Browse Exhibits (12 total)

This exhibit presents several items from the Varnum Family Collection, held by Special Collections and Archives in the Thomas G. Carpenter Library at the University of North Florida. 

This exhibit provides a brief history of Black churches and examples of the impact those institutions had on public and private life as evidenced by selected items from the Eartha M. M. White Collection, Special Collections and Archives at Thomas G. Carpenter Library, University of North Florida.

This exhibit presents two letters, held in Special Collections in the Thomas G. Carpenter Library at the University of North Florida, from Elisa Hatch to Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Comings in Greensboro, Vermont, dated 1842 and 1843. The author discusses her life in Jacksonville prior to Florida's admission to statehood, slavery, and racial relations in the region.

This exhibit explores the historical context of Ellen Call Long's letter to Professor Edwin Luther Green, written in approximately 1900, in which Long seeks to defend the legacy of her father Richard Keith Call and clarify what happened at Withlacoochee to a potential biographer of her father. 

It discusses the purpose of the letter, the controvery related to the Battle of Withlacoochee which underpins Long's cricisms of Duncan Lamont Clinch, Long's statements on contemporary Florida historians, and the response to Green's School History of Florida.

This exhibit presents a letter, held in Special Collections in the Thomas G. Carpenter Library at the University of North Florida, written A. B. Temple to A. R. Hunter. The author briefly discusses the local wildlife and weather, with much of the remaining letter devoted to describing the business enterprises of a local orange grove owner.