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Data Entry Research Notebooks

Subject specific multi-volume collections such as:

  • Boca Grande Community Plan
  • Exhibit Supplement Vol. 1-A: Boca Grande Once a Railroad Town
  • Exhibit Supplement Vol. 1-B: Boca Grande Once a Railroad Town
  • Exhibit Supplement Vol. 2: Railroads and Boca Grande
  • Exhibit Supplement Vol. 3: Ships and Phosphate
  • Boca Grande: The Black Experience Vol. 1-A
  • Boca Grande: The Black Experience Vol. 1-B
  • Boca Grande: The Black Experience Vol. 2
  • Boca Grande: The Black Experience Vol. 3
  • Boca Grande: The Black Experience Vol. 4
  • Boca Grande: Traveling in Style-George Pullman and the Pullman Experience
  • Remember When? The Business Community on Boca Grande Vol. 1 A-H
  • Remember When? The Business Community on Boca Grande Vol. 2 I-P
  • Remember When? The Business Community on Boca Grande Vol. 3 Q-Z
  • Florida, Boca Grande and WWII Vol. 1-A
  • Florida, Boca Grande and WWII Vol. 1-B Florida, Boca Grande and WWII Vol. 2A
  • Florida, Boca Grande and WWII Vol. 2B Florida, Boca Grande and WWII Vol. 2C
  • Hurricanes and Boca Grande
  • Port Noise Complaint: Reflections by Milton Bell
  • Portals of Paradise
  • Profiles: Movers and Shakers
    Albert W Gilchrist, Peter Butler Bratley, Louis M Fouts
  • Race, Power and Memory
  • “Railroad Heaven”: Portals – Those Were the Days
  • The Forgotten Citizen-Joseph Spadaro and the Boca Grande Hotel – 2 volumes
  • The Gibson Papers (Charles Dana Gibson) may be found on the research computer – 7 Volumes
  • Whatever Happened To? (Work in Progress)

Oral Histories

The Oral History Collection documents Gasparilla Island history as remembered and experienced by its residents. The Interviews are either in transcript, audio or video formats.

Programs

Since the Boca Grande Historical Societies’ conception, programs and lectures have been presented to the membership. Many of these are now available for viewing and/or listening to at the History Center and on our website.

History Bytes

Local history vignettes from 2001 to the present in video or audio formats.

Subject Files

These alphabetical files consist of hundreds of newspaper clippings, documents, images, newsletters, brochures, and other print materials on a variety of topics from aerials to transportation relating to Gasparilla Island and its surrounding areas.

By appointment visitors may use our research computer to access premium sites like Ancestry.com, Newspapers.com, and smalltownnewspapers.com.

These collections may only be accessed on site at the History Center.
Contact Jim Blaha, archivist, for archival and research assistance.
941-964-1600
archives@bocagrandehistoricalsociety.com

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