Month: June 2014
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Senator John F. Kennedy and Charles Gray
Senator John F. Kennedy is pictured center stage at the Florida Blue Key Banquet at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
Orlando's Charles Gray, pictured far left in his student days, invited Senator Kennedy to speak at the event.
Mr. Gray recalls...
Events
Orlando Senior High School 1942 Yearbook
Orlando Senior High School yearbook images are from Senior, Jet Wintter Segher's, 1942 Tigando yearbook. Jet's daughter donated the yearbook to the Orlando Public Library. The wishes and messages found in the yearbook were from Jet's friends....
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Orlando Senior High School 1940 Yearbook
The 1940 Tigando - yearbook of the Orlando Senior High School, Orlando, Florida, divided into six sections for ease in viewing and downloading. Click on the SECTION links below or peruse documents under Attachments at the bottom of this post.
From...
Places
Orlando circa 1968
Explore the pages of a booklet published around 1968 with information and photographs from Orlando and surrounding areas including shopping, sports venues, education, leisure, employment, real estate and more. The purpose of the publication appears to be to en...
People
Annie Lewis Lyon
Annie Lewis Lyon was the daughter of Ralph and Hilder Augusta Sherblum Lewis. Annie and Hatabel Hyer discuss the Swedish community in central Florida and in particular the All State Parade of March 14, 1928 which featured the Viking Society's float....
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Janet Reno Visits Grand Avenue Elementary School
Janet Reno visits Grand Avenue Elementary School. Photos from the event can be found in the 1997-2000 Grand Avenue School Scrapbook. VIEW Scrapbook.
Florida native Janet Reno served as U.S. Attorney General from February 1993 until January 2001. Ms. Ren...
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Mrs. Saundra Gray Welcomes Mr. Walt Disney to Florida
Stunning Florida native and top flight water skier, Mrs. Saundra Gray welcomes Mr. Walt Disney to the Sunshine State.
Pictured from left to right are Walt Disney, Saundra Gray, Charles Gray, and Florida Governor Haydon Burns.
Orlando attorney Charles...
People
James Carson Robinson - Jim Robinson
Jim Robinson was born in Rock Hill, South Carolina and became an Orlando citizen when his father brought his family to Florida in 1926.
Jim attended Hillcrest Elementary School for the first two years and was in the class with a...
People
Glenn F. Miller - Library Director 1970-1995
Glenn F. Miller
Glenn F. Miller was born December 5, 1937 in Saginaw, Michigan, 4th of 11 children to Herbert and Evelyn Miller. Miller attended elementary school, junior high and senior high school in Saginaw, Michigan. An avid reader, Miller began...
Places
My Grandparents' House
My grandfather built his house. My dad gave him the property. At the time they were tearing down some of the old barracks from Pine Castle Air Force Base, this was before McCoy. I guess after WWII they didn't think...
People
Clara Elizabeth Wendel - Library Director 1943-1970
Early Years
Clara Mathilde Elizabeth Wendel was born on June 1, 1904 in Harvey, Cook County, Illinois. Her family moved from Chicago, Illinois to Gotha, Florida in or around 1916.
Their home was a typical Florida home from that era, with wrap...
