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Marianna Ross
Fine artist Marianna Hamilton Ross lives and works in Central Florida.
Read her interview conducted by her husband, author C. P. Ross on December 8, 2014 in Maitland, Florida.
From Marianna Hamilton Ross' web site:
Marianna received an MFA in Painting from ...
Events
Informant Deafy Price
From the autobiographical notes of Captain Charles Albertson regarding his career in the New York City Police Department and his travels and adventures during retirement beginning in January 1905.
Informant Deafy Price
When I was first appointed there wa...
Places
Mayor Bob Carr Municipal Auditorium
History
The original Orlando Municipal Auditorium was designed in 1925 by Cruz and Parrish, Architects. The classic revival design had an interior arrangement adapted from the Roman Coliseum. It was a very functional design constructed of brick, steel and conc...
Topics
The Senator - 3500 year old bald cypress
The oldest living resident of Florida and fifth oldest in the world was an ancient bald cypress known as "The Senator". It was the reason the park surrounding it in Longwood, Florida was named Big Tree Park. The Senator measured...
Organizations
Orlando Rubber Stamps
[Essay and photos submitted by Virginia de Guehery Bruton]
Rudolph C. de Guehery opened his rubber stamp business in 1939 in the O'Neal Arcade at 120 North Orange Avenue in downtown Orlando. The business then moved to this photographed location (105...
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....
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
Florida Old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home
Florida's Old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home opened in Jacksonville in April 1893 and was dedicated on April 6, 1893.
The Home was first financed and maintained by the United Confederate Veterans, Sons of Confederate Veterans and Martha Reid Chapter ...
Events
Orlando Memory month at Winter Garden Library
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
West Orange Times
Citizens share memories through library program
By Cindy Baker
Memories of parents and grandparents moving into West Orange County, days of youth and the development of downtown Winter Garden are just a fe...
Places
Florida Splendid China
Florida Splendid China Theme Park, U.S.A.
During the 1990s, local investors partnered with the Overseas Enterprise of of China Travel Service to build the Splendid China theme park in Central Florida which opened to the public in November 1993 and closed...
People
"My Small Part In The War" by Johnnie H. Noles
First person account of WWII written by Orlando resident Johnnie Herman Noles, and first person account of WWII, Korean War and Vietnam War by Forest Reid Noles, his brother.
After retiring from the United States Air Force as a Master Sergeant,...
People
John Young - Astronaut
Astronaut John Young passed away on January 5, 2018 in Houston, Texas, but will forever be a cherished Orlandoan. Read the tribute created by NASA.
Born in San Francisco, California, on September 24, 1930, John Watts Young received a bachelor's of...
