Manuscript Finding Aids and Indexes
The Manuscript Collections
Finding aids are the 'table of contents' to our manuscripts and records. See what we have on Florida politics, writers and naturalists, civil rights, state history, and much more.
Index to the East Florida Papers
One of our basic tools for finding documents in the Spanish colonial records of the late colonial period (1784-1821)
Index to the Florida Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection
Provides short abstracts and I.D. numbers for many of our small but historically significant collections
Index to the Goza-Mickler Newspaper Abstracts
Searchable abstracts to articles about Florida in American newspapers, 1762-1885. Use it in conjunction with the online Goza-Mickeler Collection
Index to the Florida Historical Map Collection
A guide to our historical maps. Get acquainted with our holdings, then view items online or at the Map and Imagery Library
Photographic Collections (General)
Most of the photographs in the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History are part of named collections or else are part of our general photograph and photo albums collections. If collections have been digitized and placed online in the University of Florida Digital Collections, their photographic series have been included with them. There is no overall guide to what we hold in photographs and it is best to confer with collection managers when seeking to work with photographs. The University Archives and other Special Collections such as the literary manuscripts and Popular Culture also have extensive archives of photographs.
Photographic Series about the Seminole and Miccosukee Indians
Five collections contain photographs of life among the Seminole and Miccosukee. These are the Louis Capron Papers, the Albert DeVane Papers, the John Goggin Papers, the R.T. King Slide Collection, and the Rev. Alexander Linn Collection. Most are not online. The Linn Collection, which consists of hand-colored glass lantern slides, has been digitized and placed in the University of Florida Digital Collections for ease of viewing and to reduce handling of the original glass plates. To provide some remote access to the other collections, we have created a name index for individuals who could be identified in photos (see below)
Louis Bishop Capron Papers
A significant portion of the collection is comprised of portraits and group shots of Seminole men, women, and children (1920s to 1970s). People featured in the photographs include the Tommie family, Toby Jones’ family, John Osceola’s family, the Motlow family, Dr. Tiger, and others.
Albert DeVane Papers
The DeVane Collection can be divided into four categories: writings by DeVane, photographs of the aftermath of Hurricane Donna (1960), photographs of construction at the Brighton Reservation, and general photographs of Seminole Indian culture.
John M. Goggin Papers
The papers of the anthropologist and archaeologist John M. Goggin contain sections of his ethnological work among the Seminole, including the photographs in Box 6 and his notes in Boxes 17 and 18.
The R.T. King Photographic Collection
The R.T. King Photograph Collection contains slides of Seminoles collected by R.T. King, a graduate student at the University of Florida, as a part of his dissertation research.
Name Index to the Capron, DeVane and Goggin Collections
In 2024 our summer intern Myla Wasser created an index of names to people who could be identified in our various photographic collections of the Seminole and Miccosukee. Her index covers some 120 folders of photographs an identifies 300 individuals. For each folder, the index lists the collection and box number where you can find the folder and presents what information we have about the people in the photographs (their names and sometimes clan affiliation). Dates and places are also identified where possible.
The Glass Lantern Slides of the Linn Collection
Reverend Alexander Linn Lantern Slides of the Seminoles
Converted to digital format with many showing added color tint. At left, Coffee Gopher on horseback.