Papers (Jacksonville Historical Society (Fla.)), vol. 6

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Papers (Jacksonville Historical Society (Fla.)), vol. 6

Entry/Object ID

Library.1577

Description

120 pages illustrations ; 24 cm. Jacksonville Historical Society Papers' Volume VI 1981 by Jacksonville Historical Society (Fla.). Papers, volume 6 : Fiftieth anniversary 1929-1979 Index and footnotes included. Contents: Preface : Brief history of JHS -- How it all began -- Officers of the Jacksonville Historical Society, 1979-1980 -- Jacksonville Historical Society Library -- Conversations with our founders (Recollections of 1929)-- Florida photographic history -- Researching Jacksonville history -- Nuts and bolts of oral history -- Commendation for Dena Snodgrass -- A Letter to his Excellency -- History of the Jacksonville Historical Society, 1969-1981 -- Index. Officers of Jacksonville Historical Society, 1981-182 listing along with Directors and Advisory Council of past presidents. Photographs include: H. & W. B. Drew Company building -- Lion column at Independence Square -- McNeil, a sternwheeler, ran between Jax and Black Creek -- View from the Grand National Hotel tower -- Bay Street looking west from Newnan Street -- Dr. Jerrell H. Shofner -- Dr. Samuel Proctor -- Dedication of the Society's Kings Road marker in Hemming Park -- Conversations with our founders (Recollections of 1929) include: Mrs. Parsons on gift of Blue Book, 1929 (Social Register) by Jimmy Mock -- Mrs. Milam on her home schooling her children at her father's house, corner of Lomax and Riverside, and then at home called "Disneyland, triangular lot on corner of Margaret, Riverside, and May streets -- Mr. Charles Murchison on law and law firms in 1929 such as Stockton, Ulmer and Mutchison; Cooper, Knight, Adair, Cooper and Osborne; marrying Helen and Harvard Law School; fight to build Acosta bridge; Welfare Board of the County Hospital -- Mrs. Murchison on house at Oretega Point she lived in; red cross on the sidewalk painted by Charles Bettes so her grandmother who lived on Bettes circle could find her way home after walking around park -- Mrs Lamson on Dr. Kathryn Abbey and Dr. Alfred Hanna meeting each other -- Mrs. Granger on Grace Logan Trout who was Mrs. Granger's mother-in-law and Marabanong house; Empire Point and Durkee family; Florida Country Club in Ortega; Meeting Lawrence Tucker at Deb dance -- Mrs. Hall on her dad's, Mr. Spencer's, lumber business, Scotland mills, 2 sternwheelers called McNeil and Heck who traveled Black Creek to Middleburg -- Mr. Doggett on Mrs. Millar Wilson and Fort George Island excavation locating an Elizabethan glass water bottle.

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Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

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Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Ortega (Jacksonville, Fla.)., Empire Point (Jacksonville, Fla.)., Law firms -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- History., Acosta Bridge (Jacksonville, Fla.)., Hanna, Kathryn Abbey, 1895-1967., Trout, Grace Wilbur., Florida Country Club (Jacksonville, Fla.)., Fort George Island (Fla.)., Excavations (Archaeology) -- Florida -- Jacksonville., Snodgrass, Dena Elizabeth., Oral history., Jacksonville (Fla) -- History -- 20th century., Florida -- History., Jacksonville (Fla.) -- History., Jacksonville Historical Society (Fla.).

Publication Details

Author

Jacksonville Historical Society (Fla.), Buker, George E.

Call No.

F 319 .J1 J332 v.6