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Source institution: University of Florida Digital Collections

Reports, histories, and working notes filed under this subject.

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St. Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida, 1913

Sanborn’s 1913 atlas records St. Petersburg at the scale of streets, lots and individual buildings. Its color key, building details, water-supply notes and account of the fire department…

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Map of Everglades Drainage District of Florida

Issued in 1924 by the Board of Commissioners of the Everglades Drainage District, this map brings canals, subdrainage districts, tax zones and the survey grid into one view…

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Map of the seat of War in Florida

Compiled for the U.S. Secretary of War, this 1838 map places forts, routes, waterways and wetlands within a military view of the Florida peninsula. Its title credits reconnaissance…

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Mosquito Lagoon, Florida

This U.S. Coast Survey hydrographic smooth sheet records the lines of a survey and the depth observations used to chart Mosquito Lagoon. Surveyed in 1875, it preserves the…