University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries has online collections at the University of Florida Digital Collections including city directories, maps, photographs, Jewish memory books, Native American photographs, oral histories, and much more.
Residence Records
Directories
Alachua County – Alachua County Business Directory, 1882
- Gainesville – City Directory of Streets & Numbers: Gainesville, Florida July 1, 1950
- Key West – Key West Directory 1888
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Key West – Key West Directory 1906-1907
Key West – Key West Directory Maloney 1900
Orlando – 1913 Orlando City Directory
Other types of directories
Agricultural education personnel directory, 1971
Directory of opportunities for youth in florida, 1936
Directory of vocational training in Florida
Florida Christian advocate., April 22, 1909 (Methodist Episcopal)
Florida educational directory., 1961
Directory of vocational programs in Florida
Personnel directory for business education, 1969
Personnel directory for health occupations education, 1970-1971</span
Personnel directory for home economics education, 1968-1969
Personnel directory for industrial arts education., 1971-1972
Personnel directory for industrial education, 1969
Personnel directory for technical education , 1972-1973
Maps
Florida – UF Libraries Map & Imagery Collections online, University of Florida Digital Collections
Florida – Sanborn Fire Insurance Company Maps, 1884-1923, Over 130 Florida cities and towns are covered
Florida – UF Libraries Aerial Photography Florida online
Florida – World Map Collections
African Map Collection
Antarctic Map Collection
Arctic Map Collection
Asian Map Collection
Caribbean Map Collection
European Map Collection
Florida Map Collection
Middle Eastern Map Collection
Pacific/Oceanian & Australian Map Collection
North America Map Collection
South American Map Collection
Global Map Collection
Digital Library of the Caribbean Map Collections, University of Florida Digital Collections
Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library
Haitian Law Digital Collection
Efrain Barradas Mexican and Cuban Film Posters Collection
Florida & Puerto Rico Newspaper Project
Land
Ybor City – Ybor City March 1st 1908; map of burned district.
Daily Life Records
African American & Slavery
Haiti – A Guide to the Letterbook for the Simon Plantation, St. Kitts,1765-1772 – Throughout the letterbook, Cary provides information about the African slaves owned by the plantation, listing about 300 at one point. He describes the shipping of slaves, the purchase of slaves, their labor and health, and the escape and death of slaves.
Jacksonville – 1901-1941, Fortieth Anniversary, Afro-American Life Insurance Co, Jacksonville, Florida
Art & Humanities
Arts Collections, University of Florida Digital Collections
Center for the Humanities & the Public Sphere, University of Florida Digital Collections
Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, University of Florida Digital Collections
Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations, University of Florida Digital Collections
Literature Collections, University of Florida Digital Collections
Book Arts, University of Florida Digital Collections
The Harold and Mary Jean Hanson Rare Book Collection, University of Florida Digital Collections
Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (SPOHP), University of Florida Digital Collections
Audio/Video
Samuel Proctor Oral History Program Digital Collection – SPOHP also houses sound archives, which include University of Florida-related speeches; videotapes of television interviews with Dean Rusk, William C. Westmoreland, and George McGovern; Native American slides and photographs; and 350 recordings of music, including concerts, folk music, and Native American chants.
Biographies
Europe – Judaica Memorial Books
Business
Jacksonville – 1901-1941, Fortieth Anniversary, Afro-American Life Insurance Co, Jacksonville, Florida
Church & Religion
Haiti – A Guide to the Jeremie Papers, 1714-1896 – Records of the jurisdiction of Jérémie in Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) notarized by more than thirty notaries who operated both in Jérémie and in outlying areas. Also includes records of the civil administration, documents registered with the greffier (registrar), and a small number of ecclesiastical records.
Ethnic
Jewish
Florida – JDoC Florida Judaica
Florida – JDoC Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica
Estelle and Paul Pink Collection of Jewish Sheet Music
Caribbean – JDoC Caribbean Judaica
Caribbean Area ( 100 )
Jews ( 5220 )
Jewish newspapers ( 3087 )
Jewish cemeteries — Jamaica ( 329 )
Jews — Jamaica — Genealogy ( 329 )
Jews — South America ( 142 )
Jews–Barbados ( 98 )
Jews–Barbados–Bridgetown ( 96 )
Preservation and restoration ( 30 )
Jews – Cuba–Havana ( 21 )
Cuba – JDoC Cuba Collection
Latin American – JDoC Latin America Judaica
Genealogy
Jewish – Jews — Jamaica — Genealogy ( 329 )
History
Haiti – A Guide to the Jeremie Papers, 1714-1896 – Records of the jurisdiction of Jérémie in Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) notarized by more than thirty notaries who operated both in Jérémie and in outlying areas. Also includes records of the civil administration, documents registered with the greffier (registrar), and a small number of ecclesiastical records.
Florida – Florida History and Heritage Collections, University of Florida Digital Collections
The Florida Anthropologist, the journal of the Florida Anthropological Society
Special Archives Publications of the Florida National Guard
Florida Family and Community History
Florida – Florida Photograph Collections, University of Florida Digital Collections
Florida – Michael Gannon Digital Collection, University of Florida Digital Collections
Florida – Florida Law Collections, University of Florida Digital Collections
Florida – Historic St. Augustine, University of Florida Digital Collections
Florida – Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida Digital Collections
Florida – Living in Florida: Its Cities and People, University of Florida Digital Collections
Libraries, Museums, & Archives
Browse all items in the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program Digital Collections
The University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) hosts more than 300 outstanding digital collections, containing over 14 million pages, covering over 78 thousand subjects in rare books, manuscripts, antique maps, children’s literature, newspapers, theses and dissertations, data sets, photographs, oral histories, and more for permanent access and preservation. Through UFDC, users have free and Open Access to full unique and rare materials held by the University of Florida and partner institutions
World Collections at UF Libraries
African Studies Collections, University of Florida Digital Collections
Cuban Collections, University of Florida Digital Collections
Jewish Diaspora Collection, University of Florida Digital Collections
Albert Huet’s WWI Documents, University of Florida Digital Collections
Digital Library of the Caribbean, University of Florida Digital Collections
South American Collections, University of Florida Digital Collections
Asian Collections, University of Florida Digital Collections
European Collections, University of Florida Digital Collections
World Studies Collections, University of Florida Digital Collections
University of Florida and Endowed Collections
Exhibits from the University of Florida and Partners, University of Florida Digital Collections
Panama and the Canal, University of Florida Digital Collections
Teacher Resources Collection, University of Florida Digital Collections
US Federal Document Digital Collections, University of Florida Digital Collections
General Manuscripts & Archives, University of Florida Digital Collections
Papers of George A. Smathers, University of Florida Digital Collections
UF Health Science Archives Photograph Collections, University of Florida Digital Collections
Women in Development, University of Florida Digital Collections
Institutional Repository at the University of Florida (IR@UF), University of Florida Digital Collections
Papers of Governor C. Farris Bryant, University of Florida Digital Collections
University Archives, University of Florida Digital Collections
Manuscript Collections
Haiti – A Guide to the Letterbook for the Simon Plantation, St. Kitts,1765-1772 – Throughout the letterbook, Cary provides information about the African slaves owned by the plantation, listing about 300 at one point. He describes the shipping of slaves, the purchase of slaves, their labor and health, and the escape and death of slaves.
Newspapers – 8 main collections
Florida Digital Newspaper Library, University of Florida Digital Collections – 656 titles
US Caribbean & Florida Digital Newspaper Project, University of Florida Digital Collections – The NDNP incorporates newspapers published from 1690-1963 into a national digital newspaper resource, Chronicling America, where the digitized pages are made available.
UF digitized papers in NDNP – The National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP)
Florida & Puerto Rico titles in NDNP – The National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP)
Boletin mercantil de Puerto Rico
La Correspondencia de Puerto Rico
Palatka news and advertiser (1902-1905)
Palatka news and advertiser (1908-19??)
Expatriate Digital Periodical Collection, University of Florida Digital Collections
7 días del Diario de la marina en el exilio., 1961
avance criollo, 1961
Caribbean today (Miami, Fla.), 2020
CdeCuba, 2019
Cuba standard monthly, June 2019
Cuba trade & investment news, February 2003
CubaNews, January 1999
Economic trend report, 2014
El Yara, May 1889
Francophone international, Aug 16, 2001
Haïti en marche, 2020
Nuevos rumbos, 19uu
OnCuba travel, September 2019
Raíces de la perla, 2004
Soleil de la Floride, June 2020
Digital Military Collection, University of Florida Digital Collections – 669 titles – is an ongoing project to house, organize and preserve contemporary and historic military books, newspapers, periodicals, video and audio content.
Judaica Newspapers – The Ralph Lowenstein Historical Jewish Newspapers Collection, University of Florida Digital Collections – 64 titles, some listed below
Cuba – Habanera Lebn (Jewish), 1932-1960
Cuba – Israelia, 1950s (Jeiwsh)
Price Library of Judaica Anniversary Collection
The 10th Anniversary of the Tel Aviv School, February 1950
-123, 1948, published by the Hebrew Union
Al ha-mishmar, 1943
Argenṭiner magazin = Magazine argentino ( 2 items ), 1935
Argentina, 1938
Boletin ( 2 issues ), October 1955
Boletin Informativo ( 2 issues ), June 1948
Centraal blad voor israelieten in Nederland, 1925
La Collectividad ( 3 issues ), May 11, 1984
Corrente, September 2009
Darom, March 1948
Das Blatt ( 9 issues ), December 1, 1961
Der Tog, Morgen Zshurnal, March 6, 1964
Di Presse ( 47 issues ), January 1, 1943
El Diario Israelita ( 4 issues ), April 1928
Dos Fraie Wort (Libre Palabra), December 1942
Dos Fraie Wort (Libre Palabra), March 1942
Dos Fraie Wort (Libre Palabra), April 1942
Dos Fraie Wort (Libre Palabra), July 1942
Dos Naje Lebn ( 53 items ), 1950
Der Momenṭ, 1910-
Der Veg, 1930
Forṿerṭs ( 10 issues ), 1950
Forṿerṭs ( 17 issues ), April 1940
Gerekhṭigḳayṭ = Justice, 1960
Di Idishe arbeyṭer shṭime, 1914-
Di Idishe tsayṭung, 19uu
Idishe bilder = Idiše blider sic, 1937-1939
Iḳuf-bleṭer, 1946
The Indiana Jewish chronicle, 1921
Israel, 1917
Israelitisches Wochenblatt (Zurich, Switzerland) ( 2 items ), 2001
Issue to honor Benjamin Skiditzky’s 50th birthday, July 1954
Jewish ledger, August 3, 1945
Jüdische Rundschau (Berlin), 190u
Morgn frayheyt, 1929-1988
Mundo Israelita, April 21, 1984
Naye lebn, April 24, 1929
Naye prese ( 11 items ), 1934-1992
Nueva Presencia ( 3 issues ), April 27, 1984
Nueva Sión, September 14, 1994
Dos Idishe folḳ, 19uu
La Prensa Israelita, December 31, 1957
Di prese, 1928
Problemen ( 4 issues ), May 1959
Semanario Israelita ( 5 issues ), Nov 12, 1970
Teatro, September-October, 1937
Der Tog, 1922-1953
Undzer Shṭime, 1935-
Unzer Vort, 19uu
Ṿokhnblaṭ, April 28, 1966
Ṿokhnshrifṭ far liṭeraṭur, ḳunsṭ un ḳulṭur ( 2 items ), 1931
Vida Rosarina ( 6 issues ), February 1973
Zionist record( 2 items )
LGBTQIA+ Collection, University of Florida Digital Collections – 25 publications/titles
Aerospace Collection, University of Florida Digital Collections – 405 titles
Oral Histories
Jewish – Jewish Oral Histories Collection
Samuel Proctor Oral History Program Digital Collection, 3,600 online oral histories – 900 interviews with Native Americans including Seminoles, Cherokees, and Creeks. Other major holdings include projects on African Americans in Florida in the Joel Buchanan Archive of African American Oral History, Civil Rights action in St. Augustine (1964), and the University of Florida. Over 100 oral histories from the Matheson Museum are included.
Photographs
Samuel Proctor Oral History Program Digital Collection – SPOHP also houses Native American slides and photographs; and 350 recordings of music, including concerts, folk music, and Native American chants.
Florida – Florida Photograph Collections, University of Florida Digital Collections
University Archives Photograph Collection
Concrete Blog: Messages on the Wall
Matheson History Museum Postcard and Photograph Collection
Science & Technology
Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida Digital Collections
Herbarium Collections, University of Florida Digital Collections
Sciences Collections, University of Florida Digital Collections
Military Records
Florida – Albert Huet’s WWI Documents, University of Florida Digital Collections
Florida – Florida National Guard & WWII Resources
Florida – Samuel Proctor Oral History Program Veterans History Project – some are online
US – The Digital Military Collection – 669 titles – is an ongoing project to house, organize and preserve contemporary and historic military books, newspapers, periodicals, video and audio content.
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