Guide to the David O. True collection,

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1 Guide to the David O. True collection, Descriptive Summary Title : David O. True collection Creator: True, David O. Dates : ID Number : T28 Size: boxes Language(s): English Repository: Administrative Summary Special & Digital Collections University of South Florida Tampa Library 4202 East Fowler Ave., LIB122 Tampa, Florida Phone: Fax: Special & Digital Collections Provenance: True, David O. Acquisition Donation Information: Custodial History: David O. True left his collection of research materials to Marjorie Stoneman Douglas upon his death, intending his collection to eventually find a home within an academic institution. The collection was originally thought to have been donated to the University of Miami, but the collection was retired from the university when True's will was found. The collection was then housed in Marjorie Stoneman Douglas' Coconut Grove home, and on May 6, 1980, Douglas announced her gift of the David O. True Collection to the University of South Florida Libraries. Access Conditions: None. The contents of this collection may be subject to copyright. Visit the United States Copyright Office's website at for more information. Processing Complete History: Preferred Citation: David O. True Collection, Special Collections Department, Tampa Library, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida. Biographical Note Scope Note The collection includes a variety of cartographic materials, antiquarian book and map dealer records, correspondence, published articles, bibliographic materials, newspaper clippings, and publications. Highlights of the collection include historical materials and correspondence related to early explorers in North America. Cartographic materials included in the collection consist of map facsimiles, slides, and photostatic reproductions. Arrangement Note: Materials are primarily arranged alphabetically by subject. Some materials, such as correspondence, articles, press notes, have been organized by type of material and date rather than subject. Arrangement Materials are primarily arranged alphabetically by subject. Some materials, such as correspondence, articles, press notes, have been organized by type of material and date rather than subject. Subject Headings Personal Names: Cabot, John, d. 1498? Columbus, Christopher Narva ez, Pa nfilo de, d Soto, Hernando de, ca Verrazzano, Giovanni da, Vespucci, Amerigo, Subject Terms: Explorers Florida -- History -- To 1565 Genre/Form Terms: Florida -- Maps -- Early works to 1800

2 COLLECTION CONTENTS BOX 1 : Adventures-Articles FOLDER 1 : Admiral John Cabot: Discoverer of North America, 1961 FOLDER 2 : Adventures of the Mind FOLDER 3 : Aluminaut and Sea Exploration FOLDER 4 : Ancient History Bibliographies FOLDER 5 : American Eagle De Soto Expedition in Florida and Wilkinson FOLDER 6 : American Eagle Publications FOLDER 7 : Ancient History Bibliographies FOLDER 8 : Articles and Press Notes FOLDER 9 : Articles and Press Notes BOX 2 : Bahamas- Before Columbus FOLDER 1 : Articles and Press Notes FOLDER 2 : Asiatic Settlement and Discovery of America FOLDER 3 : Atlantis FOLDER 4 : Bahamas FOLDER 5 : Before Columbus, Part 1 FOLDER 6 : Before Columbus, Part 2 FOLDER 7 : Biscayne Bay Roland E. Chardon BOX 3 : Biographical Files, A-G FOLDER 1 : Biography A

3 FOLDER 2 : Biography B FOLDER 3 : Biography C FOLDER 4 : Biography D FOLDER 5 : Biography E-F FOLDER 6 : Biography G BOX 4 : Biographical Files, H-N FOLDER 1 : Biography H FOLDER 2 : Biography I FOLDER 3 : Biography M FOLDER 4 : Biography M-N BOX 5 : Biographical Files, O-V FOLDER 1 : Biography O FOLDER 2 : Biography R FOLDER 3 : Biography S FOLDER 4 : Biography T FOLDER 5 : Biography U FOLDER 6 : Biography U-V BOX 6 : Cabot Bibliography FOLDER 1 : Cabot Bibliography, Part 1 FOLDER 2 : Cabot Bibliography, Part 2

4 FOLDER 3 : Cabot Bibliography, Part 3 FOLDER 4 : Cabot Bibliography, Part 4 FOLDER 5 : Cabot Bibliography, Part 5 FOLDER 6 : Cabot Bibliography, Part 6 BOX 7 : Cabot (Canada- Explorations) FOLDER 1 : Cabot Canada Maps FOLDER 2 : Cabot Admiral John Cabot FOLDER 3 : Cabot Correspondence, Part 1 FOLDER 4 : Cabot Correspondence, Part 2 FOLDER 5 : Cabot Correspondence, Part 3 FOLDER 6 : Cabot Correspondence with Thomas Dunbabin FOLDER 7 : Cabot Discoverer of North America, Part 1 FOLDER 8 : Cabot Discoverer of North America, Part 2 FOLDER 9 : Cabot Drafts FOLDER 10 : Cabot Explorations in North America BOX 8 : Cabot (Genoa- Map) FOLDER 1 : Cabot Genoa FOLDER 2 : Cabot Index, Part 1 FOLDER 3 : Cabot Index, Part 2 FOLDER 4 : Cabot Index, Part 3

5 FOLDER 5 : Cabot Map Article Lisbon, 1960 BOX 9 : Cabot- Canada FOLDER 1 : Cabot Outline, Part 1 FOLDER 2 : Cabot Outline, Part 2 FOLDER 3 : Cabot Outline, Part 3 FOLDER 4 : Cabot Pre-voyages FOLDER 5 : Cabot Sources and Authors, A-Z FOLDER 6 : Cabotians FOLDER 7 : Canada BOX 10 : Cantino- Columbus FOLDER 1 : Cantino Map Names FOLDER 2 : Cape Canaveral FOLDER 3 : Caribbean FOLDER 4 : Catalogues of Old Maps and Antiquarian Paper Items FOLDER 5 : Chronology of Dates of Discovery, FOLDER 6 : Chronology of Dates Florida History FOLDER 7 : Chronology of Dates Rulers FOLDER 8 : Chronology of Dates Wars and Treaties FOLDER 9 : Columbus and Cabot Inventio Fortunatae BOX 11 : Columbus- Coral Gables FOLDER 1 : Columbus Verhoog FOLDER 2 : Communism, Part 1

6 FOLDER 3 : Communism, Part 2 FOLDER 4 : Compass Variation Magnetism FOLDER 5 : Conference on the History of Cartography London, Part 1, 1967 FOLDER 6 : Conference on the History of Cartography London, Part 2, 1967 FOLDER 7 : Coral Gables BOX 12 : Correspondence FOLDER 1 : Correspondence with Dr. L.J Jackman FOLDER 2 : Correspondence with Dr. L.J Jackman FOLDER 3 : Correspondence with Dr. L.J Jackman FOLDER 4 : Correspondence with Elizabeth MacCallum FOLDER 5 : Correspondence General BOX 13 : Correspondence FOLDER 1 : Correspondence Letter Book I, April 15, 1984 and Onward FOLDER 2 : Correspondence Letter Book I, April 15, 1984 and Onward FOLDER 3 : Correspondence with Marjorie Stoneman Douglas FOLDER 4 : Correspondence Personal FOLDER 5 : Correspondence with Thomas Dunbabin FOLDER 6 : Correspondence Vigneras FOLDER 7 : Correspondence William Sturtevant and Charlie Brookfield BOX 14 : Cosmographers- Extract FOLDER 1 : Cosmographers Biographical Materials

7 FOLDER 2 : Cosmography FOLDER 3 : David O. True Bibliography of Publications FOLDER 4 : Discovery of John Cabot FOLDER 5 : Everglades FOLDER 6 : Explorers and Discoverers FOLDER 7 : Extract from Cartological Material BOX 15 : Florida Subject Files (General), A-G FOLDER 1 : Florida A FOLDER 2 : Florida B FOLDER 3 : Florida C FOLDER 4 : Florida D FOLDER 5 : Florida E FOLDER 6 : Florida G BOX 16 : Florida Subject Files (General), H-N FOLDER 1 : Florida H FOLDER 2 : Florida I FOLDER 3 : Florida M FOLDER 4 : Florida N BOX 17 : Florida Subject Files (General) O-T FOLDER 1 : Florida O-R FOLDER 2 : Florida S

8 FOLDER 3 : Florida T BOX 18 : Florida FOLDER 1 : Florida FOLDER 2 : Florida Atlas, Part 1 FOLDER 3 : Florida Atlas, Part 2 FOLDER 4 : Florida Bibliography Spanish Sources FOLDER 5 : Florida Biscayne Key FOLDER 6 : Florida Cabeza de Vaca FOLDER 7 : Florida Everglades Photograph Scope/Content: Folder contains one image. FOLDER 8 : Florida Forts FOLDER 9 : Florida Historical Society BOX 19 : Florida FOLDER 1 : Florida Indians of Florida FOLDER 2 : Florida Islandia FOLDER 3 : Florida Key West FOLDER 4 : Florida Keys Map, FOLDER 5 : Florida Keys South of Biscayne Bay BOX 20 : Florida FOLDER 1 : Florida Letter of Hernando de Soto and Memoir of Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda, 1854 FOLDER 2 : Florida Map Names, Part 1 FOLDER 3 : Florida Map Names, Part 2

9 FOLDER 4 : Florida Massacre at Indian Key FOLDER 5 : Florida Memoir of Do d'escalente Fontaneda respecting Florida. Written in Spain, about the year FOLDER 6 : Florida Miami FOLDER 7 : Florida Miami Libraries FOLDER 8 : Florida Miami River FOLDER 9 : Florida Mound Key (Juchi) BOX 21 : Florida FOLDER 1 : Florida Northeast FOLDER 2 : Florida North of Palm Beach FOLDER 3 : Florida Place Names FOLDER 4 : Florida Place Names of Indian Derivation, Part 1 FOLDER 5 : Florida Place Names of Indian Derivation, Part 2 BOX 22 : Florida FOLDER 1 : Florida Post Office FOLDER 2 : Florida Rivers and Creeks FOLDER 3 : Florida Spanish Florida FOLDER 4 : Florida Springs FOLDER 5 : Florida Tampa Bay FOLDER 6 : Florida Trails FOLDER 7 : Florida Vizcaya

10 FOLDER 8 : Florida West of Tallahassee BOX 23 : Fountain-Freducci FOLDER 1 : Fountain of Youth and Bimini FOLDER 2 : French in America FOLDER 3 : Freducci, Part 1 FOLDER 4 : Freducci, Part 2 FOLDER 5 : Freducci, Part 3 BOX 24 : George Guild Maps- History FOLDER 1 : George Guild Maps Correspondence FOLDER 2 : Gifts Lists and Correspondence FOLDER 3 : Greece 800 BC; BC FOLDER 4 : Greenland and Labrador FOLDER 5 : Hakluyt Society FOLDER 6 : Historical Association of Southern Florida FOLDER 7 : History Bibliography, A-G FOLDER 8 : History Bibliography, T-Z FOLDER 9 : History Publications BOX 25 : Illinois- Map Authors FOLDER 1 : Illinois and its Builders: A Work for Newspaper and Library Reference, 1925 FOLDER 2 : Jack Bell FOLDER 3 : Jacksonville Historical Society Newsletters

11 FOLDER 4 : John Cabot Explorations Publicity FOLDER 5 : John Cabot Map Studies FOLDER 6 : John Day Letter Outline, 1497 BOX 26 : Koreshan- Mailing Lists FOLDER 1 : Koreshan Unity Estero, Florida FOLDER 2 : Louis C. Karpinski Map Data FOLDER 3 : Magnetism of the Earth FOLDER 4 : Magnetism of the Earth, FOLDER 5 : Mailing Lists Addresses FOLDER 6 : Map Author Lists BOX 27 : Map Authors- Map Bibliography FOLDER 1 : Map Authors Biographies, A-N FOLDER 2 : Map Authors Biographies, O-Z FOLDER 3 : Map Bibliography C-D FOLDER 4 : Map Bibliography E-F FOLDER 5 : Map Bibliography G BOX 28 : Map Bibliography FOLDER 1 : Map Bibliography H-I FOLDER 2 : Map Bibliography J-M FOLDER 3 : Map Bibliography N-Q FOLDER 4 : Map Bibliography R-S

12 FOLDER 5 : Map Bibliography T-Z BOX 29 : Map Collector- Map Forms FOLDER 1 : Map Collector's Circle FOLDER 2 : Map Data, Part 1 FOLDER 3 : Map Data, Part 2 FOLDER 4 : Map Depositories, Part 1 FOLDER 5 : Map Depositories, Part 2 FOLDER 6 : Map Forms and Characteristics BOX 30 : Map Legends- Map Makers FOLDER 1 : Map Legends, 1544 FOLDER 2 : Map Lists Titles A-L FOLDER 3 : Map Lists Titles M-Z FOLDER 4 : Map Lists and General Correspondence FOLDER 5 : Map-makers Dutch FOLDER 6 : Map-makers English FOLDER 7 : Map-makers French and German FOLDER 8 : Map-makers Italian FOLDER 9 : Map-makers Other Nationals FOLDER 10 : Map-makers Portuguese, Scandinavian, and Spanish BOX 31 : Map Subjects- Maps FOLDER 1 : Map Subjects

13 FOLDER 2 : Map Titles and Descriptions, A-Z FOLDER 3 : Maps Before 1450 FOLDER 4 : Maps Canerio Map, FOLDER 5 : Cantino Map, Part 1, 1502 FOLDER 6 : Cantino Map, Part 2, 1502 FOLDER 7 : Maps Cantino Canerio Series, 1498 FOLDER 8 : Maps "Colon" Maps, 1494 BOX 32 : Maps FOLDER 1 : Maps Cosa Map, 1497 Voyage FOLDER 2 : Maps Cosa Map, 1500 FOLDER 3 : Maps Discovery of North America by John Cabot FOLDER 4 : Maps Discovery Maps FOLDER 5 : Maps East Florida BOX 33 : Maps FOLDER 1 : Maps Greenland and Canada FOLDER 2 : Maps Greenland and Labrador FOLDER 3 : Maps Narvaez and DeSoto Landings in Florida FOLDER 4 : Maps Oceanus Occidentalis John Cabot FOLDER 5 : Maps Paris Cabot Map FOLDER 6 : Maps Piri Reis, 1513 FOLDER 7 : Maps Piri Reis, 1528 FOLDER 8 : Maps Piri Reis, 1528 FOLDER 9 : Maps Plates and Figures BOX 34 : Maps FOLDER 1 : Maps Polus Arcticus

14 FOLDER 2 : Maps Ponce Maps FOLDER 3 : Maps Reinel-Miller, FOLDER 4 : Maps Ruge, FOLDER 5 : Maps Sebastian Cabot, 1494 FOLDER 6 : Maps Slides (Miscellaneous) FOLDER 7 : Maps Verrazano Voyage of 1524 FOLDER 8 : Maps Voyages of John Cabot FOLDER 9 : Maps Voyages of John Cabot Notes, Drawings, Correspondence FOLDER 10 : Maps, BOX 35 : Maps, FOLDER 1 : Maps, FOLDER 2 : Maps, BOX 36 : Maps, FOLDER 1 : Maps, FOLDER 2 : Maps, FOLDER 3 : Maps, BOX 37 : Maps, FOLDER 1 : Maps, FOLDER 2 : Maps, FOLDER 3 : Maps, 1529 FOLDER 4 : Maps, BOX 38 : Maps, FOLDER 1 : Maps, FOLDER 2 : Maps, FOLDER 3 : Maps, 1542 FOLDER 4 : Maps- Santa Cruz, 1542 BOX 39 : Maps, FOLDER 1 : Maps, FOLDER 2 : Maps, FOLDER 3 : Maps, 1550 FOLDER 4, 1551 BOX 40 : Maps, FOLDER 1 : Maps, FOLDER 2 : Maps,

15 BOX 41 : Maps, FOLDER 1 : Maps, FOLDER 2 : Maps, FOLDER 3 : Maps, 1590 FOLDER 4 : Maps, 1595 BOX 42 : Maps, FOLDER 1 : Maps, FOLDER 2 : Maps, FOLDER 3 : Maps, FOLDER 4 : Maps, BOX 43 : Maps, FOLDER 1 : Maps, FOLDER 2 : Maps, FOLDER 3 : Maps, FOLDER 4 : Maps, FOLDER 5 : Maps, BOX 44 : Maps, FOLDER 1, FOLDER 2 : Maps, FOLDER 3 : Maps, FOLDER 4 : Maps, FOLDER 5 : Maps, 1850 BOX 45 : Minor Claims- Names FOLDER 1 : Minor Claims FOLDER 2 : Names John Cabot Maps Canada BOX 46 : Narvaez and De Soto BOX 47 : Nordic- Piri Reis FOLDER 1 : Nordic Voyages Greenland FOLDER 2 : Nordic Voyages Iceland FOLDER 3 : Nordic Voyages Vasa (Swedish Ship) FOLDER 4 : Oceanography FOLDER 5 : Origins of Man

16 FOLDER 6 : Padron Real and Padron General FOLDER 7 : Pilot Major Amerigo Vespucci FOLDER 8 : Pirates FOLDER 9 : Pirates and Treasure of the Caribbean FOLDER 10 : Piri Reis' Summarized Translation of the Numbered Texts BOX 48 : Plate FOLDER 1 : Plate from British Museum, 1951 FOLDER 2 : Plate Fleets BOX 49 : Ponce de Leon FOLDER 1 : Ponce de Leon FOLDER 2 : Ponce de Leon Bibliography FOLDER 3 : Ponce de Leon First Voyage to Florida Herrari's Account FOLDER 4 : Ponce de Leon Manuscripts and Supplementary Notes, Part 1 FOLDER 5 : Ponce de Leon Manuscripts and Supplementary Notes, Part 2 FOLDER 6 : Ponce de Leon Manuscripts and Supplementary Notes, Part 3 FOLDER 7 : Ponce de Leon Manuscripts Copy, Part 1 FOLDER 8 : Ponce de Leon Manuscripts Copy, Part 2 FOLDER 9 : Ponce de Leon Manuscripts Copy, Part 3 BOX 50 : Ponce de Leon FOLDER 1 : Ponce de Leon Manuscripts Copy, Part 4 FOLDER 2 : Ponce de Leon Manuscripts Copy, Part 5

17 FOLDER 3 : Ponce de Leon Publicity FOLDER 4 : Ponce de Leon Shea's Account FOLDER 5 : Ponce de Leon St. Augustine Date and the Controversy FOLDER 6 : Ponce de Leon Voyage, 1516 FOLDER 7 : Ponce de Leon Voyages to Florida, Part 1 FOLDER 8 : Ponce de Leon Voyages to Florida, Part 2 FOLDER 9 : Ponce de Leon Voyages to Florida, by David O. True BOX 51 : Portugal-Portuguese FOLDER 1 : Portugal FOLDER 2 : Portuguese in America FOLDER 3 : Portuguese Voyages to America Bibliography BOX 52 : Prowse- Social FOLDER 1 : Prowse Exploration of the Gulf of St. Lawrence , Mimeographed by the Author, 1929 FOLDER 2 : Prowse the True and Only Labrador, 1939 FOLDER 3 : Religion FOLDER 4 : Reports of Campaigns in Florida FOLDER 5 : Report of Lieutenant John McLaughlin Florida Expedition at Indian Key, 1941 FOLDER 6 : Report, Major W.G. Belknar, 8th Infantry, from Sprague's Florida War FOLDER 7 : St. Leo Abbey FOLDER 8 : Sebastian Cabot FOLDER 9 : Ships FOLDER 10 : Slavery in the New World FOLDER 11 : Social Security

18 BOX 53 : Societies-South FOLDER 1 : Societies Magazines FOLDER 2 : Society for the History of Discoveries FOLDER 3 : "Some Early Maps Relating to Florida" FOLDER 4 : South of Charlotte Harbor BOX 54 : St. Augustine- Studies FOLDER 1 : St. Augustine, Part 1 FOLDER 2 : St. Augustine, Part 2 FOLDER 3 : St. Augustine the Forts FOLDER 4 : St. Augustine Historical Society Publications El Escribano FOLDER 5 : St. Augustine Historical Society Publications El Escribano, Part 2 FOLDER 6 : Studies of Columbus Edwin A. Link BOX 55 : Subject Files (B-M) FOLDER 1 : Subject Files, General B FOLDER 2 : Subject Files, General G FOLDER 3 : Subject Files, General M BOX 56 : Subject Indexes (A-D) FOLDER 1 : Subject Index A FOLDER 2 : Subject Index B FOLDER 3 : Subject Index C

19 FOLDER 4 : Subject Index D BOX 57 : Subject Indexes (E-L) FOLDER 1 : Subject Index E FOLDER 2 : Subject Index F FOLDER 3 : Subject Index H FOLDER 4 : Subject Index I FOLDER 5 : Subject Index L BOX 58 : Subject Indexes (M-S) FOLDER 1 : Subject Index M FOLDER 2 : Subject Index N FOLDER 3 : Subject Index P FOLDER 4 : Subject Index R FOLDER 5 : Subject Index S BOX 59 : Subject Indexes (T-W)- Treasure FOLDER 1 : Subject Index T FOLDER 2 : Subject Index W FOLDER 3 : Subscriptions Dealer Lists FOLDER 4 : Surtsey Volcano Iceland, 1963 FOLDER 5 : Track of Ponce de Leon, 1513 FOLDER 6 : Treasure Authors, A-Z BOX 60 : Treasure FOLDER 1 : Treasure Book Titles

20 FOLDER 2 : Treasure Edwin A. Link FOLDER 3 : Treasure Florida FOLDER 4 : Treasure Maps FOLDER 5 : Treasure Underwater Salvage FOLDER 6 : Treasure Underwater Salvage, Part 2 BOX 61 : Underwater Exploration- Verranzo's Voyage FOLDER 1 : Underwater Exploration FOLDER 2 : Underwater Exploration Edwin A. Link FOLDER 3 : Verranzo FOLDER 4 : Verranzo Bibliography FOLDER 5 : Verranzo Discards, 1961 FOLDER 6 : Verranzo Discards FOLDER 7 : Verranzo's Voyage to North America in 1524 BOX 62 : Vespucci- Vinlandia FOLDER 1 : Vespucci, Part 1 FOLDER 2 : Vespucci, Part 2 FOLDER 3 : Vikings Danes FOLDER 4 : Vikings General Subject Files FOLDER 5 : Vikings "Norse America" FOLDER 6 : Vikings Western Explorations, FOLDER 7 : Vinlandia, 1940

21 BOX 63 : Voyages FOLDER 1 : Voyage to Cape Breton John Cabot, 1494 FOLDER 2 : Voyages John Cabot, ; FOLDER 3 : Voyage John Cabot, Part 1, 1497 FOLDER 4 : Voyage John Cabot, Part 2, 1497 FOLDER 5 : Voyage to Labrador John Cabot FOLDER 6 : Voyages, BOX 64 : Waldseemuller- West Indies FOLDER 1 : Waldseemuller Maps, 1507 FOLDER 2 : West Indies Bibliography, A-Z FOLDER 3 : West Indies Islands BOX 65 : Oversized Materials Scope/Content: Contains miscellaneous microfilm/media in addition to oversized items from the Spanish Archives and Biblioteca Nacional. Last modified on November 4th, 2015 Copyright 2011 USF Tampa Library - Special & Digital Collections. All rights reserved.