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Dublin Core
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Title
Florida-France Soldier Stories Project Collection
Alternative Title
Florida-France Soldier Stories Project
Subject
Cemeteries--Europe
Veterans--Florida
World War II, 1939-1945
Army
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">RICHES</a>.
<a href="https://projects.cah.ucf.edu/fl-francesoldierstories/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Florida-France Soldier Stories Project</a>.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial, Dinozé, France
Contributing Project
Florida-France Soldier Stories Project
Curator
Barnes, Mark
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://history.wisc.edu/epinal_project.htm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Epinal Project- by Students of History 357: The Second World War</a>." University of Wisconsin-Madison. http://history.wisc.edu/epinal_project.htm (accessed January 3, 2015).
Description
<p><span>The </span>Florida-France Soldier Stories<span>project seeks to tell the stories of the Florida soldiers buried in the American Battle Monuments Commission cemeteries in France. Our goal is to honor and commemorate the brave individuals who gave their lives supporting the Allied forces, liberating France, and defeating Germany in the Second World War. Simultaneously, our goal is to teach the students who participate in this research project about the history of France and Florida during World War II, about the history of individual servicemen, and about how to implement historical research methods in their work.</span></p>
Document
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Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Theta Delta Chi, 1939
Description
A page from the 1939 edition of <em>Technique</em>, the yearbook for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This page shows the Theta Delta Chi, a social fraternity. A notable student listed is Major Jack Cameron Heist (1919-1944), who is pictured fourth from the left in the second row. Maj. Heist was born to Henry S. Heist and Christina Heist on November 6, 1919, in Eustis, Florida. He received his commission on May 29, 1939, to serve in World War II. Maj. Heist was an Ammunition Officer for the XIX Corps. He died during his service in an ambush on September 2, 1944, near Thiant, France. He is currently buried at the Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial in Dinozé, France. Maj. Heist is one of 85 Florida residents interned at Epinal.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by <a href="http://www.newsherald.com/" target="_blank"><em>The Wilkes-Barre Record</em></a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/region/liberation-de-thiant-l-histoire-bouleversante-du-ia27b36952n2369051" target="_blank">Libération de Thiant</a>." La Voix Du Nord. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/region/liberation-de-thiant-l-histoire-bouleversante-du-ia27b36952n2369051.
"<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=heist&GSiman=1&GScid=1991677&GRid=56372930&" target="_blank">Maj Jack C Heist</a>." Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=heist&GSiman=1&GScid=1991677&GRid=56372930& .
"<a href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4441134/the_wilkesbarre_record/" target="_blank">Local Men in Armed Forces</a>." <em>The Wilkes-Barre Record</em>, December 24, 1942, page 6. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4441134/the_wilkesbarre_record/.
Alternative Title
MIT Theta Delta Chi
Subject
Colleges
Universities
Source
Digital reproduction of original yearbook page: <em>Technique</em> (Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1939), page 265. <a href="http://interactive.ancestry.com/1265/40392_B075330-00265/240315196?backurl=http://person.ancestry.com/tree/38722788/person/20409592223/facts" target="_blank">http://interactive.ancestry.com/1265/40392_B075330-00265/240315196?backurl=http://person.ancestry.com/tree/38722788/person/20409592223/facts</a>.
Publisher
<a href="http://technique.mit.edu/" target="_blank"><em>Technique</em></a>
Date Created
ca. 1939
Date Copyrighted
1939
Date Issued
1939
Is Part Of
<a href="http://technique.mit.edu/" target="_blank"><em>Technique</em></a> (Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1939): Source Repository.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/172" target="_blank">Epinal American Cemetery Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Format
image/jpg
Extent
282 KB
Medium
1 yearbook page
Language
eng
Type
Text
Coverage
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Accrual Method
Donation
Mediator
History Teacher
Provenance
Originally published by <a href="http://technique.mit.edu/" target="_blank"><em>Technique</em></a>.
Contributing Project
Epinal Cemetery Project
Curator
Almanza, Esteban
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://ancestry.com/" target="_blank">Ancestry.com</a>
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Borge Paul Edward Nissen
Byron Wesley Wheeler, Jr.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Charles William Schwartz IV
colleges
Donald Malpas Cole, Jr.
Erwin Haskell Schell
fraternities
fraternity
Frederick Johnstone Adams
Greek life
Harland Housam Davis
Holden White Withington
Jack Cameron Heist
James Howard Laubach
James Lewis McClellan, Jr.
John Day Alexander
John Gilbert Griffin, Jr.
John Hart Purinton
Karl Dickson Fernstrom
Karl Pfister III
Marshall Arnold Wight, Jr.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT
Morris Emmons Nicholson, Jr.
Nathan Richard George
Ray Orion Wyland, Jr.
Robert Frederic Olwell
Robert Howell Crosby
Robert John Saunders
Roland Douglas Glenn
Seibert Quimby Duntley
Stuart Paige
students
Technique
Theron Smith Curtis, Jr.
Theta Delta Chi
universities
university
Wallace Kelly Woods
Warne Perrault Johnson
William Elden Hense, Jr.
William Ralph Schwindler
William Ralph Willard
William Souther Brewster
William Stien L. Christensen
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Title
Florida-France Soldier Stories Project Collection
Alternative Title
Florida-France Soldier Stories Project
Subject
Cemeteries--Europe
Veterans--Florida
World War II, 1939-1945
Army
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">RICHES</a>.
<a href="https://projects.cah.ucf.edu/fl-francesoldierstories/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Florida-France Soldier Stories Project</a>.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial, Dinozé, France
Contributing Project
Florida-France Soldier Stories Project
Curator
Barnes, Mark
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://history.wisc.edu/epinal_project.htm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Epinal Project- by Students of History 357: The Second World War</a>." University of Wisconsin-Madison. http://history.wisc.edu/epinal_project.htm (accessed January 3, 2015).
Description
<p><span>The </span>Florida-France Soldier Stories<span>project seeks to tell the stories of the Florida soldiers buried in the American Battle Monuments Commission cemeteries in France. Our goal is to honor and commemorate the brave individuals who gave their lives supporting the Allied forces, liberating France, and defeating Germany in the Second World War. Simultaneously, our goal is to teach the students who participate in this research project about the history of France and Florida during World War II, about the history of individual servicemen, and about how to implement historical research methods in their work.</span></p>
Document
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Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tech Swim Club, 1939
Description
A page from the 1939 edition of <em>Technique</em>, the yearbook for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This page shows the Tech Swim Club, an honorary society for swimmers. A notable student listed is Major Jack Cameron Heist (1919-1944). Maj. Heist was born to Henry S. Heist and Christina Heist on November 6, 1919, in Eustis, Florida. He received his commission on May 29, 1939, to serve in World War II. Maj. Heist was an Ammunition Officer for the XIX Corps. He died during his service in an ambush on September 2, 1944, near Thiant, France. He is currently buried at the Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial in Dinozé, France. Maj. Heist is one of 85 Florida residents interned at Epinal.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by <a href="http://www.newsherald.com/" target="_blank"><em>The Wilkes-Barre Record</em></a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/region/liberation-de-thiant-l-histoire-bouleversante-du-ia27b36952n2369051" target="_blank">Libération de Thiant</a>." La Voix Du Nord. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/region/liberation-de-thiant-l-histoire-bouleversante-du-ia27b36952n2369051.
"<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=heist&GSiman=1&GScid=1991677&GRid=56372930&" target="_blank">Maj Jack C Heist</a>." Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=heist&GSiman=1&GScid=1991677&GRid=56372930& .
"<a href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4441134/the_wilkesbarre_record/" target="_blank">Local Men in Armed Forces</a>." <em>The Wilkes-Barre Record</em>, December 24, 1942, page 6. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4441134/the_wilkesbarre_record/.
Alternative Title
MIT Tech Swim Club
Subject
Colleges
Universities
Sports--United States
Swimming--United States
Source
Digital reproduction of original yearbook page: <em>Technique</em> (Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1939), page 166. <a href="http://interactive.ancestry.com/1265/40392_B075330-00166/240314565?backurl=http://person.ancestry.com/tree/38722788/person/20409592223/facts" target="_blank">http://interactive.ancestry.com/1265/40392_B075330-00166/240314565?backurl=http://person.ancestry.com/tree/38722788/person/20409592223/facts</a>.
Publisher
<a href="http://technique.mit.edu/" target="_blank"><em>Technique</em></a>
Date Created
ca. 1939
Date Copyrighted
1939
Date Issued
1939
Is Part Of
<a href="http://technique.mit.edu/" target="_blank"><em>Technique</em></a> (Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1939): Source Repository.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/172" target="_blank">Epinal American Cemetery Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Format
image/jpg
Extent
32 KB
Medium
1 yearbook page
Language
eng
Type
Text
Coverage
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Accrual Method
Donation
Mediator
History Teacher
Provenance
Originally published by <a href="http://technique.mit.edu/" target="_blank"><em>Technique</em></a>.
Contributing Project
Epinal Cemetery Project
Curator
Almanza, Esteban
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://ancestry.com/" target="_blank">Ancestry.com</a>
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Andrew Lawrie Fabens, Jr.
athletes
Cambridge, Massachusetts
clubs
colleges
David Turner Morgenthaler
David Wheeler Howard
Fredrick Adolphe Faure Cook
George Alvin Senior
Gordon Smith
Harold Chestnut
Jack Cameron Heist
James Howard Laubach, Jr.
John Holms McLeod, Jr.
John Joseph Jatosh
John Patrick McEvoy
Kirke White Marsh, Jr.
Manning Cutter Morrill
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Maximilian Untersee
MIT
Peter Michael Bernays
Ralph Theodore Jope
Richard Drake Martin
Robert John Saunders
Sears Williams
sports
Stuart Paige
students
swimmers
swimming
Tech Swim Club
Technique
universities
university
William Champion
William Robert White
William Russell Schuler
William Souther Brewster
Winthrop Mandell Steele
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Dublin Core
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Title
Florida-France Soldier Stories Project Collection
Alternative Title
Florida-France Soldier Stories Project
Subject
Cemeteries--Europe
Veterans--Florida
World War II, 1939-1945
Army
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">RICHES</a>.
<a href="https://projects.cah.ucf.edu/fl-francesoldierstories/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Florida-France Soldier Stories Project</a>.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial, Dinozé, France
Contributing Project
Florida-France Soldier Stories Project
Curator
Barnes, Mark
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://history.wisc.edu/epinal_project.htm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Epinal Project- by Students of History 357: The Second World War</a>." University of Wisconsin-Madison. http://history.wisc.edu/epinal_project.htm (accessed January 3, 2015).
Description
<p><span>The </span>Florida-France Soldier Stories<span>project seeks to tell the stories of the Florida soldiers buried in the American Battle Monuments Commission cemeteries in France. Our goal is to honor and commemorate the brave individuals who gave their lives supporting the Allied forces, liberating France, and defeating Germany in the Second World War. Simultaneously, our goal is to teach the students who participate in this research project about the history of France and Florida during World War II, about the history of individual servicemen, and about how to implement historical research methods in their work.</span></p>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Quadrangle Club, 1939
Description
A page from the 1939 edition of <em>Technique</em>, the yearbook for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This page shows the Quadrangle Club, an honorary society for sophomores. A notable student listed is Major Jack Cameron Heist (1919-1944). Maj. Heist was born to Henry S. Heist and Christina Heist on November 6, 1919, in Eustis, Florida. He received his commission on May 29, 1939, to serve in World War II. Maj. Heist was an Ammunition Officer for the XIX Corps. He died during his service in an ambush on September 2, 1944, near Thiant, France. He is currently buried at the Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial in Dinozé, France. Maj. Heist is one of 85 Florida residents interned at Epinal.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by <a href="http://www.newsherald.com/" target="_blank"><em>The Wilkes-Barre Record</em></a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/region/liberation-de-thiant-l-histoire-bouleversante-du-ia27b36952n2369051" target="_blank">Libération de Thiant</a>." La Voix Du Nord. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/region/liberation-de-thiant-l-histoire-bouleversante-du-ia27b36952n2369051.
"<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=heist&GSiman=1&GScid=1991677&GRid=56372930&" target="_blank">Maj Jack C Heist</a>." Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=heist&GSiman=1&GScid=1991677&GRid=56372930& .
"<a href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4441134/the_wilkesbarre_record/" target="_blank">Local Men in Armed Forces</a>." <em>The Wilkes-Barre Record</em>, December 24, 1942, page 6. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4441134/the_wilkesbarre_record/.
Alternative Title
MIT Quadrangle Club
Subject
Colleges
Universities
Source
Digital reproduction of original yearbook page: <em>Technique</em> (Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1939), page 162. <a href="http://interactive.ancestry.com/1265/40392_B075330-00162/240313001?backurl=http://person.ancestry.com/tree/38722788/person/20409592223/facts" target="_blank">http://interactive.ancestry.com/1265/40392_B075330-00162/240313001?backurl=http://person.ancestry.com/tree/38722788/person/20409592223/facts</a>.
Publisher
<a href="http://technique.mit.edu/" target="_blank"><em>Technique</em></a>
Date Created
ca. 1939
Date Copyrighted
1939
Date Issued
1939
Is Part Of
<a href="http://technique.mit.edu/" target="_blank"><em>Technique</em></a> (Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1939): Source Repository.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/172" target="_blank">Epinal American Cemetery Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Format
image/jpg
Extent
182 KB
Medium
1 yearbook page
Language
eng
Type
Text
Coverage
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Accrual Method
Donation
Mediator
History Teacher
Provenance
Originally published by <a href="http://technique.mit.edu/" target="_blank"><em>Technique</em></a>.
Contributing Project
Epinal Cemetery Project
Curator
Almanza, Esteban
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://ancestry.com/" target="_blank">Ancestry.com</a>
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Arnold Stifel Mengel
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Carl Muth Mueller
clubs
colleges
Donald Douglass Scarff
Jack Cameron Heist
James Starbuck Thornton
John Van Riper
Jonathan Clark Ingersoll
Joseph Gleason Gavin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT
Nathaniel McLean Sage, Jr.
Preston Richardson Gladding
Quadrangle Club
Richard Albert Van Tuyl
Robert Duncan Coombs
Robert James Meier
Robert John Demartini
sophomores
Sterling Hollinshead Ivison, Jr.
students
Technique
Theodore Hervery Guething
universities
university
Walter Edwin Morton
Walter Paramore Keith, Jr.
Willard Sherwood Mott
William Lane Babcock
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
Florida-France Soldier Stories Project Collection
Alternative Title
Florida-France Soldier Stories Project
Subject
Cemeteries--Europe
Veterans--Florida
World War II, 1939-1945
Army
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">RICHES</a>.
<a href="https://projects.cah.ucf.edu/fl-francesoldierstories/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Florida-France Soldier Stories Project</a>.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial, Dinozé, France
Contributing Project
Florida-France Soldier Stories Project
Curator
Barnes, Mark
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://history.wisc.edu/epinal_project.htm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Epinal Project- by Students of History 357: The Second World War</a>." University of Wisconsin-Madison. http://history.wisc.edu/epinal_project.htm (accessed January 3, 2015).
Description
<p><span>The </span>Florida-France Soldier Stories<span>project seeks to tell the stories of the Florida soldiers buried in the American Battle Monuments Commission cemeteries in France. Our goal is to honor and commemorate the brave individuals who gave their lives supporting the Allied forces, liberating France, and defeating Germany in the Second World War. Simultaneously, our goal is to teach the students who participate in this research project about the history of France and Florida during World War II, about the history of individual servicemen, and about how to implement historical research methods in their work.</span></p>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Directory of Students, 1939
Description
A page from the 1939 edition of <em>Technique</em>, the yearbook for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This page shows the directory of students. A notable student listed is Major Jack Cameron Heist (1919-1944). Maj. Heist was born to Henry S. Heist and Christina Heist on November 6, 1919, in Eustis, Florida. He received his commission on May 29, 1939, to serve in World War II. Maj. Heist was an Ammunition Officer for the XIX Corps. He died during his service in an ambush on September 2, 1944, near Thiant, France. He is currently buried at the Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial in Dinozé, France. Maj. Heist is one of 85 Florida residents interned at Epinal.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by <a href="http://www.newsherald.com/" target="_blank"><em>The Wilkes-Barre Record</em></a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/region/liberation-de-thiant-l-histoire-bouleversante-du-ia27b36952n2369051" target="_blank">Libération de Thiant</a>." La Voix Du Nord. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/region/liberation-de-thiant-l-histoire-bouleversante-du-ia27b36952n2369051.
"<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=heist&GSiman=1&GScid=1991677&GRid=56372930&" target="_blank">Maj Jack C Heist</a>." Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=heist&GSiman=1&GScid=1991677&GRid=56372930& .
"<a href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4441134/the_wilkesbarre_record/" target="_blank">Local Men in Armed Forces</a>." <em>The Wilkes-Barre Record</em>, December 24, 1942, page 6. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4441134/the_wilkesbarre_record/.
Alternative Title
MIT Student Directory
Subject
Colleges
Universities
Source
Digital reproduction of original yearbook page: <em>Technique</em> (Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1939), page 284. <a>http://interactive.ancestry.com/1265/41349_630630_0121-00313/295056304?backurl=http://person.ancestry.com/tree/38722788/person/20409592223/facts/citation/157573325883/edit/record </a>.
Publisher
<a href="http://technique.mit.edu/" target="_blank"><em>Technique</em></a>
Date Created
ca. 1939
Date Copyrighted
1939
Date Issued
1939
Is Part Of
<a href="http://technique.mit.edu/" target="_blank"><em>Technique</em></a> (Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1939): Source Repository.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/172" target="_blank">Epinal American Cemetery Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Format
image/jpg
Extent
476 KB
Medium
1 yearbook page
Language
eng
Type
Text
Coverage
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Accrual Method
Donation
Mediator
History Teacher
Provenance
Originally published by <a href="http://technique.mit.edu/" target="_blank"><em>Technique</em></a>.
Contributing Project
Epinal Cemetery Project
Curator
Almanza, Esteban
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://ancestry.com/" target="_blank">Ancestry.com</a>
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Abraham W. Hajjar
Adrian J. Grossman
Albert A. Hess
Albert C. Hall
Albert J. Harno, Jr.
Albert J. Harper, Jr.
Alex F. Hancock
Alfred H. Heckel, Jr.
Alfred L. Hart
Alvin H. Hartman
Andrew Hepburn
Arthur A. Hauser, Jr.
Barton L. Hakan
Benjamin D. Halpern
Bertram R. Harper
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Charles A. Hathaway
Charles L. Hall, Jr.
Charles W. Hargens III
Chester N. Hasert
Christian E. Grosser
Clarence H. Gunderson
Clifford H. Hahn
Clyde F. Hayward
colleges
Conrad W. Hansen, Jr.
Cullie B. Harris
Cyril M. Harris, Jr.
David P. Herron
Dean B. Harrington
Donald H. Hanak
Douglas B. Henderson
Edgar E. Hayes
Eduardo F. Herrerias
Edward A. Hamacher
Edward H. Guilbert, Jr.
Edward V. Hardaway, Jr.
Elias Gunnell
Elmer W. Hanak, Jr.
Eugene C. Gwaltney
Francis B. Herlihy
Franklin Hawkins
Frederic W. Hammesfahr
Frederick C. Herzog, Jr.
Frederick M. Griffith, Jr.
Frederick R. Gruner
Frederick T. Haddock, Jr.
Fredyum Hendrickson, Jr.
George H. Hart
George R. Griffin
George S. Harrington
George W. Hazen
Glen A. Gurnsey
Gustave W. Heinz, Jr.
Hames M. Hart, Jr.
Hamilton Herman
Hans J. Haac
Harris F. Hanscom
Harry A. Helm
Harry J. Heimer
Harry J. Heineman, Jr.
Henry Harrison
Henry L. Hamilton, Jr.
Herbert F. Harvey
Herbert Harris, Jr.
Herman J. Harjes
Hilliard Grossberg
Jack Cameron Heist
James F. Healey
James H. Henderson, Jr.
James L. Hall
James N. Hendel
James T. Harker
Jean C. Hartshorne
John C. Haas
John C. Harper
John D. Helbig
John E. Guillotte
John E. Harsch
John G. Griffin, Jr.
John G. Hemans, Jr.
John J. Guarrera
John J. Hess, Jr.
John M. Geyzbowski
John R. Gunther
John S. Hazelton
John S. Hermistone
John T. Hassey, Jr
Joseph A. Henrich, Jr.
Karl W. Hering
Laurence Sherwood Heinze
Leonard Harris
Louis Harmantas
Louis W. Helmreich
Luke S. Hayden
Mary E. Guinan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT
Mitchell J. Halle
Norman E. Hayes
Orvis B. Hartman
Paul C. Gross
Paul M. Hammond
Paul M. Heilman
Pelle E. G. Hammarlund
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Philip L. Harris
Pierre F. Hartshorne
Quentin D. Groves
Raymond deV. Harper
Raymond E. Hahn
Richard C. Hess
Richard E. Henning
Richard E. Herr
Richard H. Haas
Richard Henderson
Richard J. Hammarstrom
Richard K. Henry, Jr.
Richard L. Hanson
Richard L. Hayes
Richard R. Heldenfels
Richard S. Harley
Richard S. Haven
Richard V. Hatfield
Robert B. Handelman
Robert C. Habich
Robert C. Hayman
Robert H. Handler
Robert Haskins, Jr.
Robert L. Halfman
Robert T. Harland
Rudolf W. Hensel
Russell A. Gwillim
Russell L. Haden, Jr.
Sampson Grunes
Sidney L. Hall
Siguard Hallager, Jr.
Stanley E. Hand
Sten Hammarstrom
Stephen B. Hazzard
Steven Heller
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Technique
Theodore G. Gundelach
Theodore H. Guething
Thomas J. Hastings, Jr.
universities
university
Victor L. Hayes
Walter J. Hamburger
Ward J. Haas
Wei-Pange Han
William C. Henion
William E. Harper
William E. Hense, Jr.
William F. Hart, Jr.
William f. Hecker
William F. Herman
William G. Hamlin
William H. Hagenbuch
William Hahn
William J. Harris, Jr.
William M. Hendrich
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General Collection
Description
Collection of digital images, documents, and other records depicting the history of Florida. Series descriptions are based on special topics, the majority of which students focused their metadata entries around.
Florida was first inhabited by Paleo-Indians as early as 14,000 years ago. By the 16th century, several distinct Native American tribes inhabited present-day Florida, primarily the Apalachee of the Panhandle, the Timucua of North and Central Florida), the Ais of the Central Atlantic Coast, the Tocobaga of the Tampa Bay area, the Calusa of Southwest Florida, and the Tequesta of the Southeast Florida.
In 1513, Juan Ponce de León of Spain became the earliest known European explorer to arrive in Florida. During the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, Spanish, French, and English pioneers settled various parts of the states, though not all settlement were successful. Most of the region was owned by Spain, until it was ceded to the United States via the Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819. On March 3, 1845, Florida earned statehood. Florida was marred by nearly constant warfare with the Native Americans in the region, particularly with the Seminoles during the Seminole Wars.
On January 10, 1861, Florida seceded from the Union and joined the Confederate States of American on January 20th. The state's participation in the Civil War revolved mostly around the transportation of goods via ships.
On June 25, 1868, Florida regained its representation in Congress. During the Reconstruction period, Florida drafted a new state constitution, which included statues that effectively disenfranchised its African-American citizens, as well as many poor white citizens.
Through much of its early history, Florida's economy relied heavily upon agriculture, especially citrus, cattle, sugarcane, tomatoes, and strawberries. Florida's tourism industry developed greatly with the economic prosperity of the 1920s. However, this was halted by devastating hurricanes in the second half of the decade, the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and the Great Depression. The economy would not fully recover until manufacturing was stimulated by World War II. As of 2014, Florida was the third most populous state in the country.
Contributor
Humphrey, Daphne F.
Alternative Title
General Collection
Subject
Florida
Eatonville (Fla.)
Orlando (Fla.)
Winter Park (Fla.)
Sanford (Fla.)
Daytona Beach (Fla.)
New Smyrna Beach (Fla.)
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Eatonville, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Winter Park, Florida
Sanford , Florida
Daytona Beach, Florida
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://dos.myflorida.com/florida-facts/florida-history/" target="_blank">Florida History</a>." Florida Department of State. http://dos.myflorida.com/florida-facts/florida-history/.
<span>Knotts, Bob. </span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49672975" target="_blank"><em>Florida History</em></a><span>. Chicago: Heinemann Library, 2003.</span>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
44-page paper
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Title
To Attract, Retain and Grow: The History of the Florida High Tech Corridor Council
Alternative Title
History of Florida High Tech Corridor Council
Subject
High technology industries--United States
Orlando (Fla.)
Tampa (Fla.)
University of Central Florida
University of South Florida
Colleges
Universities and colleges
Hitt, John C.
Castor, Betty, 1941-
Education--Florida
Description
"To Attract, Retain and Grow: The History of the Florida High Tech Corridor Council" is a paper by Dr. Connie L. Lester and Dr. James C. Clark of the University of Central Florida (UCF). Dr. Lester is an Associate Professor of History concentrating in the Modern South, as well as agricultural, environmental, and economic history. She is also the Program Director of RICHES of Central Florida and Editor of <em>Florida Historical Quarterly</em>. A Lecturer of History, Dr. Clark's concentration is on Florida history, the American South, and presidential history. "To Attract, Retain and Grow" focuses on the history of the Florida High Tech Corridor Council (FHTCC), which an economic development initiative whose mission is to foster the high technology industry in Florida's High Tech Corridor, spanning 23 counties with rich industries in aerospace engineering, modeling and simulation, optics and photonics, digital media, and medical technologies. The council consists of the UCF in Orlando, the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa, and the University of Florida (UF) in Gainesville. In 1966, the Florida Legislature passed an act founding the FHTCC to support the 21-county service areas of UCF and USF. Its original mission was to expand research and educational partnerships in order to retain the Cirent Semiconductor water fabrication facility located in Orlando, Florida. In 1997, the development of all technology industries across Central Florida was added to the FHTCC's mission. UF joined the partnership in 2005.
Abstract
This scientific study, conducted by the University of Central Florida’s history department, looks at the factors that contributed to the growth of the innovative technology clusters of Florida’s High Tech Corridor.
Type
Text
Source
Original 44-page paper: Lester, Connie L. and James C. Clark. "<a href="http://www.floridahightech.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Publications-To-Attract-Retain-and-Grow-Corridor-History.pdf" target="_blank">To Attract, Retain and Grow: The History of the Florida High Tech Corridor Council</a>."
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Adobe Acrobat Reader
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/36" target="_blank">General Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Coverage
University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Creator
Lester, Connie L.
Clark, James C.
Publisher
<a href="http://www.floridahightech.com/%20target=">Florida High Tech Corridor Council</a>
Date Created
ca. 2103
Date Issued
ca. 2103
Date Copyrighted
ca. 2103
Date Submitted
ca. 2103
Format
application/pdf
Extent
447 KB
Medium
44-page paper
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Civics/Government Teacher
Economics Teacher
Geography Teacher
Humanities Teacher
Science Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by Dr. Connie L. Lester and James C. Clark, and published by the <a href="http://www.floridahightech.com/%20target=">Florida High Tech Corridor Council</a>.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by the <a href="http://www.floridahightech.com/%20target=">Florida High Tech Corridor Council</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.floridahightech.com/%20target=">Florida High Tech Corridor Council</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.floridahightech.com/about/" target="_blank">ABOUT</a>." Florida High Tech Corridor. http://www.floridahightech.com/about/.
Burnett, Richard. "<a href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2010-09-19/business/os-cfb-tech-corridor-092010-20100919_1_grant-program-florida-high-tech-corridor-council-advocacy-group" target="_blank">Technology: Local council's grant program wins award</a>." <em>The Orlando Sentinel</em>, September 19, 2010. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2010-09-19/business/os-cfb-tech-corridor-092010-20100919_1_grant-program-florida-high-tech-corridor-council-advocacy-group.
Florida High Tech Corridor Council. "<a href="http://www.floridahightech.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Press-Kit-florida.HIGH_.TECH-2014.pdf%20target=">florida.HIGH.TECH 2014: The Guide to Florida's High Tech Corridor</a>." Florida High Tech Corridor Council. http://www.floridahightech.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Press-Kit-florida.HIGH_.TECH-2014.pdf.
Manning, Margie. "<a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/print-edition/2011/09/30/high-tech-corridor-matching-grants.html?page=all" target="_blank">High Tech Corridor matching grants create billion-dollar economic engine</a>." <em>Tampa Bay Business Journal</em>, September 30, 2010. http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/print-edition/2011/09/30/high-tech-corridor-matching-grants.html?page=all.
13 Technology Incubators
501(c)(6)
academia
academics
accelerators
aerospace
Agricultural College Act of 1890
agriculture
Alachua County
Alex Katsaros
Alex Spinler
Amy Bayes
Andrew Huse
AnnaLee Saxenian
Antoinette Jennings
AT&T Corporation
aviation
Barack Hussein Obama II
Barack Obama
Bernie Machen
Berridge Consulting Group, Inc.
Betty Bowe
Betty Castor
Brevard County
Bruce J. Schulman
Bruce Janz
Buddy Dyer
business
businesses
Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers
Central Florida Technology Forum
Charlie Reed
Cirent
Cirent Semiconductor
Clusters of Creativity: Enduring Lessons on Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Silicon Valley and Europe’s Silicon Fen
Cobham SATCOM Land Systems
colleges
computer science
Connie L. Lester
Consortium
construction
Core Tea
cybercities
Cybercities Report
cybercity
Dan Berglund
Dan Rini
Daniel Holsenbeck
Daniel Webster
Decade of Partnership
Deepika Singh
digital media
economic development
economic growth
economics
economies
economy
Ed Schons
Educational Appropriations Committee
educators
electro-optics
Electronic Arts Tiburon
Elizabeth Bowe
Elizabeth Castor
endowments
engineering
engineers
Equal Rights Amendment
ESC
Evaporative Spray Cooling
Feng Kang
Ferald J. Bryan
FHTCC
financial services
Florida Cabinet
Florida Cluster Metrics Task Force
Florida Economic Gardening Institute
Florida High Tech Corridor Council
Florida Hospital
Florida House of Representatives
Florida Institute of Technology
Florida Legislature
Florida Office of Tourism, Trade and Economic Development
Florida Research Consortium
Florida Senate
Florida State University System
Florida Tax Watch
Florida Venture Forum, Inc.
Florida Virtual Entrepreneur Center
florida.HIGH.TECH
Florida’s High Tech Corridor: Opening the Door to Florida’s Future
Florida’s Innovation Benchmark Study
FLVEC
From Soap Suds to Sheer Success: The Florida High-Tech Corridor Council Story
G.I. Bill
Georges Haour
Gordon Hogan
Grace Venture Partners L.P.
grants
GrowFL
GTE
Guy Hagen
Harris
Harvard of the South
Henderson Air Field
Henry W. Grady
Hernando County
high tech
high technology
higher education
Hillsborough County
Hillsborough County Commission
I-4
I-4 Corridor
I-4 High Tech Corridor Council
IFAS
incubators
industries
industry
information technology
Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
interactive entertainment
Interactive Expeditions
International Economic Development Council
Interstate Highway 4
INTX
investments
J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
Jack Sullivan
Jacob Stuart
James Bernard Machen
James C. Clark
James C. Cobb,
James Schnur
James Solomons
Jeb Bush
Jeff Bindell
Jennie Miller
Jim Clark
John C. Hitt
John Ellis Bush
John H. Dyer
John Montelione
John Sacher
Joseph England
Joseph Schumpeter
Josh Wyner
Juan Carlos Sanabria
Judy Genshaft
Judy Lynn Genshaft
Keith G, Baker
Kerry Martin
Kiran C. Patel Center for Global Solution
Lake County
lasers
life sciences
Lockheed Martin
Lucent Technologies
Luther H. Hodges
Luther Hartwell Hodges
M. J. Soileau
Madrid, Spain
manufacturing
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
matching funds
Matching Grants Research Program
Math & Physics Day
mechanical arts
medical technology
Melbourne
MGRP
microelectronics
microscopy
military
Miniature Refrigeration System
MIT
modeling
Morrill Act of 1862
Morrill Act of 1890
Morrill Land-Grant Acts
nanotechnology
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
Ned Grace
New South
New South Ventures
Nicholson Center for Surgical Advancement
Ocean Optics
optics
Oracle
orange county
orlando
Orlando Chamber of Commerce
Orlando Science Center
OSC
Osceola County
Palm Bay
Pasco County
Peter Panousis
Philip Peters
photonics
Pinellas County
public-private partnerships
Putnam County
Randy E. Berridge
Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128
research
Research and Commercialization
Research Triangle
Rob Koepp
robotics
Robotics Camp
ROBRADY
Roger Pynn
Rosalind Beiler
Route 128
Rudy McDaniel
Saint Petersburg
Sanford Shugart
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
Scanning Electron Microscope
Schwartz Electro-optics
Scot French
SeaWorld Orlando
SEM
semiconductors
Seminole County
Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944
Sestar Technologies
Silicon Fen
Silicon Valley
simulation
Sinmat
software
South Florida Community College
Southern Regional Education Board
Space Coast
St. Petersburg
Stanford University
STEM
SU
sustainable energy
Tampa
Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay Technology Forum
teachers
Tech 4 Consortium
Tech America Foundation
techCAMPs
Technology Incubator
techPATH
TES
The Corridor by the Numbers
The Scripps Research Institute
Thermal Energy Storage
Thomas Charles Feeney II
Tito Santiago
Tom Feeney
Tom O’Neal
Toni Jennings
TracStar Ed-PAD
training
UCF
UF
Universal Studios Orlando
universities
university
University of Central Florida
University of Florida
University of South Florida
USF
Valencia College
Valencia Community College
Valencia State College
VC
VCC
venture capital
Vicki Morelli
Volusia County
VSC
Walt Disney World
workforce development
World War II
WWII
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Title
RICHES Podcast Documentaries Collection
Alternative Title
RICHES Podcast Collection
Subject
Podcasts
Documentaries
Description
RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners.
Contributor
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/podcastsblog.php" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries</a>
Cassanello, Robert
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Altoona, Florida
Apopka, Florida
Astor, Florida
Barberville, Florida
Brevard County, Florida
Bushnell, Florida
Clermont, Florida
Cocoa, Florida
Cocoa Beach, Florida
College Park, Orlando, Florida
Coral Gables, Florida
Daytona Beach, Florida
DeLand, Florida
Disston City, Florida
Eatonville, Florida
Eau Gallie, Melbourne, Florida
Fort King, Florida
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Geneva, Florida
Goldenrod, Florida
Groveland, Florida
Hannibal Square, Winter Park, Florida
Holly Hill, Florida
Hontoon Island, DeLand, Florida
Indian River, Florida
Jacksonville, Florida
Key Biscayne, Florida
Key West, Florida
Kissimmee, Florida
Lake Apopka, Florida
Lake Buena Vista, Florida
Lake County, Florida
Lake Mary, Florida
Marion County, Florida
Merritt Island, Florida
Mims, Florida
Mount Dora, Florida
Newnans Lake, Gainesville, Florida
New Smyrna, Florida
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Ocala, Florida
Ocklawaha River, Florida
Ocoee, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Ormond Beach, Florida
Osceola County, Florida
Oviedo, Florida
Parramore, Orlando, Florida
Reedy Creek, Florida
Sanford, Florida
Silver Springs, Florida
St. Augustine, Florida
St. Cloud, Florida
St. Johns River, Florida
St. Petersburg, Florida
Tampa, Florida
Titusville, Florida
Vero Beach, Florida
Weirsdale, Florida
Winter Garden, Florida
Winter Park, Florida
Ybor City, Tampa, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/podcastsblog.php" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/podcastsblog.php" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries</a>
External Reference
<span>"</span><a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/podcastsblog.php" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries</a><span>." RICHES of Central Florida. http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/podcastsblog.php.</span>
Has Part
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/137" target="_blank">A History of Central Florida Collection</a>, RICHES Podcast Documentaries Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/" target="_blank">RICHES</a>.
Rights Holder
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES<br /></a>
Moving Image
A series of visual representations that, when shown in succession, impart an impression of motion.
Original Format
1 video podcast
Duration
20 minutes and 50seconds
Bit Rate/Frequency
69kbps
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Title
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 3: Serving the Community: The New Deal Post Office of Cocoa Florida
Alternative Title
Cocoa New Deal Post Office Podcast
Subject
Podcasts
Documentaries
Cocoa (Fla.)
Post offices
New Deal, 1933-1939--Florida
Description
Episode 3 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: Serving the Community: The New Deal Post Office of Cocoa Florida. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. <br /><br />In Episode 3, Heather Bollinger interviews Dr. Connie L. Lester of the University of Central Florida, Dr. Alan Bliss of Valdosta State University, and Dr. Nick Wynne of the Florida Historical Society about the history of the former Federal Post Office building constructed on Brevard Avenue in Cocoa, Florida. As of 2013, the building operates as the Florida Historical Society's headquarters.
Abstract
Heather Bollinger interviews Drs. Connie L. Lester, Alan Bliss, and Nick Wynne about the former federal post office building in the city of Cocoa, FL (now the headquarters of the Florida Historical Society)
Type
Moving Image
Source
Original 25-minute and 50-second podcast by Heather Bollinger, March 1, 2011: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 3: Serving the Community: The New Deal Post Office of Cocoa Florida." <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/podcastsblog.php" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries</a>, Orlando, Florida.
Is Part Of
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/podcastsblog.php" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries</a>, Orlando, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/70" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Coverage
Cocoa, Florida
Cocoa Post Office, Cocoa, Florida
Florida Historical Society, Cocoa, Florida
Creator
Bollinger, Heather
Publisher
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES</a>
Contributor
Lester, Connie L.
Bliss, Alan
Wynne, Nick
Cassanello, Robert
Date Created
ca. 2011-03-01
Format
video/mp4
application/pdf
Extent
19.6 MB
157 KB
Medium
23-minute and 50-second podcast
11-page typed transcript
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Civics/Government Teacher
Economics Teacher
Geography Teacher
Humanities Teacher
Visual Arts Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by Heather Bollinger and <span>published by </span><a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES</a><span>.</span>
Rights Holder
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES</a>
Accrual Method
Item Creation
Contributing Project
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/podcastsblog.php" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/ucf.edu.2577623765.02577623773.6997974713?i=1630384584" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 3: The Cocoa New Deal Post Office</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. http://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/ucf.edu.2577623765.02577623773.6997974713?i=1630384584.
"<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/podcastsblog.php" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/podcastsblog.php.
Bradbury, Alford G., and E. Story Hallock. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1579096" target="_blank"><em>A Chronology of Florida Post Offices</em></a>. 1962.
Cutler, Phoebe. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11916818" target="_blank"><em>The Public Landscape of the New Deal</em></a>. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
"<a href="http://myfloridahistory.org/society" target="_blank">The Society: Brief History</a>." Florida Historical Society. http://myfloridahistory.org/society.
Esperdy, Gabrielle M. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648759788" target="_blank"><em>Modernizing Main Street Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal</em></a>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=557563.
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Table Of Contents
0:00:00 Introduction
0:02:10 The Great Depression and the New Deal
0:03:05 New Deal public works projects
0:04:14 Impact of the New Deal on Cocoa
0:05:42 Funding for construction and architectural style
0:07:17 Impact of the New Deal on Cocoa
0:08:42 Public and political support for New Deal projects
0:09:58 Economic impact of using local labor for construction
0:13:40 New Deal architecture
0:16:02 Adapting the building for the Florida Historical Society
0:20:06 Conclusion
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Digital typed transcript of original 25-minute and 50-second podcast by Heather Bollinger, March 1, 2011: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 3: Serving the Community: The New Deal Post Office of Cocoa Florida." <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/podcastsblog.php" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries</a>, Orlando, Florida.
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<p><strong>Cassanello<br /></strong>I’m Robert [A.] Cassanello, assistant professor of history at the University of Central Florida, and you’re listening to the RICHES Documentary Podcast.</p>
<p>Welcome to the RICHES documentary podcast. RICHES, the regional initiative for collecting the histories, experiences, and stories of Central Florida, is an umbrella program housing interdisciplinary public history projects that bring together different departments at the University of Central Florida with profit and nonprofit sectors of the community in order to promote the collection and preservation of the region’s history. By facilitating research that records and presents the stories of communities, businesses, and institutions in Central Florida, RICHES seeks to provide the region with a deeper sense of its heritage. This series will feature a podcast every two weeks, in the middle and at the end of each month, that will explore various aspects of Central Florida history.</p>
<p>In today’s episode, <em>Serving the Community: The New Deal Post Office of Cocoa Florida</em>, Heather Bollinger examines the history of the iconic building, now home to the Florida Historical Society.</p>
<p><strong>Bollinger<br /></strong>Hi. My name is Heather Bollinger. In this podcast, I explore the history of a former New Deal post office building in the City of Cocoa, Florida. Now the headquarters of the Florida Historical Society, the former post office served the community of Cocoa for 25 years, and brought a much needed economic boost to the city. From its earliest incarnation as a post office, the building has continued to adapt to the needs of a changing society, and has had lasting value for the City of Cocoa. This podcast will explore the factors behind the building’s construction, the impact of that construction on the local economy, and how the building continues to serve the community of Cocoa.</p>
<p>At the end of the 1930s, the United States was struggling to come out of the Great Depression, the worst economic disaster to ever strike the country. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration developed the New Deal Economic Relief Program as a response to the Great Depression. The New Deal was designed to bring America out of the economic tailspin of the early 1930s and to prevent such a disaster from happening again. As part of the New Deal, designated funds would put people back to work, and restore confidence in the American economy. This involved the construction of many public works projects that would employ local citizens. Dr. Connie [L.] Lester, from the University of Central Florida, explains the goals of New Deal public works projects.</p>
<p><strong>Lester</strong> <br />Well, first of all, the government wanted to get Americans back to work. The unemployment rate in the Great Depression was around 25 percent. And in the South, that meant focusing attention on small towns, because although Florida had a number of urban areas at this point, um, still most Americans—most Floridians— were still living in small towns. So in order to get Americans back to work, you couldn’t just focus on the cities, you had to focus on the country-side, as well. And those projects were really important in getting, uh, people back to work. They built roads. They built bridges. They built schools and post offices. And in some places, they built airports.</p>
<p>And those were ways to attract new investors. In fact, those small towns frequently pointed to, uh, their new post office, or their new school, or their roads, as evidence that they were modern and progressive. So that when they promoted their town looking for, uh, industrial investment, these projects became one of the centerpieces of their promotional literature.</p>
<p><strong>Bollinger<br /></strong>The passing of New Deal legislation had an important impact on small cities, such as Cocoa, Florida. A riverside city along Florida’s Atlantic coast, the City of Cocoa was founded around 1860 by fishermen and their families. Once a small town on the banks of the Indian River, by the 1930s, the City of Cocoa boasted a theater, a hardware store, a Masonic temple, department stores, and citrus growing facilities. What it lacked however, was an official government post office. The mail services had been housed in private residences and commercial businesses over the course of the town’s history, but the post office never had a permanent home in the City of Cocoa.</p>
<p>However, the New Deal would change that. In July 1938, the [U.S.] Post Office Department and the [U.S.] Treasury Department, as part of New Deal legislation, appropriated $70,000 for the construction of a Federal Post Office building in the City of Cocoa. Dr. Alan Bliss of Valdosta State University explains how funding for the construction of post offices was implemented in places like Cocoa and what the government envisioned the post offices would stand for in the community.</p>
<p><strong>Bliss<br /></strong>Well, the post offices came out of the Office of the Supervising Architect, which is part of the Federal Government that no longer exists. Uh, now we have the General Services Administration, which is sort of the landlord for all Federal buildings. Right really from about the time of the Civil War until 1939, the Treasury Department hosted a[sic] Office of the Supervising Architect, And that office was responsible for the planning and design of federal[?] buildings in the capitol in Washington, D.C., and wherever else the Federal Government did business.</p>
<p>Each supervising architect was an individual appointed to that position, but a [U.S.] Secretary of the Treasury tended to sort of leave his, uh, imprint on the architectural style of the period, but of course, these people were products of their culture and their environment and their education. So you see Federal construction sort of reflecting the popular styles of the period whenever this development was going on. At the time that the Cocoa post office was constructed, um, as the cornerstone indicates, the supervising architect was a man named Louis [A.] Simon, he was an MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] educated architect. Uh, he held that job, really through most of the 1930s in the Treasury Department. And in the case of post offices, like the Cocoa post office, there did tend to be sort of, uh, a governing philosophy, which was that the government should tend to favor architecture that was efficient and that reflected public purpose of the postal service.</p>
<p><strong>Bollinger<br /></strong>The news that funding had been secured for a post office was welcomed by the residents of Cocoa. In <em>The Cocoa Tribune</em> of July 2<sup>nd</sup>, 1938, the newspaper stated that “news of the funding for the post office is that biggest that has hit Cocoa in many a year.” And that the news should be “cause for great jubilation in our little city. “The community of Cocoa attributed the successful appropriation of funding to Congressman Joseph [Edward] Hendricks, who, according to <em>The Cocoa Tribune</em>, had submitted the need for a post office for Cocoa to the government with the resulting appropriation. The newspaper praised Congressman Hendricks for his hard work and urged its readers to do the same.</p>
<p>At the cornerstone-laying ceremony on December 15, 1939, Congressman Hendricks was invited to make the principal address with all the fanfare of the Cocoa High School band and a parade down the main thoroughfare of the city, Brevard Avenue. Over one thousand people attended the cornerstone-laying ceremony. Dr. Connie Lester explains how citizens receive the news that their towns had been selected for funding and why many politicians associated themselves with the construction of New Deal projects.</p>
<p><strong>Lester<br /></strong>Most towns were very excited about it. When announcements were made about public works projects, um, they could be made in a variety of ways. Usually, the local politicians are gonna get involved. The newspaper’s gonna have—make a big splash about it. Um, sometimes you get—depending on the project and if it’s big enough—you would get a state legislators who—who would come, or even congressmen and senators who come. Because when something is going good like that, of course every politician wants to be in on it, and have people remember that they were there and that somehow they were responsible for it. So you always had, uh, a quite a bit of excitement about people coming to see the project get started and—and then when it’s finished, to see the end of it. On occasion, there were some projects that were so big like the TVA [Tennessee Valley Authority], for instance, um, that you would even of get, uh, visits from the President, who would come and open the project, or come up during some of the process of the project, to see how it was going. So, you know, people were really excited about these and I think it’s hard for us to conceptualize now how important this could be to a small town and to the—the people who hadn’t had much for a long time.</p>
<p><strong>Bollinger<br /></strong>The impact of funding for the post office was felt on Cocoa’s local economy. The land selected for the site of the post office was sold by the City of Cocoa to the Federal Government for $3,500, which was financially beneficial to the city. Though the project’s contractor, the J. M. Ramon Construction Company, was based out of Jacksonville, local labor was used in the construction of the building. Construction commenced in October of 1939, and was completed in April of 1940. Dr. Connie Lester and Dr. Alan Bliss explain how vital the use of local labor became in the construction of New Deal buildings, and the impact of that labor usage on the economy in places like Cocoa.</p>
<p><strong>Lester<br /></strong>Well, most of these small towns—people have very little money. I have a friend, who often says that in—in small towns everybody washed everyone else’s laundry. And what that meant was, they just went to each other's stores. They traded with one another. They bought, uh, and sold to one another. There was very little money in circulation in those small towns.</p>
<p>What the government did by launching these projects is actually pay people in cash money, and that cash money became very important. But when you think about something like building a post office, like the one in Cocoa, uh, what you see is that you’re putting carpenters to work, and electricians, and masons, people who mix concrete, and truck drivers to move the materials there, heavy equipment operators to prepare the—the land in the first place. And all of them get paid, and they all get paid in cash money.</p>
<p>And then that encourages other employment. Grocery stores do a better business. Department stores, furniture stores—so there’s all of those sorts of things. The point really was to get everyone back up and—and moving again. If they have money to spend and the demand increases for various kinds of consumer goods, then other people in the cities will go back to work. And so getting those small towns up and going was really, uh, really, very important, and had a huge impact on the local economy.</p>
<p><strong>Bliss<br /></strong>These things really, uh, had a tremendous amount of resonance in the local economy. Well, there was the acquisition of the real estate for the property in the first place. And then local contractors were hired to actually effect[?] the construction. Those contractors hired their laborers. Uh, they also contracted with local vendors for building supplies and they contracted with subcontractors, um, for the specialized skills that wind up at a building just like that. Electricians, plumbers, tile setters, glaziers—who did the window work—roofers, uh, all of those things are specialties. They are construction traits. They tended to be done by people who are skilled in that enterprise. So the opportunity to work on a project, like a Federal post office was, uh, just about a God-send to people, contractors, laborers, skilled craftsmen, the contractors that supplied them.</p>
<p>And then let’s not forget about the local building supply companies. Um, those tended to be highly localized—locally owned businesses. Lumber companies, uh, concrete supply companies, pipe suppliers, uh, all of these things tended to come from building supply businesses. Hardware suppliers and that sort of thing in the local area where buildings were under construction. You know what economists talk about it in terms of the so-called “multiplier effect.” It was really, uh, very much at work whenever a building like this led up.</p>
<p><strong>Bollinger<br /></strong>The design of the Cocoa post office really emphasized function over form. Located on the corner of Brevard and Orange Avenues, the Cocoa post office was in the heart of the main shopping district of the city. Dr. Alan Bliss explains how the architecture of the post office represented the important changes of the New Deal Era.</p>
<p><strong>Bliss<br /></strong>The style is—let’s describe it in plain language—it’s spare. It does not have a lot in the way of elaborate adornment. Uh, it tends to be a, uh—a functional building. Some might actually go so far as to call it “plain.” I think it’s very, very handsome building. And it has a recognizable style that we tend to sort of associate with the New Deal Era.</p>
<p>What you see here is pretty[?] sparelines[?] and something that is more popularly termed “Art Deco.” and I know architectural historians tend to hesitate to use that term. I’ve also heard it refer to as “Art Moderne.” And also I have heard this referred to as the so-called “International Style.” And it got that label in the early 1930s.</p>
<p>It seemed as though there was kind of a widespread rejection of the old style classical design in public buildings—the old style monumentality. How come? People were turned off by the excesses of grand celebratory design in public architecture, because it seemed to evoke kind of the imperial aspirations of the, uh, crumbling regimes of Europe. After the Great War,<a title="">[1]</a> people tended to recoil a little bit from that. People were very, very turned off by what they saw as the failings of those old imperial regimes. They welcomed, beginning in the 1920s, more modernist style. and I think that’s what we see in the Cocoa post office design—something that evokes the dignity of its public purpose and the security of, uh, the function that’s being carried out in the building. In this case, you know, the mail, right? But that really emphasizes function over, uh, ornate adornment. You don’t see a lot of adornment there—some nice touches. you know, the eagle there up with the stars that are cast into the facade, but nothing really, very grandiose.</p>
<p><strong>Bollinger<br /></strong>The Cocoa post office has had lasting value for the City of Cocoa. Serving as the town’s post office for nearly 25 years, the post office on the corner of Brevard and Orange Avenues was retired in 1966, after the completion of a newer, much larger building located on Orange Avenue in 1965. Between 1965 and 1997, the building was occupied by a variety of entities, including the military, and used as a recruitment facility by the Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI], and also by a branch of the [U.S.] Department of Agriculture.</p>
<p>In the mid-1990s, the Florida Historical Society acquired the former post office for the society’s permanent use. Dr. Nick Wynne, the Director Emeritus of the Florida Historical Society, describes how the building fit the society’s needs.</p>
<p><strong>Wynne<br /></strong>Once we got it, we applied to the [Florida] State Historic Preservation Office and we got actually a couple of grants that totaled about 450,000 dollars. We renovated it and we kept all of the exterior, and we kept most of the interior, but we adapted it to become a library with the open spaces and—and to accommodate shelving and everything else like that.</p>
<p>One—one interesting sidelight—when we were—first acquired the building, we went in and it had eight-foot drop ceilings. And the original height of the ceilings was about 40 feet. So we had to tear all of that out. And the FBI had occupied half of the building. And we’re not 100% sure, but when we were taking out the drop ceiling, we found 27 what we thought were microphones that had been planted and uh, trunkline that had like 200 separate phone lines coming in the building, because it was going to also serve as a FEMA [Federal Emergency Relief Administration] building. And we called Congresspeople and we called everybody to sing[?], “You need to take out these phone lines, because they’re still active.” so eventually we just had the telephone company, “This is a construction zone. These lines will be cut.” So anyway, they came and they—they disconnected them to the building. It was interesting to say those were great days, because we were learning the building. We had never done and, uh, the building certainly accommodated us and was very spacious for the time.</p>
<p><strong>Bollinger<br /></strong>Since 1998, the Florida Historical Society has operated out of the former post office building. It is now known as the Library of Florida History. In many ways, the post office has become a recognizable symbol for the Florida Historical Society. The historical society serves not only academics, but also the public, and many social functions are held monthly for the local community. In this way, the historical society continues to give back to the City of Cocoa, Brevard County, and the State of Florida. Dr. Wynne explain what the building means to the historical society.</p>
<p><strong>Wynne<br /></strong>It’s a historical building they built in 1939. Some classic architecture. It’s linked to Art Deco. I mean, it has just that appearance of being a substantial building. I think—becomes even more symbolic as far as being perceived as a permanent home. And the reality is probably we could’ve had any building and it would’ve been acceptable. But the—the reality is that this is an appropriate building for its function. But it became the symbol—very stately, I think, uh—a symbol of the society.</p>
<p><strong>Bollinger<br /></strong>For more information about the Florida Historical Society, please visit the society’s website at <a>www.myfloridahistory.org</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Cassanello<br /></strong>Thank you for listening to the RICHES Documentary Podcast. Feel free to contact us with any question or comments on the program that you just heard. Please join us for the next episode <em>Gentrification and Urban Renewal: Revitalizing Central Florida’s African American Community</em>.</p>
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