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The web pages explore the complex historical legacy of Florida with interactive maps, primary documents, time-lines, portraits, biographies, searchable databases, scholarly analysis, interpretive narratives, lesson plans for educators, and other tools of digital technology.

Florida History Online Digital Archives 

A comprehensive digital collection of Florida’s history, culture and environment. It includes all sorts of items including maps, photographs, postcards, books, and manuscripts.The materials in Florida On Florida come from digital collections held by libraries, archives, museums and historical societies throughout Florida.

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Expand your research by checking out the Florida Online Historical Newspapers here.

Click here to view the University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC), which hosts more than 300 outstanding digital collections, containing over 13 million pages, covering over 78 thousand subjects in rare books, manuscripts, antique maps, children's literature, newspapers, theses and dissertations, data sets, photographs, oral histories, and more for permanent access and preservation. Through UFDC, users have free and Open Access to full unique and rare materials held by the University of Florida and partner institutions.

The Jacksonville Historical Society oversees an archival repository with tens of thousands of items, including, but not limited to, rare photographs, diaries, maps, manuscripts, and films relating to city history and the history of Northeast Florida.

The University of Florida Digital Collections are a constantly growing collection of digital resources from the University of Florida Libraries’ collections as well as partner institutions. All materials are Open Access, and full text searchable. The UF Digital Collections’ holdings include books, articles, newspapers, photos, videos, audio, and more.

The Sanborn Maps were designed to help fire insurance agents determine the degree of damage to a property and show accurate information to help them determine risks and establish premiums. They showed the size (including color-coding), shape and construction of buildings (brick, adobe, frame, etc), dwellings (including hotels and churches), and other structures such as bridges, docks and barns. Along with fire stations, you could also find water facilities, sprinklers, hydrants, cisterns, and alarm boxes as well as firewalls, windows, doors, elevators and chimneys and roof types. The maps included street names, property boundaries and lot lines, and house and block numbers. Other information such as the latest census figures, prevailing winds; railroad lines and Indian reservations and topography were included. Today, the maps are an invaluable guide to inner-city history, land use, and historic preservation.