A horizontal cabinet card image of men loading an ox-drawn wagon with rocks. The large rocks are on Muscogee Lumber / Pensacola & Muscogee Railroad flat cars sitting on raised tracks. Two boards are placed to slide the rocks down into the wagon. Most of the workers pictured are African.....

First Edition. The record of the state assembly's first legislative session after Florida had adopted a Reconstruction constitution. "In November, 1860, the constitutional rights of the people of Florida were subverted and its civil government was overthrown. Since then the State has been without a constitutional government and subject to military.....

First Edition. The record of the state senate's second legislative session after Florida had adopted a Reconstruction constitution. Much of the journal is occupied by disputed election results. In his message to the legislature, the Republican governor, Harrison Reed, offers encouraging words about the post-Civil War progress being made: "The.....

First Edition. With most of the legislature's time taken up with questions of infrastructure, particularly the Florida railroad, Governor Madision S. Perry uses his annual address to warn of coming conflict with the north and to encourage the spread of slavery. This is a nicely-bound volume of the daily legislative.....

First Edition. The Florida legislature confronts the 14th amendmet to the Constitution, granting formerly enslaved people citizenship, due process rights, and equal protection. The governor, David S. Walker, recommended that the legislature reject it, which it promptly did (like most Southern states, Florida finally capitulated in 1868 and adopted the.....

First Edition. A nicely-bound volume of the daily log of this legislative session in the Florida House, which ran from November 17, 1862 to December 15, 1862. The governor, John Milton, opened the session with a defiant message in the face of considerable setbacks to Florida in the early years.....

First Edition. A nicely-bound volume of the daily log of this legislative session, with the message of Governor James E. Broome and a number of state office reports issued as an appendix to the governor's message. 175, 28 pages. Contents generally very good (no separate wrappers, as issued). This volume is.....

First Edition. A nicely-bound volume, collecting the Florida House and Senate proceedings for 1852–53, a momentous year for Native Americans living in the state. Each journal—the message of Governor Thomas Brown to the legislature and a daily report of the activities of the legislative bodies—are followed by the same appendix of.....

First Edition. A novel set in Miami, Florida. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Barbara, Tom Wolfe."

The vintage gelatin silver prints of Jamaican migrant workers in Florida taken by a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer. The images show workers preparing to return home with large boxes of items purchased stateside and their personal belongings. One man, named Mervin McWon, carries two boom-box-style radios; another photograph depicts two.....

A stereoview card that can be read at many levels: as a glimpse of post-Reconstruction African American life in Florida, as a White supremacist image, as a statement of class superiority, and as an early image of the Lost Cause. These photographs offer a portrait of a young Black boy.....

A stereoview of the Everett Hotel in Jacksonville, Florida. This is no. 1336 in the "B" Series, a vast collection of pirated views issued by an East Coast firm with many locations. This view is a single photograph, almost certainly a copy print of another photographer's work. Near fine. Medium.....