The General Manuscripts & Archives Collection contains selected materials from UF's Manuscripts & Archives that are not in their own discrete digital collection.
SubCollections
- Digitized materials from the Chase Collection Chase Collection
- Digitized items from the Chesterfield Smith Papers Collection. Chesterfield Smith Papers
- Digitized items from the Kai Lai Chung Papers Kai Lai Chung Papers
- Digitized items from the Records of the Florida Council on Crime and Delinquency Records Florida Council on Crime and Delinquency Records
- William Crosbie was a major general in the British Army during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. He died in 1797 and his heir was John Crosbie. Scope and Content The William Crosbie Estate Papers, dated 1792-1816, include correspondence concerning Crosbie's estate and the land of his agent/manager, John Otto Bayer, in Antigua. The letters document the activities and attitudes of plantation operators and slave owners in the English Caribbean colony of Antigua around the start of the 19th Century. The letters mostly concern financial and operational matters pertaining to the plantations, such as expenses, property values, debts, loans, securities, deeds, slaves, stock, crops, rum and sugar. Other correspondents and individuals referenced in the documents include Lord Moira, Admiral McDouall, Gilbert Jones (esquire), Colonel Handfield, John Crosbie (heir), Charles Crosbie, James Wood Bursar (St. Johns, Cambridge), Lady Amelia Carpenter, Colonel Knox, General Marsh, the William Crosbie Estate Papers
- The papers consist primarily of scrapbooks, photographs, bibliographical notes, and correspondence. Seven of 10 scrapbooks are sequentially arranged from approximately 1922 to 1946, including news clippings and other material relating to all aspects of Haiti. Other scrapbooks contain material pertaining to specific topics such as superstitions and Faustin E. Wirkus, a U.S. Marine who became known as the "White King of La Gonave" (a Haitian island). The photographs, including some picture postcards, depict numerous Haitian scenes as well as from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Many of the photographs were taken by Hiss on the 1936-37 trip. Four notebooks contain bibliographical notes relating to Haiti and the West Indies in general. The papers also include correspondence and some manuscript notes by Hiss. In addition to the correspondence in Box 1, letters are dispersed throughout the scrapbooks. There is no distinct listing of this correspondence. Frank R. Crumbie Papers
- Digitized items from the Florida Section, American Chemical Society Records Collection Florida Section, American Chemical Society Records
- Digitized items from the Records of the Florida Historical Society Records Florida Historical Society Records
- Digitized items from the Florida Educational Loan Corporation Records Florida Educational Loan Corporation Records
- Digitized items from the Records of the Florida National Organization for Women Records of the Florida National Organization for Women
- Digitized items from the Florida Supreme Court Legislative Reapportionment Case Records Collection Florida Supreme Court Legislative Reapportionment Case Records
- Digitized materials from the Florida State Pharmaceutical Association Ladies Auxiliary Records Florida State Pharmaceutical Association Ladies Auxiliary Records
- Digitized items form Arthur L. Funk Papers Collection Arthur L. Funk Papers
- Digitized items from the Gainesville Area Ledgers Collection Gainesville Area Ledgers
- Digitized items from the James David Glunt Collection James David Glunt Collection
- Digitized items from the John M. Goggin Papers Collection John M. Goggin Papers
- Digitized items from the Marie Taylor Greenslade Papers Collection Marie Taylor Greenslade Papers
- Digitized items from the Records of the Gainesville Women for Equal Rights (GWER) Collection Records of the Gainesville Women for Equal Rights (GWER)
- Digitized items from the Tom Harrisson Papers Collection Tom Harrisson Papers
- Digitized items from the Hart Family Papers Collection Hart Family Papers
- Digitized items from the Marianne Hauser Papers Collection Marianne Hauser Papers
- Digitized items from the John Heney Papers Collection John Heney Papers
- Digitized items from the Gleason Family Papers Collection. Gleason Family Papers
- Digitized items from the John D. MacDonald Collection John D. MacDonald Collection
- Digitized items from the John K. Mahon Papers Collection John K. Mahon Papers
- Digitized items from the Austin Shuey Mann Papers Collection Austin Shuey Mann Papers
- Digitized items from the Sidney Walter Martin Papers Collection Sidney Walter Martin Papers
- The development of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator required the imagination and drive of two very gifted women, Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers. Isabel Briggs Myers Papers
- Digitized items from the William Perry Hay Papers Collection William Perry Hay Papers
- Selections from the Red Barber Collection. Walter Lanier "Red" Barber is a legend in the field of sports broadcasting. He began his career sixty-one years ago while studying English education at the University of Florida. In his junior year, while filling in for a reporter on the University's radio station WRUF, Barber realized that broadcasting was the profession he would pursue. He left school in 1930 to accept a full-time job announcing for WRUF where he worked for four years. In 1934, when the Cincinnati Reds decided to air their games on radio, Red Barber accepted his first major league broadcasting job doing play-by-play announcing. It was in Cincinnati that Red Barber announced the first night baseball game. Five years later, in 1939, he accepted an announcing job with the Brooklyn Dodgers where he worked for fifteen years. In 1954 Barber left the Dodgers to work for the New York Yankees. He broadcasted the Yankees' baseball games until 1966. During his sportscasting career, Walter Lanier "Red" Barber Papers and Book Collection
- John Ormsbee Simonds worked for over fifty years as a landscape architect and planner. Beginning in 1940 when he founded his first partnership, Simonds and Simonds, his firms were responsible for planning over 500 projects, including more than 80 planned communities and new towns. In 1970, he was a co-founder of The Environmental Planning and Design Partnership (EPD), with offices in Pittsburgh, Miami Lakes, and Michigan. Primarily national in scope, EPD focused on urban renewal, parks and recreation, and broad-scale regional planning, particularly the development of new communities. John Ormsbee Simonds Collection
- Digitized items from the State Defense Council of Florida Collection State Defense Council of Florida Collection
- The Stephens-Bryant Family Papers (formerly known as the Stephens Collection or the Bryant-Stephens Collection) include valuable material on topics in the social and economic history of Florida, the South, and the United States of America. The collection includes correspondence between the Stephens and Bryant families (as well as other family members and friends), photographs, diaries, relics, and other miscellaneous papers and materials. Although the collection spans from 1664-1989, the bulk of the material is from 1836-1931. This collection consists largely of correspondence between Winston J.T. Stephens and his wife Octavia Bryant Stephens, along with letters between members of the Stephens and Bryant families. The most significant correspondence covers the American Civil War years as letters between Winston J.T. Stephens and his wife Octavia, and any gaps in time during these years are covered by the other Bryant brothers' correspondence. Stephens-Bryant Family Papers
- The Stetson Kennedy will include materials by and related to Stetson Kennedy and the archival collection in the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida. Stetson Kennedy