LeDuc Foundation Collection

LeDuc Foundation

George Graham Currie, the Library Director at Memorial Library of West Palm Beach (1924 – 1962), selected rare and out-of-print books on Florida history for the LeDuc Room. This collection was part of a donation from a patron who wanted to preserve her father's legacy within the community by providing funds for a collection entirely about Florida. Today, we have approximately 150 items remaining in the collection.

Scope and Content

The Leduc Foundation collection includes booklets that house journal articles and a book collection. The finding aid is in order by date.

Finding Aid

General Information

Title:

Leduc Foundation Collection

Dates:

1830 – 1930 

Language(s):

English

Restrictions on Access:

None

Copyright:

All materials are protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S. Code).

Preferred Citation for Books:

Last Name, First Name. (Year). “Title.” Accessed from Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach, Archive, Leduc Foundation Collection, date accessed.

Preferred Citation for Booklets:

Last Name, First Name. (Year). “Title.” Journal Title, Volume (Issue), Page Range. Accessed from Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach, Archive, Leduc Foundation Collection, date accessed.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged predominantly by type and date, and then alphabetized. 

Subjects

Genre/Form

• Hunting

• Forests and Forestry

• Florida Description

• Travel

• Natural Resources

• Fruits

• Plants

Geographic

• Florida

 


Repository Details

Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach

Archive Room, 4th Floor

411 Clematis Street

West Palm Beach, FL 33401

Contact

Katrina Zarelli

kzarelli@wpbcitylibrary.org 

(561) 868-7700

 

Series: Booklets

Box 1: Booklets

F01: East Florida - Alligators - The Seminoles & C. by Orson (1836)

F02: The First French Colony in the United States | The Second French Colony  in the United States (1837)

F03: Fruits and Scenery of Florida (Volume 7) (1839 – 1840)

F04: Wrecks, Wrecking, Wreckers and Wreckees on Florida Reef by A Late Resident of Florida (1842)

F05: Andrew Jackson by B. J. Lossing (1855)

F06: Life in the Southwest; Law in the Backwoods by Robur (1856)

F07: Letter of Hernando De Soto by Buckingham Smith (1858)

F08: The Exiles of Florida (A Review) by J. R. Giddings (1858)

F09: Wrecking on the Florida Keys by C. Nordhoff (1859)

F10: The First Colonists of Florida by J. T. Headley (1860)

F11: Charter of Charles V to Hernando De Soto (1861)

F12: Memorials of Some Members of the Expedition of Pamphilo De Narvaez (1862)

F13: The Spanish Captive by William B. Oliver (1862)

F14: The Fleur-De-Lis in Florida by Francis Parkman (1863)

F15: The Spanish and the Heretic by Francis Parkman (1863)

F16: The Campaign in Florida (Volume 8) (1864)

F17: The Vengeance of Dominic De Gourges by Francis Parkman (1864)

F18: Up the St. John's River by T. W. Higginson (1865)

F19: Florida: Her Crime and Her Punishment by John S. C. Abbott (1866)

F20: Expedition of Narvaez to Conquer Florida: Instruction to the Factor of Florida (1867)

F21: Out on the Reef by John Wilder (1868)

F22: A Dredging Excursion in the Gulf Stream by Mrs. E. C. Agassiz (1869)

F23: Among the Alligators - Appleton's Journal (1869)

F24: Black Point by Constance F. Woolson (1869)

F25: Thirty Months at The Dry Tortugas by A. O'D. (1869)

F26: Six Weeks in Florida by G. W. Nichols (1870)

F27: The Home of the Alligator (1870)

F28: The St. John's and Ocklawaha Rivers, Florida, Illustrated by Harry Fenn (1870)

F29: Baby and Mustard Playing Ball: A Florida Incident by Will Wallace Harney (1873)

F30: A Voyage to the Unknown River by Constance F. Woolson (1874)

F31: Dolores by Constance F. Woolson (1874)

F32: An English Sportsman in Florida by L. French Townshend (1875)

F33: Bow-Shooting with a Hermit by Maurice Thompson (1875)

F34: Bow Shots on the St. John's by Maurice Thompson (1876)

F35: A Semi-Tropical Island by D. H. Jacques (1877)

F36: An Island of the Sea by J. E. Dodge (1877)

F37: From Ocean to Gulf by E. B. Duffey (1882)

F38: In the Southeast Bastion by Frank R. Stockton (1882)

F39: The Captain's Story by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1882)

F40: A Tropical River in Florida by S. J. Meaton, D.D. (1883)

F41: The French Voyageurs by T. W. Higginson (1883)

F42: The Gulf Coast of Florida by R. J. Levis, M.D. (1883)

F43: The Southern "Gator" by James Otis (1883)

F44: Blood Will Tell (An Exoursion to Florida) – no author; Zac: A Study by Bolton Barr (1884)

F45: Florida and the West Indies (Volume 3) by F. A. Ober (1886)

F46: Mr. Wegg's Party on the Kissimmee by Henri Dauge (1886)

F47: Sport in Florida by James A. Henshall (1886)

F48: Three Weeks of Savage Life by Maurice Thompson (1886)

F49: A Fire on the Everglades by C. H. Shook (1887)

F50: About snakes and a bout with one by Charles Henry Webb (1887)

F51: Half a Curse by Octave Thanet (1887)

F52: Rob's Alligator by T. W. Birney (1888)

F53: A City of Seashells by Allan Foreman (1889)

F54: Excursion Life in Florida by H. Butterworth (1890)

F55: A Short-Lived American State by Henry E. Chambers (1891)

F56: Gamefishes of the Florida Reef by C. F. Holder (1891)

F57: The Phosphate Industry of Florida by Floyd E. Wilson (1892)

F58: Caught on a Lee Shore by William Henn (1893)

F59: In Fairest Florida (1893)

F60: The Prince and Princess Achille Murat in Florida by Matilda L. McConnell (1893)

F61: The Coniferous Forests of Eastern North America by Dr. Roland M. Harper (1894)

Box 2: Booklets

F01: Through the American Maelstrom by Lieut P. H. Uberroth, U.S.R.M. (1894)

F02: Cracker Cowboys of Florida by Frederic Remington (1895)

F03: Why the "Alligator Light" was Dark by William Drysdale (1895)

F04: Cruising on the Gulf by H.B.C. (1896)

F05: How to Start in Life: Fruit-Growing by Kirk Munroe (1896)

F06: Fisher Folks on the Gulf or Mexico by Leonora B. Ellis (1898)

F07: The Facts About the Florida Camps and the Shafter Expedition by George  Kennan (1898)

F08: The Man with the Branded Hand by Frank E. Kittradge (1898)

F09: Fishing in Florida Waters by W. W. De Hart (1899)

F10: The Manatee River by Francis Omeis and F. W. Fitzpatrick (1899)

F11: Winter Golf in Southern Sunshine by John Duncan Dunn (1900)

F12: Captains of Industry: Henry Morrison Flagler by Samuel E. Moffett (1902)

F13: How to Take Big Game Fish by Charles F. Holder (1903)

F14: Pasque Florida by Robert W. Chambers (1903)

F15: A Corporation Christmas Present by Mabel C. Deering (1904)

F16: Some Deep-Sea Giants by C. F. Holder (1905)

F17: The Homes of Jacksonville (1906)

F18: Tropical Fruit Growing in Florida by E. N. Reasoner (1906)

F19: Farm on the Ocean Bottom by Robert Franklin (1907)

F20: In the Track of the Hurricane by Charles R. Dodge (1907)

F21: Railroad Creeps Out of Sea by Frederic Blair (1907)

F22: The Female Hermit of Okaloacoochee Slough by David Hill (1907)

F23: Weird Monsters of the Sea by Lillian E. Zeh (1907)

F24: An Airline Across the Everglades by William A. Dupuy (1908)

F25: First Train Goes Out to Sea by M.B. Claussen (1908)

F26: Great Ocean Railway, Florida to Key West (1908)

F27: Two Thousand Miles of Playground by Henry F. Cope (1908)

F28: From Deck Hand to Governor by Ralph D. Paine (1909)

F29: The Fountain of Health: Florida by Charles Quincy Turner (1909)

F30: Flagler and Florida by Edwin Lefevre (1910)

F31: The Robert Hungerford School by Nathalie Lord (1910)

F32: Canoeing in Eden by Hulbert Footner (1911)

F33: Farming for Sponges by Charles A. Sidman (1911)

F34: Mr. R. M. Bond's House in Florida (1911)

F35: The Hours and the Man: A March Idyl by E. P. Powell (1911)

F36: The Tarpon of Turner's River by A. W. Dimock (1911)

F37: A Canoe Trip to Florida (1912)

F38: In the Woods at Eighty by E. P. Powell (1912)

F39: Winter Weather in Florida by A. J. Mitchell (1912)

F40: A Railway Across the Sea by Stephen J. Hunter (1913)

F41: Cruising Among the Florida Keys by Harry Belknap (1914)

F42: Winter Holidays by Harrison Rhodes (1914)

F43: Hitching Cuba to the Mainland by C. F. Carter (1915)

F44: Florida Furnishes Good Wild Turkey Hunting by Osceola (1916)

F45: Kingfishing in Florida Waters by Clayton A. Penhale (1916)

F46: Where are you going this winter? by Enoa Whittaker (1916)

F47: Motor Boating to Florida by Ruth Danenhower (1917)

F48: Deer, Turkey, and Quail Shooting in Florida by W. M. Garlington (1918)

F49: Our War Work (In Palm Beach) by Paris Singer (1918)

F50: Some Vanishing Scenic Features of the Southeastern United States by Roland M. Harper (1919)

F51: The Lure of the Southland by Etta Placier (1920)

F52: The Miami Aquarium by John T. Nichols (1921)

F53: Treasure-House of the Gulf Stream by John O. La Gorce; Interesting Citizens of the Gulf Stream by Dr. John T. Nichols (1921)

F54: Going South Sketches by E. H. Suydam (1923)

F55: The Bridge with a Thousand Spans by Francis W. Wilson (1923)

F56: Fishing Old Ocean from a Canoe by William B. Haynes (1924)

F57: Growing Our Own Bananas by James H. Collins (1924)

F58: Muskies O' The Sea by Ben C. Robinson (1924)

F59: Florida - The Pioneer State by Frank Stookbridge (1925)

F60: The Most Interesting Character I Have Known by George H. Dacy (1925)

Series: Books

Box 3: Book

B14: Florida: Past, Present and Future 1513-1913 (Volume 2) by George M. Chapin (1920)

Shelf 1: Books

B01: Oceola (Volume 1) by Captain Mayne Reid (1859)

B02: Oceola (Volume 2) by Captain Mayne Reid (1859)

B03: Oceola (Volume 3) by Captain Mayne Reid (1859)

B04: A Tallahassee Girl by Maurice Thompson (1881)

B05: In Biscayne Bay by Caroline Washburn Rockwood (1891)

B06: Heroes of American History: Juan Ponce de Leon by Frederick A. Ober (1908)

B07: Sonnets and Love Songs by George Graham Currie (1911)

B08: Epitaphs, Epigrams and Other Ephemera by George Graham Currie (1912)

B09: Key West: The Old and the New by Jefferson B. Browne (1912)

B10: The Blue Book and History of Pioneers, Tampa, Fla. by Pauline Brown-Hazen (1914)

B11: The West Florida Controversy, 1798-1813: A Study in American Diplomacy by Isaac Joslin Cox (1918)

B12: Dr. Andrew Turnbull and the New Smyrna Colony of Florida by Carita Doggett (1919)

B13: T. P. A. Commercial and Industrial Review by Travelers Protective Association (1919)

B15: Joan of the Everglades by Millard C. Horton (1922)

B16: Songs of Florida and Other Verse by George Graham Currie (1922)

B17: St. Andrews, Florida by G.M. West (1922)

B18: Sun Hunting by Kenneth L. Roberts (1922)

B19: Out of Doors in Florida by Charles Torrey Simpson (1923)

B20: Why I like Florida by W.A. McRae (1923)

B21: A Florida Sketchbook by Bradford Torrey (1924)