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| Floridiana on the Web is a unique and dynamic
website devoted to the history and culture of Florida, focusing
primarily on the Tampa Bay Region. "Floridiana" provides resources
for Florida students ranging from kindergarten to the university
level, as well as for scholars of any age, anywhere, who have an
interest in the history of Florida. It includes images, documents,
E-Books, and audio & video recordings drawn from collections held
throughout the USF Libraries. |
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| Florida Historical Quarterly is the online
version of Florida Historical Quarterly, the academic journal of
the Florida Historical Society. The Quarterly has served to expand
understanding of Florida's historical development and offers a
broad spectrum of articles in scholarly research and appreciation
for the peoples, places, themes, and diversity of Florida's past.
The Quarterly through 2003 is available online and most issues
are fulltext searchable. Continuous Work is underway to place the
more recent issues online as well. |
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| Koreshan State Historic Site Collection is
a digital photo-album documenting the Koreshan State Historic Site,
one of Florida's state parks and a cultural heritage site. Koreshan
State Historic Site is the former home of a unique group of late
19th century pioneers who built a utopian community, a "New
Jerusalem," on the banks of the Estero River in southwest
Florida. |
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| Linking Florida's Natural Heritage:
Science and Citizenry is a project funded by the Institute of Museum
and Library Services to create a virtual library of Florida ecological
information from heterogeneous museum, library, and citation databases
throughout the state of Florida. This is a model program of cooperation
between the Florida Museum of Natural History; the libraries of
the University of Florida, Florida International University, and
Florida Atlantic University; and the Florida Center for Library
Automation. Museum specimen databases, library catalogs, and other
citation databases can be queried for taxonomic and topical information
from the LFNH website. The
Florida Environments Online database is searchable through
this site. |
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| Literature for Children is a collection of
the treasures of children's literature published largely in the
United States and Great Britain from before 1850 to beyond 1950.
At the core of this Collection are books from the Baldwin Library
of Historical Children's Literature, housed in the Department of
Special Collections and Area Studies at the University of Florida.
Books from the Departments of Special Collections at the Florida
Atlantic University, Florida State University, and the University
of South Florida join volumes from the Baldwin Library to complete
the Collection. |
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| The Miami Metropolitan Archive is
a cooperative effort of the Urban, Regional & Local Government
Documents Department at Florida International University Libraries
and the City of Miami City Clerk's Office to provide digital access
to important source materials on Miami-Dade County urban development.
Currently, early City of Miami City Council meeting minutes, charters,
departmental annual reports, and planning documents from 1896 to
1966 are archived here with more collections and services to come. |
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| Mile Markers is a community photo album depicts
the diverse cultural history and economic development of the Florida
Keys (1880-present). Early industries such as sponging, shark fishing,
turtle canning, and cigar manufacturing are present as well as
the unique architecture, sea, sun, fishing, and fun often associated
with Keys vacations. Images of the building of Flagler's Florida
East Coast Railway, construction of the Overseas Highway, presidential
visits, the founding of the Conch Republic, the Mariel Boat Lift,
and the aftermath of devastating hurricanes are also searchable
here. |
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| Psychological Study of the Arts explores
literary questions using psychology, often psychoanalytic psychology.
The materials collected here address such questions as, Why does
this writer write the way he or she does? Why do different people
read differently, as they do? How can we understand such-and-such
a character or genre psychologically? They deal with the processes
of perception, memory, word recognition, cognitive development,
metaphor, and personal identity in both the creation and reading
of literature. The concepts explored have natural extensions to
media other than words on paper, to film, video, the visual arts,
and so on. |
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| Reclaiming the Everglades documents
the history of the Everglades and the south Florida environment
from 1884-1934. The digitized items represent a rich diversity
of unique or rare materials: personal correspondence, essays, typescripts,
reports and memos; photographs, maps and postcards; and publications
from individuals and the government. The collection is a collaboration
between the libraries at the University of Miami, Florida International
University, and the Historical Museum of Southern Florida. Reclaiming
the Everglades is an LC/Ameritech award-winning collection, also
available through the Library of Congress's American
Memory. |
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| The Ringling Collection is comprised of cabinet
cards, postcards and photographs of 19th Century American and British
actors and actresses. There are more than 6,000 images in this
digital collection depicting more than 3,000 actors and actresses.
The Collection is important not simply for its pictures of the
idols of a bye-gone era but for its depictions of clothing, hair
styles, and other indicators of the period's social mores and attitudes.
The original collection is housed in the Belknap Collection for
the Performing Arts in the Smathers Libraries' Department of Special
Collections at the University of Florida. |
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| The Sanborn® Fire Insurance Company Maps of Florida comprise
a collection of more than 300 bibliographic units in more than
3,000 map sheets. The maps were mainly designed to help fire insurance
agents determine the degree of damage to a property and show accurate
information to help them determine risks and establish premiums.
Along with fire stations, you could also find water facilities,
sprinklers, hydrants, cisterns, and alarm boxes as well as firewalls,
windows, doors, elevators and chimneys and roof types. The maps
included street names, property boundaries and lot lines, and house
and block numbers. |
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| Sanibel Island History Collection documents
the historical development of the people, institutions and natural
environment of Sanibel Island, a barrier island on the southwest
Florida coast. |
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| Southwest Florida is a collection of recent
and historical scientific information related to the environment
of Southwest Florida, the Caloosahatchee River and its watershed.
There are reports, surveys, monographs and other materials. |
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| Textual Collections contains collections
of books, journal issues, newspapers, legal documents and other
publications intended to be read. (See Visual Collections for art
images and other materials intended to be viewed.) Some items in
Textual Collections have searchable full text, some are page images
or PDF files only, and some can be viewed in multiple ways. |
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| The University of Florida Herbarium Collections Catalog
is a searchable database of the label data for about 23,000 of the
approximately 400,000 herbarium specimens on file in the vascular plant
and bryophyte and lichen collections. (Wood, seed and fungal specimens
are not included.) This catalog is cross-linked with the catalog of
the PALMM Collection Type
Specimens in the University of Florida Herbarium where type details
are provided. High-resolution digital images are available for selected
specimens including certain type specimens and poisonous plants. |
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The University of Florida Performing Arts Materials
on the colorful history of theater, film and dance selected
from the Performing Arts Collections of the Belknap Collection for the
Performing Arts in the Smathers Libraries' Department of Special Collections
on the campus to the University of Florida. |
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| United States Virgin Islands History and Culture is
a collection of archival, library, and museum materials documenting
Virgin Islands' heritage and social life and customs. The materials
in this collection were selected from a group of items digitized
as part of a National Leadership grant entitled Digitization for
Access and Preservation, from the Institute of Museum and Library
Services (IMLS) to the University of the Virgin Islands Libraries
in partnership with the Virgin Islands Division of Libraries, Archives
and Museums. |
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| Visual Collections contains collections of
photographs, maps and other visual materials. Descriptions of the
items in the collections can be searched by creator, title, subject,
geographic area, medium, and other relevant characteristics. Maps
and other large-sized materials are represented by scalable (zoomable)
images that can be enlarged or made smaller. |
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| The Eric Eustace Williams Collection is both
a bibliography and a growing library of digitized works by and
about Dr. Williams, the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
who is often called "the father of the Nation". Dr. Williams' importance
as an historic figure is as much as a philosopher as a politician.
The works listed and collected here include Dr. William's many
monographs and essays, together with his political speeches and
other published works. Also included is a characterization of Dr.
Williams' political life as reported by the Trinidad Guardian. |
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| West Florida Photohistory contains
photographs from the various holdings of the Special Collections
Department, John C. Pace Library, University of West Florida. This
collection includes photographs by H. Lee Bell of Pensacola residents,
visitors, tourists and others, circa 1900-1920. |
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| The Wolfsonian-FIU Modern Dutch Collection consists
of selected digitized items from the Wolfsonian—FIU's collection
of Dutch artifacts, including rare book covers, calendars, proofs,
advertisements, and original sketches. The museum's collection
also includes glass, textiles, furniture, and design drawings dating
from circa 1880 to 1940, as well as an unrivaled collection of "Nieuwe
Kunst" (Art Nouveau or "new art"). |
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| World Map Collections are a cooperative project
of several public and private universities of Florida and the Florida
Department of Environmental Protection to make digitized modern
and antique maps available on the Web. The Florida and Caribbean
collections are particularly strong, but Africa, the Americas,
and the Middle East are also represented. These are growing collections;
new maps are added weekly. |
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Yiddish Children's Books is a part of the
Joseph and Mary Savetsky Yiddish Resources Collection at the Florida
Atlantic University Libraries. This is the largest Yiddish Collection
in the Southeast United States. The condition and uniqueness of
the Yiddish Children's Books collection makes them ideal candidates
for a digital library. The children's books represented in this
collection include original stories by Yiddish authors that include
Sholem Aleichem, Jacob Pat, and Sholem Asch, as well as Yiddish
translations of non-Jewish children's stories by such authors as
Hans Christian Andersen, Rudyard Kipling, and Jacob Grimm.
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The PALMM HOMEPAGE is intended primarily
for use by staff at participating institutions. It includes links
to PALMM guidelines and procedures, national standards and resources,
grant funding opportunities, and downloadable promotional materials.
The PALMM site also links to a searchable database of PALMM collections,
proposed PALMM collections, and related digital collections.
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