Compiled by Douglas C. McMurtrie. Issued for checking and amplification by the Florida State Office of Historical Records Survey, Division of Women's and Professional Projects, W.P.A., Jacksonville, 1937. Typewritten copy, [ii], 15 pp. Legislative materials, records of the Florida Fremasons, journal of the Protestant Episcopalian Church, records of the Florida Baptists Association.
English language translation of the 1670 abberviated French version of Pierre Richelet. Includes the History of the Conquest of Florida. Typewritten copy, 331 pp.
W.P.A., Jacksonville, 1939. Compiled by Louise Biles Hill. Typewritten copy, [ii], 17 pp. Diaries, narratives and memoires, letters, public records, transcriptions, Spanish translations, catalogs. Copied from public and private sources and placed in the Florida State Library and in other libraries in the state. Annotated.
Mimeographed copy, 6 pp. Pamphlet advertising the W.P.A. American Guide Series of 51 volumes on all the states, the District of Columbia, Alaska, and Puerto Rico.
The Florida Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) Records document activities at the University of Miami in the Rare Books Project, a statewide effort initiated by the W.P.A. in 1940 to provide every library in the state with copies of rare books pertaining to Florida.
The Florida W.P.A. Records contain correspondence and transcribed copies of 13 monographs prepared by W.P.A. personnel. Most of the typewritten manuscripts bear the name of the W.P.A. worker that transcribed the monograph, along with information on the source library or sponsor. Some books that are represented in this collection may have been given to the University of Miami Library by the source library in exchange for books the University made available to the Rare Books Project. The collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, bibliographies, reports, transcripts, and public records.
Prepared by the Historical Records Survey. Division of Professional and Service Projects. W.P.A. Sponsored by Florida State Library Board, Jacksonville, 1940. Typewritten copy, 28 pp. Describes public and semi-public depositiories with brief histories and description of methodsof housing, arranging and cataloging manuscripts, holdings and conditions under which interested person may deposit their manuscripts or examine the contents of the depositiories. Manuscript collections only. Includes entries for depositories in Daytona Beac, Deland, Gainesville,Jacksonville, Lakeland,Pensacola, St. Augustine, St. Leo, St. Petersburg, Sarasota, Tallahassee, Winter Park. Index.
English language translation of the 1670 abberviated French version of Pierre Richelet. Includes the History of the Conquest of Florida. Typewritten copy, 331 pp.
Excerpts from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. LXVII, December 1883 to May 1884, pp. 598-605. Copied by Statewide Rare Books Project. W.P.A. University of Miami Library, Coral Gables, March 1940. Typewritten copy, 16 pp.
Excerpts from Harper's New Monthly Magazines, vol. XLII, December 1870 to May 1871, pp. 355-364 and 512-527. Copied by Statewide Rare Books Project. W.P.A. Flagler Memorial Library, Miami, March 1940. Typewritten copy, incomplete.
Recopied by the Statewide Rare Books Project from manuscript found in the Florida State Library, Tallahassee, 1940, ii, 78 pp. Translated from the Spanish by the Historical Records Survey. Original in Department of Agriculture, Tallahassee. In two parts: (1) Description of the private plan of the City of Saint Augustine of East Florida: Year of 1788 by Mariana de la Rocque, pp. 1-30; and (2) Florida, Year of 1790: Inventories, assessments, and sale at public auction of the houses and lots of the King by Juan Cantillo and Martin Herandez, head master mason and head master carpenter, by order of Don Juan Nepomucono de Quesada, Governor of East Florida, pp. 31-78.
Assisted by L.S. Perkins with an introduction by Hon. Robert W. Davis. Tampa, Tribune Printing Co., 1906. Copied by Statewide Rare Books Projects. W.P.A. University Library, Miami, March 1940. Typewritten copy, 184 pp.
Translation made for the Florida Historical Records Survey by Benita Brunson Lewis and Warren H. Wilkinson of that portion of the book which relates to De Soto's expedition to Florida, 1936. Typewritten copy, 259 pp.
