Memories
People
In Search of Dorothy
Jet Wintter Seghers died in 1996. Her daughter Christi Malone found a mounted photograph of Dorothy "Dottie" Johansson taken on her wedding day and began an 18 year search for Dorothy's family, so she could return the beautiful photograph. Christi...
Places
Lake Eola Park
Lake Eola Park is the most historic and widely recognized symbol of the city of Orlando. It was established in 1883 as the city's first public park after Orlando homesteaders Jacob and Fanny Summerlin donated the lake and some of the...
Events
Orlando Tigers Play Leesburg at Tinker Field 1940
Program for the home game between Orlando High School Tigers and Leesburg at Tinker Field, played November 8, 1940.
Included in the program are great photographs and the names of the players, their numbers, positions, schedule for the year and many...
People
Dorothy Glynn Dollins Jones Staples Segool
DOROTHY GLYNN DOLLINS JONES STAPLES SEGOOL
Dorothy was a wife, mother and grandmother, loved by her family and friends, and she will be dearly missed. A rarity, Dorothy was an Orlando native. She was born in 1925 to John William and...
People
Jet Wintter Seghers Prendeville 1926-1996
Jet Wintter Seghers was born in New Orleans in 1926. When she was about 13 years old, the family moved to Orlando, Florida where her father was general manager for a box company. She attended Orlando High School, graduating in...
Organizations
La Coterie Club
La Coterie was a club formed of couples from the First United Methodist Church, Orlando Florida. They built a clubhouse on two lots adjacent to Lake Conway, land given to them by "Aunt Molly" Randall.
The Coterie Club held a housewarming...
People
Don Dunn Oral History Interview
My name is Don Dunn and I've lived in the Orlando area since 1961, but visited for the first time in 1947 in the springtime... there were six of us in a '38 Chevrolet that belonged to my stepfather, my...
Organizations
Pilot Club of Orlando, Florida
Pilot Club International
Pilot International was founded as a professional women's organization on October 18, 1921 in Macon, Georgia.
"Organized and developed by a representative group of business and professional women in Macon, the name Pilot Club Interna...
Topics
Summer Picnic, Orlando 1947
Paul and Doris Schankweiler, far right, with daughter Ruth, far left, her sister Joan, cousin Butch Dunn, Don Dunn's brother, Lois Scankweiler far right and neighbor Ethel Wolfe celebrate summer outdoors at their home on Orange Blossom Trail in 1947.
Organizations
Telephone Reference Service Then and Now
ABOVE: Monika Cooper at her computer in Questline 1990s.
Telephone Reference Service - The Albertson Public Library
An article by George Butler published in the Orlando Morning Sentinel in December 1949 mentions telephone reference service provided by librar...
Organizations
United Mine Workers Union
The United Mine Workers attempted to unionize Taxi drivers in Orlando in May 1949. An article from the Orlando Post published Friday, May 20, 1949, calls for those on strike to stop the violence towards non-striking Taxi drivers, their managers...
Organizations
Friends of the Library Association - Organized March 1949
In the beginning
The 1973 history of the Friends of the Library (above) records the beginnings of the group.
Due to the enthusiastic efforts of Zonta Club, the Friends of the Library of Orlando came into being in 1949. The Winter Park-Orlando...
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