Stories of Florida.

Publication

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Stories of Florida.

Entry/Object ID

Library.616

Tags

Library Rare books collection as of June 4 2023

Description

1 v. (various paging); 27 cm. Writers Program (Fla.). Sponsored by Florida State Dept. of Public Instruction. Cover title. Red leather bound volume. Individual essays and stories about Florida used as school readers (approx. 5-25 p. each). Separate paging for each story. Compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the state of Florida. Federal Works Agency, John M. Carmody, Administrator. Work Project Administration, F.C. Harrington, Commissioner; Florence Keer, Assistant Commissioner; Roy Schroder, State Administrator for the 1940 titles. Federal Works Agency, John M. Carmody, Administrator. Work Project Administration, Howard O. Hunter, Commissioner, Florence Keer, Assistant Commissioner; Roy Schroder, State Administrator for the 1941 titles. Contents: Reader number #13, #7, #8 (2 copies), #3, #21, #16, #17, #19, #20, #2, #14, #15 History of citrus in Florida by Carita Doggett Corse, #8, "1938-1939 series, Reader 1." Dr. Carita Doggett Corse was the State Director of the Federal Writers' Project in Florida. Additionally, "Florida boats" is included, sponsored by University of Florida, co-sponsored by Florida State Department of Public Instruction, 1941. It is a carbon copy, 53 p. Included are stories told by Capt. Brickley, leader of the boat pilots who lived in Pilot Town, to his 12 year old nephew, Dan. Capt. Brickley knew the stories of the river, those from books as well as from rivermen. Contents include: story of a dugout, 3 royal flagships, Florida Coast Guard, old and new, East Florida's navy, The Key wreckers, America I, The grand tour, The three friends, Coastwise ships. Last item, Fort Jefferson, is missing its cover. It was the "Devil's Island of America", a fortress-prison, rising from Garden Key, 1 of the Dry Tortuga Islands, about 70 miles westward from Key West.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Florida -- History.

Publication Details

Author

Writers' Program (Fla.), Florida. Dept. of Public Instruction. Carmody, John M. (John Michael) 1881-1962 United States Federal Works Agency United States Work Projects Administration (Fla.) Corse, Carita Doggett, 1892-

Edition

Typescript

Publisher

Publisher not identified.

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Place of publication not identified.

Call No.

Rare Book F 311.5 .E7