Homemade Hat Fashion Show Winners
Oviedo (Fla.)
Clubs--United States
Fashion--Florida
Hats--United States
A newspaper photograph about a homemade hat fashion show hosted by the Oviedo Woman's Club (OWC). Photographed in the front row, from left to right, are Janet Foley, Lynn Nemec, and Louise Martin. In the second row, from left to right, are Nancy Gill, Susan Witty, and Nettie Secrest.<br /><br />The Oviedo Woman's Club which was founded in 1906 as the Oviedo Magazine Club by seven charter members: H. B. McCall, Edith Meade, Georgia Lee Wheeler, Lillian Lee Lawton, Mattie Aulin Wheeler, Milcah Yonge, and Mary King. The first clubhouse was constructed in 1914 and also served as Oviedo's first library. In 1916, the club joined the Florida Federation of Women's Clubs (FFWC) and officially changed its name to the Oviedo Woman's Club. In 1923, the woman's club was federated under the umbrella of the General Federation of Woman's Clubs (GFWC). A new clubhouse was built in 1961 on property donated by R. L. Croom, a former member, which is located at 414 King Street. The Oviedo Woman's Club is involved in many civic projects, including the annual Great Day in the Country Arts and Crafts Festival, the Spring Fundraiser, Tasting Luncheons, and Celebrate Spring Teas.
Lucas, Ray
Original newspaper photograph: Lucas, Ray. "Homemade Hat Fashion Show Winners," 1990: Private Collection of Beatrice Gestrich.
<a href="http://www.oviedowomansclub.org/" target="_blank">Oviedo Woman's Club</a>
Gestrich, Beatrice
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Oviedo Woman's Club, Oviedo, Florida
A History of Central Florida, Episode 34: Rollins Collegiate Wear
Winter Park (Fla.)
Colleges
Universities
Sports--Florida
Football--Florida
Baseball--Florida
Episode 34 of A History of Central Florida Podcast: Rollins Collegiate Wear. A History of Central Florida Podcast series explores Central Florida's history through the artifacts found in local area museums and historical societies. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners.<br /><br />Episode 34 features a discussion of collegiate wear housed at Rollins College's Olin Library in Winter Park, Florida. This podcast also includes interviews with Dr. Christopher Loss of Vanderbilt University and Dr. Jack Constant Lane of Rollins College.
Velásquez, Daniel
Original 13-minute and 38-second podcast by Daniel Velásquez, 2014: "A History of Central Florida, Episode 34: Rollins Collegiate Wear." <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/podcastsblog.php" target="_blank">A History of Central Florida</a>, Orlando, Florida.
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES</a>
Loss, Christopher
Lane, Jack Constant
Cassanello, Robert
Clarke, Bob
Gibson, Ella Hazen, Kendra
Hazen, Kendra
Kelley, Katie
<a href="http://www.rollins.edu/library/archives/" target="_blank">Department of College Archives and Special Collections, Olin Library, Rollins College</a>
<a href="http://www.floridamemory.com/" target="_blank">Florida Memory Project</a>
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Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida
Sears, Roebuck & Company Window Display
Orlando (Fla.)
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Department stores--Florida
Swimsuits
Bathing suits--United States
Clothing and dress--United States
Fashion--Florida
A Sears, Roebuck & Company window display showing women's swimsuits during the 1940s or 1950s. The Sears store was located at 111-113 North Orange Avenue in Downtown Orlando, Florida. Sears moved into the first floor of Philips Apartments in 1931. Before Sears arrived, the building, as well as the city of Orlando, was experiencing economic decline. However, Sears proved so successful that the building had to expand and the property value of the entire building increased by 25 percent. In 1939, F. Monroe Alleman and Kenneth Kraft bought the Sears building for $300,000. Twenty years later, Alleman sold the building for $1.1 million, but Sears was kept open with 12 years left on its lease.<br /><br />In 1962, land on East Colonial Drive was bought to open a freestanding Sears store and a year later construction started. In 1973, the Sears on Colonial was incorporated with the Fashion Square Mall and it remains open today. On May 4, 1974, due to the expanding city and regional malls, the downtown Sears store closed its doors. Ten years later, the building was renovated and became what it is today, a bronze-colored glass tower nicknamed the Copper Whopper.
Original black and white photograph: <a href="http://orlandoremembered.org/" target="_blank">Orlando Remembered</a> Exhibit, <a href="https://www.regions.com/Map.rf?id=1668" target="_blank">Regions Bank</a>, Orlando, Florida.
Daily, Patricia F.
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Sears, Roebuck & Company, Downtown Orlando, Florida
Kiddie Korner Blocks
Orlando (Fla.)
Clothing and dress--United States
Fashion--Florida
Blocks (Toys)
Toy blocks from Kiddie Korner, a children's store that was also know as Kiddie Shoppe. The store was opened by Nat Berman and Pauline Berman at 66 North Orange Avenue in Downtown Orlando, Florida, in the early 1930s. The shoppe later expanded to a larger location to sell junior clothing as well.
Original toy blocks: <a href="http://orlandoremembered.org/" target="_blank">Orlando Remembered</a> Exhibit, <a href="https://www.regions.com/Map.rf?id=1668" target="_blank">Regions Bank</a>, Orlando, Florida.
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Kiddie Korner , Downtown Orlando, Florida
Irving Gibbs
Orlando (Fla.)
Clothing and dress--United States
Fashion--Florida
Irvin Gibbs, the founder of Gibbs-Louis, Inc. Getting his start in his father's general store in Live Oak, Florida, Gibbs was a well-known man of fashion in Downtown Orlando, Florida. In 1935, he graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in business. After serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II as a lieutenant commander, he arrived in Orlando where he bought the women's store, Louis, in 1946. He added Gibbs to the store name, expanded the inventory, and Gibbs-Louis was created. <br /><br />Gibbs-Louis quickly became one of the most popular women's apparel stores in Downtown Orlando in the 1940s and 1950s. Along with the downtown location at 131 North Orange Avenue, there were three more Gibbs-Louis stores in nearby malls. In 1984, part of the downtown store collapsed; a wall caved in due to construction of a 20-story building next door. A year later, the store was restored. In 1990, when nearly all retail stores located in Downtown Orlando had closed, Gibbs-Louis was one of the few remaining. In late 1991, Irving Gibbs retired and sold the business to former executives of Ivey's, a department store that was later bought out by Dillard's. Only a year later, Gibbs-Louis went out of business and was replaced by Behr's Shoe Center. In 1998, Behr's closed as well. Today, the location is home to Annie's Bar and Grill.
Original color photograph: <a href="http://orlandoremembered.org/" target="_blank">Orlando Remembered</a> Exhibit, <a href="https://www.regions.com/Map.rf?id=1668" target="_blank">Regions Bank</a>, Orlando, Florida.
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Downtown Orlando, Florida
Gibbs-Louis, Inc. Clothing Label
Orlando (Fla.)
Clothing and dress--United States
Fashion--Florida
A Gibbs-Louis, Inc. clothing label. Founded in 1945 by Irving Gibbs, Gibbs-Louis was one of the most popular women's apparel stores in Downtown Orlando in the 1940s and 1950s. Along with the downtown location at 131 North Orange Avenue, there were three more Gibbs-Louis stores in nearby malls. In 1984, part of the downtown store collapsed; a wall caved in due to construction of a 20-story building next door. A year later, the store was restored. In 1990, when nearly all retail stores located in Downtown Orlando had closed, Gibbs-Louis was one of the few remaining. In late 1991, Irving Gibbs retired and sold the business to former executives of Ivey's, a department store that was later bought out by Dillard's. Only a year later, Gibbs-Louis went out of business and was replaced by Behr's Shoe Center. In 1998, Behr's closed as well. Today, the location is home to Annie's Bar and Grill.
Gibbs-Louis, Inc.
Original label: <a href="http://orlandoremembered.org/" target="_blank">Orlando Remembered</a> Exhibit, <a href="https://www.regions.com/Map.rf?id=1668" target="_blank">Regions Bank</a>, Orlando, Florida.
Van Den Berg, Peggy Pound
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Gibbs-Louis, Inc., Downtown Orlando, Florida
Oviedo High School Freshmen Fashion
Oviedo (Fla.)
High schools--Florida
Schools
Students--Florida
High school students
High school freshmen
Fashion--Florida
Oviedo High School freshmen, Leslie Reubusch and Jennifer Pitt, demonstrating 1980s fashion in front of lockers during the 1985-1986 school year. Oviedo High School is a Seminole County Public School located in Oviedo, Florida. Originally called the Oviedo School, the institution was first established in 1932 as a K-12 school. In 1948, the secondary grades separated from the elementary school. The upper grade levels formed Oviedo High School and moved to the campus at 601 King Street. Oviedo High School is notable for <em>The Lion's Tale</em>, the award-winning school newspaper recognized by various national and state scholastic press associations; its high ratings from the Governor's A+ Plan for Education; and its successful athletics programs.
<em>Oviedian</em> Staff of 1986
Original black and white photograph, 1986.
<em>Oviedian</em>
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Oviedo High School, Oviedo, Florida
Pilgrim Black
Sanford (Fla.)
Teenagers--United States
Pants
Agricultural laborers--Florida
Pilgrim Black (1905-2002), the father of Patricia Ann Black (1956- ), standing in front of his house at the corner of East Twenty-Fifth Street and South Sanford Avenue in Sanford, and wearing his first pair of long pants sometime between age 12 and age 16. <br /><br />Pilgrim Black was born in 1905, although some records list 1907 as his birth year. Pilgrim and Lula Mae Haynes Black were migrant crew leaders, and thus migrated to Wayne County in Upstate New York in the summers and back to their home in Sanford for the rest of the year. Pilgrim was the son of Harry Black (d. 1911) and Maggie Benjamin Black (ca.1870-ca.1934), who migrated to Sanford from South Carolina in the 1800s. Harry and Maggie had several children: Leckward Black, Mustar Black, Malachi Black, Leatha Black Walker (1889-1976), Pilgrim Black, Margaret Black Jones (1889-1976), and Harriett Black Lawson. In 1911, Harry owned a grocery store at 206 South Sanford Avenue. One day, he came home from work with pneumonia and passed away shortly thereafter. Pilgrim was nine years old when his father passed away. Maggie was the daughter of former slaves, Isaac and Roseanna Benjamin, and the sister of Nathan Benjamin, Pledge Benjamin, Sam Benjamin, Loui Benjamin, Chainey Benjamin, Lara Benjamin, Melvina Benjamin, and Katie Benjamin. <br /><br /> Pilgrim had to quit school at age eleven in order to provide for his mother, originally working in a mill house until he was 18n years old. After declining a management position, he traveled to Wayne County to pick cherries, apples, pears, and other crops. He broke a bone after falling from an apple tree his first year and decided to try farm labor on a potato farm in Red Creek, New York, instead. Don Holdridge, the farmer who owned the land, noted Pilgrim's high rate of productivity and offered him a management position supervising up to thirty workers at once, which he accepted. <br /><br /> While in Sanford, Pilgrim also worked as a foreman in Sanford for Chase & Company for over 30 years. He married Lula in 1937 and they had several children together, including Vivian Louise Black (1940- ); Lula Yvonne Black (1942- ); Charles Samuel Black (1945- ); Pilgrim Black, Jr. (ca.1947- ), and Patricia Ann Black (1956- ).
Original black and white photograph: Private Collection of Patricia Ann Black.
Black, Patricia Ann
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Sanford, Florida
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, New Podcast Preview: A History of Central Florida
Podcasts
Documentaries
New Podcast Preview of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: A History of Central 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 />This episode previews the new RICHES podcast series called <em>A History of Central Florida</em>. This 50-episode podcast series will examine the history of Central Florida through local area objects found in museums, historical organizations and other places. It is based on the BBC's famous podcast History of the World in 100 Objects.
Cassanello, Robert
Original 12-minute and 18-second podcast by Robert Cassanello, March 25, 2013: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, New Podcast Preview: A History of Central Florida."<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/podcastsblog.php" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries</a>, Orlando, Florida.
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES</a>
Cross, Philip
Graham, Emily
Lane, Jack Constant
Milanich, Jerald T.
Newton, Michael
Solonari, Vladimir
Weisman, Brent
Wentz, Rachel K.
Wright, Stephen Caldwell
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eng
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Windover Burial Site, Brevard County, Florida
St. Johns River, Florida
Newnans Lake, Gainesville, Florida
Maitland Research Studio, Maitland, Florida
Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida
Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida
Walt Disney World, Lake Buena Vista, Florida