Special and Area Studies Collections Department GEORGE A. SMATHERS LIBRARIES FRONT COVER Hollis Holbrook’s History of Learning in Florida mural connects the diverse achievements and sometimes difficult history of people in Florida to the knowledge and capacity of those who inhabit the state today. The natural environment, conflict and war, innovation and economic development, press freedom, and democratic governance are touchstones for the evolving identity of Floridians and the state itself. Designed and executed by Holbrook, a well-known Florida artist and University of Florida faculty member, the egg tempura mural was painted in 1953 and dedicated the following year. Among the schoolchildren near the center of the large work, Holbrook embedded a life-size portrait of his son who died during the same period. The mural underwent extensive treatment in October 2015. Professional conservators removed layers of accretion from the days when windows were opened and smoking was allowed in the Grand Reading Room. NOVEMBER 2019 Conservators also consolidated cracks and flaking paint from the mural.

BACK COVER Smathers Library is home to the Special and Area Studies Collections Department. Opened in 1925 as the University Library, the building is a central feature in the Campus Historic District, which is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Holbrook designed History of Learning in Florida to be in harmony with the majestic collegiate gothic room, and to provide a focal point when the library’s main entrance was reconstructed in the mid-20th century.

FRONT COVER: History of Learning in Florida, Hollis Holbrook, 1953. Photo by Eric Zamora, 2015. ABOVE: Scaffolding during conservation treatment. Photo by Barbara Hood, 2015. BACK COVER: Smathers Library Grand Reading Room. Photo by Barbara Hood, 2016. Special and Area Studies Collections Department GEORGE A. SMATHERS LIBRARIES

The Special and Area Studies Collections Department at the George A. Smathers s The Latin American and Caribbean Collection traces its depth and breadth Libraries promotes research across collections and disciplines, with curators of print holdings to the 1950s and to close ties between the Libraries and managing rare, special format, and circulating materials. The department’s the university’s renowned Center for Latin America Studies. Caribbean holdings are tied closely to long-term and emerging strengths at the University of manuscripts are a special collection strength. Florida, representing the state’s unique position as a gateway between the United States, the hemisphere, and other regions of the globe. The University of Florida s The Isser and Rae Price Judaica Library holds internationally important is preeminent among academic libraries in holdings of historical materials about Judaica from the 19th and 20th centuries, with rare ephemera, festschriften, Florida heritage, Judaica, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Anglo-American and periodicals comprising the foremost Jewish studies research collection children’s literature. in the southeastern United States.

Collections of Floridiana span nearly 500 years of human experience in what is s The Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature is one of the now the state of Florida. largest collections of Anglo-American children’s literature in the world, with signs of readership and use by children opening up research avenues beyond s The P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History maintains books and records textual analysis. from colonial times to the present, along with collections of historical maps, newspapers, and graphic arts materials, such as postcards and ephemera. s The Harold and Mary Jean Hanson Rare Book Collection offers materials for the study of classical literary works, the history of science, theology, s The Florida Manuscripts include a wide array of family and organizational travel, book arts and book history, with the Parkman Dexter Howe Library papers, the works and correspondence of major literary figures, extensive as an exceptional resource for early American literature. political papers, and African American special collections. s The Popular Culture Collections contain papers of and ephemera related to s The Architecture Archives record design, construction, and landscape distinguished national figures in the fine and performing arts, especially in responses to development and environment in the state. theater, dance, and music. s The Governor’s House Library enhances understanding and appreciation of s The African Studies Collection is widely known for exceptional the built heritage of St. Augustine and is managed by the George A. Smathers materials documenting wildlife conservation in Africa and its distinctive Libraries and UF Historic St. Augustine, Inc. interdisciplinary approach addressing health, food, economic development, and governance. s University Archives is the official repository of papers documenting the history and operation of the University of Florida. The Archives contains s The Panama Canal Museum Collection models the integration of a administrative records of UF presidents and administrative and academic community museum with an academic archives. The collection includes offices, with selected faculty collections and a large photograph collection. unique and rare materials related to the Panama Canal and Panama. s The Map & Imagery Library creates access to geographic and historical data Worldwide access to these historical collections is provided by the University of worldwide, with special strengths in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Florida Digital Collections. southeastern United States. Antique maps in the library relate to Florida history and international collections. 1 FAR LEFT: Floridiana Brochure covers from the Florida The P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History, Florida Manuscripts, Florida Ephemera Collection. Top: Political Papers, African American Special Collections, Architecture Archives, 1910; middle: 1932; Governor’s House Library, University Archives, and the Map & Imagery bottom: 1916. Library together document the state’s heritage and identity as a portal between LEFT: Citrus crate label from the much of the United States, the Americas, and the rest of the world. Jerry Chicone Jr. Citrus Label Collection, 1939. P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History BELOW: Public School No. 1, East The P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History has been Wright, Pensacola, collecting books and documents on Florida for more c. 1880. P.K. Yonge than a century. The popular ephemera and brochure Library of Florida History. collections provide colorful imagery that testify to Florida’s boosterism, tourism, and vacation attractions from the 1870s to the 1990s. The extensive newspaper collection provides access to the definitive holding of the state’s publications, chiefly online. The Yonge Library’s microfilm collection contains more than two million pages of primary source material in English, French, and Spanish that are essential for the study of Florida from colonial times to the present, chronicling close connections to Europe and the Caribbean. Translations of key documents from the Spanish colonial period by noted historian John H. Hann are now online. The Library engages frequently with major grant-funded digital projects. “Pioneer Days in Florida” (http://ufdc.ufl.edu/pioneerdays), a digital archive of 19th-century manuscripts about Florida, was funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission and won the 2015 Award for Access to Primary Sources from the Center for Research Libraries. The Yonge Library is second only to the State Library and Archives in Floridiana. 2 Florida Manuscripts Florida manuscript collections document African American history and the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s, educational reform, and the state’s battle to protect its natural environment. Among the Florida collections are the records of the state’s first major agribusiness, Chase & Company, as well as the papers of African American educator A. Quinn Jones and activist- author Stetson Kennedy. Zora Neale Hurston, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and John D. MacDonald are three of the state’s most lauded authors, distinctly voicing the diversity of Florida’s literary offerings. The collections include Hurston materials rescued from a burn barrel after her death, and Rawlings’ original manuscript of Jacob’s Ladder, typed on a 14-foot continuous roll of newsprint on both sides. Florida authors such as Carl Hiaasen, Michael Connelly, and James Haskins are also represented.

ABOVE: Pages from Zora Neale Hurston’s Seraph on the Suwanee manuscript, published in 1948. Zora Neale Hurston Papers. RIGHT: Manuscript from Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ The Yearling, published in 1938. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Papers. 3 Florida Political Papers The University of Florida is host to one of the largest congressional collections in the nation. The collection includes the records of six modern era U.S. senators – Spessard Holland, George Smathers, Lawton Chiles, Bob Graham, Connie Mack III, and Bill Nelson – as well as the papers of several former members of the U.S. House of Representatives. The political collections also include the papers of Governor Farris Bryant, Florida Democratic Party Chair James Hodges, and Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Nathan Mayo. The P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History is also the official repository for several activist and civil rights organizations including the League of Women Voters of Florida, Florida ACLU, and Florida Defenders of the Environment. Although most collections focus on politics after World War II, the materials also document earlier eras beginning with the antebellum letters of one of Florida’s first U.S. senators, David Levy Yulee.

TOP: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Fred M. Vinson, left, President Harry Truman, and George A. Smathers on the lawn of the “Little White House” in Key West, March 12, 1949. George A. Smathers Papers. RIGHT: Congressman Bill Nelson rode aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1986 as a Payload Specialist. Bill Nelson Papers. FAR RIGHT: Connie Mack III with U.S. Army troops (Floridians) in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War, 1990. Connie Mack III Papers.

4 4 African American Special Collections The African American Special Collections document personal, business and community history related to African American experience in Florida. The Joel Buchanan Archive of African American Oral History, the A. Quinn Jones Collection, and James “Jim” Haskins Collection reflect Black leadership in African American heritage preservation and education. The Records of the Cunningham Funeral Home offer insights into the business practices of a core community institution. Professional women undertaking benevolent activities participated in the Gainesville Chapter of The Links, Inc. and in The Visionaires, with respective collections available for research and study. African American experiences also figure prominently across the department’s collections, with materials of note related to Ellas B. McDaniel (Bo Diddley) and Zora Neale Hurston.

ABOVE: The Visionaires, a women’s philanthropic society, 1951. TOP LEFT: Diary of a Harlem Schoolteacher, a ground-breaking memoir written by Jim Haskins, 1979. LEFT: Historical records from the Cunningham Funeral Home, Ocala, Florida. 5 Architecture Archives The Architecture Archives was formed in collaboration with the UF College of Design, Construction & Planning to support research and teaching on Florida and Caribbean architecture. The Archives documents architectural firms and individual architects with records, drawings and plans, photographs, and ephemera. Distinctive architectural styles, such as environmentally sensitive earth architecture, are well represented in the collection. Collecting focuses on modernist architects such as William Morgan, Kenneth Treister, Robert Broward, Mark Hampton, and Alfred Browning Parker, along with the Sarasota Modernists and the archives of Gainesville Modern, Inc. Another collecting focus is historic preservation, particularly relating to St. Augustine. Important collections include the papers of architect Herschel Shepard and drawings by Carrère & Hastings for the Hotel Ponce de Leon and the Memorial Presbyterian Church.

ABOVE: Presbyterian Church Parsonage, St. Augustine, Fla., Carrere and Hastings Architects, Bowling Green, NY, c. 1889-1890. LEFT: The Belin Residence (unbuilt) exemplifies sub-tropical architecture that developed in Florida, 1959. Alfred Browning Parker Collection. 6 Governor’s House Library The Governor’s House Library is managed jointly by the George A. Smathers Libraries and UF Historic St. Augustine, Inc., with the mission of preserving and providing access to the historical resources that enhance our understanding and appreciation of St. Augustine’s built heritage. Primarily created by a former state agency, the Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board, the collections in the Governor’s House Library document the city’s built environment and provide invaluable historical information about the city and its inhabitants through time. The unique and rare archival records, maps, architectural drawings, artifacts, and photographs document the Spanish and British colonial periods, the U.S. territorial period, early statehood, and the 19th and 20th centuries. Not only do the collections document the city’s built heritage, its inhabitants, its government, and the culture of its people over time, they also document the attitudes and values of the people from the 1950s to the 1990s who were engaged in historic preservation, education, and tourism. Today, the collections in the Governor’s House Library continue to support historic preservation efforts in St. Augustine.

RIGHT: Governor’s House Library Architecture Collection. 7 University Archives Established in 1951, the University of Florida Archives collects administrative records documenting the institution’s activities, dissertations and theses, official university publications, student newspapers, UF related photographs, and other materials that reveal the many facets of this complex institution. Also collected are the records of noteworthy individuals and organizations associated with the university, such as anthropologist Charles Wagley, zoologist Archie F. Carr, Florida Blue Key, and Florida Players. Although the earliest collections date from the 1860s, records continue to come in to University Archives that enable researchers to track the continuing development of the institution, higher education in Florida and the South, and the changing demographics and concerns of UF’s student body.

ABOVE: Undated photo of an anti-war rally on the Plaza of the Americas. TOP RIGHT: Football players pour Gatorade on teammates after a victory in 2009; Dr. J. Robert Cade led the research team at the University of Florida that created the sports drink Gatorade in 1965. RIGHT: The Florida Alligator article from May 1947 that announced the coed bill passed the Florida Legislature for the University of Florida and the Florida State College for Women; “Coedikette” pamphlet produced by the Women Students’ Association, 1961/62. 8 8 Map & Imagery Library The Map & Imagery Library focuses on both the state and broad sections of the world related to the department’s preeminent collections. The library holds more than 3,000 antique maps, including early maps of Florida, as well as photographs, atlases, globes, and geospatial datasets. With nearly one million maps, the Library is one of the largest academic map libraries in the United States. Historical maps span the 15th to early 20th centuries, with distinctive holdings of Florida, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and the Middle East. Land coverage data essential to the study of 20th-century climate change and urban development in Florida is searchable through the online aerial photography collections. The Map & Imagery Library works closely with Geographic Information Systems colleagues in the Marston Science Library.

ABOVE RIGHT AND BACKGROUND: Detail of “La Florida” from Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1612. RIGHT: Detail of “Regna Congo et Angola” from Joan Blaeu, Grooten atlas, 1665. 9 Latin American and Caribbean Collection

The Latin American and Caribbean Collection (LACC) leads internationally in the collection of Caribbean materials. Institutional commitment to serving as a national resource for area studies dates from the Farmington Plan of the 1950s, and continues today in the cooperative collection development of the Latin American Research Resources Project. The LACC reading room provides public access to more than 500,000 volumes, over 1,000 current and historical serial titles, a unique microfilm collection, and computer-based information. As with other area studies units in the Special and Area Studies Collections Department, rare or restricted materials are viewed in the Grand Reading Room. Latin American and Caribbean materials are acquired and managed in collaboration with curators for maps and Judaica, as well as librarians for science, health and tropical medicine, architecture, and fine arts. Acquisitions made on behalf of the Marston Science Library have generated significant holdings in the fields of botany, zoology, agriculture, and conservation. Interest in Latin America and the Caribbean is broad and longstanding at the university, with stewardship reflecting responsibility for international heritage preservation and scholarship.

ABOVE: Brazil Agricultural Travelogue #1. Peter Henry Rolfs Collection, 1933. University Archives. BELOW: A July 28, 1531 bill of sale is the earliest document in the LACC, Luis García Pimental Collection.

10 Circulating collections are exceptionally large, with strength in all regions of Latin America and extraordinary depth in subjects related to Cuba, Haiti, Brazil, and Argentina. About three-quarters of the holdings are in Spanish, Portuguese, and French, with English, Dutch, and a number of indigenous language items. Holdings range from archaeology and urban planning to literature and demography, with a special emphasis on tropical conservation and development. The University of Florida is a destination of choice internationally for researchers in these and many other areas. LACC is closely connected to the Center for Latin American Studies and an extensive scholarly community. Manuscripts, especially related to the Caribbean, have been collected prior to the 1950s. The Jérémie Papers contain records of thirty 18th-century French notaries in Saint Domingue, and the Donatien Marie Joseph de Vimeur Rochambeau Papers document Haiti’s struggle for independence. The Braga Brothers Collection contain the records of a significant Cuban sugar producer and exporter. The comprehensive Luis García Pimentel Collection focuses on an eight-generation family of sugar hacendados in Mexico in the lineage of Luis García Pimentel and his father Joaquín García Icazbalceta, the renowned 19th-century Mexican bibliographer.

ABOVE: Indenture document of a Chinese worker in Cuba from April 28, 1865. Cuban Manuscript Collection. LEFT: Hoehne, F C. Iconografia De Orchidaceas Do Brasil (gêneros E Principais Espécies Em Texto E Em Pranchas). São Paulo: Secretaria de Agricultura, 1949. 11 Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica

The Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica is notable for its depth, scope, and breadth. The Price Library holds uncommon research materials in English, Hebrew, and other languages supporting scholarship on virtually every aspect of the Jewish experience. Special and rare materials are housed in the Judaica Suite, renovated in 2014 under the design guidance of architect and artist Kenneth Treister. The Judaica Suite offers a magnificent environment for encountering centuries-old and modern Judaica. The Price Library was founded through the acquisition of the largest private collection of Judaica and Hebraica in America, built by Rabbi Leonard C. Mishkin of Chicago. This purchase was supported by one of the first National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grants awarded to a U.S. research library. Scarce late 19th- to early 20th-century imprints form this top-tier academic library of Judaica, which is unsurpassed in its wide-ranging holdings of periodicals, festschriften, and other print. In 2014, the Price Library received a $500,000 National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant to build an endowment to support its outstanding collections of Judaica related to Florida, Latin America, and the Caribbean, which span circulating and rare books, archives, photographs, slides, and oral histories.

12 ABOVE AND RIGHT: Akedat Yitshak (The Binding of Isaac), 1546, is a philosophical commentary on the Pentateuch arranged as a series of homilies. The work was compiled by Isaac Ben Moses Arama (1420-1494) as a defense of Judaism against Iberian Church missionaries, and contained in its 70th chapter were materials that disputed the Christian view of an afterlife. In this copy, the chapter was carefully expurgated rather than nearly obliterated or removed entirely. This suggests a close familiarity with the text and Hebrew, enabling a more careful, less damaging, form of censorship.

PREVIOUS PAGE: Juan Antonio Alsina’s Presentation Album, Argentina, 1910, produced by Russian Jewish immigrants. ABOVE LEFT: Cover page of Be-reshit, the last Hebrew book printed in the Soviet Union, Leningrad, 1926. Illustrated by Joseph Chaikov. LEFT: Moses, “Moses Talking to the Burning Bush,” interior page by artist Uriel Birnbaum, 1928. His father, philosopher Nathan Birnbaum, coined the phrase “Zionism.” 13 Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature

The Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature holds more than 120,000 volumes of Anglo-American children’s literature published from the 1600s to the present day. Its exceptional collection of rare books and periodicals is comprehensive for studies of the 19th century, particularly in analyses of transatlantic book history. The library holds more than 3,500 titles published in North America and Great Britain before 1823, as well as deep holdings of alphabet books, morality tales, pop-up books, moveables, and 20th-century non-fiction. With great breadth in books with paratextual matter, the Baldwin Library contains hundreds of comparative editions of Robinson Crusoe, Pilgrim’s Progress, and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, as well as more than 8,000 religious tracts. Virtually all well-known titles can be studied, as well as the spectrum of book and periodical publishing for children. The Baldwin Library Digital Collection is one of the largest open access full-text collections of children’s literature in the world with An ABC for Baby Patriots the third most accessed item in the University of Florida Digital Collections.

14 PREVIOUS PAGE – TOP FAR LEFT: ABC in Living Models: a Book in which all the Letters of the Alphabet Stand Up in Life-Like Form when the Pages Open, 1935. BOTTOM FAR LEFT: Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe, third edition of 1719. NEAR LEFT: An ABC for Baby Patriots, Mary Frances Ames, 1899. ABOVE: Little Lucy’s Wonderful Globe, Charlotte M. Yonge, c. 1872. RIGHT: “The Wheel of Life” (zoetrope), London Stereoscopic & Photographic Co., c. 1870s. 15 Harold and Mary Jean Hanson Rare Book Collection

The Harold and Mary Jean Hanson Rare Book Collection reaches broadly across disciplines and eras, and includes extensive holdings of early printed works, architectural treatises and drawings, and prints and proofs from important pioneers in fine printing. A significant history of science collection is especially strong in astronomy and botany, where studies of orchidiceae and other tropical flora and fauna complement the collections of the Florida Museum of Natural History located at the University of Florida. Hundreds of first editions of early New England authors comprise the Parkman Dexter Howe Library, which holds the first published work (1650) of the poet Anne Bradstreet. It also includes manuscript material related to each, such as a handwritten Nathaniel Hawthorne manuscript of “The Celestial Railroad,” and an autograph drawing by Herman Melville of the “Round Robin” from his second novel, Omoo, as well as a paragraph from Mardi, his third. Holdings in the book arts include fine press volumes as well as book illustrations and proofs by Eric Gill, engraved wood blocks by John Buckland Wright, special bindings, and fore-edge paintings. The Marjorie S. Coffey Residency supported the creation of All Sorts (2015) by a visiting artist-in-residence. The collaborative creation of an artist-made book is one of the annual projects of the Library Press@UF, with acquisitions of major new works ABOVE: New Testament in Latin, Rome, by established artists enhancing the Artbound Collection c. 1250-60. ABOVE RIGHT: “Mico Chlucco The Long of works from emerging artists who study bookmaking in Warrior, or King of the Siminoles,” book arts programs across the United States. frontispiece, Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida…, William Bartram, 1792. RIGHT: All Sorts, Emily Martin, 2015. 16 Popular Culture Collections

The Belknap Collection for the Performing Arts encompasses a vast assemblage of vintage theatre playbills and programs dating to the 18th century. The collection includes personal papers of modern dance pioneers Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Dennis (Denishawn Dance Company), gay playwright Cal Yeomans, and costume designer John David Ridge, whose design work became part of the original Broadway productions of “Dracula” and “Amadeus.” The Ellas B. McDaniel (Bo Diddley) Collection holds an array of items reflecting the musical genius, public performance, and technical achievements of a remarkable pioneer of rock and roll. Hundreds of colorful film posters trace the motion picture industry in Mexico and Cuba. The Suzy Covey Comic Book Collection encompasses every “Age” and genre of comics, and the Jim Liversidge Collection takes researchers on a walk through Baby Boomer pop culture.

TOP RIGHT: Detail from “Live in Concert” poster, Nashville, TN, 2002. Ellas B. McDaniel (Bo Diddley) Collection. RIGHT: Scent of Mystery, the first and only film in “Glorious Smell-O-Vision!” 1959. Jim Liversidge Collection. CENTER RIGHT: Sheet music for “Okeechobee,” Florida Music Collection in the Belknap Collection for the Performing Arts, 1926. FAR RIGHT: Edward Gorey art from souvenir book, “Frank Langella as Dracula,” 1977. John David Ridge Collection. 17 African Studies Collection

The African Studies Collection is among the best in the United States, supporting diverse interdisciplinary research and teaching programs in 10 or more of the university’s 16 colleges. It is widely known for exceptional materials documenting wildlife conservation in Africa. In addition to 18,500 slide images by Bob Campbell, best known for documenting Dian Fossey’s mountain gorilla research in Rwanda, the collection holds papers from Graham and Brian Child, Ian Parker, and the East African Professional Hunters Association. Other notable special materials include George Fortune’s papers for the study of Shona language, original photographs of mid 20th-century Ghana by Lewis Berner, Richard Ndimande’s studio portraits of Zulu residents of Natal, South Africa, and photographs from Liberia and Ethiopia in the 1930s taken by W.E. Manis and Martin Rikli.

The African Studies Collection holds the original artwork and papers of Congolese cartoonist Papa Mfumu’eto, a major force in African comic book art. The Papa Mfumu’eto Papers are the first collection of original drawings and manuscripts by an African vernacular or street comic book artist in any library. With permission from the artist, these will be available freely online in 2020, making globally accessible this groundbreaking collection of comic art.

ABOVE: Portrait of Liberian woman in batik dress with plaid headscarf. She wears chalk on her face, which is worn for Sande Society initiation ceremonies and as a traditional cure, c. 1940. W.E. Manis Collection MS Group 143. Scrapbook page 62. FAR LEFT: Dian Fossey with gorillas Rafiki and Peanuts, in the historical first of a person and a live mountain gorilla in the same photograph frame. Bob Campbell Papers MSS 0345 14.01.07.08. Rwanda, 1969. LEFT: Masques africains. Charles Ratton, author. Paris: Librairie des arts décoratifs, A. Calavas, éditeur.... Plate 13 Cameroun, 1931.

18 Panama Canal Museum Collection

The Panama Canal Museum Collection is a leading research collection for the study of the American era of the Panama Canal, and includes archival materials related to the life and work of people and nations constructing, working in, and living in the Panama Canal Zone. The Panama Canal Museum, formerly in Seminole, Florida, closed in 2012 and transferred its collection to the George A. Smathers Libraries, supplementing the Libraries’ existing holdings on Panama and the Canal. The integration of the community museum with an academic research library was funded by an Institute for Museum and Library Services grant, community donations, and the University of Florida. Many materials from the collection are available through the University of Florida ABOVE: Opening of the Panama Canal with S.S. Ancon leaving west chamber, Panama Digital Collections in the Panama and the Canal Collection, which also Canal Museum Collection, Aug. 15, 1914. incorporates the Center of Excellence for government documents related BELOW: Construction crews in a lock chamber of the Panama Canal, Panama Canal to the Canal, as well as maps, newspapers, and other library resources. Museum Collection, 1913.

19 University of Florida Digital Collections

Since 1999 the George A. Smathers Libraries have been providing free and global access to digital resources through the University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC), http://ufdc.ufl.edu. The UFDC hosts more than 300 outstanding digital collections, covering more than 78,000 subjects, and averaging more than 100,000 image additions per month. In the past year, unique materials in the UFDC recorded more than 80 million views. University of Florida’s technological infrastructure makes the institution exceptionally well-suited to lead national and international efforts to map, study, and promote the diversity of histories and cultures. UFDC provides broad access to under-researched and internationally significant historical materials to transform current scholarship and promote greater knowledge and understanding. The University of Florida is proud to be a founding partner of Digital Library of the Caribbean (http://www.dloc.com), which has grown to a collaboration of more than 50 institutions in the circum-Caribbean or closely connected to the study of the Caribbean and its peoples.

Martí y Las Discriminaciones Raciales, Abraham Matterin, 1953, was the 10 millionth scanned item, 2016.

Special and Area Studies Collections GEORGE A. SMATHERS LIBRARIES 208 Smathers Library • P.O. Box 117005 Gainesville, FL 32611-7005 20 www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec 1019 In Memoriam

Harold (1921-2016) and Mary Jean (1922-2012) Hanson established the Harold and Mary Jean Hanson Rare Book Fund in 2003, and the collection was named after them. He was a physicist, government official, editor and academic administrator. While at UF he was a professor of physics, Dean of the Graduate School, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Executive Vice President. He helped the libraries acquire the Rabbi Mishkin Library which was the foundation of the Price Library of Judaica. He taught and served in academic administration at several other universities, and was the Staff Director of the U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology. Harold developed an early love of the written word and was an author, poet and editor of a translation and translation theory journal.

“I’ve grown up with books and the libraries. You never know when a book is going to be exactly what you need, and I’m glad we were able to make a contribution to the whole program.” – Harold Hanson