Florida History Resources

UCF Print Resources for Florida History:

UCF Reference Collection and General Collection include:

Florida Place Names: Alachua to Zolfo Springs by Allen Morris [REF F 309.M673 1995]
A Guide to the History of Florida edited by Paul S. George [REF F 311.G85 1989]
Florida History: A Bibliography compiled by Michael H. Harris [REF F 311.H277]
Historical and Genealogical Holdings in the State of Florida [REF F 311.H57 1992]
A Bibliography of Florida compiled by James A. Servies & Lana D. Servies [REF F 311.S47 1995]
Catalog of the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History [Oversize F 306.C3]
Florida Historical Quarterly (1908- ) [MFLM & GenColl F 306.F65]
Some issues of other periodicals about Florida history [GenColl F301 through F320], including Tequesta, Update, South Florida History, Central Florida Magazine, Orlando Magazine, and Tampa Bay History.
Florida county, city & town histories [GenColl F317 and F319] - The State Library of Florida provides a list of some Florida county histories, but not all of them are available in the UCF Library, so the researcher may need to borrow the books through Interlibrary Loan.
See also Genealogy Resources, Florida Microform Sets and Florida Newspapers

UCF Florida Documents Collection includes:

Publications from the Florida Geological Survey, such as:
- Florida Lakes: Part III, Gazetteer [CON 2.L15/969/pt.3]
- A Provisional Gazetteer of Florida Place-Names of Indian Derivation... [CON 3:S6/1]
- Springs of Florida [NR.I3:G4/31]
- Eleven Archaeological Sites in Hillsborough County, Florida [NR.I3:R4/8]
Biennial and annual reports (some issues missing) from State agencies, such as:
- Agriculture, 1903-? [AGR1.B:]
- Education, 1912-? [EDU.A1:] - See also the Florida Heritage Collection for digitized versions of annual/biennial reports from the Dept of Public Instruction (1869-1930) and Board of Control / Board of Regents (1916-1968)
- Internal Improvement Fund, 1855-? [IIF9:]
- Adjutant-General, 1890-? [MA1: ]
- Railroad Commission, 1899-? [RA1:]
- State, 1905-? [SS1.B:]
- Treasurer, 1888-? [TRE1:].
Florida Dept of Military Affairs, Special Archives publications [MA B3:S63/], - Florida militia muster rolls from the Seminole Indian Wars and various other lists from Spanish garrisons (1565) through Desert Storm (1991).
Journal of the House of Representatives, 1887- [LEG.B.9:] (Microfilm copies of the House and Senate journals for 1822-1869 are available in Records of the States of the United States of America : Florida [MFLM F311.U5], reels A.1a, A.1b, and A.1c.)
Journal of the Senate, 1881- [LEG.C.9:]
Laws of Florida, 1891- [SS 5:L3/]
If you don't find a specific Florida document listed in the UCF Library Catalog, see Research Tips.

UCF Special Collections includes:

Manuscripts in Special Collections
University Archives Collections List
Guides to Florida Archives & Manuscript Repositories by city and county
Related Links

Online Florida History Resources:

Central Florida Memory is a cooperative project begun in 2002 by three institutions: The University of Central Florida Libraries, The Orange County Regional History Center, and The Orange County Library System. The long-term intent of the project is to provide an online platform and focal point for gathering, preserving, and disseminating the documents, artifacts, and stories of the history of Central Florida. Digitized materials include postcards, maps, 1927 Orlando City Code, Orlando city directories (1887, 1907, and 1909), and the Social Registers for 1925 and 1937.

Florida Heritage Collection is an ongoing cooperative project of the State University System (SUS) of Florida to digitize and provide online access to materials broadly representing Florida’s history, culture, arts, literature, sciences and social sciences. Thematic areas in this growing collection include Native American and minority populations, exploration and development, tourism, the natural environment, and regional interests. See also Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM).

State Library of Florida and Florida State Archives and Office of Cultural and Historical Programs (Tallahassee)

Florida Archaeology
Florida Biography & Citation Index contains references to biographical information on notable Floridians in the books, periodicals, vertical files, newspapers and maps of the State Library's Florida Collection. Some of the resources indexed are rare, but many are current periodicals that might be found in the UCF Library or other local libraries. The records in this index are a subset of the State Library of Florida's library catalog and are searched through the main catalog at http://library.florida.gov . To search for just the Florida Biography/Citation Index citations, click on the "Power Search" option (under the search box), and then on the search form, choose Florida Biography & Citation Index from the "Location" dropdown box. On the results of your search, you will see a list of the records with a call number in the format FLCITE(374332.1). Click on the "Details" button to see the record. On the detailed record click on the "Catalog Record" tab to see the list of citations for that record.
Florida Facts & History
Florida Folklife Program
Florida Historical Markers Program - see also Boone's Florida Historical Markers & Sites [REF F312.B66 1988]
Florida History & The Arts Magazine formerly Florida Heritage.
Florida Memory Project
- Call Family & Brevard Family Papers 1788-1920s
- Florida Confederate Pension Application Files
- Florida Photographic Collection
- Florida's Early Constitutions
- Spanish Land Grants
- World War I Service Cards
Florida's History Through Its Places
Museum of Florida History

Floridiana on the Web (Univ of South Florida, Tampa) provides some full-text books and journals, including:

Tampa Bay History (1979-1998) and Sunland Tribune (1974-1999)
City, County, and Regional Histories E-Book Collection, including Blackman's History of Orange County (1927)
Charles Ringling Family Papers - contains views of the Ringling mansion, the Ringling Brothers Circus, the Charles Ringling family, and performing artists from the early twentieth century
Florida Slave Narratives
Hampton Dunn Florida Post Card Collection
Manatee County Public Library Historic Photograph Collection
Stokes Photograph Collection, concentrating on the Pinellas Pasco region
Wagner, Francis G., Earl R. Jacobs III Collection of the Photographs of - These images document the growth of St Petersburg from the 1920's to the 1960's

American Memory (Library of Congress)

WPA Life Histories from Florida, 1936-1940 describe the informant's family education, income, occupation, political views, religion and mores, medical needs, diet and miscellaneous observations.
Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 is a multiformat ethnographic field collection documenting African-American, Arabic, Bahamian, British-American, Cuban, Greek, Italian, Minorcan, Seminole, and Slavic cultures throughout Florida.

Cuban Heritage Digital Collection (Univ of Miami)

Sanborn Fire Insurance Company Maps of Florida comprise an online collection of more than 300 bibliographic units in more than 3,000 map sheets dating from 1860 through 1923. Digitized maps are in the public domain and illustrate the development of more than 130 Florida cities. The UCF Library has the maps for Florida cities & towns from 1884 through the 1950s on microfilm (3rd floor) [MFLM G 3931 .G475 S3 1983].

Orange County Regional History Center (Orlando) includes the Central Florida Historical Society Photo Archives, with more than 12,000 photographs dealing with various aspects of Orange County history. They range in date from approximately the 1870's to the present, and they depict people, buildings, businesses, streets, hotels, banks, churches, historic homes, cities, railroads, lakes, springs, fairs, military, sports, etc.

Winter Park History & Archives Collection (Winter Park Public Library)

Florida Historical Society at Tibeau-Field Library of Florida History (Cocoa)

P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History (Univ of Florida, Gainesville)

Florida Museum of Natural History (Univ of Florida, Gainesville)

Historical Museum of Southern Florida (Miami)

Florida's Museums (Florida Association of Museums)

Bob Leonard's Florida History Best Web Sites

Florida History & Antiquities Index