SERIES 1. BOX 7. OVERSIZE PHOTOS BOX 1

SERIES 1. BOX 8.

OVERSIZE MATERIALS BOX.

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   No date, circa 1938. Florida. Ledger book, small. Inscription on inside front cover: “Elwyn Thomas. / Numbers and letters / refer to forms. / Items in red are / persons to whom Miles Warren wrote.” Pages of the book are tabbed alphabetically. Names of persons, entered alphabetically in blue and black fountain pen ink and red pencil have numbers and geographical notations before and after each name. Sample: “8 Amos, Ernest (Milton) 2” in blue ink. Entire book is filled in. This book may have been used during Elwyn Thomas’s first election campaign for a seat on the Florida Supreme Court.
   
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   1938. Florida. Ledger book, medium. Inscription on front cover typed in all-caps on yellow paper and pasted to center of cover: “Judge Elwyn Thomas Second Primary / Campaign, 1938.” On page 1: “Petty Cash Record / Judge Elwyn Thomas Committee May 1938 pages 1 – 3 / Receipts – p. 5 / Disbursements – p. 10.” Starting on page 2, Dates in May 1938 are followed by names of entities, categories, and individuals, then by dollar amounts in 2 columns. Page 5 inscribed: “Receipts – Second Primary” in blue fountain pen ink, followed by names and entities in no order followed by dollar amounts in 1 column. Pages 9 and 10 are missing. Page 11 and 12 labeled “Receipts.” All other pages blank except 98, inscribed “A/C Payable.” with 5 entries, written in black dip pen ink.
   

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   1938, May 24. Florida, possibly Ft. Pierce. Campaign poster on card stock paper. “Vote Tuesday May 24th / Elwyn Thomas / Ft. Pierce / Candidate for / Justice of the / Supreme Court / A man with a sympathetic feeling for the / common people [black and white 6 x 4 half-tone dot image of Elwyn Thomas]”
   
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   1938. May (?).Florida, possibly Ft. Pierce. Campaign flier on plain paper. Inscribed: “For / Supreme Court Justice / Group two / [black and white 3 x 2 half-tone dot image of Elwyn Thomas] / Judge Elwyn Thomas / Fort Pierce / Twelve years / a Circuit Judge.” Other campaign information on inside and back.
   
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   1938, May 24. Florida, possibly Ft. Pierce. Campaign poster on card stock paper. “Elect / Judge Elwyn Thomas / Supreme Court Justice / [black and white 8 x 5-1/2 half-tone dot image of Elwyn Thomas] / A man of the people / Qualified by Experience / Twelve years circuit judge.”
   
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   1915, June 14. Florida, Tallahassee. Supreme Court. Certificate of admission for Elwyn Thomas to practice law before the Florida Supreme Court. Original signatures of R. F. Taylor, Chief Justice and T. M. Shackleford, R. S. Cockrell, J. B. Whitfield, W. H. Ellis, Justices; M. H. Mabry, Clerk. Original embossed Supreme Court seal, engraved graphic title “Supreme Court of the State of Florida with an engraved state seal. 15 x 9-3/4. Document is now extremely brittle, fragile; should be scanned, then encapsulated.
   
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   1938, November 1. Florida, Tallahassee. Supreme Court. Certificate of appointment for Elwyn Thomas to the Supreme Court of Florida. Signed by Governor Fred Cone and Secretary of State R. A. Gray. Original seal of the State of Florida. 16 x 10.
   
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   1935, June 12. Florida, Tallahassee. Certificate of appointment for Elwyn Thomas as judge to the 9th Circuit Court of Florida. Signed by Secretary of State R. A. Gray. Original seal of the State of Florida. 18 x 11-3/8.
   
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   1938, November 30. Florida, Tallahassee. Executive Department. Certificate of commission for Elwyn Thomas to be a justice of the Supreme Court of Florida. Signed by Governor Fred Cone and Secretary of State R. A. Gray. Original seal of the State of Florida. 16 x 10.
   
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   1925, June 6. Florida, Tallahassee. Executive Department. Certificate of commission for Elwyn Thomas to be a judge of the 21st Judicial Circuit Court of Florida. Signed by Governor John Martin and Secretary of State H. Clay Crawford. Original seal of the State of Florida. 17-3/4 x 11-1/4.
   
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   1918, December 17. Executive Department. Certificate of commission for Elwyn Thomas to be a prosecuting attorney for the County Court of St. Lucie County, Florida. Signed by Governor Sidney Catts and Secretary of State H. Clay Crawford. Original seal of the State of Florida. 17-3/4 x 11-1/4.
   
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    1929, June 24. Florida, Tallahassee. Executive Department. Certificate of commission for Elwyn Thomas to be a judge of the 21st Judicial Circuit Court of Florida. Signed by Governor Doyle Carlton and Secretary of State H. Clay Crawford. Original seal of the State of Florida. 17-3/4 x 11-1/4.
    
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    1924, February 25. Washington, D.C. Supreme Court of the United States of America. Certificate of admission for Elwyn Thomas to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court. Signed by Supreme Court Clerk William Stansbury. Original seal of the U.S. Supreme Court. 15 x 19.
    

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   1938, May 13. Florida, Palm Beach. Newspaper clipping, Palm Beach Sun. Front page headline and article about Elwyn Thomas’s run for election to the Florida Supreme Court. “Thomas Friends Organize for Victory.” 17 x 18. Object has been encapsulated.
   
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   1946 – 1948, circa. Florida, Tallahassee. Supreme Court Building, exterior, general view. Architectural blueprint rendering. This may be a diazo print, and thus very susceptible to fading in sunlight or fluorescent light. Should be protected from long or intense exposure to any light.
   

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   1931, March 3. Florida, Tallahassee. Tallahassee Daily Democrat. Front page headline: “Fred H. Davis Is Appointed Justice.” 2 copies of the pages.
   
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   1937, June 21. Florida, Jacksonville. The Florida Times-Union.” Front page headline: “Death Claims Justice Fred H. Davis.”
   
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   1937, June 22. Florida, Tallahassee. The Daily Democrat. Page 5 section with headline: “Braddock Risks World’s Title to Negro Joe Louis Tonight.”
   
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   1937, June 21. Florida, Jacksonville. The Florida Times-Union.” Page 3 section with headline: “Franco, With Bilbao in Rebel Bag, Pushes Men Towards Santander.”
   
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   1937, June 22. Florida, Tallahassee. The Daily Democrat. Front page headline: “Body of Justice Fred H. Davis Lies in State at Capitol Until Church Services and Burial with Masonic, Military Honors Late Today.” 2 copies of the section.
   
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   1921 or 1927, March 1. Florida, Tallahassee. Large mailing envelope from the Supreme Court of Florida to Mr. John N. Whitfield, 21 West Monroe Street, Jacksonville, Florida. [acid burn inside the envelop suggests it once contained a document with a seal, such as an official commission to office.]
   

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   1933, January 10. Florida, Tallahassee. Newspaper clipping, encapsulated. “Judge Fred H. Davis is Florida’s Chief Justice.”
   
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   1890 – 1899, circa. Florida, Tallahassee. Sheet of blank stationery, lithographed with the heading: “Supreme Court, State of Florida / Tallahassee, Fla. __________ 18____” Along left edge is a printer’s text: “Morning News Lith Sav. Ga.” Paper is laid and has the watermark: “Bankers Linen
   
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   1890 – 1899, circa. Florida, Tallahassee. Business size envelope, lithographed with the state seal. In address area are the words: “J. B. Whitfield / Present” On back of flap is the printer’s text: “Morning News Steam Printing House, Savannah, Ga.”
   
4. 
   1890 – 1899, circa. Florida, Tallahassee. Blank personal correspondence size envelope, lithographed with the state seal. On back of flap is the printer’s text: “Morning News Steam Printing House, Savannah, Ga.”
   
5. 
   1890 – 1899, circa. Florida, Tallahassee. Blank personal correspondence size envelope, lithographed with the return address: “J. B. Whitfield, / Attorney-at-Law. / Tallahassee - - Florida.”.
   
6. 
   1905, circa. Florida, Tallahassee. Old Capitol, Supreme Court chamber. En banc portrait of the 6 justices. Robert Cockrell, Thomas Shackleford, James Whitfield, R. Fenwick Taylor, William Hocker, Charles Parkhill. Black and white 11 x 14 copy print, image area is 8 x 13.
   
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   1940 – 1949, circa. Florida, Tallahassee. Supreme Court Building, Whitfield Building, exterior, general view from above, probably from the dome of the Old Capitol. View of the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College campus in the background. Black and white 8 x 10 print.
   
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   1947, January 13 to March 6, 1947. Florida, Tallahassee. Supreme Court Building, Whitfield Building, interior, courtroom. En banc portrait of the justices. Roy Chapman, Glenn Terrell, Paul Barns, Elwyn Thomas, Chief Justice, Alto Adams, Rivers Buford, Judge Leo Fabisinski of Pensacola, sitting in for Justice Sebring, who was serving on the Nurenberg War Crimes Tribunal in Germany. Black and white 8 x 10 print.
   

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   1898, December 13. Florida, Tallahassee. Newspaper, Weekly Floridian.
   
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   1937, June 21. Florida, Tallahassee. Newspaper clipping, encapsulated, The Daily Democrat. Headline reads: “Fred H Davis, Supreme Court Justice, Comes Home to Be Honored in Death.”
   
3. 
   1922. Florida, Pensacola. Newspaper page, encapsulated, The Pensacola Sunday News. Headline: “Florida Supreme Court Since 1845. By Judge J. B. Whitfield of the Supreme Court.”
   
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   1951, December 30. Florida, Jacksonville. Newspaper clipping, The Florida Times-Union. Headline: “Year’s News Review Presented.”
   
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   1941, January 7. Florida, Jacksonville. Newspaper full page, The Florida Times-Union. Headline: “Tallahassee Prepares for Governor’s Inauguration.” Page contains 7 large photos of various topics, each with a caption: Gov. Holland and family, Governor’s Mansion, Gov. Holland’s first press conference; out-going Gov. Cone dedicates new State Library facility in Capitol Building, Gov. Cone, Treasurer J. Edwin Larsen, Attorney General J. Tom Watson.
   
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   1909, January 3. Georgia, Savannah. Newspaper page, Savannah Morning News. Headline: “Florida’s New State Administration.”
   
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   1955, February 27. Florida, Tampa. Newspaper page, Tampa Sunday Tribune. “Pioneer Florida” with sub-headlines, “Apalachicola’s Graveyard – The Cemetery off the Garden of Eden?” “Florida – A Bargain for Spain and U.S.” “Florida Phosphate: Flesh, Fowl, or Good Red Herring.” “Frog Smith Remembers the Days When Florida Floated on Fresh Water.” Joseph B. Lancaster, Tampa’s First Mayor, Was Soldier and Jurist.”
   
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   1955, April 3. Florida, Jacksonville. Newspaper page, The Florida Times-Union. Headline: “Early Legislatures Recalled in Old Pictures.” 6 photos with captions picture: 1887 legislature, 1891 Senate, 1891 legislature, 1895 Senate, 1905 legislature, 1905 House Speaker’s staff.
   
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   1929, October 13. Florida, Tallahassee. Photocopy of newspaper page, Florida State News. Headline: “Historic Goodwood and an Old Chair.”