Taylor, Ernest A.
Will, Thomas E. (Thomas Elmer)
Williamson, Fred L.

Politics

Railroads, Waterways and Transportation

Ball, Edward
Chase Papers (Sydney Octavius and Joshua Coffin)
Culpepper, J. Broward (John Broward)
Davis, Thomas Frederick
Dosh, Robert N. "Bert"
Green, Robert Alexis (Florida History Manuscripts)
Hahn, Theodore H.
Ingraham, James Edmundson
Loftin, Scott Marion (Florida History Manuscripts)
Marshall, Arthur R., Jr.
Morgan, Arthur Ernest (Florida History Manuscripts)
Peterson, James Hardin (Florida History Manuscripts)
Swann, Samuel Ashe Williamson, Fred L.

Social Activism/Organizations/Research

Beebe, Ethel Fairmont
Bristol, Lucius Moody
Canney, Robert "Bob"
Concerned United Birthparents (CUB)
Paton, Jean Robins, Margaret Dreier

Theatre, Cinema, Television

Angas, Tracy L'Engle
Bale, Trevor "Tommy" Collection (Circus)
Bartell, Lillian Schneider - Playbill Collection
Cinema - African American
Cinema - Miscellaneous Material
Cinema - Pressbooks (Oversize)
Cinema - Programs and Promotional Material
Cinema - Programs (Oversize)
Murphree, Albert Alexander ("Waddy")
Perfoming Arts Miscellanous Material (Photographs and Vertical Files)
Ringling Theatre Collection
Sound of Radio and Television
Wood, Preston, Script Collection

Women's Issues

Concerned United Birthparents (CUB)
Florida Chapter, National Organization of Women (NOW)
Florida Federation of Women's Clubs (Florida History Manuscripts)
Florida League of Women Voters (Florida History Manuscripts)
Gainesville Women for Equal Rights (GWER)
Jennings, May Mann
Melrose Woman's Club (Florida)
Robins, Margaret Dreier, and Family

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