RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 22: Hannibal Square
Episode 22 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: Hannibal Square. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 22 explores Hannibal Square, or the westside of Winter Park, which was populated primarily by African Americans. Winter Park was established in the 1860s around the railroad tracks, which served commerce and travel in order to establish a vacation town for wealthy white visitors. Hannibal Square was officially founded in the 1801 to provide a source for African-American labor to build and serve the vacation destination. While deeply segregated for years, railroad jobs and domestic service positions led to higher levels of education, business and home ownership, and relative prosperity for black residents. This podcast includes interviews with Dr. Julian C. Chambliss and Fairolyn Livingston.
Original 20-minute and 48-second podcast by Geoffrey Cravero, January 12, 2012: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 22: Hannibal Square." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
RICHES of Central Florida
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 23: Hontoon Island State Park
Episode 23 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: Hontoon Island State Park. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 23 explores the history of the area that is now Hontoon Island State Park, located between the St. Johns River and the Hontoon Dead River in Volusia County, Florida. Archaeologists date inhabitation of Hontoon Island to 7,000 years ago. This podcast includes interviews with two archaeologists and two park rangers about what the archaeology tells us about the society and culture on the island in the last 7,000 years. In 1967, the island was purchased by the state and converted into a state park.
Original 21-minute and 34-second podcast by Kim Hasbrouck, January 28, 2012: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 23: Hontoon Island State Park." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
Hontoon Island State Park, DeLand, Florida
Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Jacksonville, Florida
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 24: The Parliament House
Episode 24 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: The Parliament House. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 24 focuses on the internationally famous gay resort, the Parliament House Reosrt, located at 410 North Orange Blossom Trail in Orlando, Florida. This podcast includes interviews with two representatives of Parliament House. The building was originally constructed in the early 1930s as The Carolina Moon. In 1965, the site reopened as the Parliament House Lodge of Orlando. After near bankruptcy, the hotel was purchased by Bill Miller and Mike Hodge, who reopened the location as the Parliament House Resort on May 1, 1975. The Parliament House became quite successful and has been christened the largest gay resort in the world.
Original 19-minute and 7-second podcast by Adam Cohen, January 28, 2012: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 24: The Parliament House." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
Parliament House Resort, Orlando, Florida
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 25: The Railways of Central Florida
Episode 25 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: The Railways of Central Florida. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 25 centers on the history of railways in Central Florida and includes an interview with Phil Cross, historian for the National Railway Historical Society and host for the Central Florida Railroad Museum.
Original 13-minute and 43-second podcast by Nicholas Neimi, February 27, 2012: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 25: The Railways of Central Florida." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 26: The Oviedo Chickens
Episode 26 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: The Oviedo Chickens. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 26 explores the history of Oviedo, Florida, as it evolved from a rural community to suburbs. The podcast also features Downtown Oviedo's population of free-range chickens. Settlers brought chickens to Solary's Wharf, the south shore of Lake Jesup, around 1875. Many settlers grew a variety of crops, especially celery, and raised livestock. Despite rapid growth in more recent decades, many Oviedo residents yearn to maintain the small-town aura. Around 1994, a lone chicken appeared on Geneva Drive. A rooster was also seen, and within a few weeks, baby chickens appeared. The Oviedo Chickens have become popular in Oviedo and the surrounding areas, with entrepreneurs designing "I Break for Oviedo Chickens" bumper stickers and various t-shirts.
Original 14-minute and 24-second podcast by Josh Petitt, March 13, 2012: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 26: The Oviedo Chickens." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 27: Central Florida without a Theme Park: An Interview with Dr. Benjamin Brotemarkle
Episode 27 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: Central Florida without a Theme Park: An Interview with Dr. Benjamin Brotemarkle. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 27 explores Central Florida's rich history before Walt Disney World opened and includes an interview with Dr. Benjamin Brotemarkle, author of Beyond the Theme Parks: Exploring Central Florida. Dr. Brotemarkle discusses Eatonville's Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities, the Barberville Pioneer Festival, and the Winter Park Bach Festival.
Original 15-minute and 31-second podcast, March 30, 2012: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 27: Central Florida without a Theme Park: An Interview with Dr. Benjamin Brotemarkle." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
Pioneer Settlement for the Creative Arts, Barberville, Florida
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 28: Hamilton Holt, Part 1
Episode 28, Part 1 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: Hamilton Holt. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 28 focuses on the life of Hamilton Holt, one of the most well-known presidents of Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. Hamilton Holt became the president of Rollins College in 1925 and served until 1949. Holt revitalized education at Rollins by stressing a new, cooperative system called the "Conference Plan," which involved one-on-one interaction between professor and student. This podcast also includes interviews with former Rollins president Thaddeus Seymour, and Rollins professor Jack Lane.
Original 16-minute and 39-second podcast, April 12, 2012: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 28: Hamilton Holt, Part 1." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 29: Hamilton Holt, Part 2
Episode 29, Part 2 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: Hamilton Holt. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 29 focuses on the life of Hamilton Holt, one of the most well-known presidents of Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. Hamilton Holt became the president of Rollins College in 1925 and served until 1949. Holt revitalized education at Rollins by stresses a new, cooperative system called the "Conference Plan," which involved one-on-one interaction between professor and student. This podcast also includes interviews with former Rollins president Thaddeus Seymour, and Rollins professor Jack Lane.
Original 15-minute and 34-second podcast, April 27, 2012: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 29: Hamilton Holt, Part 2." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 3: Serving the Community: The New Deal Post Office of Cocoa Florida
Episode 3 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: Serving the Community: The New Deal Post Office of Cocoa Florida. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. In Episode 3, Heather Bollinger interviews Dr. Connie L. Lester of the University of Central Florida, Dr. Alan Bliss of Valdosta State University, and Dr. Nick Wynne of the Florida Historical Society about the history of the former Federal Post Office building constructed on Brevard Avenue in Cocoa, Florida. As of 2013, the building operates as the Florida Historical Society's headquarters.
Original 25-minute and 50-second podcast by Heather Bollinger, March 1, 2011: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 3: Serving the Community: The New Deal Post Office of Cocoa Florida." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
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Florida Historical Society, Cocoa, Florida
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 30: Jones High School, Part 1
Episode 30, Part 1 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: Jones High School. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 30 examines the integration of Central Florida schools nearly 10 years after the U.S. Supreme Court declared segregation illegal. This podcast includes interviews with former students and teachers of Jones High School, the first public school for African Americans in Orlando, Florida. For decades, black students were forbidden from attending white public schools. The original building for the high school was on the corner of Garland Avenue and Church Street, but the school was renamed the Johnson Academy and moved to a newer building on the corner of Parramore Avenue and Jefferson Street. In 1921, the school was renamed in honor Principal L. C. Jones and a brick, Colonial Revival building was constructed on the corner of Parramore Avenue and Washington Street. The school was finally moved to its current location at 801 South Rio Grande Avenue in 1952.
Original 12-minute and 12-second podcast by Bonita Kirkpatrick, May 14, 2012: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 30: Jones High School, Part 1." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
Jones High School, Parramore, Orlando, Florida
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 31: Jones High School, Part 2
Episode 31, Part 2 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: Hamilton Holt. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 31 examines the integration of Central Florida schools nearly 10 years after the U.S. Supreme Court declared segregation illegal. This podcast includes interviews with former students and teachers of Jones High School, the first public school for African Americans in Orlando, Florida. For decades, black students were forbidden from attending white public schools. The original building for the high school was on the corner of Garland Avenue and Church Street, but the school was renamed the Johnson Academy and moved to a newer building on the corner of Parramore Avenue and Jefferson Street. In 1921, the school was renamed in honor Principal L. C. Jones and a brick, Colonial Revival building was constructed on the corner of Parramore Avenue and Washington Street. The school was finally moved to its current location at 801 South Rio Grande Avenue in 1952.
Original 15-minute and 55-second podcast by Bonita Kirkpatrick, May 2012: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 31: Jones High School, Part 2." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 32: Launch Consoles: A Forgotten History
Episode 32 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: Launch Consoles: A Forgotten History. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 32 examines the U.S. Space Walk of Fame Museum in Titusville, Florida. Located on the riverfront, this 1,500-square foot museum is packed with artifacts from the Space Age, including the consoles used to launch missiles at a launch complex in Cape Canaveral. This podcast also includes interviews with former General Dynamics Aeronautics employee Murphy Wardmen and University of Central Florida professor Dr. Lori Walters.
Original 16-minute and 8-second podcast by Mark Hermanstorfer, June 14, 2012: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 32: Launch Consoles: A Forgotten History." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
U. S. Space Walk of Fame Museum, Titusville, Florida
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 33: The Florida Sinkhole Institute
Episode 33 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: Launch Consoles: A Forgotten History. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 33 explores how the Central Florida landscape is littered with the results of sinkhole activity, how sinkholes are caused, and the inception and eventual cancellation of the Florida Sinkhole Institute. This podcast features an interview with Dr. Frank Kujawa.
Original 12-minute and 58-second podcast, July 2, 2012: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 33: The Florida Sinkhole Institute." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 34: Disney and Smaller Attractions
Episode 34 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: Disney and Smaller Attractions. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 34 focuses on some of Central Floridas smaller tourist attractions, both past and present, and includes interviews with Holly & Dolly about Rosie O'Grady's Good Time Emporium, Dorothy Mays about Gatorland, and Michael Wanzie about the Parliament House Resort.
Original 19-minute and 20-second podcast by Adam Cohen, July 12, 2012: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 34: Disney and Smaller Attractions." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
Rosie O'Grady's Good Time Emporium, Downtown Orlando, Florida
Walt Disney World, Lake Buena Vista, Florida
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 35: Harry T. Moore, Part 1
Episode 35, Part 1 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: Harry T. Moore. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 35 focuses on the background of Harry Tyson Moore and his wife Harriette Vyda Simms Moore, how Moore became a major civil rights leader, the movement for equality that he led in Central Florida, and the historical framework for the racism and social tensions that plagued Florida during the 1940s and 1950s. Harry Tyson Moore was a pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement in Florida and founder of the first Brevard County branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He and his wife were assassinated by a Ku Klux Klan bomb on December 25, 1951. The Moores are the first NAACP members to be murdered for their activism and Harry T. Moore is sometimes called the first martyr of the 1950s-era civil rights movement.
Original 15-minute and 30-second podcast, July 30, 2012: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 35: Harry T. Moore, Part 1." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
Harry T. & Harriette V. Moore House, Mims, Florida
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 36: Harry T. Moore, Part 2
Episode 36, Part 2 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: Harry T. Moore. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 36 focuses on the preservation efforts of the late 1990s and early 2000s, as well as the establishment of the Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Cultural Complex. Harry Tyson Moore was a pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement in Florida and founder of the first Brevard County branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He and his wife, Harriette Vyda Simms Moore, were assassinated by a Ku Klux Klan bomb on December 25, 1951. The Moores are the first NAACP members to be murdered for their activism and Harry T. Moore is sometimes called the first martyr of the 1950s-era civil rights movement.
Original 17-minute and 39-second podcast, July 30, 2012: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 36: Harry T. Moore, Part 2." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
Harry T. & Harriette V. Moore Cultural Complex, Mims, Florida
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 37: An Interview with Nick Wynne
Episode 37 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: An Interview with Nick Wynne. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 37 features an interview with Nick Wynne, director-emeritus of the Florida Historical Society, about how and why the society moved from the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, to a former New Deal Federal Post Office building in Cocoa. Wynne discusses the impact that the move has had on the society's operations, as well as for the city of Cocoa itself.
Original 12-minute and 26-second podcast by Heather Bollinger, August 27, 2012: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 37: An Interview with Nick Wynne." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 38: The Wells Built Hotel
Episode 38 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: The Wells Built Hotel. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 38 focuses on the Wells' Built Hotel, which was constructed at 511 West South Street in Orlando, Florida in 1921. The hotel was constructed by one of Orlando's first African-American physicians, Dr. William Monroe Wells, to accommodate African-Americans who could not otherwise find welcome lodging due to segregation. Dr. Wells also built the South Street Casino, which was host to a various African-American performers traveling along the Chitlin' Circuit. In 1997, the building was acquired by the Association to Preserve African American Society, History and Tradition, Inc., which sought to restore and preserve the structure. Although the casino no longer remains, the original Wells' Built Hotel was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on February 4, 2000. In June 2009, the hotel reopened as the Wells' Built Museum of African American History and Culture.
Original 18-minute and 1-second podcast by Geoffrey Cravero, September 14, 2012: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 38: The Wells Built Hotel." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
Wells Built Hotel, Parramore, Orlando, Florida
Wells' Built Museum of African American History and Culture, Parramore, Orlando, Florida
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 39: The Orange County Regional History Center
Episode 39 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: The Orange County Regional History Center. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 39 features an interview with public historian Michael Perkins, the exhibits coordinator at the Orange Country Regional History Center (OCRHC). Topics include how to start working in the field of public history, how the OCRHC addresses controversial subjects, and how exhibits are chosen and created. Located at 65 East Central Boulevard in Downtown Orlando, Florida, the Orange County Regional History Center is housed in the historic Orange County Courthouse and is a five-story museum consisting of local and regional histories of Orange County.
Original 14-minute and 14-second podcast by Lindsey Turnbull, September 27, 2012: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 39: The Orange County Regional History Center." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
Orange County Regional History Center, Downtown Orlando, Florida
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 4: Gentrification and Urban Renewal: Revitalizing Central Florida’s African American Communities
Episode 4 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: Gentrification and Urban Renewal. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 4 examines some of the factors that led to the ultimate decline of what was once a relatively prosperous African-American community in Central Florida, the efforts that have gone into restoring them, and the effectiveness of those campaigns. Primarily looking at the history of the Parramore district and Hannibal Square, discussion topics range from the effects of urban development and gentrification to the ways in which these communities have fought to preserve their heritage and improve their neighborhoods.
Original 27-minute and 59-second podcast by Geoffrey Cravero, April 1, 2011: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 4: Gentrification and Urban Renewal: Revitalizing Central Florida’s African American Communities." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 40: Bethune Cookman University Founding
Bethune-Cookman College (Daytona Beach, Fla.)
Episode 40 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: Bethune Cookman University Founding. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 40 features an interview with Dr. Sheila Flemming Hunter about the history of Bethune-Cookman University, formerly Bethune-Cookman College, located at 640 Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Boulevard in Daytona Beach, Florida. The Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School was established by African-American educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune in October of 1904. In 1923, the school merged with the Cookman Institute of Jacksonville and then became affiliated with the Methodist Church the following year. The school served as a co-educational high school until 1931, when it became a junior college. In 1941, the school was accredited as a four-year college and was renamed Bethune-Cookman College.
Original 16-minute and 48-second podcast, October 12, 2012: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 40: Bethune Cookman University Founding." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School, Daytona Beach, Florida
Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida
Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach, Florida
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 41: Oviedo, with Dr. Richard Adicks
Episode 41 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: Oviedo, with Dr. Richard Adicks. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 41 examines the history of Oviedo, Florida, a rapidly growing town situated on the outskirts or Orlando, and includes an interview with Dr. Richard Adicks.
Original 15-minute and 28-second podcast by Josh Petitt, October 29, 2012: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 41: Oviedo, with Dr. Richard Adicks." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 42: The Hontoon Island Totems
Episode 42 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: The Hontoon Island Totems. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 42 explores the material culture of the Native Americans who lived in the Middle St. Johns River area, near what is now Hontoon Island State Park, through the study of three wooden totems found in the area. Hontoon Island State Park is located between the St. Johns River and the Hontoon Dead River in Volusia County, Florida. Archaeologists date inhabitation of Hontoon Island to 7,000 years ago.
Original 18-minute and 27-second podcast by Kim Hasbrouck, November 13, 2012: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 42: The Hontoon Island Totems." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 43: The Winter Garden Heritage Foundation
Episode 43 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: The Winter Garden Heritage Foundation. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 43 focuses on the Winter Garden Heritage Foundation, the relationship between the City of Winter Garden and the Foundation, and how the Foundation has changed over time.
Original 17-minute and 53-second podcast by Nicholas Niemi, November 30, 2012: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 43: The Winter Garden Heritage Foundation." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
Winter Garden Heritage Foundation, Winter Garden, Florida
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 44: The Construction of Inequality: Politics and Influence on I-4
Episode 44 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: The Construction of Inequality: Politics and Influence on I-4. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 44 examines the controversy over the construction of Interstate Highway 4 through and around Orlando and the unequal amount of influence exerted on the building of the road by different interest groups and parties involved. I-4 was one of the first Interstate Highways constructed in Florida, with its first section opening between Plant City and Lakeland in 1959. By 1962, the segment of I-4 connecting Tampa and Orlando was completed and the entire highway was completed by the late 1960s.
Original 19-minute and 49-second podcast by Mark Hermanstorfer, December 19, 2012: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 44: The Construction of Inequality: Politics and Influence on I-4." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 45: An Interview with Joy Wallace Dickinson, Part 1
Episode 45, Part 1 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: An Interview with Joy Wallace Dickinson. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 45 features an interview with former The Orlando Sentinel journalist Joy Wallace Dickinson about the history of Orlando based on her unique personal experience and professional research and work.
Original 16-minute and 31-second podcast, December 19, 2012: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 45: An Interview with Joy Wallace Dickinson, Part 1." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 46: An Interview with Joy Wallace Dickinson, Part 2
Episode 46, Part 2 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: An Interview with Joy Wallace Dickinson. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 46 features an interview with former The Orlando Sentinel journalist Joy Wallace Dickinson about the history of Orlando based on her unique personal experience and professional research and work.
Original 17-minute and 58-second podcast, January 11, 2013: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 46: An Interview with Joy Wallace Dickinson, Part 2." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 47: Integration and Sports at Bethune Cookman University
Episode 47 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: Integration and Sports at Bethune Cookman University. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 47 features some of Bethune-Cookman University's greatest coaches and athletes, as well as integration and how it affected sports and recruitment. This contains some very raw statements which demonstrate how passionately people feel about this piece of history. The Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School was established by African-American educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune in October 1904. In 1923, the school merged with the Cookman Institute of Jacksonville and then became affiliated with the Methodist Church the following year. The school served as a co-educational high school until 1931 when it became a junior college. In 1941, the school was accredited as a four-year college and was renamed Bethune-Cookman College.
Original 17-minute and 39-second podcast, February 1, 2013: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 47: Integration and Sports at Bethune Cookman University." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 48: The Groveland 4
Groveland Boys Trial, Groveland, Fla., 1949-1952
Episode 48 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: The Groveland 4. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 48 features an interview with Gilbert King, author of Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America. King's book analyzes the Groveland Four: Ernest Thomas, Charles Greenlee, Samuel Shepherd, and Walter Lee Irvin. Also known as the Groveland Boys, these four African-American men were falsely accused of raping Norma Padgett in Lake County, Florida, in 1949. Thomas was shot and killed by a mob, but the other three suspects were put on trial. Both Shepherd and Irvin were sentenced to death and Greenlee was sentenced to life in prison. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) special counsel Thurgood Marshall had the verdict overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in November 1951. While transporting Shepherd and Irvin, Lake County Sheriff Willis Virgil McCall claimed that the prisoners attacked him and that he subsequently shot and killed Shepherd and shot Irvin. Irvin claimed that McCall falsified the escape attempt, but McCall was cleared of any wrongdoing. Irvin was again sentenced to death for the rape of Padgett. In 1955, the then newly-elected Governor of Florida LeRoy Collins commuted Irvin's sentence to life in prison. Irvin was paroled in 1968 and died in 1970.
Original 18-minute and 50-second podcast by Robert Cassanello, February 14, 2013: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 48: The Groveland 4." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 49: An Interview with Paul Ortiz, Part 1
Episode 49, Part 1 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: An Interview with Paul Ortiz. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 49 features an interview with Paul Ortiz, an historian at the University of Florida and author of Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920, which chronicles the history of African-Americans organizing in Florida after the end of slavery.
Original 16-minute and 51-second podcast by Geoffrey Cravero, February 26, 2013: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 49: An Interview with Paul Ortiz, Part 1." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 5: A History of Gay Days
Episode 5 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: A History of Gay Days. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 5 examines the history of the Gay Days celebration, one of the largest gay pride events in the world. Gay Days is held annually on the first Saturday in June, with the first event beginning in 1991. This podcast includes interviews with Gay Days, Inc. President Chris Alexander-Manley and Executive Director of the Stonewall Library Museum Archive Jack Rutland.
Original 15-minute and 58-second podcast by Daniel Webster, May 1, 2011: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 5: A History of Gay Days." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
Magic Kingdom Park, Walt Disney World, Lake Buena Vista, Florida
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 50: An Interview with Paul Ortiz, Part 2
Episode 50, Part 2 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: An Interview with Paul Ortiz. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 50 features an interview with Paul Ortiz, an historian at the University of Florida and author of Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920, which chronicles the history of African-Americans organizing in Florida after the end of slavery.
Original 18-minute and 17-second podcast by Geoffrey Cravero, February 26, 2013: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 50: An Interview with Paul Ortiz, Part 2." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 51: An Interview with Jim Clark, Part 1
Smathers, George A. (George Armistead), 1913-2007
Episode 51, Part 1 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: An Interview with Jim Clark. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 51 features an interview with James "Jim" C. Clark about his research and recent book examining the 1950 US Senate Primary election between Claude Pepper and George Smathers.
Original 18-minute and 58-second podcast by Robert Cassanello, April 11, 2013: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 51: An Interview with Jim Clark, Part 1." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
Claude Pepper Library, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
George A. Smarthers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 52: An Interview with Jim Clark, Part 2
Reedy Creek (Orange County-Polk County, Fla.)
Indian River (Fla. : River) Orlando (Fla.)
Episode 52, Part 2 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: An Interview with Jim Clark. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 52 features an interview with Jim Clark about his book Presidents in Florida and his forthcoming book Pineapple Anthology of Florida Writers Volume 1. Dr. Clark discusses the various presidents who have traveled to Florida for campaigning and for vacationing, with the first president being Chester Alan Arthur, as well as William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and Richard M. Nixon. He also discusses his anthology on writers in Florida, including Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, and others.
Original 17-minute and 46-second podcast by Robert Cassanello, April 11, 2013: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 52: An Interview with Jim Clark, Part 2." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
Harry S. Truman Little White House, Key West, Florida
Florida White House, Key Biscayne, Florida
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 53: Community-Based Research
Episode 53 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: Community-Based Research. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 53 features an interview with Dr. Julian C. Chambliss about community-based research and how he incorporates this approach into his teaching. An associate professor of history at Rollins College, Dr. Chambliss is the coordinator of the Africa and African-American Studies Program.
Original 26-minute and 24-second podcast by Robert Cassanello, May 15, 2013: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 53: Community-Based Research." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
Winter Park History Museum, Winter Park, Florida
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 54: 500 Years
Episode 54 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: 500 Years. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 54 focuses on the Florida Historical Quarterly (FHQ) and includes interviews with editor Dr. Connie L. Lester and assistant editor Dr. Daniel S. Murphree. The Florida Historical Society was organized on November 26, 1902, and chartered in 1905. The Florida Historical Quarterly was originally based at the University of Florida from 1964 to 1993 and edited by Professor Samuel Proctor. University of South Florida professor George E. Pozzetta was the next editor of the FHQ from 1993 to 1995. Proctor again became the editor in 1995 when Pozzetta passed away. In late 1995, Professor Jerrell Schofner became the interim editor and began establishing a partnership between the Florida Historical Society and the University of Central Florida. From 1996 to 2000, Professor Kari Fredrickson served as the FHQ, expanding the breadth of the journal by including social history topics. In 2000, Craig Thompson Friend became the next editor, adding a feature called the "Florida Room," which is designed to engage in more recent regional development topics. Dr. Lester, Associate Professor in History, became the Florida Historical Quarterly editor in 2005 and remains in said position as of 2013. In 2011, the FHQ added Dr. Murphree, Associate Professor in History, as Assistant Editor. The FHQ is published four times annual and has recently added the "Florida Classroom" feature, which integrates Florida events into national history education.
Original 22-minute and 23-second podcast by Robert Cassanello, June 4, 2013: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 54: 500 Years." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
Florida Historical Society, Cocoa Beach, Florida
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 55: Apopka Farmworkers, Part One
Episode 55, Part 1 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: Apopka Farmworkers. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 55 features interviews with Linda Lee and Geraldine Mathew, two women who worked as farmworkers in Apopka in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Lee and Matthew discuss the social conditions of African-American farmworkers and the role of a number of Catholic nuns in launching the Office for Farmworker Ministry. Farmworkers like Geraldine Mathew and Linda Lee along with the Office for Farmworker Ministry successfully organized numerous programs and protests to improve the lives of local area farmers.
Original 18-minute and 58-second podcast by Robert Cassanello, June 16, 2013: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 55: Apopka Farmworkers, Part One." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 56: Apopka Farmworkers, Part Two
Episode 56, Part 2 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: Apopka Farmworkers. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 56 features interviews with Linda Lee and Geraldine Mathew, two women who worked as farmworkers in Apopka in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Lee and Matthew discuss the social conditions of African-American farmworkers and their attempts to organize. Farmworkers like Geraldine Mathew and Linda Lee along with the Office for Farmworker Ministry successfully organized numerous programs and protests to improve the lives of local area farmers.
Original 13-minute and 35-second podcast by Robert Cassanello, June 16, 2013: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 56: Apopka Farmworkers, Part Two." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 57: Apopka Farmworkers, Part Three
Episode 57, Part 3 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: Apopka Farmworkers. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 57 features interviews with Linda Lee and Geraldine Matthew, two women who worked as farmworkers in Apopka in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Lee and Matthew discuss the inspiration for the Lake Apopka Farmworker Memorial Quilts. Farmworkers like Geraldine Matthew and Linda Lee, along with the Office for Farmworker Ministry successfully organized numerous programs and protests to improve the lives of local area farmers.
Original 15-minute and 47-second podcast by Robert Cassanello, June 16, 2013: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 57: Apopka Farmworkers, Part Three." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
Florida State Capitol, Tallahassee, Florida
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 58: Museum Tour
Episode 58 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: Museum Tour. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 58 previews the upcoming podcast series A History of Central Florida, which will feature various Central Florida museums. This episode includes excerpts from interviews with: Rebecca Rickey of the Heritage Center and Indian River Citrus Museum, located at 2140 Fourteenth Avenue in Vero Beach; Juanita Barton of the Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Memorial Park, Kim Nelson of the Museum of Seminole County History, and Jane Kenovich and Mary Jane Duryea of the Lake Mary Historical Museum.
Original 13-minute and 43-second podcast by Robert Cassanello, July 29, 2013: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 58: Museum Tour." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
Indian River Citrus Museum, Downtown Vero Beach, Florida
Museum of Seminole County History, Sanford, Florida
Lake Mary Historical Museum, Lake Mary, Florida
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 6: Space, the Cocoa Beach Frontier
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (U.S.)
Episode 6 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: Space, the Cocoa Beach Frontier. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 6 examines the history of the U.S. Space Program in Florida and how the program affected Cocoa Beach. This podcast includes an interview with Lori C. Walters, a professor of history at the University of Central Florida. In the late 1950s, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) began constructing launch pads and towers on Florida's east coast as the "Missile Firing Laboratory." On July 1, 1962, NASA activated the Launch Operations Center, which was renamed the John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in 1963. KSC has been the United States' launch site for every human space flight since 1968. In 2011, the Space Shuttle program ended, which resulted in the KSC workforce downsizing significantly.
Original 16-minute and 32-second podcast by Mark Hermanstorfer, May 15, 2011: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 6: Space, the Cocoa Beach Frontier." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
Launch Operations Center, Titusville, Florida
John F. Kennedy Space Center, Titusville, Florida
Patrick Air Force Base, Cocoa Beach, Florida
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 7: The Winter Park Sinkhole Part 1: Eyewitness Reactions to a Disaster
Episode 7, Part 1 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: The Winter Park Sinkhole: Eyewitness Reactions to a Disaster. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 7 examines the sinkhole that occurred from May 8 to May 10, 1981 in Winter Park, Florida, as well as the reactions of locals, the media, and the nation. After three days, the sinkhole grew to 350 feet and caused millions of dollars in damage. The sinkhole began filling with water that summer and eventually engineers filled the bottom with dirt and concert to stabilize the sinkhole. A lake formed in its place and was named Lake Rose in honor of Mae Rose Williams (née Owens), the woman who discovered the sinkhole. This podcast includes interviews with local business owners Darryl Donkel, Alan Duckworth, and Dennis W. Phillips, and an interview with Dr. Frank Kujawa of the University of Central Florida.
Original 16-minute and 42-second podcast by Clayton Phillips, May 31, 2011: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 7: The Winter Park Sinkhole Part 1: Eyewitness Reactions to a Disaster." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 8: The Winter Park Sinkhole Part 2: The Effects and Aftermath
Episode 8, Part 2 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: The Winter Park Sinkhole: The Effects and Aftermath. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 8 examines the sinkhole that occurred from May 8 to May 10, 1981 in Winter Park, Florida, as well as the effects and aftermath. After three days, the sinkhole grew to 350 feet and caused millions of dollars in damage. The sinkhole began filling with water that summer and eventually engineers filled the bottom with dirt and concert to stabilize the sinkhole. A lake formed in its place and was named Lake Rose in honor of Mae Rose Williams (née Owens), the woman who discovered the sinkhole. This podcast includes interviews with local business owners Darryl Donkel, Alan Duckworth, and Dennis W. Phillips, and an interview with Dr. Frank Kujawa of the University of Central Florida.
Original 20-minute and 55-second podcast by Clayton Phillips, May 31, 2011: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 8: The Winter Park Sinkhole Part 2: The Effects and Aftermath." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 9: Volusia County Railroad History: An Interview with Seth Bramson
Episode 9 of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: Volusia County Railroad History: An Interview with Seth Bramson. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. Episode 9 features an interview with author Seth Bramson and focuses on passenger rail transportation in Volusia County, but also delves into the effects of rail service changes on the region. In addition, this podcast covers attempts to return passenger traffic to Eastern Volusia on the Florida East Coast Railway (FEC). The FEC, a project of Henry Morrison Flagler, was built primarily in the late 19th and early 20th century. From 1963 to 1977, the company and some of its employees were engaged in one of the longest and most violent labor union battles of the 20th century, which had to be resolved with Federal intervention.
Original 18-minute and 51-second podcast by Kim Hasbrouck, June 30, 2011: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 9: Volusia County Railroad History: An Interview with Seth Bramson." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, New Podcast Preview: A History of Central Florida
New Podcast Preview of RICHES Podcast Documentaries: A History of Central Florida. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. This episode previews the new RICHES podcast series called A History of Central Florida. This 50-episode podcast series will examine the history of Central Florida through local area objects found in museums, historical organizations and other places. It is based on the BBC's famous podcast History of the World in 100 Objects.
Original 12-minute and 18-second podcast by Robert Cassanello, March 25, 2013: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, New Podcast Preview: A History of Central Florida."RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
Windover Burial Site, Brevard County, Florida
Maitland Research Studio, Maitland, Florida
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, RICHES Podcast Update
Update of RICHES Podcast Documentaries' Episode 2: The Legacy of the Ocoee Riot. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners. This update for Episode 2 centers on Ocoee's Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Parade in January 2012. In this podcast, Dr. Robert Cassanello interviews parade organizer Mill Maxwell, city mayor Scott Vandergrift, and Beth Vandergrift, who edited Nancy Maguire's book on the history of Ocoee, Florida.
Original 8-minute and 39-second podcast by Robert Cassanello, March 20, 2012: "RICHES Podcast Documentaries, RICHES Podcast Update." RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida.
A ticket stub for a concert featuring Rick Derringer (b. 1947) at the Great Southern Music Hall, located at 46 North Orange Avenue in Orlando, Florida, on August 19, 1978. The show began at 11 p.m. The Great Southern Music Hall, which changed its name to the Beacham Theater after renovations in 1976, was a music venue located at 46 North Orange Avenue in Downtown Orlando. The theater opened on December 9, 1921, as a vaudeville and movie theater.
Original ticket stub: Private Collection of Julie Wahl.
Great Southern Music Hall, Orlando, Florida
Rifle Drill Team at Recruit Training Center Orlando
A rifle drill team performing during the graduation of a co-educational recruit company at Naval Training Center (NTC) Orlando. NTC Orlando was in operation from 1968 to 1998 and was one of three recruit training centers used by the U.S. Navy. It resided in the area that is now the community of Baldwin Park. During the 30 years that NTC Orlando was operational, more than 650,000 men and women were transformed from civilians to sailors. Beginning in 1973, NTC Orlando became the Navy's only co-educational recruit training center. Following an intense eight week training program, the various companies would march along the vast field know as the "Grinder" and pass before the base commanders for review. This ceremony would mark the completion of their transformation from civilians to sailors.
Defense Visual Information Center, American Forces Information Service, U.S. Department of Defense
Original color photographs, 1992: National Archives at College Park, U.S. Department of Defense.
National Archives at College Park, U.S. Department of Defense
Naval Training Center Orlando, Orlando, Florida
Rita King, mermaid at Weeki Wachee Springs, holding two juvenile alligators. Along with a group of investors, Newton Perry opened Weeki Wachee Springs to the public in October of 1947. At the time, roadside attractions were becoming popular stops along Florida roadways. The attraction consisted of an amalgamation of vendors, an orchid garden, a river boat tour, as well as the star attraction: a mermaid show that took place in an underwater theater. Eventually, the May Museum of the Tropics, an "abandoned Seminole village", a show called “Birds of Prey”, and a petting zoo were added. After peaking in the 1950s and 1960s, attendance began to decline as theme parks and highways changed the dynamics of Florida's tourism. The State of Florida took over the attraction as a state park in 2008. Since then, the park has focused on appealing to a modern audience while preserving its history.
Original black and white photograph by Elmer "Sparky" Schumacher: Weeki Wachee Springs State Park Weeki Wachee, Florida.
Weeki Wachee Springs State Park, Weeki Wachee, Florida
Movie-goers in line at the Ritz Theater in 1936. Originally the Milane Theatre, the Ritz was built at 203 South Magnolia Avenue in Sanford, the former location of the Star Theatre, an abandoned movie house. Scroggs and Ewing, architects from Georgia, prepared the plans for the Milane. The name of the new theater was derived from the combination of the presidents of the Milane Amusement Company president and vice president: Frank L. Miller and Edward F. Lane. The Milane opened in July of 1923 and seated 823 patrons. In 1933, the Milane was sold to Frank and Stella Evans, investors from Lake Mary, Florida. The new owners renamed their business the Ritz Theatre and held the property until the 1990s. However, the Ritz struggled financially in the 1960s and closed in 1978 due to failure to compete with the new multiplex theaters. The building remained vacant until 1984, when it reopened as the Showtime Cantina. The Showtime Cantina closed in 1988 and remained vacant and in decay. In the mid-1990s, Ritz Community Theater Projects, Inc. acquired the property and began rehabilitation in 1998. On May 6, 2000, the theater reopened as the Helen Stairs Theatre in honor of the citizen who led the restoration project, Helen Stairs. The following year, the location was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2008, additional renovations were completed at the theater was renamed the Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center in honor of the Wayne Densch Charitable Trust Fund for contributing to the renovations fund.
Newspaper reproduction of original black and white photograph, 1936: Cities/Towns-Sanford Collection, Orange County Regional History Center, Orlando, Florida.
Ritz Theatre in 1996, before its restoration. Originally the Milane Theatre, the building was constructed at 203 South Magnolia Avenue in Sanford, the former location of the Star Theatre, an abandoned movie house. Scroggs and Ewing, architects from Georgia, prepared the plans for the Milane. The name of the new theater was derived from the combination of the presidents of the Milane Amusement Company president and vice president: Frank L. Miller and Edward F. Lane. The Milane opened in July of 1923 and seated 823 patrons. In 1933, the Milane was sold to Frank and Stella Evans, investors from Lake Mary, Florida. The new owners renamed their business the Ritz Theatre and held the property until the 1990s. However, the Ritz struggled financially in the 1960s and closed in 1978 due to failure to compete with the new multiplex theaters. The building remained vacant until 1984, when it reopened as the Showtime Cantina. The Showtime Cantina closed in 1988 and remained vacant and in decay. In the mid-1990s, Ritz Community Theater Projects, Inc. acquired the property and began rehabilitation in 1998. On May 6, 2000, the theater reopened as the Helen Stairs Theatre in honor of the citizen who led the restoration project, Helen Stairs. The following year, the location was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2008, additional renovations were completed at the theater was renamed the Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center in honor of the Wayne Densch Charitable Trust Fund for contributing to the renovations fund.
Newspaper reproduction of original color photograph by Doris Bloodwort, 1994: The Sanford Herald, June 11, 1996.
The Sanford Herald
Ritz Theatre Presents the Hit Music Godspell
Flyer for the Ritz Theater's presentation of Godspell at the Sanford Civic Center. Godspell is a musical produced by Stephen Schwartz based on a book by John Michael Tebelak. The play originally opened on Broadway on May 17, 1971. The musical consists of a series of parables based on the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke. Originally the Milane Theatre, the building was constructed at 203 South Magnolia Avenue in Sanford, the former location of the Star Theatre, an abandoned movie house. Scroggs and Ewing, architects from Georgia, prepared the plans for the Milane. The name of the new theater was derived from the combination of the presidents of the Milane Amusement Company president and vice president: Frank L. Miller and Edward F. Lane. The Milane opened in July of 1923 and seated 823 patrons. In 1933, the Milane was sold to Frank and Stella Evans, investors from Lake Mary, Florida. The new owners renamed their business the Ritz Theatre and held the property until the 1990s. However, the Ritz struggled financially in the 1960s and closed in 1978 due to failure to compete with the new multiplex theaters. The building remained vacant until 1984, when it reopened as the Showtime Cantina. The Showtime Cantina closed in 1988 and remained vacant and in decay. In the mid-1990s, Ritz Community Theater Projects, Inc. acquired the property and began rehabilitation in 1998. On May 6, 2000, the theater reopened as the Helen Stairs Theatre in honor of the citizen who led the restoration project, Helen Stairs. The following year, the location was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2008, additional renovations were completed at the theater was renamed the Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center in honor of the Wayne Densch Charitable Trust Fund for contributing to the renovations fund.
Photocopy of original flyer: Ritz Theatre Collection, Museum of Seminole County History, Sanford, Florida.
Ritz Theater in the 1930s. Originally the Milane Theatre, the Ritz was built at 203 South Magnolia Avenue in Sanford, the former location of the Star Theatre, an abandoned movie house. Scroggs and Ewing, architects from Georgia, prepared the plans for the Milane. The name of the new theater was derived from the combination of the presidents of the Milane Amusement Company president and vice president: Frank L. Miller and Edward F. Lane. The Milane opened in July of 1923 and seated 823 patrons. In 1933, the Milane was sold to Frank and Stella Evans, investors from Lake Mary, Florida. The new owners renamed their business the Ritz Theatre and held the property until the 1990s. However, the Ritz struggled financially in the 1960s and closed in 1978 due to failure to compete with the new multiplex theaters. The building remained vacant until 1984, when it reopened as the Showtime Cantina. The Showtime Cantina closed in 1988 and remained vacant and in decay. In the mid-1990s, Ritz Community Theater Projects, Inc. acquired the property and began rehabilitation in 1998. On May 6, 2000, the theater reopened as the Helen Stairs Theatre in honor of the citizen who led the restoration project, Helen Stairs. The following year, the location was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2008, additional renovations were completed at the theater was renamed the Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center in honor of the Wayne Densch Charitable Trust Fund for contributing to the renovations fund.
Photocopy of original black and white photograph: Ritz Theatre Collection, Museum of Seminole County History, Sanford, Florida.
Photograph of the Ritz Theater in the 1950s. Originally the Milane Theatre, the Ritz was built at 203 South Magnolia Avenue in Sanford, the former location of the Star Theatre, an abandoned movie house. Scroggs and Ewing, architects from Georgia, prepared the plans for the Milane. The name of the new theater was derived from the combination of the presidents of the Milane Amusement Company president and vice president: Frank L. Miller and Edward F. Lane. The Milane opened in July of 1923 and seated 823 patrons. In 1933, the Milane was sold to Frank and Stella Evans, investors from Lake Mary, Florida. The new owners renamed their business the Ritz Theatre and held the property until the 1990s. However, the Ritz struggled financially in the 1960s and closed in 1978 due to failure to compete with the new multiplex theaters. The building remained vacant until 1984, when it reopened as the Showtime Cantina. The Showtime Cantina closed in 1988 and remained vacant and in decay. In the mid-1990s, Ritz Community Theater Projects, Inc. acquired the property and began rehabilitation in 1998. On May 6, 2000, the theater reopened as the Helen Stairs Theatre in honor of the citizen who led the restoration project, Helen Stairs. The following year, the location was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2008, additional renovations were completed at the theater was renamed the Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center in honor of the Wayne Densch Charitable Trust Fund for contributing to the renovations fund.
Photocpy of original black and white photograph: Ritz Theatre Collection, Museum of Seminole County History, Sanford, Florida.
The road to Clifton Springs, a spring in Oviedo, Florida, in the early 1900s. Clifton Springs was named in honor of the hometown of Dr. Henry Foster, a wealthy grower from Lake Charm in Oviedo. Originally called White's Wharf, the site 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. 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. The road featured in this photograph is now Florida State Road (SR) 419.
Original black and white photograph: Private Collection of Bettye Reagan.
A painting by Bettye Reagan, a local artist in Central Florida, inspired by a photograph of the road to Clifton Springs, a spring in Oviedo, Florida. Clifton Springs was named in honor of the hometown of Dr. Henry Foster, a wealthy grower from Lake Charm in Oviedo. Originally called White's Wharf, the site 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. 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. The road featured in this photograph is now Florida State Road (SR) 419.
Original painting: Reagan, Bettye. Road to Clifton. 1986: Private Collection of Bettye Reagan.
A newspaper article about Robert A. Cobb in 1933. Cobb was born in Live Oak, Florida, but migrated to Sanford with his parents in January of 1910. He attended Sanford High School (present-day Seminole High School), and studied business at Southern College in Lakeland. Cobb also served as a United States Marine in the Fifth Regiment in the Second Division for a year during World War I. After returning from service, Cobb became the secretary-treasurer of the Sanford-Oviedo Truck Growers, Inc., which was founded in 1913 as a cooperative growing and shipping organization originally consisting of 14 growers in Sanford and Oviedo. His company was also one of the first vendors to lease stalls at the first Sanford State Farmers' Market when it first opened in 1934. He and his wife, Izetta Stone, resided at 313 West Fifteenth Street in Sanford with their children, Thomas A. Cobb and Frances Mae Cobb. Cobb was also a member of the Presbyterian Church, the American Legion, the Lions Club the Masons, and the Odd Fellows.
Original newspaper article: "R. A. Cobb." The Sanford Herald: Who's Who of 1933, Vol. 24, No. 157, April 29, 1933. Sanford Museum, Sanford, Florida.
Robert Floyd King and Minnie Lee King at a Black Hammock Celery Field
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.
Original black and white photograph: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.
Robert Lee Wheeler, Sr. and Martha Lenora Aulin Wheeler
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.
An engraved image of Second Lieutenant Robert Rich Mudge from an 1868 family history book entitled "Memorials: Being a Biograpbical and Historical Account of the Name of Mudge in America". He is estimated to be about twenty-five years old in this image. Robert Rich Mudge was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1810. He applied to the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, New York, three times before he was accepted in 1829. He graduated as a brevet second lieutenant four years later. In September of 1835, as a full second lieutenant, he deployed to Florida to serve in the Second Seminole War (1835-1842). Mudge served with Company B of the 2nd Artillery Regiment and fell during Dade’s Massacre on December 28, 1835. In 2017, the University of Central Florida was one of three universities selected to launch the National Cemetery Administration’s Veterans Legacy Program Project. The program engaged a team of scholars to make the life stories of veterans buried in the Florida National Cemetery available to the public. The project engages UCF students in research and writing and fosters collaboration between students, faculty and local Central Florida schools to produce interactive curriculum for K-12 students. The corresponding website exhibit uses RICHES Mosaic Interface to create a digital archive of related data. The public can use the project-developed augmented-reality app at more than 100 gravesites at the Florida National Cemetery, where they can access the UCF student-authored biographies of veterans.
Abbott, Robert S. (Robert Sengstacke), 1868-1940
A portrait of Robert Sengstacke Abbott, which is housed at the Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation, located at 640 Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Boulevard in Daytona Beach, Florida. Abbott was the founder of The Chicago Defender, the first African-American weekly newspaper. Abbott was born to formerly enslaved parents on November 24, 1870, in St. Simons Island, Georgia. After attending Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virginia, from 1892 to 1896 and graduating from Kent College of Law in Chicago, Illinois, in 1898, Abbott made several attempts to establish law officers throughout the Midwest, but was unable to due to racial prejudice. He then went on to found The Chicago Defender, which was the most widely circulated black newspaper in the country and commonly referred to as "America's Black Newspaper." Daytona Beach-based educator and civil rights activist Dr. Dr. Mary Jane McLeod Bethune also wrote weekly columns for the paper between 1948 and 1955. Abbott died of Bright's Disease in Chicago on February 29, 1940, and is buried at Lincoln Cemetery in Blue Island, Illinois.
Original 8 x 10 inch black and white photographic print: Sun room, image 175, Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation, Daytona Beach, Florida.
Three members of the Cepero family at Rock Springs Run State Reserve near Sorrento, Florida, in 1996. Photographed from left to right are Dennis Cepero (b. 1985), Laura Lynn Cepero (b. 1987), and Alicia Lynn Cepero (b. 1975). Rock Springs Run State Reserve is a state park that includes Indian mounds, pine flatwoods, swamps, and artesian springs. The site also includes Seminole Creek, Wekiwa Springs Run, Rock Springs Run, and Wekiwa River.
Original color photograph, 1996: Private Collection of Nancy Lynn Cepero.
Rock Springs Run State Reserve, Lake County, Florida
Rocket Monitoring and Launch Workstations at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14 Blockhouse
The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14 (LC-14) Blockhouse was where Mercury-Atlas rockets were launched using analog electronic equipment to monitor various aspects of the rocket. One might note that these Project Mercury workstations had no video screens, as there might be today, only analog gauges and meters to view conditions, as well as dials, switches, and buttons to issue commands to the rockets. This equipment was placed in electronics racks, similar to those used for computers in server rooms today, to save space and allow each workstation to have all the equipment to accomplish its function.
Original black and white photographic print: Private Collection of Dr. Calvin D. Fowler.
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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14 Blockhouse, Cape Canaveral, Florida
A postcard depicting the exterior of the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Built in 1929 by French architects and landscape designers, the museum houses one of the most comprehensive collections of Auguste Rodin's (1840-1917) work outside of Paris, France. The collection is administered by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This postcard is part of a collection of postcards kept by Lucile Campbell, a schoolteacher in Sanford, Florida, for 30 years. In 1931, she took advantage of a special rate for teachers and sailed to Europe, where she traveled for several months and is thought to have acquired many of these postcards. During the 1940-1941 school year, Campbell taught at Sanford Grammar School. Before her retirement in 1970, she taught at many other area schools, including the Oviedo School, Westside Grammar School, and Pinecrest Elementary School. Campbell used these postcards as aids in her classrooms to teach advanced subjects, such as Shakespearean drama. The collection, along with her other teaching aids, papers, and photographs, was later found at Sanford Grammar School after it became the University of Central Florida's Public History Center. Campbell's postcard collection and photographs provide insight into the life of a respected Florida educator.
Original 3 x 5 inch black and white postcard: ACC# SM-00-243, file folder 1 (U.S. blanks), box 10A, Lucile (Mary Lucile) Campbell Collection, UCF Public History Center, Sanford, Florida.
Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Roger Holler, Sr. with Sears, Roebuck & Company Fleet of Trucks
Roger Holler, Sr. originally worked for General Motors when he migrated to Orlando, Florida. Soon after relocating, Holler opened his own dealership with Chevrolet. In this photograph, Holler is seen wearing a cowboy hat with a fleet of Sears, Roebuck & Company trucks, possibly because he supplied the Sears store with the delivery trucks. The Sears store was located at 111-113 North Orange Avenue in Downtown Orlando, Florida. Sears moved into the first floor of Philips Apartments in 1931. Before Sears arrived, the building, as well as the city of Orlando, was experiencing economic decline. However, Sears proved so successful that the building had to expand and the property value of the entire building increased by 25 percent. In 1939, F. Monroe Alleman and Kenneth Kraft bought the Sears building for $300,000. Twenty years later, Alleman sold the building for $1.1 million, but Sears was kept open with 12 years left on its lease. In 1962, land on East Colonial Drive was bought to open a freestanding Sears store and a year later construction started. In 1973, the Sears on Colonial was incorporated with the Fashion Square Mall and it remains open today. On May 4, 1974, due to the expanding city and regional malls, the downtown Sears store closed its doors. Ten years later, the building was renovated and became what it is today, a bronze-colored glass tower nicknamed the Copper Whopper.
Original black and white photograph: Orlando Remembered Exhibit, Regions Bank, Orlando, Florida.
Sears, Roebuck & Company, Downtown Orlando, Florida
A ticket stub for a concert featuring The Rolling Stones at the Tangerine Bowl, located at 1610 West Church Street in Downtown Orlando, Florida, on October 25, 1981. The ticket was $15.60, including tax, and the show began at noon, with the doors opening at 9 a.m. with Van Halen as the opening act. The concert was promoted by Cellar Door Productions and Beach Club Productions. The Tangerine Bowl has been also known as Orlando Stadium, the Citrus Bowl, Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium and is currently known as Orlando Citrus Bowl Stadium. It opened in 1936 and has been home to numerous sporting and entertainment events throughout its existence. The Rolling Stones is a British rock and blues band formed in 1962 that has become one of the most successful musical acts of all time. The band enjoyed the height of their commercial and critical success during the 1960s and 1970s. The Rolling Stones 1981 Tour was the first time a band had a corporate sponsorship, allowing Jōvan Musk to pay them "several million dollars" to sponsor the tour without the band having to officially endorse the company. The band explained that "selling out" to corporate sponsors would help keep ticket prices down. The average ticket price was $16 and the tour grossed $50 million in tickets sales, the highest of any tour in 1981. This would be the last time the band toured the United States until 1989.
Original ticket stub: Private Collection of Carl Knickerbocker.
A postcard depicting the exterior of the Imperial Baths in Trier, Germany. Built over 1600 years ago by the Ancient Romans, the Imperial Baths are some of the largest in the world, with the hot water bath large enough to house theatre performances constituting a stage, orchestra, and 650 seats. This postcard is part of a collection of postcards kept by Lucile Campbell, a schoolteacher in Sanford, Florida, for 30 years. In 1931, she took advantage of a special rate for teachers and sailed to Europe, where she traveled for several months and is thought to have acquired many of these postcards. During the 1940-1941 school year, Campbell taught at Sanford Grammar School. Before her retirement in 1970, she taught at many other area schools, including the Oviedo School, Westside Grammar School, and Pinecrest Elementary School. Campbell used these postcards as aids in her classrooms to teach advanced subjects, such as Shakespearean drama. The collection, along with her other teaching aids, papers, and photographs, was later found at Sanford Grammar School after it became the University of Central Florida's Public History Center. Campbell's postcard collection and photographs provide insight into the life of a respected Florida educator.
Original 3 x 5 inch color photographic postcard: ACC# SM-00-243, file folder 1A (non-U.S. blanks), box 10A, Lucile (Mary Lucile) Campbell Collection, UCF Public History Center, Sanford, Florida.
A postcard depicting the Roman Bridge in Trier, Germany, which is the oldest bridge in Germany. The pilings date from 144-152, and were built with stone blocks held together with iron clamps. This postcard is part of a collection of postcards kept by Lucile Campbell, a schoolteacher in Sanford, Florida, for 30 years. In 1931, she took advantage of a special rate for teachers and sailed to Europe, where she traveled for several months and is thought to have acquired many of these postcards. During the 1940-1941 school year, Campbell taught at Sanford Grammar School. Before her retirement in 1970, she taught at many other area schools, including the Oviedo School, Westside Grammar School, and Pinecrest Elementary School. Campbell used these postcards as aids in her classrooms to teach advanced subjects, such as Shakespearean drama. The collection, along with her other teaching aids, papers, and photographs, was later found at Sanford Grammar School after it became the University of Central Florida's Public History Center. Campbell's postcard collection and photographs provide insight into the life of a respected Florida educator.
Original 3 x 5 inch color postcard: ACC# SM-00-243, file folder 1A (non-U.S. blanks), box 10A, Lucile (Mary Lucile) Campbell Collection, UCF Public History Center, Sanford, Florida.
Roofers at the Historic Oviedo Colored Schools Museum During Renovations
Roofers working on the Historic Oviedo Colored Schools Museum, previously St. James AME Church, located at 2170 James Drive in Oviedo, Florida, on February 21, 2023. The two color photographs depict the building during renovations. In 2000, Gloria Godwin and Gracia Muller Miller began talking about a reunion for the Jackson Heights Elementary School, a colored school in Oviedo during segregation. Reunion Historian, Judith Smith, began to look for artifacts from that era and struggled to locate any pictures or other information. She put the word out amongst the former students, asking to borrow photographs or other materials related to the colored school. Immediately, items began to pour in, and the result was a book entitled: “A Written and Pictorial History of the Oviedo Area Colored Schools 1890-1967, Oviedo Elementary, Jackson Heights Elementary, Geneva, Wagner, Kolokee (Snowhill), Gabriella (Jamestown).” From there, the mission was born.
2 original color photographs: RICHES, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.
Historic Oviedo Colored Schools Museum, Oviedo, Florida
Smith, J. André (Jules André), 1880-1959
Roofs and Palms by Jules André Smith. Born in 1880 to American parents in Hong Kong, raised in New York and Connecticut, and educated at Cornell University, J. André Smith worked for several years as an architect, never giving up on his first love of art. His early passion was printmaking, specifically etching. In 1915, he was awarded a gold medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, California. During World War I, Smith continued to work in both drawing and printmaking, selected as one of eight artists by the U.S. government to go to France in 1918 to record military activities. He would later publish those works in a book titled In France with the American Expeditionary Forces. While travelling to Miami in the 1930s, Smith made an unplanned stop in Maitland, Florida. Having experienced a stunning sunset on nearby Lake Sybelia, he decided to travel no further and would go on to build his winter home and studio here, which is now the Maitland Art Center. Frustrated and disappointed with the area’s lack of support for contemporary art, Smith began plans for a residential "Lab-Gallery" that would encourage artistic exploration and experimentation in a sheltered studio environment. The studio compound, later known as The Research Studio, was the winter residence of prominent American artists such as Ralston Crawford, David Burlick, Ernest Roth, Milton Avery, Arnold Blanch, Doris Lee, and Hal McIntosh. André Smith’s vision continued to thrive for over two decades under the generous financial support from his patron, philanthropist Mary Curtis Bok. Smith’s legacy is alive and well today at the Art & History Museum’s Maitland Art Center through its residency programs and exhibitions.
Original painting: Smith, Jules André. Roofs and Palms: Maitland Historical Museum, Art & History Museums - Maitland, Maitland, Florida.
Robinson Street in Downtown Orlando, Florida in 2007. The Orlando area was originally occupied by the Creek and Seminole tribes. In 1838, Fort Gatlin was erected on the shores of Lake Gatlin, just a few miles south of present-day Downtown Orlando. Centered around Church Street, Orlando became a city in 1884. Originally a cattle town, Orlando grew into a major citrus growing center by the 1920s. The city continued to grow during the Great Depression with aid from the Work Progress Administration (WPA). During World War II, Orlando became a major military center as well with the development of the McCoy Air Force Base and Pinecastle Air Force Base, and with the addition of the Naval Training Center Orlando (NTC Orlando) in 1968. Downtown Orlando declined in the 1960s and 1970s. Redevelopment began in the 1970s and continued into the 1980s, with projects such as Church Street Station. In 1998, a building boom began and continued through the 2000s.
Original color digital image by Thomas Cook, 2007 : Private Collection of Thomas Cook.
Robinson Street, Downtown Orlando, Florida
A postcard depicting theodore Roosevelt Dam in Roosevelt, Arizona. The dam was constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation of the U.S. Department of the Interior between 1903 and 1911. Located on the Salt River, the Roosevelt Dam is part of the Salt River Project and creates Theodore Roosevelt Lake. This postcard is part of a collection of postcards kept by Lucile Campbell, a schoolteacher in Sanford, Florida, for 30 years. In 1931, she took advantage of a special rate for teachers and sailed to Europe, where she traveled for several months and is thought to have acquired many of these postcards. During the 1940-1941 school year, Campbell taught at Sanford Grammar School. Before her retirement in 1970, she taught at many other area schools, including the Oviedo School, Westside Grammar School, and Pinecrest Elementary School. Campbell used these postcards as aids in her classrooms to teach advanced subjects, such as Shakespearean drama. The collection, along with her other teaching aids, papers, and photographs, was later found at Sanford Grammar School after it became the University of Central Florida's Public History Center. Campbell's postcard collection and photographs provide insight into the life of a respected Florida educator.
Original 6 x 5 inch color postcard: ACC# SM-00-243, file folder 1 (U.S. blanks), box 10A, Lucile (Mary Lucile) Campbell Collection, UCF Public History Center, Sanford, Florida.
Theodore Roosevelt Dam, Theodore, Arizona
Andvertisement for the Roper Realty Company in the Florida Polk's Orlando City Directories: Including Conway, Maitland and Winter Park for 1949. Located at 200 South Main Street (present-day Magnolia Avenue) in Downtown Orlando, Florida, Roper Realty Co. was a real estate agency during the 1940s and 1950s. Amons Andrew Rope migrated to the Orlando area in 1930, with his son, George Oliver Roper, following in 1945. Roper Realty Co. appears in city directories as early as 1946, but seems to have ceased to exist by 1956. In 1949, the business moved from its original location at 72 East Church Street to its new location on Main Street. The real estate broker, associate, and salesman for the company were Amos A. Roper, George O. Roper, and C. J. Gray, respectively. In 1961, both Roper and his son passed away.
Original advertisement, 1949: R. L. Polk & Company Florida Polk's Orlando City Directory: Including Winter Park and Orange County. Richmond, Va: R. L. Polk, 1949: Orange County Regional History Center, Orlando, Florida.
R. L. Polk & Company
Roper Realty Company, Downtown Orlando, Florida
Postcard, posted on February 5, 1909, showing the Rosalind Club located 37 North Orange Avenue in Downtown Orlando, Florida. It was constructed in 1901 in the Neo-Classical Revival style as a reproduction of the Biloxi, Mississippi home of Jefferson Davis, the first and only President of the Confederate States of America. Davis' niece, Lucy Hayes Lawrence, chose the design. The building was moved to Colonial Drive circa 1921 to make room for the Angebilt Hotel. The original owner was the Sorosis Club. In 1903, it became the home of the Rosalind Club, which was founded in 1894 as the Ladies Social Club of Orlando. The Rosalind Club remained there until 1916 when their new building was finished on the shore of Lake Eola, on the street that became Rosalind Avenue. After 1916, the building was used by the Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary Club. It was bought by M. J. Daetwyler and moved to Colonial Drive for use as an apartment house.
Original 5.5 x 3.5 inch color postcard, 1909: W. S. Branch, Orlando, Florida: Private Collection of Thomas Cook
Rosie O'Grady's Good Time Emporium, 1989
Gertrude Welsh at Rosie O'Grady's Good Time Emporium in 1989. Rosie O'Grady's was a restaurant that was once part of the Church Street Station entertainment complex in Downtown Orlando, Florida. The original site was occupied by a railroad depot built around 1883 for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL). The depot was designed by T. B. Cotter in the Queen Anne/Eclectic Victorian style and constructed by Henry B. Plant (1819-1899). The building was demolished around 1890 and the current Church Street Station Depot was constructed by the South Florida Railroad on the same lot. The site also served the Tavares, Orlando and Atlantic Railroad, and the Orlando and Winter Park Railway. In 1926, the Orlando Health/Amtrak station took over passenger operations, but Church Street Station continued to serve as a ticket outlet and freight station until 1972. In 1973, a Dixieland-theme entertainment complex was established between the railroad tracks and Garland Avenue in seven vacant buildings for $22 million. The depot itself houses retail shops. The depot was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1976 and named an Orlando Historic Landmark in 1978. In 1988, the complex was expanded to include the Church Street Exchange and the Church Street Market. The development was led by Bob Snow and Steve Fuller and sold in 1989 for $61 million. The complex peaked in the 1980s, drawing approximately 1.7 million visitors a year. Due to failure to compete with major theme parks, visitor attendance dwindled and the complex was sold in 2001, only to close shortly after.
Original color photograph, 1989: Private Collection of Nancy Lynn Cepero.
Rosie O'Grady's Good Time Emporium, 1992
Rosie O'Grady's Good Time Emporium in 1992. The siblings pictured in the photograph are, from left to right: David Cepero (b. 1978), Dennis Cepero (b. 1986), Laura Lynn Cepero (b. 1987), and Alicia Lynn Cepero (b. 1975). Gertrude Welsh, the great-aunt of the children, is standing in the back. Rosie O'Grady's was a restaurant that was once part of the Church Street Station entertainment complex in Downtown Orlando, Florida. The original site was occupied by a railroad depot built around 1883 for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL). The depot was designed by T. B. Cotter in the Queen Anne/Eclectic Victorian style and constructed by Henry B. Plant (1819-1899). The building was demolished around 1890 and the current Church Street Station Depot was constructed by the South Florida Railroad on the same lot. The site also served the Tavares, Orlando and Atlantic Railroad, and the Orlando and Winter Park Railway. In 1926, the Orlando Health/Amtrak station took over passenger operations, but Church Street Station continued to serve as a ticket outlet and freight station until 1972. In 1973, a Dixieland-theme entertainment complex was established between the railroad tracks and Garland Avenue in seven vacant buildings for $22 million. The depot itself houses retail shops. The depot was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1976 and named an Orlando Historic Landmark in 1978. In 1988, the complex was expanded to include the Church Street Exchange and the Church Street Market. The development was led by Bob Snow and Steve Fuller and sold in 1989 for $61 million. The complex peaked in the 1980s, drawing approximately 1.7 million visitors a year. Due to failure to compete with major theme parks, visitor attendance dwindled and the complex was sold in 2001, only to close shortly after.
Original color photograph by Nancy Lynn Cepero, 1992: Private Collection of Nancy Lynn Cepero.
Rotarians Hear Report on Four-Rivers Basin: Engineer Discusses Lake Apopka
A newspaper article from The Winter Garden Times describing remarks made by Dale Twachtmann to the Winter Garden Rotary Club. At the meeting, Twachtmann, an engineer, discussed the various sources of pollution entering Lake Apopka. Twachtmann also described future engineering efforts for Lake Apopka and the surrounding area, including plans to raise the water level of the lake by a foot, as well as the dikes surrounding the muck farms will be enlarged to six feet above the water line.
Photocopy of original newspaper article: "Rotarians Hear Report on Four-Rivers Basin: Engineer Discusses Lake Apopka." The Winter Garden Times, May 11, 1967: binder 1967, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, Oakland Nature Preserve, Oakland, Florida.
Routing Slip from R. Van Camp (November 14, 1983)
A routing slip from R. Van Camp, manager of the Downtown Orlando Post Office. In the rout slip, Van Camp discusses office assistance of city routes. The content of the routing slip provides the guidelines for office assistance to the city routes. The original post office was housed in the Federal Building, located 44 East Central Boulevard in Downtown Orlando, Florida, from 1917 to 1941. In 1935, when James D. Beggs, Jr. became the postmaster, he began petitioning to move the post office from its Central Boulevard and Court Avenue location to a more spacious building. In 1939, St. James Catholic Church sold a plot of land of Jefferson Street for the new building. The building was designed by Louis A. Simon in the Northern Italian Palazzo Revival-style, and was constructed by J. P. Cullen & Son. The new building opened in 1941 and housed the post office, the courthouse, and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) offices. The building was named an Orlando Historic Landmark in 1989. However, it was eventually sold back to the St. James Church. In 2003, the building was renovated and came under joint ownership by both the church and the federal government. Today, the building retains its post office services but also includes offices for the Catholic Diocese.
Original routing slip by R. Van Camp, November 14, 1983: Private Collection of Texann Ivy Buck.
Downtown Orlando Post Office, Downtown Orlando, Florida
Routing Slip to Lucius A. Bryant, Jr. (December 14, 1966)
A routing slip addressed to Orlando Postmaster Lucius A. Bryant, Jr. (ca. 1919-2012) regarding a visit by Germain Gerin to the Downtown Orlando Post Office in Downtown Orlando, Florida. Gerin, an employee of a post office in Paris, was visiting her son, John Gerin, for Christmas. John was a French exchange student studying at Bishop Moore High School and living with Richard Rupp's family. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, Bryant settled in Orlando's College Park neighborhood. At the time of his death in 2012, Bryant was the longest-serving postmaster for Orlando, a position that he held from 1951 to 1983. In 1952, William Beardall (1890-1984) appointed Bryant to the local aviation advisory board, which he served on for 22 years.
Original routing slip to Lucius A. Bryant, Jr., December 14, 1966: Private Collection of Texann Ivy Buck.
The Rovin' Flames at the Safety Village, U.S.A. theme park in Tampa, Florida, in 1966. Safety Village, U.S.A. was the City of Tampa's 1965 Christmas gift to the children of the city. Located at 7550 North Boulevard, it was a child-size town located next to Fairyland, a popular amusement park, that was designed to train pre-school children and first and second grade children in traffic, home, personal, and fire safety habits. The Rovin' Flames were formed in Tampa in 1965 by Paul Battle (rhythm guitar and vocals), Jimmy "Mouse" Morris (lead guitar), J. R. Maietta (bass) and Jerry Goff (drums). They recorded "Gloria/J.J.J.P." in September 1965 on Fuller Records and recorded their second record, "I Can't/I'm Afraid to Go Home," on Boss records in March of 1966. Hardy Dial, from The Outsiders/Soul Trippers, was added on lead vocals in the summer of 1966, and the group recorded "Bo Diddley/Seven Million People" in June of 1966. Battle, Goff, and Dial left the group in September of 1966 and were replaced by Jim Davis (vocals), Davy Tabak (drums) and John Rogers (organ). Davis left in December of 1966 and Battle briefly returned as lead vocalist, before being replaced by John DeLise, also of The Outsiders/Soul Trippers, in February of 1967. The group replaced Tabak with Eddie Taylor on drums in July of 1967, and recorded "How Many Times/Love Song No. 6" in September of 1967 on Decca Records. Although DeLise lasted longer than most of the band's lead vocalists, he left the group in less than a year, being replaced by Bob Thompson in November of 1967. Rogers passed away in March of 1968, and Thompson and Taylor left the group, being replaced by Jay Colding (organ), Jerry Nickerson (drums) and Ronnie Goedert (lead vocals), in July of 1968. Goedert left shortly thereafter in the fall of 1968, and was replaced by Hobie O'Brien, who remained the lead vocalist until the band broke up in January or February of 1969.
Original black and white photograph: Profiles: Bands & Artists, Tampa Bay Music Scene Historical Society.
The Rovin' Flames, taken between September and December of 1966. The Rovin' Flames were formed in Tampa in 1965 by Paul Battle (rhythm guitar and vocals), Jimmy "Mouse" Morris (lead guitar), J. R. Maietta (bass) and Jerry Goff (drums). They recorded "Gloria/J.J.J.P." in September 1965 on Fuller Records and recorded their second record, "I Can't/I'm Afraid to Go Home," on Boss records in March of 1966. Hardy Dial, from The Outsiders/Soul Trippers, was added on lead vocals in the summer of 1966, and the group recorded "Bo Diddley/Seven Million People" in June of 1966. Battle, Goff, and Dial left the group in September of 1966 and were replaced by Jim Davis (vocals), Davy Tabak (drums) and John Rogers (organ). Davis left in December of 1966 and Battle briefly returned as lead vocalist, before being replaced by John DeLise, also of The Outsiders/Soul Trippers, in February of 1967. The group replaced Tabak with Eddie Taylor on drums in July of 1967, and recorded "How Many Times/Love Song No. 6" in September of 1967 on Decca Records. Although DeLise lasted longer than most of the band's lead vocalists, he left the group in less than a year, being replaced by Bob Thompson in November of 1967. Rogers passed away in March of 1968, and Thompson and Taylor left the group, being replaced by Jay Colding (organ), Jerry Nickerson (drums) and Ronnie Goedert (lead vocals), in July of 1968. Goedert left shortly thereafter in the fall of 1968, and was replaced by Hobie O'Brien, who remained the lead vocalist until the band broke up in January or February of 1969.
Original black and white photograph, 1966: Profiles: Bands & Artists, Tampa Bay Music Scene Historical Society.
The Old Orlando Railroad Depot, located at 127 West Church Street in Orlando, Florida, in the 1970s. The station was first constructed in 1880 connecting Orlando to Sanford. After the railroad was bought up by the Plant System in 1883 from the South Florida Railroad, it was extended to Tampa. This brought a large boom to Orlando's economy shipping cattle and lumber, but chiefly citrus. By 1926, the depot was becoming too small for the volume of trade going through, so the depot was moved south to what is today the Amtrak Station. The depot became run down until the mid-1970s when Church Street Station opened up around the depot and stayed open until the early 2000s. Now the station is used as a stop along the SunRail Tram system.
Digital reproduction of original 7 x 10 inch black and white photograph: Prints Collection, call number PR13725, Florida Photographic Collection, State Library and Archives of Florida, Tallahassee, Florida.
State Library and Archives of Florida
Church Street Station, Downtown Orlando, Florida
Rural Clean-Up Failures: Deterioration of Lake Apopka Attributed to Introduction of 'Excessive Enrichments'
A newspaper article written by O. E. Frye, Jr., who was the director of the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission. In the article, Frye discusses the deterioration of Lake Apopka and attributes this to eutrophication, occurring from nutrients entering the lake from various sources such as agricultural run-off and sewage waste. The article also discusses a die-off of alligators, fish, and turtles in 1971. Specimens were sent to University of Georgia School of Veterinary Medicine, and the cause of death was found to be aeromonas liquefaciens, a pathogenic bacteria. Lake Apopka is one of Florida’s largest lakes and was once considered to be one of the world’s best lakes for bass fishing. The lake’s sport fish population began to decline in the 1960s, with major die-offs occurring almost yearly. The lake’s problems are generally considered to be the result of over-nutrification from various sources. Twenty thousand acres of wetlands bordering the lake’s north shore were drained in the 1940s and used for highly fertile “muck farms.” These farms were routinely flooded to protect the fragile soil, and the fertilizer and pesticide-laden water was then discharged back into the lake prior to each growing season. Other sources of pollution include discharge from citrus processing operations, as well as treated wastewater from sewage plants. The nutrient-rich discharge promoted algae growth in the lake, turning the water to a green color, and blocked sunlight from reaching aquatic vegetation, which provided food and habit to the lake’s fish population. The lake’s bottom soil became increasingly “mucky,” also disrupting aquatic vegetation from taking root. Restoration work on the lake began in the 1960s with attempts by various agencies to remove “trash fish,” such as gizzard shad, from the lake via seining, which would hopefully allow the lake’s sport fish to thrive. The Lake Apopka Restoration Council, an initiative formed under Governor Claude Kirk (1926-2011) in 1967, launched several studies to find methods to improve the lake, though no serious action was taken. Various methods were debated to restore the lake through the 1970s and 1980s, including “drawdown,” which entailed completely draining the lake to allow the mucky bottom to consolidate. Restoration attempts were stalled for lack of funding and research. The Lake Apopka Restoration Council was reformed in 1985 under Governor Bob Graham (b. 1936), and, in 1987, the Surface Water and Improvement Management Act was passed. Together, these actions allowed comprehensive restoration plans to take shape, such as the Marsh Flow-way, a project by the St John’s Water Management District that uses natural methods to remove nutrients from the lake. The Friends of Lake Apopka, a citizen environmental advocacy group, began to push for further restoration efforts in the 1990s. The lake’s north shore muck farms were eventually purchased by the State of Florida, helping to reduce the amount of nutrient entering the lake.
Photocopy of original newspaper article: Frye, O. E., Jr. "Rural Clean-Up Failures: Deterioration of Lake Apopka Attributed To Introduction of Excessive Enrichments." The Palatka Daily News, February 16, 1972: binder 1972, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, Oakland Nature Preserve, Oakland, Florida.
The Palatka Daily News
According to its website, "The Rural Heritage Center engages families and community in cultural and educational experiences by preserving rural traditions which teach lessons for present and future generations."
Island & Village of Geneva Rural Heritage Center, Inc.
Historic Geneva School House 101 East Main Street Geneva, Florida 32732
Russ Mattress and Manufacturing Company Fan
A fan advertising the Russ Mattress and Manufacturing Company that was located at 1122 West Church Street in Orlando, Florida. The front of the fan shows a winter scene with snow-covered houses and a U.S. Patent number # 1655229. The fan was produced by the U. O. Colson Company of Paris, Illinois. The patent for the fan was applied for by Frank H. Klie in 1927 and granted on January 3, 1928.
Original fan: U. O. Colson Company, Paris, Illinois: Private Collection of Thomas Cook.
Ruth Kanner's Fifth Grade Class at Sanford Grammar School, 1921-1922
Ruth Kanner's fifth grade class at Sanford Grammar School during the 1921-1922 school year. In the first row on the far left is Kanner with Principal Clara Millen photographed on the far right. One student identified is Frankie DeBose, pictured as the third male student from the left in the last row. This class would eventually become the Sanford High School Class of 1929. Originally located at 301 West Seventh Street in Sanford, Florida, Sanford Grammar School was first established as Sanford High School in 1902. The building was designed by W. G. Talley in the Romanesque revival style. Due to an increasing student population, a new school building was constructed on Sanford Avenue in 1911. The original building on Seventh Street served as Westside Grammar Elementary School, which was later renamed Sanford Grammar School. In 1984, the building was placed on the National Registry of Historic Places and converted into the Student Museum. The building reopened as the University of Central Florida's Public History Center in 2012. In 1927, a high school campus was designed by Elton J. Moughton in the Mediterranean revival style and constructed at 1700 French Avenue. The school reopened on January 10 and was renamed Seminole High School. In 1960, the high school moved to a new campus at 2701 Ridgewood Avenue and the former building on French Avenue was converted to Sanford Junior High School, which was later renamed Sanford Middle School. The old building was demolished in the summer of 1991 and replaced by a $5.77 million school complex. As of 2013, Seminole High School offers various Advanced Placement courses, the Academy for Health Careers, and the International Baccalaureate Programme for students.
Original 9.5 x 7 inch black and white photograph: Sanford Grammar Collection, Archives Box 4B, UCF Public History Center, Sanford, Florida.
Sanford Grammar School, Sanford, Florida
Ruth King sings to a crowd of people at Julius "July" Perry's gravesite in Greenwood Cemetery in Orlando, Florida, on November 3, 2018. The Alliance for Truth and Justice (ATJ) is a volunteer-based organization that engages with the community to promote education concerning the truth of local history and to advocate justice for those who have been harmed by inequities born of prejudice. ATJ builds on the work of Montgomery-based Equal Justice Initiative as well as the local efforts of Democracy Forum, the West Orange Reconciliation Task Force, and the Ocoee Human Relations Diversity Board. This project is rooted in acknowledging the 1920 Election Day Massacre in Orange County and all of the violence committed in the name of white supremacy. Their mission statement says that they are "working to create a more hopeful, collaborative, and just society for every person in Orange County, Florida."
Original color photograph by Willie J. Allen Jr.: Alliance for Truth and Justice, Orange County, Florida.
The Rutland Building, located at 63 North Orange Avenue in Downtown Orlando, Florida, in 2002. The original two-story structure was designed by F. Earl Deloe in the Art Moderne-style for Joseph Rutland's menswear store in 1941. In 1952, three additional stories were added. Rutland's closed its downtown store in the late 1960s, but remained open in the Colonial Plaza Shopping Center.
Original color digital image by Thomas Cook, 2002: Private Collection of Thomas Cook.
Rutland Building, Downtown Orlando, Florida
Joseph Rutland's Menswear Store, Downtown Orlando, Florida
A newspaper article from Florida Magazine, republished by The Orlando Sentinel, discussing the restoration efforts for Lake Apopka. The article summarizes the past history of the lake as a sportfishing center and then discusses the fish kills of the 1960s. The article identifies the sources of pollution entering the lake as the citrus industry, sewage processing, farm discharge, septic drainfields, and natural sources entering through Gourd Neck Springs. The article then details the efforts to restore the lake by the Lake Apopka Technical Committee, formed by Governor Claude R. Kirk, Jr. (1926-2011), with C. W. Sheffield serving as chairman. Of note here is the article's summarization of the committee's restoration projects: improved treatment of sewage and citrus discharge, reducing nutrient inflow, isolation of the muck farms and treatment of farm discharge, isolation of the Gourd Neck Springs area to provide a basin to be used in mud consolidation experiments, improvement of fish habits in the lake through fish cribs and other methods, a lake drawdown to help consolidate the bottom mud, and creation of a shoreline buffer zone using trees and other vegetation.
Photocopy of republished magazine article: Rider, Don. "Rx for Lake Apopka." The Orlando Sentinel, January 21, 1968: binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, Oakland Nature Preserve, Oakland, Florida.
Florida Magazine
The Orlando Sentinel
S. H. Kress & Company Building Floor Plans
The floor plans for the Kress Building, located at 15 West Church Street in Downtown Orlando, Florida, in 2001. The plans include marquise, plaster ceilo grilles, and plaster plans. S. H. Kress & Company is a chain of retail department stores founded by Samuel H. Kress in 1896. The building was designed with Art Deco details by Edward F. Sibbert, built by the G .A. Miller Company in 1930, and opened in 1936. The Kress store vacated the building in 1975. The Church Street portion of building housed King Henry's Feast, a dinner attraction, before it relocated to International Drive. After the restaurant left, this section of the building housed several stores and dining establishments. In 1978, the Kress Building was named an Orlando Historic Landmark.
Original color digital images by Thomas Cook, 2001: Private Collection of Thomas Cook.
Kress Building, Downtown Orlando, Florida
S. H. Kress & Company, Downtown Orlando, Florida
King Henry's Feast, Downtown Orlando, Florida
Postcard with a picture of the home of S. R. Averill in Zephyrhills, Florida. Averill previously lived in Pennsylvania before settling in Florida. The printed text next to the photo of the home reads, "We landed here the 26th of October, 1911. Moved in our new house in January 1912
have 2 1/2 acres cleared of roots and stumps
forty rods west of city limits on a twenty acre tract
straddling a small beautiful lake. We are planting our third garden at this writing, January 1913
we are having for the table the following (Goodies): Strawberries, lettuce, onions, radishes, celery, beats, cabbage, turnips, rutabagas, tomatoes, and cucumbers. This picture was taken by a friend unbeknown to us. Excuse my shirt sleeves. House 24x24
porch 10x56 feet. We are having out after dinner chat and smoke. Member of J. A. Garfield Post No. 38, Dep't of Florida, late of Company F. 13th Pa. Vol. Cav." On the back is a handwritten message which reads, "Looks [...] different now many trees [etc.]. [...] is a snap shot we did not know it was taken until long afterwards. The [...] yard is about 125 feet-sq. [...] a few roses and many of the [...] several fruit [...] trees. [...] grape vines, bananas, tangerines, guava, kumquat, and lemon trees." This postcard is part of a private collection kept by Roger Hipel of St. Cloud, Florida.
Original 5 x 3 black and white postcard: Private Collection of Roger Hipel.
The Kress Building, located at 15 West Church Street in Downtown Orlando, Florida, in 2001. S. H. Kress & Company is a chain of retail department stores founded by Samuel H. Kress in 1896. The building was designed with Art Deco details by Edward F. Sibbert, built by the G. A. Miller Company in 1930, and opened in 1936. The Kress store vacated the building in 1975. The Church Street portion of building housed King Henry's Feast, a dinner attraction, before it relocated to International Drive. After the restaurant left, this section of the building housed several stores and dining establishments. In 1978, the Kress Building was named an Orlando Historic Landmark.
Original color digital image by Thomas Cook, 2001: Private Collection of Thomas Cook.
A newspaper article published in The Airscout's Snapshot on October 2, 1918. The column, entitled "S.O.L.", was devoted to “real, honest-to-gosh photographers.” A notable soldier mentioned in the article is James Normal Ball (1890-1940), who the columnist jokes "wishes to meet his wife in New York City" because she would possibly "like to meet some of [his] 'girl friends' in Rochester." With the creation of the United States Army School of Aerial Photography at Kodak Park in Rochester, New York, commanding officer Captain Charles F. Betz approved the publication of The Airscout’s Snapshot as the school’s official paper. Produced weekly on Saturday by the soldier-students at Kodak Park, military officials believed the paper would contribute to the interest and efficiency of the school. For news columns, The Snapshot produced “short, pointed items, written without malice,” as every item became a ‘snapshot.’ All news published in the newspaper had to be censored by Captain Betz, as contributors could not submit questionable items. The newspaper ran from June 1, 1918 to December 4, 1918. James Norman Ball was born in College Park, New York. After the death of his mother in 1899, Ball lived in an orphanage in Paterson, New Jersey. He eventually lived in the home of William and Sarah Speer in Paterson, where he worked as a stenographer by 1910. Soon after, Ball moved to Jacksonville, Florida, where he met and married Irene Elizabeth O’Hagan on June 21, 1914. During World War I, the Army inducted Ball on April 13, 1918, as he served at Army School of Aerial Photography in Rochester, New York. Aerial photography had become an important new tool for gathering military intelligence. Ball remained in Rochester during the duration of the war and afterwards until his honorable discharge on January 1, 1919. After the war, Ball returned to Florida, where he and his wife Irene raised three children: William Edward Ball, Irene Marguerite Ball, and James Thomas Ball. The Ball family eventually moved to Sebring, Barstow and Tampa, Florida, where James was active in the American Legion, the local Elks Lodge, and the Forty and Eight organizations. Ball died on May 22, 1940, in Tampa, and is buried in the Bay Pines National Cemetery in Saint Petersburg, Florida, in Section 4 Row 4 Site 16. In 2017, the University of Central Florida was one of three universities selected to launch the National Cemetery Administration’s Veterans Legacy Program Project. The program engaged a team of scholars to make the life stories of veterans buried in the Florida National Cemetery available to the public. The project engages UCF students in research and writing and fosters collaboration between students, faculty and local Central Florida schools to produce interactive curriculum for K-12 students. The corresponding website exhibit uses RICHES Mosaic Interface to create a digital archive of related data. The public can use the project-developed augmented-reality app at more than 100 gravesites at the Florida National Cemetery, where they can access the UCF student-authored biographies of veterans.
Digital reproduction of original newspaper article: "S.O.L." The Airscout's Snapshot, October 2, 1918: Rochester Public Library Local History Division Historic Newspapers Collection.
SA-500F Full-Scale Saturn V Mock Up at John F. Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
Before rolling a functional Apollo-Saturn launch vehicle, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) used a full-scale mock up made from "boilerplate" parts to test assembly and rolling the rocket to the pad. SA-500F also was used for a propellant transfer "wet" test although the rocket was inert. The foreground of the photograph shows the propellant tank farm and water pressure systems.
Original black and white photographic print, June 28, 1966: Private Collection of Dr. Calvin D. Fowler.
John F. Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A, Merritt Island, Florida
A t-shirt for the bar/nightclub Saint & Sinners Pub. The pub is part of Bruce Rossmeyer's Destination Daytona Complex, which is an internationally recognized commercial and residential real estate complex in Ormond Beach, Florida. In addition to Saints & Sinners, the complex includes Rossmeyer's Harley-Davidson showroom, several retail shops, restaurants, and a luxury hotel. The complex is a popular tourist destination, especially during Daytona's Bike Week. The Saints & Sinners Pub is located at 1635 North U.S. Highway 1.
Original color digital images: Private Collection of Mick Dolan.
Saints & Sinners Pub, Ormond Beach, Florida
A t-shirt for the bar/nightclub Saint &amp
Sinners Pub. The pub is part of Bruce Rossmeyer's Destination Daytona Complex, which is an internationally recognized commercial and residential real estate complex in Ormond Beach, Florida. In addition to Saints &amp
Sinners, the complex includes Rossmeyer's Harley-Davidson showroom, several retail shops, restaurants, and a luxury hotel. The complex is a popular tourist destination, especially during Daytona's Bike Week. The Saints &amp
Sinners Pub is located at 1635 North U.S. Highway 1.
Sally Ann Furnace Manor House and Furnace Store Postcard
A postcard depicting the exterior of the Sally Ann Furnace Manor House and Furnace Store, which was in operation from 1791 to 1881 in Rockland Township, Pennsylvania. Now called the Sally Ann Furnace Complex, the site was added on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1976. This postcard is part of a collection of postcards kept by Lucile Campbell, a schoolteacher in Sanford, Florida, for 30 years. In 1931, she took advantage of a special rate for teachers and sailed to Europe, where she traveled for several months and is thought to have acquired many of these postcards. During the 1940-1941 school year, Campbell taught at Sanford Grammar School. Before her retirement in 1970, she taught at many other area schools, including the Oviedo School, Westside Grammar School, and Pinecrest Elementary School. Campbell used these postcards as aids in her classrooms to teach advanced subjects, such as Shakespearean drama. The collection, along with her other teaching aids, papers, and photographs, was later found at Sanford Grammar School after it became the University of Central Florida's Public History Center. Campbell's postcard collection and photographs provide insight into the life of a respected Florida educator.
Original 3 x 5 inch color postcard: ACC# SM-00-243, file folder 1 (U.S. blanks), box 10A, Lucile (Mary Lucile) Campbell Collection, UCF Public History Center, Sanford, Florida.
Sally Ann Furnace Manor House and Furnace Store, Rockland Township, Pennsylvania
The 1910 Salmagundi was the first yearbook for Sanford High School. The yearbook was named after a Native American word meaning "a general mixture." Carrie Lovell was the editor-in-chief of the Salmagundi, which cost fifteen cents. It has 40 pages, six of which make up the advertisement section. Topics of interest in the yearbook include student writings, such as "American Endeavor Rules the World." There is a social section, as well as an athletic section, which discusses creating an athletic association at Sanford High School. Some photographss are featured of Sanford High School: the view from the top of the school, the graduating seniors, and the junior class in formal attire. Sanford High School was originally established at 301 West Seventh Street in Sanford, Florida, in 1902. The building was designed by W. G. Talley in the Romanesque revival style. Due to an increasing student population, a new school building was constructed on Sanford Avenue in 1911. The original building on Seventh Street served as Westside Grammar Elementary School, which was later renamed Sanford Grammar School. In 1984, the building was placed on the National Registry of Historic Places and converted into the Student Museum. The building reopened as the University of Central Florida's Public History Center in 2012. In 1927, a high school campus was designed by Elton J. Moughton in the Mediterranean revival style and constructed at 1700 French Avenue. The school reopened on January 10 and was renamed Seminole High School. In 1960, the high school moved to a new campus at 2701 Ridgewood Avenue and the former building on French Avenue was converted to Sanford Junior High School, which was later renamed Sanford Middle School. The old building was demolished in the summer of 1991 and replaced by a $5.77 million school complex. As of 2013, Seminole High School offers various Advanced Placement courses, the Academy for Health Careers, and the International Baccalaureate Programme for students.
Original yearbook: Salmagundi, Vol. I, No. 1 (Sanford, FL: Irving Literary Society of Sanford High School, 1910).
Irving Literary Society of Sanford High School
The 1914 Salmagundi yearbook for Sanford High School. The yearbook was named for the Native American word meaning "a general mixture." Alice Coffee was the editor-in-chief of the Salmagundi for the 1913-1914 school year, which cost fifteen cents. It has 69 pages, 21 of which make up the advertisement section. Topics of interest in the yearbook include student writings, such as "Farming in Florida." There is a local, as well as a social section. Alumni notes give information about graduates of Sanford High School. The athletic section features the boys and girls basketball teams, and a thank you to the county board and superintendent for the funds to build a basketball court. Some photographs feature of Sanford High School, the primary school, Sanford farming, each class, and the boys basketball team. Student art work is featured throughout the Salmagundi. Sanford High School was originally established at 301 West Seventh Street in Sanford, Florida, in 1902. The building was designed by W. G. Talley in the Romanesque revival style. Due to an increasing student population, a new school building was constructed on Sanford Avenue in 1911. The original building on Seventh Street served as Westside Grammar Elementary School, which was later renamed Sanford Grammar School. In 1984, the building was placed on the National Registry of Historic Places and converted into the Student Museum. The building reopened as the University of Central Florida's Public History Center in 2012. In 1927, a high school campus was designed by Elton J. Moughton in the Mediterranean revival style and constructed at 1700 French Avenue. The school reopened on January 10 and was renamed Seminole High School. In 1960, the high school moved to a new campus at 2701 Ridgewood Avenue and the former building on French Avenue was converted to Sanford Junior High School, which was later renamed Sanford Middle School. The old building was demolished in the summer of 1991 and replaced by a $5.77 million school complex. As of 2013, Seminole High School offers various Advanced Placement courses, the Academy for Health Careers, and the International Baccalaureate Programme for students.
Original yearbook: Salmagundi, Vol. V, No. 1 (Sanford, FL: Literary and Debating Societies, 1914): Sanford High School Collection, box 1, Salmagundi 1914, UCF Public History Center, Sanford, Florida.
Literary and Debating Societies of Sanford High School
The 1915 Salmagundi yearbook for Sanford High School. The yearbook was named after the Native American word meaning "a general mixture." Ethel Hickson was the editor-in-chief of the Salmagundi for the 1913-1914 school year, which cost fifteen cents. It has 52 pages, 12 of which make up the advertisement section. Topics of interest in the yearbook include student writings, such as "The Interesting Features of Florida." There is a local section and a social section. The societies section introduces two clubs to Sanford High: the Irving Literary Society and the Boys Debating Society. The yearbook also features student art and poetry. The athletics section features basketball and football. The alumni notes give information about graduates of Sanford High School. Some of the photographs include Sanford High School, Sanford Grammar School, the primary school, each class, and the boys basketball team. Sanford High School was originally established at 301 West Seventh Street in Sanford, Florida, in 1902. The building was designed by W. G. Talley in the Romanesque revival style. Due to an increasing student population, a new school building was constructed on Sanford Avenue in 1911. The original building on Seventh Street served as Westside Grammar Elementary School, which was later renamed Sanford Grammar School. In 1984, the building was placed on the National Registry of Historic Places and converted into the Student Museum. The building reopened as the University of Central Florida's Public History Center in 2012. In 1927, a high school campus was designed by Elton J. Moughton in the Mediterranean revival style and constructed at 1700 French Avenue. The school reopened on January 10 and was renamed Seminole High School. In 1960, the high school moved to a new campus at 2701 Ridgewood Avenue and the former building on French Avenue was converted to Sanford Junior High School, which was later renamed Sanford Middle School. The old building was demolished in the summer of 1991 and replaced by a $5.77 million school complex. As of 2013, Seminole High School offers various Advanced Placement courses, the Academy for Health Careers, and the International Baccalaureate Programme for students.
Original yearbook: Salmagundi, Vol. VI, No. 1 (Sanford, FL: Literary and Debating Societies, 1915): Sanford High School Collection, box 1, Salmagundi 1915, UCF Public History Center, Sanford, Florida.