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The
Museum's collections include:
• 3,500 Three-Dimensional Artifacts
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FEC
railway memorabilia, tools, track-laying equipment, lanterns
and signal lights |
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Domestic
items, home furnishings, textiles, kitchen items, woodburning
stoves and icebox (c. 1885 – 1933) |
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Quilts |
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Mercantile
items |
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American
Red Cross Life Saving Corps buoys, badges, uniforms and swimsuits |
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Numerous
paintings including an original "Beanie Backus” (1949) |
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1,200 Books Related to Local and Statewide History
• 1,500 Linear Feet of Archival Records
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Mayport News (1921-1927)
- Pablo Beach News (1919-1925)
- Ocean Beach Reporter (1936-1954)
- Beach News & Advertiser (1950-1960)
- Ponte Vedra Recorder (1961-2001)
- Beaches Leader (1985-1990) |
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Scrapbooks |
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Brochures |
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Land
Records |
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Railroad
Memorabilia |
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8
Drawers of Vertical Files with Subjects Ranging From “Accidents”
to “Women”
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4
Drawers of Local Biographical Files
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20,000
(apx) Photographs and 100,000 (apx) Negatives, including The
Virgil Dean Collection
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Dozens
of Vintage Postcards of Local Scenes
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Municipal
Maps of the Beaches Communities, Aerial Maps and Sea Charts |
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