St. Joseph's Academy Boys Basketball Team, 1929
subject: Orlando (Fla.);
subject: Schools
subject: Basketball--Florida
subject: Sports--Florida
description: St. Joseph's Academy's seven-member boys basketball team standing in a wooded area in 1929. St. Joseph's Academy, located at 53 East Jefferson Street in Downtown Orlando, Florida, opened on October 17, 1889, with just 40 students. The school, built by Father J. J. Creed of St. James Cathedral, was to serve the children of St. James Church until 1929, when a new Italian Renaissance-style school was opened at 505 East Ridgewood Street between Cathcart Avenue and Hillman Avenue. The school stood at the northeast corner of the church property at Main Street and Robinson Street, where the U.S. Post Office now stands in Downtown Orlando on 51 East Jefferson Street. Photographed from left to right are Franklin Zane, Jack Spellman, Eugene Jane, Paul Yochum, Ray Jane, and Fred Yochum would be the last basketball team of St. Joseph Academy.
creator: Photographic print
source: Original 10 x 10 inch black and white photograph, 1929: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: St. Joseph's Academy, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Fort Pierce Growers' Association
subject: Fort Pierce (Fla.)
subject: Florida Citrus Exchange
subject: Citrus--Florida
description: A newspaper article published by The Central Florida Press on June 20, 1930. According to the article, the Fort Pierce Growers' Association, which was a local unit of the Florida Citrus Exchange (FCE), was considering a proposal to build a packing, pre-cooling, coloring, cold storage, and canning plant in Fort Pierce. The plan would have required a loan from the Federal Farm Board. The Fort Pierce Growers' Association was incorporated on December 10, 1917. Located at 18 Fisherman's Wharf in Fort Pierce, Florida, Philip C. Gates, Sr. served as the president and director of the business; Norman W. Platts as its vice president and director; and James A. Kerce the' secretary, treasurer, and agent at the time that it became in active in 1983.
source: Original newspaper article: "Fort Pierce Growers' Association." The Central Florida Press, Vol. 1, No. 9, June 20, 1930, page 2: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
publisher: The Central Florida Press
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Fort Pierce Growers' Association, Fort Pierce, Florida

WUCF Artisodes Short: Mr. Richard
subject: Mr. Richard, 1961-
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
subject: Concerts--United States
subject: Music--Florida
subject: Musicians--Southern States
subject: Disco music--United States
subject: Record labels--United States
subject: Hialeah (Fla.)
subject: Pop music
subject: Rock music--United States
description: For many parents in Orlando, Florida, Richard Peeples, also known as Mr. Richard, is a big-time musical talent, thanks to his popularity with their children. Peeples and his band, the Pound Hounds, entertain children with what he describes as "whimsical pop rock." Henry Stone was a record company executive and producer in Miami, who recorded Ray Charles, James Brown, KC and the Sunshine Band, and was responsible for many disco recordings. The segment looks at a documentary being filmed about the recording legend. The Artisode also includes brief segments on recording artist Justin Hayward and the Moody Blues, an upcoming documentary on Bing Crosby, WUCF's Student Artist of the Week, Michael Romaniello, and the Jungle Book on Broadway. WUCF-TV is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) television station serving the Central Florida television market. The station, operated by the University of Central Florida, is the region's sole PBS member station, reaching an estimated population of 4.6 million people in its aerial viewing area. Arts and culture take center stage in WUCF-TV's weekly local series: "WUCF Artisodes." Each episode airs Thursdays at 8 p.m., featuring a local artist or initiative, as well as stories on the arts from across the country. Developed in partnership with 28 PBS stations nationwide, this series is part of WUCF-TV's mission to give everyone a front-row seat to the arts. This Artisodes originally aired as "WUCF Artisodes #171: Mr. Richard" on September 10, 2015.
source: Original 24-minute and 42-second audio/video recording: WUCF Artisodes. "WUCF Artisodes #171: Mr. Richard." Directed by . Written by . WUCF-TV. September 10, 2015.
publisher: WUCF-TV
contributor: Alaimo, Steve
contributor: Anderson, Polly
contributor: Armstrong, Louis
contributor: Benjamin, Kristin
contributor: Bowen, Jared
contributor: Brady, John
contributor: Cook, Jennifer
contributor: Crosby, Jr., Harry Lillis
contributor: Dotson, Bill
contributor: Earll, Robert
contributor: Echeverria, Rita
contributor: Egber, Mitchell
contributor: Fuchs, Kyle Mahoney
contributor: Gomez, Edgar
contributor: Greenwald, Mark
contributor: Hall-Brown, Maria
contributor: Harrison, Shannon
contributor: Hayward, Justin
contributor: Hecker, Neal
contributor: Herring, Mike
contributor: Hiles, Catherine
contributor: Hirten, Brian
contributor: Hucome, Jamie
contributor: Ingrao, Laura
contributor: Kantor, Michael
contributor: KC and the Sunshine Band
contributor: Kelly, Brian
contributor: Kelly, Paul
contributor: Kendrick, Demetria
contributor: Kipling, Rudyard
contributor: Latimore, Benny
contributor: Lundstrom, Mark
contributor: Magallon, Al
contributor: Manouse, Ernie
contributor: Matier, Megan
contributor: McCrae, George
contributor: McGinty, David
contributor: Meza, Nancy
contributor: The Moody Blues
contributor: Moormann Mark
contributor: Mr. Richard &amp
contributor: the Pound Hounds
contributor: Murray, T.L.
contributor: Nicholson, Jeremy
contributor: Peck, Doug
contributor: Peeples, Molly
contributor: Peeples, Richard
contributor: Pinder, Michael Thomas
contributor: Pittman, Buddy
contributor: Powell, Jr., Howard
contributor: Reid, Clarence
contributor: Retherford, Ryan
contributor: Rivera, Angela
contributor: Romaniello, Michael
contributor: Salkowski, Keith
contributor: Sherman, Richard
contributor: Sherman, Robert
contributor: Stone, Henry
contributor: Strauss, Eric
contributor: Thomas, Kenny
contributor: Trachtenberg, Robert
contributor: Vidal, Yoandy
contributor: Watanabe, Fujio
contributor: Watson, Dan
contributor: Wolf, Jennifer
contributor: Zimmerman, Mary

40 Years of the Parliament House
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
subject: Hotels--Florida
subject: Tourism--Florida
subject: Homosexuality--Florida
subject: Gay culture--United States
subject: Lesbian culture
subject: AIDS (Disease)--Florida
subject: HIV infections--United States
description: 40 Years of the Parliament House is a documentary film about the history of the Parliament House, a gay resort located at 410 North Orange Blossom Trail in Orlando, Florida. The Parliament House Motor Inn chain was founded in Kansas City, Missouri, by Ned Eddy, Sr. and his two sons, Ned Eddy, Jr. and James "Jimmy" Eddy. The Orlando Parliament House was a 120-room hotel and the first motor inn established by the chain. The inn was designed by Alan Berman and was built on Orlando’s Rock Lake by Hodes and Cumming Construction. Parliament House officially opened on February 11, 1962. Ned Eddy, Jr. served as the inn manager and his brother, Jimmy Eddy, was the manager of the cocktail lounge. With the opening of the Walt Disney World Resort in 1971, came the construction of hotels and motels on International Drive, leaving the Parliament House Motor Inn outside the tourist district. The motor inn soon became a hotspot for prostitution as the OBT area declined. By 1975, the Parliament House was near bankruptcy. On March 27, 1975, William G. Miller (d. 1987) and Michael Hodge (d. 1992) purchased the motor inn and converted it into a gay resort. A couple of years after the deaths of Bill Miller and Mike Hodge, the Parliament House was sold to Susan Unger and Don Granatstein in August of 1999. Unger and Granatstein began renovating the resort, which had been in decline since Hodge's death in 1992. Renovations were completed in 2000. The Parliament House again faced foreclosure in 2010 and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on July 25, 2014. Stakeholders approved a $14-million debt relief plan in February of 2015.
creator: Bain, David
source: Original 34-minute and 24-second motion picture: 40 Years of the Parliament House: GLBT History Museum of Central Florida, Inc., 2015.
publisher: GLBT History Museum of Central Florida, Inc.
contributor: Strack, Joel
contributor: Hodges, Rebecca
contributor: Caladrino, Tim
contributor: Hamlisch, Marvin
contributor: Barnard, Ken
contributor: Ba'aser, Doug
contributor: Barber, John
contributor: Bebout, Vicki
contributor: Granatstein, Don
contributor: Lape, Bill
contributor: Studdard, Ron
contributor: Tilmon, Willie
contributor: Unger, Susan
contributor: Wanzie, Michael
contributor: IDEAS
format: application/website
language: eng
type: Moving Image
coverage: Parliament House Resort, Orlando, Florida

Seminole County Jail Records, 1926-1939
subject: Seminole County (Fla.)
subject: Jails--Florida
subject: Crime--Florida
description: The Seminole County jail records from 1926 to 1939, which include handwritten information on all booked parties that entered the jail. It includes the person's name, age, sex, skin color, eye color, hair color, height, weight, shoe size, commuting officer, date of commutation, crime, term of sentence, destination of commutation, and the date delivered. Also included is a section for remarks that occasionally provides extra details about the case or suspect. The records are in alphabetical order and some of these jail records were written during Prohibition (1920 to 1933). According to the records, a significant number of arrests in Seminole County, Florida, can be attributed to alcohol-related crimes. Records for 1940 to 1946 are available upon request.
source: Original color digital image, 2015: Museum of Seminole County History, Sanford, Florida.
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Physical Object
coverage: Seminole County Jail, Downtown Sanford, Florida

Orange County's Sheriff's Book of Wanted Persons, 1882-1889
subject: Orange County (Fla.)
subject: Sheriffs--Florida
subject: Law enforcement--Florida
subject: Police--Florida
subject: Fugitives from justice--United States
subject: Warrants (Law)--United States
subject: Crime--Florida
description: The Orange County book of wanted persons from 1882 to 1889, during the tenure of two sheriffs: Sheriff Thomas "Long Tom" Shine who served from January 27, 1877, until February 15, 1885, and Julias Caesar Anderson, who served until his death on January 20, 1901. Sheriff Anderson saw a very different Orange County than his predecessors, because railroads had doubled the local population in five years. While most of the wanted fugitives are from Central Florida, there were also warrants from across Florida. There were also warrants from different states, such as California, Alabama, New York, and Georgia. The reward prices varied from suspect to suspect, but most were within the range of 50 dollars, although some were as high as 450 dollars. While there are no more warrants issued from Florida after 1889, there were national warrants dating to 1897. This book was donated to the Museum of Seminole County History by Sheriff John Polk, who was the dean of Florida sheriffs from 1969 to 1990.
source: Original color digital image, 2015: Museum of Seminole County History, Sanford, Florida.
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Physical Object
coverage: Orlando, Florida
coverage: Ocala, Florida
coverage: Live Oak, Florida
coverage: Sanford, Florida
coverage: McAlpin, Florida
coverage: Jacksonville, Florida
coverage: Tampa, Florida
coverage: Oviedo, Florida
coverage: Bronson, Florida
coverage: Leesburg, Florida
coverage: Columbia City, Florida
coverage: Titusville, Florida
coverage: Green Cove Springs, Florida
coverage: Seville, Florida
coverage: Cedar Key, Florida
coverage: Haines City, Florida
coverage: Bartow, Florida
coverage: Ellaville, Florida
coverage: Fort White, Florida
coverage: Lake City, Florida
coverage: Jennings, Florida
coverage: Madison, Florida
coverage: Monticello, Florida
coverage: Tallahassee, Florida

PO Box Receipt for R. C. M. Zachary (September 30, 1954)
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
subject: Post offices
description: A receipt for a PO box for R. C. M. Zachary with the box number that he paid for, listed along with the dates of purchase and when the rent for the PO box expires. In addition, the receipt shows the exact amount of $4.52 that Zachary paid along with the stamp of approval from postmaster L. A. Bryant Jr.
creator: Bryant, L. A., Jr.
source: Original receipt, September 30, 1954: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida

New Downtown Orlando Post Office Building
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
subject: Post offices
description: The new Downtown Orlando Post Office building, located at 51 East Jefferson Street, circa 1941. In 1935, when James 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's designer was Louis Simon, who used a Northern Italian Palazzo Revival style. 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.
source: Original black and white photographic print: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Seventh and Eighth Graders at St. Joseph's Academy, 1928
subject: Orlando (Fla.);
subject: Schools
subject: Students--Florida
description: Seventh and eighth graders at St. Joseph's Academy, located at 53 East Jefferson Street in Downtown Orlando, Florida, in 1928. St. Joseph's Academy opened on October 17, 1889, with just 40 students. The school, built by Father J. J. Creed of St. James Cathedral, was to serve the children of St. James Church until 1929, when a new Italian Renaissance-style school was opened at 505 East Ridgewood Street between Cathcart Avenue and Hillman Avenue. The school stood at the northeast corner of the church property at Main Street and Robinson Street, where the U.S. Post Office now stands in Downtown Orlando on 51 East Jefferson Street. Students photographed include, from left to right, in the top row: Frank Yochum, Al Shepp, Mark Lambert, Ed Cavanaugh, Leonard Bumby, Gilmore Mac Carvel, Art Jane, Hilary Lyons, Mary Mickler, Arnold Mickler, and Frank Consonni. The second row shows an unidentified student, Alice Shore, Mildred McFarland, two unidentified students, Margaret Horan, and another unidentified student. Photographed in the bottom row are Henry Manhart, Charles Spellman, Lyons, Agnes Marsh, Becky Bumby, Catherine Cunningham, an unidentified student, Rose Rizk, Rita Girouard, Victoria Rizk, Codner, an unidentified student, Harold Young, and an unidentified student.
creator: St. Joseph's Academy
source: Original 8 x 5 inch black and white photograph, 1928: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: St. Joseph's Academy, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Headstone of William Henry Coe at the Edgewater-New Smyrna Cemetery
subject: Edgewater (Fla.)
subject: Cemeteries--Florida
subject: Graveyards
subject: Journalism--Florida
subject: Coe, William
description: The headstone for William Henry Coe (1824-1879), the founder of Glencoe, at the Edgewater-New Smyrna Cemetery, also known as Hawks Park Cemetery, located at 700 South Ridgewood Avenue in Edgewater, Florida. Due to poor health, Coe moved with his wife and children from Connecticut to Jacksonville in 1874 and established an orange grove the following year four miles west of New Smyrna, an area that would later become Glencoe. In 1877, Coe became an editor for The Florida Star, a newspaper founded by his son, Captain Charles Henry Coe (1856-1954). In April of 1879, Coe was appointed Deputy Collector of Customs for the port at New Smyrna. Just a few months later, on October 23, Coe died of silicosis, likely a result of his work as a copper miner in Illinois during the 1840s. The headstone in this photograph was a replacement for the original, which had been lost over 120 years prior.
creator: Redd, Robert
source: Original color digital image by Robert Redd, 2015: Private Collection of Andrew M. Foster.
contributor: Foster, Andrew M.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Edgewater-New Smyrna Cemetery, Edgewater, Florida
coverage: Glencoe, Florida
coverage: New Smyrna, Florida

Red Patriots: The Story of the Seminoles
subject: Seminole Indians--Florida
subject: Native Americans
subject: Indigenous peoples--United States
subject: Amerindians
subject: Coe, Charles H.
description: An advertisement for Red Patriots: The Story of the Seminoles, a book by Captain Charles Henry Coe (1856-1954). Coe was born in Torrington, Connecticut, on February 3, 1856, to William Henry Coe (1824-1879), who founded the town of Glencoe, and Deborah Little Archer Coe (1824-1912). In 1874, his family migrated to Jacksonville, Florida, due to his father's poor health. At age 18, Coe began working for the Jacksonville Tri-Weekly Union. In 1875, Coe moved to New Smyrna Beach and started his first newspaper, The Florida Star. Coe was appointed Deputy Collector of Customs for the port at New Smyrna in 1879, after his father died. In 1880, Coe moved to Glencoe and began producing photographs. Seven years later, the moved to back to Torrington, where the met and married Emma Sophia Johnson (1846-1931). The following year, Coe moved to Asheville, North Carolina, and then later to Highlands, where the established The Highlands Star. In 1889, the moved to Washington, D.C. to work for the Government Printing Office (GPO). Coe published Red Patriots: The Story of the Seminoles (1898), a book about the plight of the Seminole tribe. A copy of Red Patriots was given to every member of Congress, which later passed legislation allowing Seminole land rights in Florida. In 1912, Coe returned to Florida and spent the next 20 years traveling the coast in his cabin cruiser called The Buccaneer. After retiring from the GPO in 1921, Coe spent much of his time exploring Florida's coast as an amateur archaeologist and publishing books, including Juggling a Rope (1927), The Art of Knife Throwing (1931), and Debunking the So-Called Spanish Mission (1941). He died of pneumonia on March 23, 1954.
source: Original advertisement: Private Collection of Andrew M. Foster.
contributor: Foster, Andrew M.
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Florida

Letter from R. R. Reid to Bishop John Moore (June 6, 1881)
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
subject: Churches--Florida
subject: Catholic Church--Florida
description: A letter of correspondence between R. R. Reid, a property and store owner in Palatka, and Bishop John Moore over the purchase of a plot of land. At the time, Bishop Moore was in charge of the St. Augustine Catholic Diocese, which included Orlando, Florida. In 1881, he purchased a block in Downtown Orlando that was encompassed by Magnolia Avenue, Orange Avenue, Jefferson Street, and Robinson Street. The church was finished in 1887 and was originally named the Holy Nativity Catholic Church. In 1888, the name was changed to St. James Catholic Church.
creator: Reid, R. R.
source: Original handwritten letter from R. R. Reid to Bishop John Moore, June 6, 1881: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Palatka, Florida

St. Joseph's Academy Students
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
subject: Schools
subject: Students--Florida
description: Students outside of St. Joseph’s Academy in Downtown Orlando, Florida. In 1889, St. Joseph’s Academy was constructed on the church grounds of St. James Catholic Church. The Catholic school was administrated by the Sisters of St. Joseph. The school began with 30 students and the student body peaked in 1927 with 200 pupils in attendance. In 1928, Father Michael Fox began construction of a new, larger school nearby and closed the academy in 1929.
source: Original 5 x 8 inch black and white photograph: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: East Robinson Street and North Magnolia Avenue, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Students at St. Joseph's Academy
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
subject: Schools
subject: Students--Florida
description: Students outside of St. Joseph’s Academy in Downtown Orlando, Florida. In 1889, St. Joseph’s Academy was constructed on the church grounds of St. James Catholic Church. The Catholic school was administrated by the Sisters of St. Joseph. The school began with 30 students and the student body peaked in 1927 with 200 pupils in attendance. In 1928, Father Michael Fox began construction of a new, larger school nearby and closed the academy in 1929.
source: Original 8.5 x 11 inch black and white photograph: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: St. Joseph's Academy, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Envelope to Roger Pounds, Ruth Pounds, and Peggy Jo Pounds
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
description: This envelope once contained a letter written to Roger Pounds and his wife and daughter, Ruth Pounds and Peggy Jo Pounds. Pounds was the president of Pounds Crate Company, providing containers for Orlando businesses. He and Ruth also ran a dance studio in the late 1950s. The Martha Washington stamp dates the envelope to roughly 1938, as that was the year the stamp was issued. Pounds passed away in 1996. This letter was likely personal and non-business related, based on the inclusion of Peggy Jo as the addressed recipient. It is addressed to 746 Clifford Drive, which was likely the Pounds' residence.
source: Original envelope to Roger Pounds, Ruth Pounds, and Peggy Jo Pounds: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Home of Roger Pounds, Orlando, Florida

Postman's Hat
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
subject: Post offices
subject: Letter carriers--United States
subject: Hats--United States
description: The classic and distinguished hat that was a part of the attire worn by both postmen and mail truck drivers. The iconic badge of the U.S. Post Office adorns the face of the hat to identify postmen as federal employees and also to signify the role they held within the Post Office. There were a multitude of designs available to wear ranging from berets, panama hats, or safari helmets. As of 1972, the hat was no longer required to be worn as part of the postman's uniform and instead replaced with baseball style hats that are optional.
source: Original color digital image, September 2015: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Physical Object
coverage: Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Envelope to Mayor Carl T. Langford (April 23, 1979)
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
subject: Mayors--Florida
description: This envelope originally contained a letter written to Mayor Carl T. Langford a year before he stepped down as Mayor of Orlando. Mayor Langford was a popular mayor, known for his political irreverence and sense of humor. He presided as mayor from 1967 to 1980, during the city's greatest period of growth following the arrival of Walt Disney World. His most important legacy was the Orlando International Airport.
source: Original envelope to Mayor Carl J. Langford, April 23, 1979: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Orlando City Hall, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Mail Satchel Cart
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
subject: Post offices
subject: Letter carriers--United States
description: This is a replica of a mail satchel cart used to transport multiple satchels of mail to ease the burden upon the mail carrier. The use of satchel carts is very situational and used in instances where the postal vehicle would be unable to reach a location with multiple post boxes. However, the use of the satchel cart must be approved by a Postmaster with its use being reserved by physically-impaired postmen first. The carts are fairly resilient and can transport up to 70 pounds of mail, which is equivalent to two mail satchels. Today, the use of satchel carts is on the decline, as segues have become more widespread and exponentially decrease the physical toll of wheeling a heavy mail trolley.
source: Original color digital image, September 2015: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Physical Object
coverage: Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Envelope to Texann Ivy (1968)
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
description: This envelope originally contained a letter written to prominent Orlando citizen Texann Ivy (now Buck). Texann graduated from high school in Orlando and went to college at Waco's Baylor University. There, she studied art, specializing in sculpture and 20th century American prints. She went on to publish two books on the latter subject in the 1980s, focusing on Depression-era printmakers. Today, she is still active in the Orlando cultural community and is a board member of Orlando Remembered. Given the date of the letter, the sender's location in Austin, Texas, and Texann's Orlando address, this letter was likely mailed shortly before she went to Baylor.
source: Original envelope to Texann Ivy, 1968: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Austin, Texas
coverage: Orlando, Florida

Mary Hannah Aulin Grogan and Martha Lenora Aulin Wheeler
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
description: Mary Hannah Aulin Grogan (1887-1964) and Martha "Mattie" Lenora Aulin Wheeler (1884-1963), the daughters of Emma Lenora "Lona" Lawton Aulin (1853-1907) and Andrew Aulin, Sr. (1843-1918), the Swedish immigrant credited with naming the town of Oviedo, Florida. Mary married James Wilburn Grogan (1872-1953) and had four children: an unnamed baby boy who died in infancy in 1918, Margaret Elizabeth Grogan (b. 1919), Velma Leonora Grogan (1923-1924), and Wilburn Aulin Grogan (1925-1962). Mattie married Robert Lee Wheeler, Sr. (1881-1955) and had four children: Florence Wheeler (b. 1906), Evelyn Wheeler, Robert Lee Wheeler, Jr., and Thelma Louise Wheeler.
source: Original black and white photograph: Private Collection of Bettye Reagan.
contributor: Reagan, Bettye Jean Aulin
format: image/jpg
type: Still Image
coverage: Oviedo, Florida

Birthday Plate from Father Fox to Lucille Fair
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
subject: Plates (Tableware)
description: This plate was given to Lucille Fair as a birthday present from Father Michael J. Fox at St. Joseph's Catholic Church. For her birthday, Father Fox presented her with this plate along with a piece of cake as a birthday present. She continued to use it as her birthday cake plate for the next 90 years. She soon decided to donate the plate to St. Joseph's Parish in honor of Father Fox for all of the memories that she had received from it and to pass it on as a tribute to him. Fair grew up on Church Street in Downtown Orlando and continued to take part in the cities events. Father Fox was the first full-time pastor of St. James Church, which was connected to the parish of St. Joseph' Academy.
source: Original color digital images, September 2015: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: St. Joseph's Academy, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Envelopes to Betty Riddle
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
description: "Two envelopes, which were processed by the Downtown Orlando Post Office and addressed to Betty Riddle. The first envelope was stamped September 15, 1941, while the other envelope, sent nine months later, was stamped June 13, 1942. Riddle was a born and raised in Orlando in 1923 and would have been around 18 when these letters were sent. Riddle’s father, Robert Riddle, was the owner of the Eola Coffee Company on Lake Eola. Riddle married Carter C. Whitmire, Sr., who owned Whitmire’s Furniture Store. Riddle continued her involvement in Orlando as a member of many local clubs and organizations until her death in 2007. The most significant feature of these envelopes is that they both used 3 cent defense stamps as their postage. These stamps were issued in October of 1940 and contain a design sketched by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. These stamps were an attempt by FDR to encourage the United States to become involved in World War II. There were billions of these stamps sold across the U.S. in an effort to raise money for defense. Less than three months after the first envelope was stamped, the United States entered the war.
source: Original envelopes to Betty Riddle: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Envelope from Steve Williams to Mary Ivy (March 15, 1968)
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
description: This envelope originally contained a letter written by Steve Williams to Mary Ivy. Ivy shared an address with prominent Orlando citizen and Orlando Remembered board member Texann Ivy (now Buck), indicating that they were siblings or more distant relatives living under the same roof. Neither city directories from 1968 or 1969 list the family and therefore certainty as to their relation is difficult.
creator: Williams, Steve
source: Original envelope from Steve Williams to Mary Ivy, March 15, 1968: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Tulsa, Oklahoma
coverage: Orlando, Florida

Students at St. Joseph's Academy, 1913
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
subject: Schools
description: A class picture taken outside of St. Joseph's Academy in Downtown Orlando, Florida. The academy was created in 1889, along with St. James Cathedral School, and they were both placed along the intersection of Robinson Avenue and Magnolia Avenue. In the beginning, the school had a total student count of around 30. However, by 1927, St. Joseph's had enrolled over 200 students. In 1929, following the supervision of then-pastor of St. James Catholic Church, Father Michael J. Fox, the school building on Ridgewood Street opened as a church school to accommodate students kindergarten through 12th grade. Soon after, the St. James' school would replace St. Joseph's Academy.
source: Original black and white photograph, June 2, 1913: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: St. Joseph's Academy, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Mail Satchel
subject: Orlando (Fla.); ;
subject: Post offices
subject: Letter carriers--United States
description: A traditional mail satchel worn by mail carriers to deliver their packages. The one shown in the picture was one of the series of leather satchels that were manufactured and used from 1868 until 1974, when they were phased out by the canvas satchels which are currently still in use. The leather satchels are quite durable, lasting up to six years compared to the paltry 18-month lifespan of the canvas satchels. In terms of weight, these leather satchels could hold 35 pounds, with mailmen often carrying two at a time if their route contained a large number of clients. However, many mailmen refrained from carrying two satchels at once in order to swiftly flee from any aggressive dogs whose favorite pastime was to harass the mailmen.
source: Original color digital image, September 2015: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Physical Object
coverage: Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Federal Building, 1933
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
subject: Post offices
description: The former building for the Downtown Orlando Post Office, located at 44 East Central Boulevard in Downtown, Orlando, Florida. From 1917 to 1941, the Orlando post office was housed in a building on the corner of Central Boulevard and Court Avenue and was known as the Federal Building. This building was home to the post office and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) offices, and was the meeting place for the World War II draft committee. In 1941, the post office moved to its new location on Jefferson Street, but the Federal Building remained. In 1962, the Federal Building was bought by Ivey’s department store. The building was demolished to make room for a new parking lot. Today, the location is home to a BankUnited.
source: Original black and white photographic print, 1933: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Federal Building, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Envelope from Perrios Haedji to John Kamitsos
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
description: A letter sent from Perrios Haedji to John Kamitsos. On the front are three unique stamps with Greek words along with three seals from the Downtown Orlando Post Office approving the letter. Kamitsos' ethnic background was Greek, as his father immigrated from Greece to Orange City, Florida. There, his father met and married Geneva Kamitsos, who gave birth to John on March 3, 1933. Later in his life, Kamitsos moved to Orlando and landed a job as the head of the Orlando Remembered project, which seeks to chronicle the history of Orlando.
creator: Haedji, Perrios
source: Original envelope from Perrios Haedji to John Kamitsos: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
language: gre
type: Text
coverage: Volos, Greece
coverage: Orlando, Florida

Mailbox Lock
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
subject: Locks and keys--United States
description: This is a neighborhood mailbox padlock from the post-World War II period. Its case and shackle are made of brass, opened by key, and uses a five-lever lock. It was a type of lock distributed by the U.S. Post Office Department to residents of Orlando for street letter boxes. The lock was assigned to letter box code number 49. By the 1950s, the following codes were withdrawn from service: 24, 37-43, 45-47, and 52-54.
source: Original color digital image, September 2015: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Physical Object
coverage: Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Wooden Table from Fort Mellon
subject: Tables--United States
description: This table, made of wood, was submerged under water for 115 years in Lake Monroe, Florida. The table was initially from the old Fort Mellon dock, built by an individual referred to as "Colonel A. C." in 1836. Fort Mellon, established during the Second Seminole War, was originally named Camp Monroe. The name was later changed after Captain Charles Mellon became the sole causality of an Indian attack year later in 1837. The table measures 46 inches long and 17 inches wide. The table is broken up into three distinct sections, with the end sections having their own design crafted out of wood. The center of the table has an "x" in the center. One hundred and fifteen years later, Sidney M. Richarde discovered and removed the wooden table from Lake Monroe. It was donated to the Museum of Seminole County History by Marlene Heaps and Richard Heaps.
source: Original color digital image, 2015: Museum of Seminole County History, Sanford, Florida.
format: image/jpg
type: Physical Object
coverage: Fort Mellon, Florida
coverage: Lake Monroe, Florida

Handstamp Postmark
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
subject: Post offices
subject: Handstamps (Philately)--United States
subject: Postmarks--United States
description: This is a handstamp postmark that was used to mark postage stamp to prevent reuse. Prior to the advent of stamps to prepay postage, such markings only served to provide information to postal clerks as they handled the stampless envelope. After stamps came into use, cancellations became necessary to void the stamp for repeat usage. This type of stamp cancellation was nicknamed "killer" and featured wavy lines or sometimes bars. This particular handstamp was created by De Guehery's Rubber Stamp Company, which was located at 64 West Robinson Street in Downtown Orlando, Florida, and is now known as Orlando Rubber Stamps and Sign Company.
source: Original color digital image, September 2015: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Physical Object
coverage: Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida
coverage: De Guehery's Rubber Stamp and Sign Company, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Postmark Handstamp
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
subject: Post offices
subject: Handstamps (Philately)--United States
subject: Postmarks--United States
description: This a notary/corporate postmark used to officially apply to a piece of mail as it passes through the mailstream. It includes town data (Orlando) and was part of a process where postal workers would stamp markings indicating routing, directory service, postage due, censorship, registration, special delivery, forwarding, carriage by special transportation, etc. This particular handstamp was created by De Guehery's Rubber Stamp Company, which was located at 64 West Robinson Street in Downtown Orlando, Florida, and is now known as Orlando Rubber Stamps and Sign Company.
source: Original color digital image, September 2015: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Physical Object
coverage: Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida
coverage: De Guehery's Rubber Stamp and Sign Company, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Postmark
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
subject: Post offices
subject: Handstamps (Philately)--United States
subject: Postmarks--United States
description: A notary/corporate postmark used to officially apply to a piece of mail as it passes through the mailstream. It includes town data and was part of a process where postal workers would stamp markings indicating routing, directory service, postage due, censorship, registration, special delivery, forwarding, carriage by special transportation, etc.
source: Original color digital image, September 2015: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Physical Object
coverage: Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Everglades National Park Postage Stamp
subject: Everglades (Fla.)
subject: Everglades National Park (Fla.)
subject: Postage stamps--United States
description: A postage stamp issued in 1947. Claude Pepper (1900-1989), then U.S. Senator from Florida, wrote Postmaster General Hannegan on July 9, 1947, to petition for a postage stamp to commemorate the dedication of the Everglades National Park. The Everglades National Park Commission had began efforts to produce such a stamp. John Pennekamp had found a former U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) artist to translate ideas into a finished design to be rendered in "a pretty green" ink. BEP issued a design on October 20 and by December of that year, the resulting stamp featured an outline map of Florida and white heron.
source: Original 1.44 x 0.84 inch postage stamp, December 5, 1947: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
publisher: U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Everglades National Park, Florida

Construction of the New Downtown Orlando Post Office Building
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
subject: Post offices
description: The new Downtown Orlando Post Office building, located at 51 East Jefferson Street, during construction circa 1941. In 1935, when James 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's designer was Louis Simon, who used a Northern Italian Palazzo Revival style. 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.
source: Original black and white photographic print: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Money Transfer from Ebenezer Nanabamyin Okai
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
subject: Post offices
description: A money transfer sent by Ebenezer Nanabamyin Okai in Tema, Ghana, to Elaine Pancake, the customer relations coordinator for the Downtown Orlando Post Office, located at 51 East Jefferson Street in Downtown Orlando, Florida. This particular post office was constructed in a Spanish Colonial Revival style from 1939 to 1941 and dedicated on April 14, 1941. It has been occupied by the United States Postal Service since 1941, the Federal District Courthouse from 1941 to circa 1974, and the office of the Roman Catholic Church since 2003.
creator: Okai, Ebenezer Nanabamyin
source: Original money transfer: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Tema, Ghana
coverage: Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Envelope from J. Huang to Elaine Pancake
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
description: An envelope from J. Huang to Elaine Pancake, the customer relations coordinator for the Downtown Orlando Post Office, located at 51 East Jefferson Street in Downtown Orlando, Florida. This particular post office was constructed in a Spanish Colonial Revival style from 1939 to 1941 and dedicated on April 14, 1941. It has been occupied by the United States Postal Service since 1941, the Federal District Courthouse from 1941 to circa 1974, and the office of the Roman Catholic Church since 2003.
creator: Huang, J.
source: Original envelope from J. Huang to Elaine Pancake, July 2003: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Orlando, Florida
coverage: Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Envelope from A. Dellinger to Elaine Pancake
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
description: An envelope sent from A. Dellinger to Elaine Pancake, the customer relations coordinator for the Downtown Orlando Post Office, located at 51 East Jefferson Street in Downtown Orlando, Florida. This particular post office was constructed in a Spanish Colonial Revival style from 1939 to 1941 and dedicated on April 14, 1941. It has been occupied by the United States Postal Service since 1941, the Federal District Courthouse from 1941 to circa 1974, and the office of the Roman Catholic Church since 2003.
creator: Dellinger, A.
source: Original envelope from A. Dellinger to Elaine Pancake, May 2001: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Lake Mary, Florida
coverage: Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Alice Kathryn Aulin, Madelyn Bogard, and Mary Leonora Aulin
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
description: Alice Kathryn Aulin (b. 1926), Madelyn Bogard, and Mary "Lona" Lenora Aulin (b. 1924) in 1940. The Aulin sisters were the daughters of Emma Leonora Lawton Aulin (1853-1907) and Andrew Aulin, Sr. (1843-1918), the Swedish immigrant credited with naming the town of Oviedo, Florida. Kathryn married Llewellyn "Lew" Roberts Bartlett, Jr. (b. 1921) and had four children: Patricia Eileen Bartlett (b.1948), Alice Irene Bartlett (b.1949), Margaret Ellyn Bartlett (b.1954), and Nancy Ann Bartlett (b.1959). Lona married Llewellyn "Lew" Roberts Bartlett, Jr. (b. 1921) and had four children: Patricia Eileen Bartlett (b.1948), Alice Irene Bartlett (b.1949), Margaret Ellyn Bartlett (b.1954), and Nancy Ann Bartlett (b.1959).
source: Original black and white photograph, 1940: Private Collection of Bettye Reagan.
contributor: Reagan, Bettye Jean Aulin
format: image/jpg
type: Still Image
coverage: Oviedo, Florida

Catholic Mass Procession
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
subject: Churches--Florida
subject: Catholic Church--Florida
description: A Catholic procession in Downtown Orlando, Florida, sometime between 1939 and 1941. Altar servers are followed by the bishop, priests, and congregants. In these processions, a cross bearer and candle holder, who are not pictured, led the procession and were followed by any extra servers, deacons, priests, and in this case, a bishop. If a bishop is present, at least two servers will follow behind to be ready to take his crosier and his mitre. During a Confirmation ceremony or any other special mass, members of the congregation may process in between the cross and candle bearers and the deacons. In the background, a sign for Walter Menges' Clothier To Men can be seen. The store was located on North Orange Avenue in between Jefferson Street and Robinson Street. Other shops near here included a Rexall drug store and Brenner's Ladies Dress Shop.
source: Original black and white photograph: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Walter Menges' Men's Clothing Shop, Downtown Orlando, Florida

St. James Cathedral's Original Wooden Church Building
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
subject: Churches--Florida
subject: Catholicism
description: St. James Cathedral was originally finished in June of 1891 under Bishop John Moore of the Diocese of St. Augustine, Father Swembergh, and later Father Creed, who succeeded Father Swembergh following his death. Since its original 40 by 70 feet wooden structure, the cathedral has been renovated three times. It was rebuilt entirely in 1952, renovated to become the cathedral of the Diocese of Orlando in the late 1970s, after St. Charles Borromeo Cathedral had burned down. More recently, in 2009, the cathedral was renovated again to restore some of the original stone work and rose windows.
source: Original black and white drawing: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
type: Still Image
coverage: St. James Cathedral, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Envelope to Texann Ivy (October 1967)
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
description: An envelope sent from Group 21 MEBA to Texann Ivy in October of 1967. Texann Ivy Buck is a graduate of Edgewater High School in Orlando, Florida, and Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Specializing in 20th Century American prints, sculpture, and in the Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) prints, Buck established Texann Ivy Fine Arts, located at 818 Ellwood Avenue in Orlando, in 1977. In the 1980s, she curated an exhibition on 1930s American printmaking at the Cornell Museum of Art at Rollins College in Winter Park. In 2013, she created a display honoring Dr. Jerry B. Callahan, which is on permanent display at the Callahan Neighborhood Center, located on Parramore Avenue in Orlando. She remains involved with Orange County art, history, and cultural institutions.
source: Original envelope to Texann Ivy, October 1967: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Baltimore, Maryland
coverage: Orlando, Florida

Employees at New Downtown Orlando Post Office Building
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
subject: Post offices
description: Postal employees after the construction of the new Downtown Orlando Post Office building, located at 51 East Jefferson Street, circa 1941. The photograph includes 109 employees ranging from superintendent to clerk. The Postmaster and Assistant Postmaster are included in the middle row of the photo. The group is comprised of mostly white men; however, the second row shows a woman, and the first and third rows show three African-American men. The building was constructed in a Spanish Colonial Revival style from 1939 to 1941 and dedicated on April 14, 1941. It has been occupied by the United States Postal Service since 1941, the Federal District Courthouse from 1941 to circa 1974, and the office of the Roman Catholic Church since 2003. The building was renovated in the early 2000s and was modified for office and retail use, with the post office retaining 13,200 square feet. Plans included an adjacent parking garage on the north side, though that that aspect never came to fruition. St. James Roman Catholic Cathedral, located across Court Street from the post office, purchased the parts of the building not utilized by the post office and use it for Chancery office space.
source: Original black and white photographic print: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Envelope from Ferguson/CFSC to Texann Ivy Buck
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
description: An envelope sent from Ferguson/CFSC to Texann Ivy Buck. The envelope was sent multiple times, as there are six stamps. Buck is a graduate of Edgewater High School in Orlando, Florida, and Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Specializing in 20th Century American prints, sculpture, and in the Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) prints, Buck established Texann Ivy Fine Arts, located at 818 Ellwood Avenue in Orlando, in 1977. In the 1980s, she curated an exhibition on 1930s American printmaking at the Cornell Museum of Art at Rollins College in Winter Park. In 2013, she created a display honoring Dr. Jerry B. Callahan, which is on permanent display at the Callahan Neighborhood Center, located on Parramore Avenue in Orlando. She remains involved with Orange County art, history, and cultural institutions.
source: Original envelope from Ferguson/CFSC to Texann Ivy Buck, March 2011: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Plymouth, Florida
coverage: Orlando, Florida

Florida Centennial Stamp
subject: St. Augustine (Fla.)
subject: Tallahassee (Fla.)
subject: Postage stamps--United States
description: A Florida Centennial postage stamp, along with identifying labels. The image of the Great Seal of the State of Florida is surrounded by the Old City Gates in St. Augustine on the left and the State Capitol Building on the right. The two images have the years of the centennial above them: 1845 was when Florida was admitted as a state, and 1945 was the centennial anniversary. The stamp cost three cents at the time.
source: Photocopy of original postage stamp, 1945: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Old City Gates, St. Augustine, Florida
coverage: Florida State Capitol, Tallahassee, Florida

U.S. Post Office Mailman Badge
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
subject: Post offices
description: A mailman badge worn on hats and coats by post office staff. In 1922, the letter carrier’s badge was redesigned. The new badge was solid, of nickel-plated metal, elliptical in shape, and topped with a 1/2 inch tall eagle with wings spread two inches wide. The numbers, raised in the center of the badge, were 9/16ths of an inch long. The words "U. S. Post Office" were raised along the top, and the name of the Post Office and state were along the bottom. Raised five-pointed stars adorned the right and left sides, visually separating the text. The badge was curved at 10% to conform to the shape of the headgear.
source: Original color digital image, September 2015: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Physical Object
coverage: Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida

U.S. Post Office Mailman Badge, 1922
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
subject: Post offices
subject: United States. Post Office Department
description: In 1922, the letter carrier’s badge was redesigned. The new badge was solid, of nickel-plated metal, elliptical in shape, and topped with a 1/2 inch tall eagle with wings spread two inches wide. The numbers, raised in the center of the badge, were 9/16ths of an inch long. The words "U. S. Post Office" were raised along the top, and the name of the Post Office and state were along the bottom. Raised five-pointed stars adorned the right and left sides, visually separating the text. The badge was curved at 10% to conform to the shape of the headgear.
source: Original color digital image, September 2015: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Physical Object
coverage: Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Letter from J. D. Beggs (March 13, 1941)
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
subject: Post offices
description: A letter of correspondence concerning the formal dedication of the new Downtown Orlando Post Office building, located at 51 East Jefferson Street in Downtown Orlando, Florida. The ceremony was sponsored by the Greater Orlando Chamber of Commerce. The letter is from J. D. Beggs, acting postmaster, to another postmaster concerning his attendance. The ceremony took place on April 15, 1941. Beggs sought to make the ceremony grand, and many prominent guests were there including then U.S. Senator Charles O. Andrews (1877-1946).
creator: Beggs, J. D.
source: Original typewritten letter from J. D. Beggs, March 13, 1941: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida

U.S. Post Office Building Postcard
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
subject: Post offices
description: A postcard displaying a drawing of the new Downtown Orlando Post Office building, located at 51 East Jefferson Street in Downtown Orlando, Florida. The post office was built and finished in 1941 as a result of funding provided by the federal government. The land it was built upon had formerly been the site of a Catholic school, but was sold during the Great Depression. The post office building, after debuting in 1941, served Downtown dutifully through the middle of the 20th century in numerous capacities. It served as a post office, a courthouse, and a base for the United States Marshals Service (USMS), as well as several important roles in government adjudication at a federal and local level. In 1989, the Federal Building at Jefferson Street was declared a landmark in the city of Orlando.
source: Original color postcard: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Robert Lee Wheeler, Sr. and Martha Lenora Aulin Wheeler
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
description: Robert Lee Wheeler, Sr. (1881-1955) and Martha "Mattie" Lenora Aulin Wheeler (1884-1963), the daughter of Emma Lenora "Lona" Lawton Aulin (1853-1907) and Andrew Aulin, Sr. (1843-1918), the Swedish immigrant credited with naming the town of Oviedo, Florida. Wheeler was the brother of Benjamin Franklin Wheeler, Sr. (1878-1954), who owned the Wheeler Fertilizer Plant and later acquired Nelson and Company. Together, the couple had four children: Florence Wheeler (b. 1906), Evelyn Wheeler, Robert Lee Wheeler, Jr., and Thelma Louise Wheeler.
source: Original black and white photograph: Private Collection of Bettye Reagan.
contributor: Reagan, Bettye Jean Aulin
format: image/jpg
type: Still Image
coverage: Oviedo, Florida

Oral History of Mick Dolan
subject: Disc jockeys--United States
subject: Shock radio
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
subject: Altamonte Springs (Fla.)
subject: Music--Florida
description: An oral history interview of Mick Dolan, a radio personality, news and traffic reporter, voiceover actor, promotions director, talk show producer and social media blogger based in Central Florida. The interview was conducted by Geoffrey Cravero at the Salem Media Group radio stations in Altamonte Springs, on July 30, 2015. Topics covered in the interview include how Dolan got into broadcasting, his experiences working on The Baxter and Mark Show, Clear Channel’s impact on broadcasting, the evolution of the Orlando music scene, including some of his favorite musicians and venues, Rock Super Bowls at the Tangerine Bowl, interviewing David Lee Roth and George Thorogood, being onstage for The Who, his attempt to put together a country music fantasy camp with CMT’s Camp Nashville, what he’s been up to lately, and his final thoughts and advice to young musical artists and broadcasters.
creator: Cravero, Geoffrey
creator: Dolan, Mick
source: Dolan, Mick. Interviewed by Geoffrey Cravero. Audio/video record available. RICHES of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.
language: eng
type: Moving Image
coverage: Amway Arena, Orlando, Florida
coverage: Camp Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee
coverage: Fern Park Station, Longwood, Florida
coverage: Lakeland Civic Center, Lakeland, Florida
coverage: Orlando Citrus Bowl Stadium, Orlando, Florida
coverage: Salem Media Group, Altamonte Springs, Florida
coverage: WDIZ-FM, Orlando, Florida
coverage: WLOQ-FM, Maitland, Florida

Personnel at the Downtown Orlando Post Office, 1941
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
description: Taken in 1941, this group photograph shows all the operational staff at the newly constructed Downtown Orlando Post Office, located at 51 East Jefferson Street in Downtown Orlando, Florida. All employees of the Post Office, including the custodians, were considered full employees of the federal government making these jobs quite sought after by the general public. Employees were well taken care of thanks to government benefits and job security was rather high making these jobs secure and reliable sources of income. In 1935, when James 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's designer was Louis Simon, who used a Northern Italian Palazzo Revival-style. The new building opened in 1941 and housed the post office, the courthouse, and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) offices.
source: Original black and white photograph, 1941: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Personnel at the Downtown Orlando Post Office, 1930
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
description: The staff of the Downtown Orlando Post Office, located at 44 East Central Boulevard in Downtown Orlando, Florida, in 1930, including Postmaster Dr. Laycock and assistant Postmaster Dedaney. All employees of the Post Office, including the custodians, were considered full employees of the federal government making these jobs quite sought after by the general public. Employees were well taken care of thanks to government benefits and job security was rather high making these jobs secure and reliable sources of income. In 1935, when James 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's designer was Louis Simon, who used a Northern Italian Palazzo Revival-style. The new building opened in 1941 and housed the post office, the courthouse, and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) offices.
source: Original black and white photograph, 1930: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Personnel at the Downtown Orlando Post Office, 1938
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
description: The staff of the Downtown Orlando Post Office, located at 44 East Central Boulevard in Downtown Orlando, Florida, in 1938, including Postmaster Beggs. All employees of the Post Office, including the custodians, were considered full employees of the federal government making these jobs quite sought after by the general public. Employees were well taken care of thanks to government benefits and job security was rather high making these jobs secure and reliable sources of income. In 1935, when James 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's designer was Louis Simon, who used a Northern Italian Palazzo Revival-style. The new building opened in 1941 and housed the post office, the courthouse, and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) offices.
creator: Diver Studio
source: Original black and white photograph, 1938: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Replica Mail Truck
subject: Orlando (Fla.)
subject: Post offices
description: A replica of a 1931 Ford Model A mail truck. During the 20th century, the U.S. Post Office Department began to increasingly rely on automobiles for the rapid and effective delivery of mail. First used in rural areas, mail trucks began to see increased use in urban areas starting from the 1930s with the entry of new mail trucks, such as the Ford Model A pictured here. Able to carry an enormous amount of mail, these trucks began to proliferate across the major cities of the United States. Additionally, various other mail vehicles were used depending on the location of the post office and the terrain that the vehicles needed to handle. For example, tinier tri-wheeled mail trucks would sometimes be used to tiny suburbs, while heftier and larger mail trucks would be used to traverse the dirt roads of the countryside to deliver mail in rural places.
source: Original color digital image, September 2015: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Physical Object
coverage: Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida

Mastodon Vertebra
subject: Wekiva River (Fla.)
subject: Mastodons--United States
description: The fossilized vertebra of a mastodon found in the Wekiva River in Florida around 1924. The area around the Wekiva River and springs is now known, through fossils and discovered bones, as a major source for large prehistoric animals such as mastodons, mammoths, rhinoceros, giant sloths, horses and alligators. Mastodons are a distinct species from the Proboscidea order that lived in North America almost 11,000 thousand years ago. The mastodon was a herding animal with a diet consisting of a mix of browsing and grazing diets. They were around seven to ten feet tall and weighed roughly four to six tons. While the exact reason for extinction is unknown, it is widely accepted that mastodons disappeared during the mass extinction known as the Pleistocene megafauna.
source: Original color digital image, 2015: Museum of Seminole County History, Sanford, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Physical Object
coverage: Wekiva River, Florida

Seminole Dolls
subject: Seminole Indians--Florida
subject: Native Americans
subject: Amerindians
subject: Indigenous peoples--United States
subject: Dolls--United States
subject: Art--Florida
subject: Patchwork--United States
description: Dolls in patchwork clothing created by members of the Seminole tribe in the 1940s. By the end of the 19th century, the few indigenous people remaining in South Florida after the Seminole Wars lived in isolated camps in the wilderness of the Everglades area known as Big Cypress Swamp. Their encounters with white settlers and traders introduced them to hand-cranked sewing machines and other goods. With these new sewing machines, different designs were sewn out of brightly colored cotton fabric pieces in a style that came to be known as patchwork. The designs were intricately made and were inspired by animals and elements of their natural environment. In 1917, Alice Osceola, the wife of William McKinley Osceola, became the first known woman to wear patchwork adornment on her clothing. As more women took up the practice, the clothing became more elaborate and colorful. Indigenous women made patchwork articles to sell to tourists visiting their camps and settlements. Patchwork clothing and goods became a hallmark of the tribes' handicrafts and sales of these items helped support many Seminole and Miccosukee families before the arrival of the gaming industry. Seminole seamstresses made these dolls out of red palmetto fibers and dressed them in patchwork-style clothing like that of the tribe's women. The dolls are highly prized today by collectors of Seminole Indian artifacts. These specific dolls date to the 1940s and were donated to the Museum of Seminole County History by Clarabel Van Tuyl.
source: Original color digital image, 2015: Museum of Seminole County History, Sanford, Florida.
format: image/jpg
type: Physical Object
coverage: Seminole County, Florida

Native American Pipe
subject: Native Americans
subject: Amerindians
subject: Indigenous peoples--United States
subject: Pipes
subject: Smoking--United States
subject: Tobacco--Southern States
description: This straight tube is considered the most primitive form of a smoking pipe. This specific pipe is made out of Steatite ,but it is also common to find these pipe’s made out of Greenstone. These pipes are known to be symmetrical and have a smooth prepared finish. Most of these pipes were used as smoking pipes, but it is also known that indigenous shamans used pipes in ritual settings and for healing purposes. Commonly used during tribal pow-wows, members of the tribe put tobacco into one side of the pipe and smoked the tobacco at the other end with a reed. This rare pipe was found in Seminole County, Florida, and has numerous cracks throughout with one side of the pipe’s bowl broken off.
source: Original color digital image, 2015: Museum of Seminole County History, Sanford, Florida.
format: image/jpg
type: Physical Object
coverage: Seminole County, Florida

American Civil War Bullets
subject: American Civil War, 1861-1865
subject: Civil War
subject: Bullets
subject: United States. Army
subject: Army
description: Bullets from the American Civil War, which was fought between the Union and the Confederacy between 1861 and 1865. After four years of battle, the Union destroyed the Confederacies infrastructure, successfully crushing their ability to continue fighting. The Civil War became the testing ground for advanced rifles and new kinds of bullets. The U.S. Ordnance Department, after conducting tests, determined that the Army should use percussion lock guns, rifled, firing conical bullets of moderate (.58 Caliber) size. Confederate President Jefferson Davis had approved these findings on July 5, 1855, when he was U.S. Secretary of War. The Confederate States of America (CSA), which was short on money and arms, rifled older muskets, which fired 0.69 caliber bullets. Along with those rifles, the CSA also bought foreign guns of many types and also used captured Union weapons. This wide range of rifles used during the war explains the multiple kinds of bullets later found on battlegrounds. The Museum of Seminole County History has a wide range of bullets found from that period that include: .54, .68, .58, .69, .53, .54, .57, .44, hospital bullets, and sharps rifle bullets.
source: Original color digital image, 2015: Museum of Seminole County History, Sanford, Florida.
format: image/jpg
type: Physical Object
coverage: Seminole County, Florida

Avon Park Packing Houses
subject: Avon Park (Fla.)
subject: Packing-houses--United States
description: A newspaper article published by The Central Florida Press on June 20, 1930. According to the article, an individual (whose name is unreadable) arrived in Avon Park, Florida, on June 15, 1930. The article discusses the box-manufacturing capacity of a number of packing houses in Avon Park. Avon Park was first settled in 1884 by Oliver Martin Crosby, a native of Connecticut who came to study wildlife in the Everglades. As president of the Florida Development Company, Crosby recruited settlers to the area, which was named Lake Forest in 1886. Avon Park was officially incorporated on January 1, 1926, and was named after the English town of Stratford-upon-Avon, which was the home of many of its early settlers.
source: Original newspaper article: "Avon Park Packing Houses." The Central Florida Press, Vol. 1, No. 9, June 20, 1930, page 2: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
publisher: The Central Florida Press
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Avon Park, Florida

Vista Del Mar Advertisement
subject: Vero Beach (Fla.)
subject: Condominiums--Florida
subject: Housing--Florida
description: A newspaper advertisement for Vista Del Mar, an oceanfront adult condominium located at 5400 Florida State Road A1A in Vero Beach, Florida. According to the ad, which was published in 1974, real estate developers were planning an adult condo community with nine three-story, garden-type buildings. A 748-foot one- and two-bedroom apartments ranged from $24,000.
source: Original newspaper advertisement, 1974: Oviedo Historical Society, Downtown Oviedo, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Vista Del Mar, Vero Beach, Florida

Whitaker's Old Country Store
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: Country stores
subject: Stores, Retail--United States
description: Whitaker's Old Country Store, a junk resale store located on East Broadway Street across the street from the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, near the old railroad tracks of the Orlando-Winter Park Railroad, also known as the Dinky Line.
source: Original black and white photograph: Oviedo Historical Society, Downtown Oviedo, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Whitaker's Old Country Store, Downtown Oviedo, Florida

Browdy's Mini-Mart
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: Stores, Retail--United States
description: Browdy's Mini-Mart, a convenience store located at the north side of the intersection of Avenue B and East Broadway Street/County Road 419 in Downtown Oviedo, Florida.
source: Original black and white photograph: Oviedo Historical Society, Downtown Oviedo, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Browdy's Mini-Mart, Downtown Oviedo, Florida

Oviedo Florists and Oviedo City Cleaners, Inc.
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: Florists--United States
subject: Laundromats
description: The intersection of Broadway Street and Central Avenue in Downtown Oviedo, Florida. Oviedo Florists was located on the corner of the intersection at 40 West Broadway Street, with Oviedo City Cleaners, Inc. just next door at 30 West Broadway Street. The laundromat was established on April 5, 1976, with Frances A. Crews as its Director. The company filed for dissolution on September 26, 2008.
source: Original black and white photograph: Oviedo Historical Society, Downtown Oviedo, Florida.
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Oviedo Florists, Downtown Oviedo, Florida
coverage: Oviedo City Cleaners, Inc., Downtown Oviedo, Florida

Oviedo Drug and Meat World
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: Drugstores--United States
subject: Supermarkets--United States
subject: Meat industry--United States
description: Oviedo Drug and Meat World, two local stores located in Oviedo, Florida, in 1979. The two stores were located on the corner of East Broadway Street/County Road 419 and Florida State Road 426.
source: Original black and white photograph, 1979: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Oviedo Drugs, Oviedo, Florida
coverage: Meat World, Oviedo, Florida

East Broadway Street in Oviedo
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: Retail industry
subject: Barbershops--United States
subject: Jewelers--United States
description: Looking west along East Broadway Street towards Central Avenue in Oviedo, Florida. The shops in the photograph include a pet food and supply store, Pot Latch, a barber shop, and Albert's Jewelers, which was located at 24 East Broadway Street.
source: Original black and white photograph: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Pot Latch, Oviedo, Florida
coverage: Albert's Jewelers, Oviedo, Florida

Lake Charm Fruit Company Packing House, 1942
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: Packing-houses--United States
description: The Lake Charm Fruit Company Packing House, located along Geneva Road, on the south side of County Road 419 in Oviedo, Florida, in 1942. The Lake Charm Fruit Co. was established on January 22, 1923. Although the backside of the photograph states that the packing house burned down in the 1970s, it was actually destroyed in a fire in 1961. The company officially dissolved on October 21, 1974.
source: Original black and white photograph, 1942: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Lake Charm Fruit Company Packing House, Oviedo, Florida

Dance Floor at Sweetwater Park
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: Parks--Florida
description: The Dance Floor at Sweetwater Park, located at 201 East Magnolia Street in Oviedo, Florida, circa 1942. In 1926, Theodore Luqueer Mead and his wife, Edith Katharine Antill Edwards Mead, donated five acres of wooded hammock land to be used for the park. The Oviedo Woman's Club (OWC) Originally spent a number of years trying to develop the park, but ultimately deferred the project to the Town of Oviedo. The OWC later donated benches to the park in 1950.
source: Original black and white photograph: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Sweetwater Park, Oviedo, Florida

Black Hammock Celery Fields
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: Celery
subject: Farming--Florida
subject: Agriculture--Florida
description: Three African-American farm workers on a celery field in Oviedo's Black Hammock. Oviedo's earliest settlers grew citrus and celery on the area's mucky, rich topsoil. While citrus was the dominant crop for some time, celery took the lead after the Great Freeze of 1894-1895, which destroyed many citrus groves in the Central Florida area. Oviedo's celery industry flourished, especially during World War II, and thus contributed to Central Florida's unprecedented growth and development during that period.
source: Original black and white photograph: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Black Hammock, Oviedo, Florida

Charles Simeon Lee on Lettuce Farm in Black Hammock
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: Lettuce
subject: Farming--Florida
subject: Agriculture--Florida
description: Charles Simeon Lee (1892-1991) on his lettuce farm in Black Hammock, an area along Lake Jesup in Oviedo known for its groves, farms, and nurseries. Early settlers to the area grew citrus, celery, lettuce, and other vegetables on Oviedo's mucky, rich topsoil. A farmer and the youngest son of Orange County Commissioner James Hiram Lee, Sr. (1844-1920) and Laura Agusta Barnett Lee (1851-1940). Lee was born on October 27, 1892, and married Goldie Eva Beckley Lee (1892-1976) on April 21, 1915. During the Great Depression, Lee grew celery and bought 20,000 acres to start a cattle ranch. He passed away on November 9, 1991.
source: Original black and white photograph: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Black Hammock, Oviedo, Florida

Seaboard Air Line Railroad Train in Black Hammock
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: Celery
subject: Seaboard Air Line railroads
subject: Railroads--Florida
subject: Trains
description: A Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL) train in Black Hammock of Oviedo, Florida, on May 25, 1927. The train was shipping Sunrise and Big Win brands of celery. Oviedo's earliest settlers grew citrus and celery on the area's mucky, rich topsoil. While citrus was the dominant crop for sometime, celery took the lead after the Great Freeze of 1894-1895, which destroyed many citrus groves in the Central Florida area. Oviedo's celery industry flourished, especially during World War II, and thus contributed to Central Florida's unprecedented growth and development during that period.
source: Original black and white photograph, May 25, 1927: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
contributor: Clonts, Thelma Lee
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Black Hammock, Oviedo, Florida

Allstate Construction College Advertisement
subject: Brandon (Fla.)
subject: Colleges
subject: Education--Florida
description: A newspaper advertisement for Allstate Construction College's electrical engineering program. According to the ad, the college prepared students to pass the new state electrical exam and was taught by an instructor who was a state-licensed electrical contractor, a state general contractor, and an electrical engineer. The college was located at 401 Cranberry Lane in Brandon, Florida.
source: Original newspaper advertisement, 1974: Oviedo Historical Society, Downtown Oviedo, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Allstate Construction College, Brandon, Florida

Old Downtown Oviedo
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: Stores, Retail--United States
description: Old Downtown Oviedo, Florida, looking east from the intersection of Broadway Street/County Road 419/Florida State Road 426 and Florida State Road 434/Florida State Road 419. A Coca-Cola sign can be seen the right side of the photograph. The two-story building on the left was later replaced by the Townhouse Restaurant, which is located at 9 East Broadway Street.
source: Original black and white photograph: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Downtown Oviedo, Florida

Chuluota Baptist Church Sixty-Fifth Anniversary
subject: Churches--Florida
description: A history of the Chuluota Baptist Church from its founding to its 65th anniversary in 1939. The congregation's first services were held in November of 1874 in the home of W. C. Jacobs with Reverend R. W. Lawton and Reverend George Gandez leading religious services. Many of the church's founding congregants were migrants from Whiteville, North Carolina. The church was officially founded two months later as Harmony Baptist Church on January 8, 1875. A log church was constructed about one mile east of Chuluota, near Lake Pickett. In 1883, church meetings were moved to a schoolhouse near the southern portion of Chuluota. A new church building was built and dedicated as Harmony Baptist Church of Chuluota, located at 201 Lake Mills Road, in 1888. The Sunday school was established on November 10, 1889. Construction for a new concrete building began in 1955 and was dedicated in 1956. An education wing was added in 1961. The church is now known as the First Baptist Church of Chuluota.
source: Original typewritten document, November 16, 1939: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Harmony Baptist Church, Chuluota, Florida
coverage: Chuluota Baptist Church, Chuluota, Florida

Oviedo Railroad Depot
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: Railroads--Florida
description: The Oviedo Depot, located at 636 South Lake Jessup Road in Oviedo, Florida, in 1975. The depot was Originally constructed at 520 South Lake Jessup Avenue in 1886 as part of the Henry Bradley Plant railroad system. The design of the depot was based on the design standards set by the Plant System. This standardized system for the Florida lines had three depot styles based on the population of the town or city it serviced. The Oviedo design was the small town wooden depot design, as opposed to the larger cities that had brick depots. The depot was later moved to its present location at 636 South Lake Jessup Road. During World War II, the roof of the depot was used as guide for patrolling planes that flew out of Sanford Airport. Along with the depot, there was Originally a red warehouse for the produce and a water tank used for the train engines. In the 1970s, the depot was sold to the Connolly family, which chose to preserve it from demolition. The depot now sits on the Connolly's property as a guesthouse and its exterior is fully restored.
source: Original black and white photograph: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Oviedo Train Depot, Oviedo, Florida

Nelson and Company Packing Plant
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: Agriculture--Florida
subject: Celery
subject: Packing-houses--United States
description: The Nelson and Company Packing Plant, located in what is now the Nelson and Company Historic District. The company was Originally founded by Steen Nelson and Gus Nelson and called Nelson Brothers. The company changed its name to Nelson and Company after it became a three-way partnership between the brothers and Benjamin Franklin Wheeler. In 1923, Wheeler became sole owner after buying out the company. The 80-acre historic district was incorporated in September of 2001 and encompasses four of Nelson and Company's historic buildings.
source: Original black and white photograph: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Nelson and Company Packing Plant, Downtown Oviedo, Florida

Sunday School Picnic at White's Wharf
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: Picnics
description: A Sunday school picnic at White's Wharf, located near Lake Jesup in Oviedo, Florida, in 1910. Some of the individuals appearing in the photograph are J. C. Brainan, J. H. Lee, Olauc Howard-Huret, Frank Anderson, Sid Brown and his wife, H. B. McCall, and Hugh White. White's Wharf marks the approximate location where John Bartram and William Bartram camped during their excursion along the St. Johns River in 1765-1766. William G. White migrated to the area in the late 1870s and built a store here in 1879. White moved his store to Orlando in the 1880s. The site was also known as Clifton Springs, which is a name in honor of the hometown of Dr. Henry Foster, a wealthy grower from Lake Charm in Oviedo. Many Oviedo residents used the site as the location for their annual May picnics, which began in 1880. The picnics were hosted by a joint committee of the local Baptist and Methodist churches. The wharf is now known as Hiley's Fish Camp.
source: Original black and white photograph, November 12, 1910: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
contributor: Clonts, Thelma Lee
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: White's Wharf, Oviedo, Florida

T. W. Lawton Elementary School, 1931
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: Schools
subject: Education--Florida
subject: Elementary schools--United States
description: T. W. Lawton Elementary School, located at 151 Graham Avenue in Oviedo, Florida, in 1931. Originally called the T. W. Lawton Elementary School, the one-room schoolhouse was first constructed in 1876 in order to serve the three families that lived on Old Orlando Road, near Bear Gully. Julia Golden was the first teacher and most of the students were African Americans. When one of the families moved to Clonts Quarters during the first year, the school moved with them. In 1899, the school was moved to the middle of town. In 1922, Seminole County built a four-room brick schoolhouse with an auditorium seating 75-80. White students attended the new schoolhouse, while black students remained at the original school, then called Oviedo Colored Elementary School and later renamed Jackson Heights. In 1923, the new school had its first graduating class. H. J. Laney was the school principal at the time that this photograph was taken and Thelma Lee Clonts, the contributor of the picture, was beginning her education at the school with Katy Walken as her teacher. The school's name was later changed to T. W. Lawton Elementary School and is now known as Lawton Elementary School.
source: Photocopy of original black and white photograph, October 1, 1931: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
contributor: Clonts, Thelma Lee
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: T. W. Lawton Elementary School, Oviedo, Florida

Lee Family
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
description: The Lee Family on the front porch of their home along Lake Charm in Oviedo, Florida. Photographed standing, from left to right, are Lillian Della Lee (ca. 1883-1977); William "Wiley" Lee (1869-1905); John Theodore Lee (1871-1959); George Lee; B. F. Wheeler; and James Hiram Lee, Sr. (1844-1920). Seated in the photograph are Annie Ethel Lee; Laura Agusta Barnett Lee (1851-1940); James Hiram Lee, Jr. (1890-1959); and Charlotte "Lottie" Lee (1887-1984). The family patriarch, James Hiram Lee, Sr., was a veteran of the Confederate military, Lee served as an Orange County Commissioner, before Seminole County was established. The county courthouse was constructed in 1892, while Lee was chairman of the commission. Lee's wife, Laura, migrated from Columbia County to Oviedo and married Lee in 1867. The couple settled near Lake Charm in the Lake Jesup community (present-day Oviedo) in 1874 and had nine children. Wiley Lee married Fannie Vaughan Lee (1873-1944) and later committed suicide in 1905. James, Jr. served in the military during World War I. Lottie married Thomas Willington Lawton (1882-1963), the first elected Superintendent of Schools of Seminole County. Lillian married Winborn Joseph Lawton, Sr. (1881-1971), who served as a trustee of the First Baptist Church of Oviedo, a secretary and treasurer for the church's Sunday school, an insurance agent, and a citrus grower. She was also a charter member and the former present of the Oviedo Woman's Club (OWC), the former president of the Woman's Missionary Society, and a lifelong member of the First United Methodist Church of Oviedo. Annie married Walter Pascal Carter (1879-1939). George married Benjamin Franklin Wheeler, a prominent citrus grower, celery cultivator, and politician.
source: Photocopy of original black and white photograph: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
contributor: Clonts, Thelma Lee
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Oviedo, Florida

James Hiram Lee, Jr. and Charles Simeon Lee with Friends
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
description: James Hiram Lee, Jr. (1890-1959) and Charles Simeon Lee (1892-1991), sons of James Hiram Lee, Sr. (1844-1920) and Laura Agusta Barnett Lee (1851-1940), with other children in Oviedo, Florida. C. S. Lee was born on October 27, 1892, and married Goldie Eva Beckley Lee (1892-1976) on April 21, 1915. During the Great Depression, Lee grew celery and bought 20,000 acres to start a cattle ranch. He passed away on November 9, 1991. Other boys seen in the photograph include blue Anderson, Joe Leinhart, a McKnight boy, Cater Lawton, Robert Lawton, William Clark, and Fred Poiller.
source: Photocopy of original black and white photograph: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
contributor: Clonts, Thelma Lee
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Oviedo, Florida

Whitney-Wolcott House on Lake Charm
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: Housing--Florida
description: The Whitney-Wolcott House, located at 6297 Lake Charm Circle, near Lake Charm in Oviedo, Florida. After buying property from Dr. Henry Foster in 1886, Calvin Whitney built his Victorian Revival-style, two-story winter home near Lake Charm. Whitney, who was the president of the A.B. Chase Piano Company, partnered with Dr. Foster in 1889-1890 to form the Lake Charm Improvement Company, which built a bulkhead, drained from the lake, and removed muck from the bottom. Whitney and Dr. Foster hired a Philadelphia-based mason to construct a sidewalk around the lake. The home was later owned by O. Gus Wolcott. Another well-known inhabitant of the house was Wyatt Wyatt, author of Catching Fire and Deep in the Heart, in the 1990s.
source: Photocopy of original black and white photograph: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Whitney-Wolcott House, Oviedo, Florida

Robert Floyd King and Minnie Lee King at a Black Hammock Celery Field
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: Celery
subject: Farming--Florida
subject: Agriculture--Florida
description: Robert Floyd King and Minnie Lee King (ca. 1918-2002) at a celery field in Black Hammock, an area in Oviedo, Florida, in the early 1920s, when Minnie was four or five. Minnie graduated from Oviedo High School in 1936 and later married George C. Means. As an active members of the community Minnie Lee King Means helped organize the Oviedo Garden Club and the Oviedo Historical Society. She was also a member of the Oviedo Woman's Club. Minnie's husband was a salesman for the Wheeler Fertilizer Company from 1947 to 1985.
source: Original black and white photograph: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Black Hammock, Oviedo, Florida

T. W. Lawton Elementary School
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: Schools
subject: Education--Florida
subject: Elementary schools--United States
description: T. W. Lawton Elementary School, located at 151 Graham Avenue in Oviedo, Florida. Originally called the T. W. Lawton Elementary School, the one-room schoolhouse was first constructed in 1876 in order to serve the three families that lived on Old Orlando Road, near Bear Bully. Julia Golden was the first teacher and most of the students were African Americans. When one of the families moved to Clonts Quarters during the first year, the school moved with them. In 1899, the school was moved to the middle of town. In 1922, Seminole County built a four-room brick schoolhouse with an auditorium seating 75-80. White students attended the new schoolhouse, while black students remained at the original school, then called Oviedo Colored Elementary School and later renamed Jackson Heights. In 1923, the new school had its first graduating class. H. J. Laney was the school principal at the time that this photograph was taken and Thelma Lee Clonts, the contributor of the picture, was beginning her education at the school with Katy Walken as her teacher. The school's name was later changed to T. W. Lawton Elementary School and is now known as Lawton Elementary School.
source: Original color photographs: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: T. W. Lawton Elementary School, Oviedo, Florida

James Hiram Lee, Sr.
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
description: James Hiram Lee, Sr. (1844-1920). a veteran of the Confederate military. Lee served as an Orange County Commissioner, before Seminole County was established. The county courthouse was constructed in 1892, while Lee was chairman of the commission. Lee's wife, Laura, migrated from Columbia County to Oviedo and married Lee in 1867. The couple settled near Lake Charm in the Lake Jesup community (present-day Oviedo) in 1874 and had nine children, including William "Wiley" Lee (1869-1905); John Theodore Lee (1871-1959); Mary Louise Lee (1876-1877); Annie Ethel Lee Carter; James Hiram Lee, Jr. (1890-1959); Charles Simeon Lee (1892-1991), George Lee Wheeler, and Lillian Della Lee Lawton (ca. 1883-1977).
source: Photocopy of original black and white photograph: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
contributor: Clonts, Thelma Lee
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Oviedo, Florida

Laura Agusta Barnett Lee
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
description: Laura Agusta Barnett Lee (1851-1940), who migrated to the Oviedo area from Columbia County, Florida. Barnett married James Hiram Lee, Sr. (1844-1920), a veteran of the Confederate military, in 1867 and the couple settled near Lake Charm in the Lake Jesup community (present-day Oviedo) in 1874. Her husband served as an Orange County Commissioner, before Seminole County was established. The county courthouse was constructed in 1892, while Lee was chairman of the commission. Together, the Lees had nine children, including William "Wiley" Lee (1869-1905); John Theodore Lee (1871-1959); Mary Louise Lee (1876-1877); Annie Ethel Lee Carter; James Hiram Lee, Jr. (1890-1959); Charles Simeon Lee (1892-1991), George Lee Wheeler, and Lillian Della Lee Lawton (ca. 1883-1977).
source: Photocopy of original black and white photograph: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
contributor: Clonts, Thelma Lee
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Oviedo, Florida

The Oviedo Band at White's Wharf
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: Picnics
subject: Music--Florida
subject: Musicians--Southern States
description: The Oviedo band at a Sunday school picnic at White's Wharf, located near Lake Jesup in Oviedo, Florida, in 1911. Some of the individuals appearing in the photograph are Cater Lawton, Karl Graff, Hugh White, bandmaster Stuman, John McCulley, McKnight, Joe Leinhart, McKnight, Edward McCall; Henry Bun McCall, Charles Lee, and Seaboard Air Line Railroad agent Koppel. White's Wharf marks the approximate location where John Bartram and William Bartram camped during their excursion along the St. Johns River in 1765-1766. William g. White migrated to the area in the late 1870s and built a store here in 1879. White moved his store to Orlando in the 1880s. The site was also known as Clifton Springs, which is a name in honor of the hometown of Dr. Henry Foster, a wealthy grower from Lake Charm in Oviedo. Many Oviedo residents used the site as the location for their annual May picnics, which began in 1880. The picnics were hosted by a joint committee of the local Baptist and Methodist churches. The wharf is now known as Hiley's Fish Camp.
source: Original black and white photograph, December 13, 1911: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
contributor: Clonts, Thelma Lee
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: White's Wharf, Oviedo, Florida

Joe Lee on Charles Simeon Lee's Celery Farm
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: Celery
subject: Farming--Florida
subject: Agriculture--Florida
description: Joe Lee, an African-American laborer, with Blue Goose celery at Charles Simeon Lee, Sr.'s farm in Oviedo, Florida, in 1928. The two Lees were of no relation. C. S. Lee (1892-1991) was born on October 27, 1892, and married Goldie Eva Beckley Lee (1892-1976) on April 21, 1915. During the Great Depression, Lee grew celery and bought 20,000 acres to start a cattle ranch. He passed away on November 9, 1991.
source: Original black and white photograph, 1928: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Oviedo, Florida

Oviedo's Old Downtown
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: Automobiles--United States
subject: Cars
description: Old Downtown Oviedo, Florida. The Timucuan Native Americans Originally inhabited the area of present-day Oviedo, although the remains of their settlements have disappeared. Homesteaders arrived along the shores of Lake Jesup in 1865 just after the Civil War ended and began growing celery and citrus. The area was called the Lake Jesup Community until March 13, 1879, when postmaster Andrew Aulin, a Swedish immigrant, chose the name Oviedo.
source: Original black and white photograph: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Downtown Oviedo, Florida

Map of Lake Charm
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: Lakes--Florida
description: A map of Lake Charm, a 19-acre lake located in the Lake Jesup Watershed of Oviedo, Florida, sometime between 1865 and 1870. The map shows mostly orange groves and farmland owned by a handful of individuals: Walter Gwynn, Dr. Henry Foster, Mary E. Foster, and Catherine M. Remington. Walter Gwynn (1828-1897), comptroller for the State of Florida, bought the land south of Lake Jesup in 1859 and built his home on Lake Charm in 1868. His daughter, Martha Gwynn, is credited with naming the lake. In 1870, Dr. Henry Foster migrated to Lake Charm from New York and began growing oranges. He later developed the area as a resort in the 1880s.
source: Original map: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Lake Charm, Florida

Memorial Building and Oviedo City Hall
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: City halls--United States
description: The Memorial Building, located at 38 South Central Avenue in Downtown Oviedo, Florida, in 1974. The building was dedicated during the tenure of Mayor Lee Gary in honor of Oviedo's veterans. At the time that the photograph was taken, the Memorial Building housed Oviedo City Hall, which include the Mayor's Office, the City Clerk's Office, the Oviedo Water Department, the Oviedo Municipal Court, and the Oviedo Police Department. The city hall and the police department are now located at 400 Alexandria Boulevard. The Memorial Building is currently being used for event rentals.
source: Original color newspaper photograph, 1974: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Memorial Building, Oviedo, Florida

Downtown Oviedo, 1974
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: Automobiles--United States
subject: Cars
subject: Stores, Retail--United States
description: Northbound on Central Avenue in Downtown Oviedo, Florida, in 1974. A number of businesses can be seen in the photograph, including Oviedo Florists, located at 40 West Broadway Street; Oviedo City Cleaners, Inc., located at 30 West Broadway Street, and Citizens Bank of Oviedo, located at 156 Geneva Drive. Oviedo City Cleaners was established on April 5, 1976, with Frances A. Crews as its Director. The company filed for dissolution on September 26, 2008. Citizens Bank of Oviedo opened on July 1, 1946. The land on which the bank sits was Originally the Bill Browning celery farm. The Citizens Bank of Oviedo took in over half a million dollars in deposits on its first day, with B. F. Wheeler as president and Charles Shaffer as the cashier. Citizens' Bank of Oviedo is now the Citizens' Bank of Florida with locations throughout Seminole County.
source: Original color newspaper photograph, 1974: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Oviedo Florists, Oviedo, Florida
coverage: Oviedo City Cleaners, Inc., Oviedo, Florida
coverage: Citizens Bank of Oviedo, Oviedo, Florida

Barbecue at Sweetwater Park
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: Parks--Florida
subject: Barbecue
subject: Fourth of July
subject: 4th of July
subject: Independence Day (U.S.)
description: A Fourth of July barbecue at Sweetwater Park, located at 201 East Magnolia Street in Oviedo, Florida. Theodore Luqueer Mead and his wife, Edith Katharine Antill Edwards Mead, donated five acres of wooded hammock land to be used for the park. The Oviedo Woman's Club (OWC) Originally spent a number of years trying to develop the park, but ultimately deferred the project to the Town of Oviedo. The OWC later donated benches to the park in 1950. The event was hosted by American Legion Post 243 to raise funds for a chlorinator for the town swimming pool. Post 243 is currently located at A491 West Broadway Street. The American Legion is a social veterans' organization for former and current members of the United States Armed Forces. The organization was chartered by the United States Congress on September 16, 1919, following World War I. The American Legion has been active in influencing political and social change, such as the founding of the U.S. Veterans Bureau, which was the forerunner of the Veterans Administration and later the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA); efforts to pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting the physical desecration of the American flag; the creation of the American Legion Baseball program; the passing of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, commonly known as the GI Bill of Rights; contributing to the launch of the National Association for Mental Health; sponsorship of an independent study on the effects of the exposure of Agent Orange, a herbicidal weapon, on veterans of the Vietnam War; as well as many other activities and achievements.
source: Original black and white photograph: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Sweetwater Park, Oviedo, Florida

Thomas Willington Lawton and Winborn Joseph Lawton, Sr. at the Lawton General Store
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: Stores, Retail--United States
subject: Hardware industry--Florida
description: Thomas Willington Lawton (1882-1963) and his brother, Winborn Joseph Lawton, Sr. (1881-1971), at the Lawton General Store in Oviedo, Florida. T. W. Lawton graduated from Rollins College in 1903. He later received his master's degree from Andover Newton College in Boston, Massachusetts. Following college, Lawton returned to Oviedo, where he married Charlotte "Lottie" Lee (1887-1984) and served as the principal of the Oviedo School from 1905 to 1907. In 1916, he became the first elected Superintendent of Schools of Seminole County. He held that post until 1952 and passed away 11 years later in 1963. Lawton Elementary School is named in his honor. W. J. Lawton, Sr. served as a trustee of the First Baptist Church of Oviedo, as well as a secretary and treasurer for the church's Sunday school. He graduated from Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, in 1900. Lawton married Lillian Della Lee (ca. 1883-1977) and had four children: Elizabeth Lawton Laney, Kathryn Lawton, John. K. Lawton, and Winborn Joseph Lawton, Jr. Lawton was in the mercantile business, worked as an insurance agent, and grew citrus.
source: Original black and white photograph: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Oviedo, Florida

Nelson and Company Packing Plant, 1979
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: Agriculture--Florida
subject: Celery
subject: Packing-houses--United States
description: The Nelson and Company Packing Plant, located in what is now the Nelson and Company Historic District, in 1979. The company was Originally founded by Steen Nelson and Gus Nelson and called Nelson Brothers. The company changed its name to Nelson and Company after it became a three-way partnership between the brothers and Benjamin Franklin Wheeler. In 1923, Wheeler became sole owner after buying out the company. The 80-acre historic district was incorporated in September of 2001 and encompasses four of Nelson and Company's historic buildings.
source: Original black and white photograph, 1979: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Nelson and Company Packing Plant, Downtown Oviedo, Florida

History of the First Baptist Church, Oviedo, Florida: First 100 Years, 1869-1969
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: Churches--Florida
subject: Baptists--Florida
description: A history of the First Baptist Church of Oviedo from its founding in 1869 to its centennial celebration in 1969. The book begins with a brief history of the Central Florida area, followed by a history of Oviedo. The first service for the First Baptist Church was led by Reverend W. G. Powell on the property of W. H. Luther, located along Lake Jessup Avenue. The first church building was made of wood and was located on what was the property of Lois Ruddell at the time that this book was written. The old building served the church until 1887, later became the house of the Beasley family, and was finally torn down. A new wooden church building was erected in 1887 and remained in use until 1926. The brick church building constructed later on is still in use by CrossLife Church.
source: Original 32-page booklet: History of the First Baptist Church, Oviedo, Florida: First 100 Years, 1869-1969, 1969: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: First Baptist Church of Oviedo, Oviedo, Florida

The Oviedo Outlook: Centennial Edition
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
description: The centennial edition of The Oviedo Outlook published in 1979 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Oviedo, Florida. The newspaper begins with a brief history of Oviedo, followed by articles devoted to important members of the community, including Evelyn Cheek Lundy and John Lundy, Thad Lee Lingo, Jr. and Lacy Aire Lingo, Clare Wheeler Evans, Wayne Jacobs and Karen Jansen Jacobs, Thomas Moon, Marguerite Partin, Frank Wheeler, Katherine Lawton, Tom Estes, Ed Yarborough and Ima Jean Bostick Yarborough, Virginia Balkcom Mikler, Paul Mikler, Sparks Lingo Ridenour and John Ridenour, Ray "Rex" Clonts and Thelma Lee Clonts, Jean Jordan and Harold Jordan, the Malcolm family, Edward Duda, Penny Mitchem Olliff and Leon Olliff, Louise Wheeler Martin and Bill Martin, Miriam "Mimi" Wheeler Bruce and Douglas Allen, Viola Smith, and Cay Westerfield.
source: Original 28-page booklet: The Oviedo Outlook: Centennial Edition, 1979: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
publisher: The Oviedo Outlook
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Oviedo High School, Oviedo, Florida
coverage: First Baptist Church of Oviedo, Oviedo, Florida
coverage: First Methodist Church of Oviedo, Oviedo, Florida
coverage: Oviedo Woman's Club, Oviedo, Florida
coverage: Oviedo, Post Office, Oviedo, Florida
coverage: Memorial Building, Oviedo, Florida
coverage: Sweetwater Park, Oviedo, Florida
coverage: Lake Charm, Oviedo, Florida
coverage: Lake Jesup, Oviedo, Florida
coverage: Geneva, Florida
coverage: St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Slavia, Oviedo, Florida
coverage: White's Wharf, Oviedo, Florida
coverage: Citizens Bank of Oviedo, Oviedo, Florida

The Oviedo Outlook, Volume 4, Number 40, May 26, 1977
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
description: Volume 4, number 40 of The Oviedo Outlook, published on May 26, 1977. The Oviedo Outlook was published every Thursday at 173 West Broadway Street in Oviedo, Florida. The newspaper was operated by the NPN Corporation, president and general manager Lawrence E. Neely, vice president and managing editor James "Randy" R. Noles, and secretary-treasurer and business manager Marilyn Neely. Topics discussed in various articles in this issue include a meeting between Oviedo City Council members and Seminole County Commissioners, a fish fry held in honor of former Chief of Police George Kelsey, Oviedo's new city plan, the history of the First Baptist Church of Chuluota, Oviedo High School's (OHS) Vocational Industrial Clubs of America (VICA) chapter, Circuit Judge Robert McGregor's ruling on a rape case, athlete awards at OHS, poetry wards for students of Jackson Heights Middle School (JHMS), a burglary at T.W. Lawton Elementary School, the death of Lillian Della Lee Lawton, graduation at Florida Technological University (present-day University of Central Florida), Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) elections at JHMS, and results of the Oviedo Little League. This issue also includes a classified section and numerous advertisements through the issue. This issue is missing pages 5 through 8.
source: Original 8-page newspaper edition: The Oviedo Outlook, Vol. 4, No. 40, May 26, 1977: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
publisher: The Oviedo Outlook
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Oviedo City Hall, Memorial Building, Downtown Oviedo, Florida
coverage: First Baptist Church of Chuluota, Chuluota, Florida
coverage: Oviedo High School, Oviedo, Florida
coverage: Seminole County Criminal Justice Center, Sanford, Florida
coverage: Florida Technological University, Orlando, Florida
coverage: Sanford Civic Center, Sanford, Florida
coverage: Jackson Heights Middle School, Oviedo, Florida
coverage: Langford Resort Hotel, Winter Park, Florida
coverage: T. W. Lawton Elementary School, Oviedo, Florida
coverage: Home of Lillian Della Lee Lawton, Oviedo, Florida
coverage: First United Methodist Church of Oviedo, Oviedo, Florida

Suspicious Councilmen Agree to Meet with Commissioners
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: City councils--United States
description: A newspaper article published by The Oviedo Outlook on May 26, 1977. The article discusses the planned meeting between members of the Oviedo city council and Dick Williams, chairman of the Seminole County Commission, on June 2, 1977. According to the article, city council members were suspicious of the county's plans. The continuation of the article is missing.
source: Original newspaper article: "Suspicious Councilmen Agree to Meet with Commissioners." The Oviedo Outlook, Vol. 4, No. 40, May 26, 1977, page 1: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
publisher: The Oviedo Outlook
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Oviedo City Hall, Memorial Building, Downtown Oviedo, Florida

Kelsey Fish Fry Slated June 4
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
subject: Police--Florida
subject: Law enforcement--Florida
subject: Chiefs of police
description: A newspaper article published by The Oviedo Outlook on May 26, 1977. The article discusses a fish fry to raise money for former Oviedo Chief of Police, George Kelsey, who had undergone surgery for a degenerative bone ailment. The event was held at the Fin and Feather Restaurant on June 4 and was sponsored by the Greater Oviedo Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Oviedo Police Benevolent Association (PBA). The continuation of the article is missing.
source: Original newspaper article: "Kelsey Fish Fry Slated June 4." The Oviedo Outlook, Vol. 4, No. 40, May 26, 1977, page 1: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
publisher: The Oviedo Outlook
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Oviedo, Florida

Chuluota 1st Baptist Church: 104 and Still Growing
subject: Churches--Florida
subject: Baptists--Florida
description: A newspaper article published by The Oviedo Outlook on May 26, 1977. The article describes the history of the Chuluota Baptist Church from its founding to 1977. The congregation's first services were held in November of 1874 in the home of W. C. Jacobs with Reverend R. W. Lawton and Reverend George Gandez leading religious services. Many of the church's founding congregants were migrants from Whiteville, North Carolina. The church was officially founded two months later as Harmony Baptist Church on January 8, 1875. A log church was constructed about one mile east of Chuluota, near Lake Pickett. In 1883, church meetings were moved to a schoolhouse near the southern portion of Chuluota. A new church building was built and dedicated as Harmony Baptist Church of Chuluota, located at 201 Lake Mills Road, in 1888. The Sunday school was established on November 10, 1889. Construction for a new concrete building began in 1955 and was dedicated in 1956. An education wing was added in 1961. The church is now known as the First Baptist Church of Chuluota.
source: Original newspaper article: "Chuluota 1st Baptist Church: 104 and Still Growing." The Oviedo Outlook, Vol. 4, No. 40, May 26, 1977, page 1 and 9: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
publisher: The Oviedo Outlook
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Harmony Baptist Church, Chuluota, Florida
coverage: First Baptist Church of Chuluota, Chuluota, Florida

Oviedo's Plan: A Variety of Rules on Everything from Roads to Recreation
subject: Oviedo (Fla.)
description: A newspaper article published by The Oviedo Outlook on May 26, 1977. The article describes the Oviedo Comprehensive Plan developed by the Local Planning Agency (LPA). Plans include rules and regulations for land use, natural resources, housing, community services and facilities, transportation, parks and recreation, potable water, and sewage and solid waste disposal.
creator: Noles, Randy
source: Original newspaper article: Noles, Randy. "Oviedo's Plan: A Variety of Rules on Everything from Roads to Recreation." The Oviedo Outlook, Vol. 4, No. 40, May 26, 1977, page 1 and 4: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
publisher: The Oviedo Outlook
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Oviedo City Hall, Memorial Building, Downtown Oviedo, Florida