A History of Central Florida, Episode 48: Electronic Communication
Podcasts
Documentaries
Communication--United States
Post offices
Postal service--Florida
Telegraph--Florida
Telephone--United States
Computers--United States
Email
Episode 48 of A History of Central Florida podcasts: Electronic Communication. 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 />Episode 48 features a discussion of several artifacts of communication technology: a post office box from the Winter Garden Heritage Museum, a telegraph from the New Smyrna Museum of History, a telephone from the Telephone Museum, a computer from the Museum of Seminole County History. This podcast also includes interviews with Nancy Pope of the Smithsonian National Postal Museum and Richard R. John of Columbia University.
Velásquez, Daniel
Original 16-minute and 11-second podcast by Daniel Velásquez, 2015: RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida. <a href="https://youtu.be/vrrYHVLV7qM" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/vrrYHVLV7qM</a>.
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES</a>
Pope, Nancy
John, Richard R.
Cassanello, Robert
Clarke, Bob
Ford, Chip
Gibson, Ella
Hazen, Kendra
Kelly, Katie
<a href="http://www.floridamemory.com/" target="_blank">Florida Memory Project</a>
<a href="http://www.loc.gov" target="_blank">Library of Congress</a>
<a href="https://archive.org/" target="_blank">Internet Archive</a>
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Killarney, Florida
Winter Garden Heritage Museum, Winter Garden, Florida
New Smyrna Museum of History, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Telephone Museum, Maitland Historical Museum, Maitland, Florida
Museum of Seminole County History, Sanford, Florida
History Florida Chapter: National Association of Postmasters of the United States
Post offices
A history of the Florida Chapter of the National Association of Postmasters of the United States (NAPUS), authored by Juanita S. Thompson, the association’s historian. This booklet contains different aspects of postal history with specific focus on Florida and its postmasters. The book begins with a brief summary of postal history dating back to 1775 and then transitions to the history of the Florida chapter, which was founded in 1935 as Chapter No. 10. There were 20 original charter members, led by O. B. Carr as President and Ernest L. Abel as Secretary-Treasurer. The history also includes highlights from each chapter President's tenure up through 1963.
Tucker, Juanita S.
Original booklet by Juanita S. Tucker: Private Collection of Texann Ivy Buck.
Buck, Texann Ivy
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Dunnellon, Florida
Marianna, Florida
Ocala, Florida
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Tampa, Florida
Fort Myers, Florida
Sarasota, Florida
Incoming Mail for the Month of December, 1946-1954
Orlando (Fla.)
Post offices
An incoming mail logbook, presumably from the Downtown Orlando Post Office for the month of December, spanning the years of 1946 to 1954. The book logs first-, second-, and third-class mail, and also contains a mail receipt from January 2, 1953.<br /><br />The original post office was housed in the Federal Building, located 44 East Central Boulevard in Downtown Orlando, Florida, from 1917 to 1941. In 1935, when James D. Beggs, Jr. became the postmaster, he began petitioning to move the post office from its Central Boulevard and Court Avenue location to a more spacious building. In 1939, St. James Catholic Church sold a plot of land on Jefferson Street for the new building. The building was designed by Louis A. Simon in the Northern Italian Palazzo Revival-style, and was constructed by J. P. Cullen & Son. The new building opened in 1941 and housed the post office, the courthouse, and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) offices. The building was named an Orlando Historic Landmark in 1989. However, it was eventually sold back to the St. James Church. In 2003, the building was renovated and came under joint ownership by both the church and the federal government. Today, the building retains its post office services but also includes offices for the Catholic Diocese.
Original logbook: Private Collection of Texann Ivy Buck.
Buck, Texann Ivy
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Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida