Select Florida Studies Publications
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Search for the U.S.S. Maine
WUSF-TV
"Over one hundred years ago, the U.S.S. MAINE was on a friendly visit to Havana, Cuba, when the battleship mysteriously exploded killing most of the crew and sparking off the Spanish-American War. Now, over a century later, an international team of scientists searches the deep waters off the coast of Havana, hoping to find the wreck of this once mighty ship - the U.S.S. MAINE - an American legend on the ocean floor."--WUSF-TV website.
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Tampa Bay: The Climate is Right for Your High Tech Business
GTE VisNet
The western anchor of Florida's High-Tech corridor, a seven-county region surrounding the beautiful Tampa Bay, is emerging as the next important center of high technology development in the United States. This video tour will show you the converging influences for the clusters of thriving high-tech businesses now calling the Tampa Bay area home.
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La Tampa de Ayer
Cesar Rivero Mas
A brochure compiling information on the history of Tampa, Florida, and advertisements for local businesses made in celebration of Tampa's 100th anniversary as a corporate town in 1955.
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King Tut Dream Book, Policy Player, and Fortune Teller
El Malecon
The true interpretation of dreams, and also the numbers of the lottery to which they apply and a general dictionary of the significance of dreams.
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Stories of the Seminoles
Margaret C. Fairlie
This book uses outdated and derogatory terminology to refer to indigenous peoples.
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Tampa: Florida's Greatest City
Tampa Board of Trade
A booklet put out by the Tampa Board of Trade to promote the Tampa area for potential residents and businesses.
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Survey of Negro Colleges and Universities, Section of Bulletin, 1928, No. 7, Chapter XIII, Florida
United States. Bureau of Education
A report by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Education on the state of Black higher education in Florida. Three institutions are mentioned: Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College (FAMU) in Tallahassee, Edward Waters College in Jacksonville, and Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach.
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Letter from the Secretary of War Transmitting Report from the Chief of Engineering on Preliminary Examination and Survey of Tampa and Hillsboro Bays, Fla., and Tampa Harbor, Fla.
United States. Congress (70th, 1st session : 1927-1928). House
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Bases, Reglas y Cartabon General de la Nivelacion de Tampa, Fla. de 1924
Cigar Manufacturer's Association and Cigarmakers of Tampa
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Endowing Florida's Future: Education is a Debt Due from the Present to Future Generations
John J. Tigert, Edward Conradi, Lincoln Hulley, and Bowman Foster Ashe
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Florida, The Playground of the Nation
Unknown
Presenting an historical, statistical and descriptive sketch of the state, reviewing and emphasizing its unique advantages as the leading winter resort of the South and as an unrivalled productive section for the growing of fruits and vegetables for Northern markets.
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Pedro Menédez de Avilés, Adelantado, Governor and Captain-general of Florida
Eugenio Ruidíaz y Caravia and Jeannette Thurber Connor