Primary Sources: U.S. States: Florida

"... digitally preserves endangered ecclesiastical and secular documents related to Africans and Afro-descended peoples in the Americas. Other non-European groups, such as Chinese and indigenous groups are also represented." Covers the following areas: Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, and Spanish Florida

"... provides online access to primary sources about the American Civil War from the collections of the Department of Special & Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Library, University of Florida. "

"Before television, radio, and the internet, Florida society communicated widely and often through broadsides, advertisements, flyers, and other ephemera. This online collection consists of more than 200 broadsides and forms of paper communication from the State Library and Archives of Florida. While originally initiated by State Librarian and Archivist Dorothy Dodd as a broadside collection, it has since grown to encompass all sorts of printed ephemera from advertisements and announcements to political cartoons and campaign posters. This online collection represents only a small portion of broadsides and ephemera found in the Florida Collection of the State Library of Florida." Florida Memory Collection

"...exists to provide access to the news and history of Florida. All of the over 1,000,000 pages of historic through current Florida newspapers in the Florida Digital Newspaper Library are openly and freely available with zoomable page images and full text. "

"The Florida Documents digital collection contains an assortment of documents related to various aspects of Florida history, life, and culture from 1777 to the 1920s. The digitized materials include correspondence, diaries, military orders, invoices, receipts, reports, and other documents. "

"Florida Memory presents a selection of historical records that illustrate significant moments in Florida history, educational resources for students of all ages and archival collections for historical research. "

"This collection of written interviews gives students the opportunity to experience history at a personal level, through the words of African Americans who spent their childhood and teenage years as slaves. The narratives are presented with the permission and cooperation of the Florida Historical Society, owner of the original documents. "
University of South Florida Libraries

"The extensive collections at the Library of Congress contain historic artifacts and cultural materials from across the U.S. "

"... hosts more than 300 outstanding digital collections, containing over 7 million pages of unique manuscripts and letters, antique maps, rare children's literature books, theses and dissertations, newspapers, historic photographs, oral histories, and more. The University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) enables users to find unique and rare digitized materials held at the University of Florida and partner institutions. "

"The University of Miami Digital Collections provide online access to primary source materials to support teaching, learning, and research at the University and worldwide. The Digital Collections feature unique items from the University of Miami Libraries, including the Cuban Heritage Collection, Special Collections, and the University Archives, as well as distinctive collections developed in collaboration with non-library partners. Digital resources include correspondence, manuscripts, books, periodicals, scrapbooks, photographic images, slides, maps, prints, posters, audio, video, and oral histories. Currently the site contains over 70 collections. "