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Humanities and the Sunshine State Melissa Jerome Project Coordinator, FPRDNP May Mann Je Jennings & th the Creation of f Royal Palm lm State Park UF George A. Smathers Libraries What is Digitization? Creation of a digital version of

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Humanities and the Sunshine State

May Mann Je Jennings & th the Creation of f Royal Palm lm State Park

Melissa Jerome Project Coordinator, FPRDNP UF George A. Smathers Libraries

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  • Creation of a digital version of an analog source
  • For example: sound, image, object
  • Why digitize?
  • Preservation
  • Including avoiding obsolescence
  • Broader access
  • Teachable Content
  • Newspapers an excellent candidate for digitization

Source: 2010 Smithsonian Digitization Plan https://www.si.edu/content/pdf/about/2010_SI_Digitization_Plan.pdf

What is Digitization?

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Microfilm reel

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National Digital Newspaper Program

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“ a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Supported by NEH, this rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress. An NEH award program will fund the contribution of content from, eventually, all U.S. states and territories”

www.loc.gov/ndnp

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Content Locations

1880s-1922 1836-1910

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Content In Includes

  • International
  • World War I
  • Spanish American War
  • Travel Technologies
  • Heads of State
  • National
  • Governance and Elections
  • Suffrage Movement
  • Prohibition
  • Sports News
  • Presidents and their Families
  • Ads for National Brands
  • Nativism

From The Ocala Evening Star (Ocala, FL) November 4, 1908. Image retrieved from Chronicling America. From The Daytona daily news (Daytona, FL) January 8,

  • 1910. Image retrieved from Chronicling America.

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Content In Includes

  • Florida
  • State Politics and Elections
  • Creation of University System
  • Travel Reports
  • Entertainment
  • Agricultural Reports
  • Railways and Steamboats
  • Natural Disasters

From La Democracia (San Juan, PR) June 9, 1902. Image retrieved from Chronicling America.

  • Puerto Rico
  • Spanish Governance
  • Sale of Land and Slaves
  • International News
  • Epidemics
  • Social/Cultural
  • Education
  • Politics
  • Autonomy

From The Ocala evening star (Ocala, FL) June 17, 1916. Image retrieved from Chronicling America.

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Access

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Chronicling America

ChronAm is a database of historic newspapers published in the United States and its territories

  • date range expanded to now

include 1690-1963 Currently houses over 12 million pages of newspapers contributed from 40 states and one territory

chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

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ChronAm fu functions

Search options:

  • General
  • Advanced
  • All newspapers

chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

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Advanced Search

chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

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Additional Functions

Zoom in/out by clicking these

  • buttons. Can

also use mouse scroll

Full screen view! Use these options to change page Use these options to change issue Save pdf

Zoom in and clip something

  • f interest.

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About the Papers

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Optical Character Recognition

  • Chronicling America is fully

searchable

  • Not perfect technology
  • Extraneous marks on page
  • Unusual Fonts
  • Misreading text or combining

words

  • Be patient with searches

and think outside of the box

  • Context
  • Time period

From The Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, FL) August 16, 1908. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

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From the Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, FL.) May 3,1913. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

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Tips and Tricks

When searching think about…

  • Vocabulary
  • Historic spelling
  • Change in terms
  • Typos
  • Search parameters
  • Change scope to get more useful

results

  • Diversify name searches
  • Affiliated organizations, businesses,

and governing bodies

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From the Monroe City Democrat (Monroe City, MO) August 22, 1907. Article retrieved from Chronicling America. From the Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, FL) November 11, 1919. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

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A Note on Historical Language

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Early 20th

th century Environmental Concerns

  • Early American Environmental Movement
  • President Theodore Roosevelt
  • Pelican Island Florida/Lacey Act
  • Gifford Pinchot-United States Forest Service
  • John Muir
  • Efforts to Manipulate the Environment
  • Governor Broward-Draining the Everglades
  • Construction of the Panama Canal
  • Henry Flagler and the Key West Railway

Expansion

From the Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, FL) May 19, 1922. Article retrieved from Chronicling America. From the Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, FL) January 25, 1906. Article retrieved from Chronicling America. From the Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, FL) January 26, 1908. Image retrieved from Chronicling America.

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Women

  • Involved in early conservation efforts
  • Utilized their Social Networks
  • Women’s Clubs
  • Especially prior to the passage of the 19th

Amendment

  • Raised money to purchase land for conservation

purposes

  • In doing so they “claimed new public ground and

established themselves as important public advocates” (Poole Dissertation 15)

  • In our papers, reports on their activities can be

found on the Society pages

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May Mann Je Jennings

aka Mrs. . W.S. .S. Je Jennin ings

  • Life
  • Born April 25, 1872 in New Jersey
  • Family moved to Crystal River, Florida in 1874
  • Assisted her father while he served in the state legislature

(Vance 38)

  • Married W.S. Jennings in 1891
  • Causes and Civic Work
  • Florida Federation of Women’s Clubs
  • Y.W.C.A
  • Conservation
  • Improved Public Education
  • Her papers are digitized and can be found in the “America’s

Swamp: The Historical Everglades Project” in the UF Digital Collections

  • “Mother of Florida Forestry”

Photo of May Mann Jennings, taken in 1901 while serving as Florida’s First

  • Lady. Image retrieved from Florida Memory.

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Everglades

From The Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, FL) April 9,

  • 1911. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.
  • Land viewed as “empty” or having the

potential for development since mid-19th century

  • Gov. W.S. Jennings supported drainage
  • “the was no real settlement in the Everglades

until after 1910” (Dovell 190)

  • The availability of drained land was heavily

advertised and resulted in the Florida Land boom of the 1920s

  • Damaged the ecosystem of the Everglades

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Women’s Clubs

From The Ocala evening star (Ocala, FL) November 27,

  • 1916. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.
  • Serve as an example of “grassroots

actions” (Poole Diss 76)

  • Approached environmental

stewardship as an extension of their social roles as mothers and caregivers

  • Park creation was linked to their

larger efforts to save Florida forests

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Royal Palm State Park

  • Dedicated in 1916
  • Result of efforts led by May Mann Jennings
  • Supported by Florida Federation of

Women’s Clubs

  • Wanted to prevent development at and around

Paradise Key

  • Eventually the “nucleus” of Florida’s first

National Park

  • Everglades National Park
  • Established 1934
  • Dedicated 1947
  • Still two visitor centers in the area

Postcard, date unknown. Image retrieved from America’s Swamp.

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Creation

  • Jennings learned of the existence of

the area from Mary Barr Munroe

  • Munroe suggested “the group try to

protect” the area at the 1905 Florida Federation of Women’s Clubs convention (Poole Diss 86)

  • Jennings used her ties to Tallahassee to

lobby the state to purchase and maintain the land

  • Park was a priority in the FFWC’s

legislative plan in 1915

From The Lakeland evening telegram (Lakeland, FL) September 7, 1915. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

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From the Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, FL) May 9, 1915. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

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Maintenance

From the Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, FL) February 6, 1916. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

  • Fundraising campaigns to collect money to
  • perate the park
  • Mile of dimes initiative
  • Lobbied the legislature for maintenance funds
  • Focused more on aesthetics than “wilderness

preservation”

  • “Most (women) favored the state policy of draining

the Everglades” (Poole Diss 98)

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From the Pensacola journal (Pensacola, FL) April 13, 1921. Article retrieved from Chronicling America. From the Pensacola journal (Pensacola Journal) October 1,

  • 1916. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

From The Lakeland evening telegram (Lakeland, FL) July 24, 1917. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

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Reports of f Early Public Use

From The Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, FL) December 26,

  • 1915. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

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From The Ocala evening star (Ocala, FL) January 17, 1919. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

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Conclusions

  • Everglades National Park

dedicated in 1947

  • Jennings was included in the

ceremony, as was President Harry S. Truman

  • “The conservation movement
  • f the first half of the twentieth

century brought great changes in thinking to Florida, propelled in large part by the activities of its women” (Poole Diss 112).

  • Jennings passed away in 1963

Photos retrieved from America’s Swamp.

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Sugg ggested Chronicling America Search Terms

Less Useful:

  • Everglade(s)Park
  • May Mann Jennings
  • Conservation +Jennings
  • Climate Change
  • Environmentalism

Useful:

  • Mrs. W.S. Jennings
  • Mrs. Jennings
  • Royal Palm Park
  • Royal Palm State Park
  • Royal Palm near
  • fund/funding
  • land
  • Hammock (only before 1919)
  • Conservation or Preservation

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Resources about May Mann Jennings & Early Flo lorida Environmentalism

  • Chapman, Ann E. “American Conservation in the Twentieth Century.” National Parks Service.

Accessed May 20, 2017. https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/massachusetts_conservation/American_Conservation_in_the_Twent ieth_Century.html.

  • Dovell, Janius E. “The Everglades, a Florida Frontier.” Agricultural History, Vol. 22, No. 3 (July, 1948):

187-197.

  • Poole, Leslie Kemp. “Let Florida Be Green: Women, Activism, and the Environmental Century, 1900-

2000.” PhD diss,. University of Florida, 2012. (UFDC UFE0044352).

  • Vance, Linda Darlene Moore. “May Mann Jennings, Florida’s Genteel Activist.” PhD diss., University
  • f Florida, 1980. (Internet Archive 99209).
  • Vance, Linda D. “May Mann Jennings and Royal Palm State Park.” The Florida Historical Quarterly,
  • Vol. 55, No. 1 (July, 1976): 1-17.

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Resources for Students

  • LOC nature & environment for students

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/nature/students.html

  • Evolution of the Conservation Movement
  • Mapping of National Parks
  • National Parks Service- Kids Page

https://www.nps.gov/kids/index.cfm

  • Audubon Society

http://www.audubon.org/

  • Conservation
  • Water
  • Climate
  • Education

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Keep in Touch!

Links: facebook.com/ufndnp twitter.com/ufndnp ufndnp.wordpress.com pinterest.com/ufndnp ufdc.ufl.edu/ufndnp guides.uflib.ufl.edu/ufndnp

Contact us! Project Team: ufndnp@uflib.ufl.edu Melissa Jerome: mmespino@ufl.edu Sarah “Moxy” Moczygemba: s.moxy@ufl.edu

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