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Listen: The Assorted Selections ProgramPestilence, Potions, and Persistence Early Florida Medicine
Early Hospitals
Health Resorts and Sanitariums
Health resorts and private sanitariums were popular in Florida since the beginning of the state's emergence as a tourist destination during the 1870s.
Battle Creek Inn (193-)
Image number: PR06997
The Battle Creek Inn was built during 1926-1927 by Curtiss/Bright Properties at a cost of $275,000. It opened as the Pueblo Hotel on December 15, 1927. The owner of the hotel, aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss, later sold the hotel to Dr. John Harvey Kellogg for $1 million to use as a health spa/resort [Hotel Country Club?]. It was later renamed Battle Creek Inn and reopened in 1930.
Florida Sanitarium and Hospital: Orlando (190-)
Image number: N036333
Board of Health Facilities, Marine Hospital Service, and Public Health Infrastructure
The State Board of Health established a bureau to oversee facilities such as quarantine wards for smallpox and yellow fever, regional clinics, and laboratory testing facilities across the state, although state-run facilities were never accessible for all Florida's citizens until after World War II. The Board opened wards for crippled children in 1912 in both St Luke's and Brewster Hospitals in Jacksonville.
United States Marine Hospital: Key West, Florida (1875)
Image number: RC05335
Prison farm hospital (1914)
Image number: N032900
Williams/Shuey/Sessions house: Macclenny, Florida (197-)
Image number: N034307
Florida A & M College University Hospital: Tallahassee, Florida (1929)
Image number: N047207
Established in 1911 with 19 beds. For years the hospital was the only public facility for blacks. The hospital closed in 1971.
Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami (1918)
Image number: PR06799
Church Home & Hospital: Orlando, Florida (ca. 1910)
Image number: Rc01511
St. Luke's Hospital: Jacksonville, Florida (1888)
Image number: rc08319
Director and nurses of Florida State Hospital in 1919: Chattahoochee, Florida (1919)
Image number: N029504
Back: Dr. W.M. Bevis, director; Miss Summerford, chief nurse; Miss Pearl Trammell. Front: Miss Willie Taylor; Miss Earhart.
Jackson Memorial Hospital: Miami, Florida (1925)
Image number: Rc13066
Hospital facility: Marathon, Florida (19--)
Image number: Rc18085
Nurses gathered in front of Victoria Hospital: Miami, Florida (19--)
Image number: Rc19098
Located at 955 N.W. 3rd Street, it was built in 1925.
Sacred Heart hospital during construction: Pensacola, Florida (ca. 1914)
Image number: Rc19180
Office of Dr. John Gordon DuPuis: Miami, Florida (1929)
Image number: rc19549
Group of men in front of Moseley's Drug Store: Madison, Florida (190-)
Image number: MA0191
From left: 2. B. F. Moseley 3. Dr. Alonzo Lashbrook Blalock.
Hospital patrol and supply wagons, in the field (1898)
Image number: N041304
Hospital at Fort Barrancas: Pensacola, Florida (ca. 1870)
Image number: N030766
Fort Barrancas was the last incarnation of a series of forts built on the same site in the Wilmington area of Pensacola. The fort was utilized during the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and the Second World War.
Small pox isolation hospital (1905)
Image number: N032745
Dr. Joseph Y. Porter, first state health officer.
Features
Territorial Legislative Council Records, 1822-1845
Documenting Florida's legislature prior to statehood
State and County Officer Directories, 1868-1969
Lists of Florida's state and county officials either elected or appointed between 1868 and 1969.
Guide to Military Records and the Wartime Experience
A guide to government records and manuscript collections relating to service members and the wartime experience.
Dust Tracks
21 tracks from Hurston's time documenting African American culture for the WPA in 1930s Florida.
History Day 2025
Resources for Florida History Day from the State Library and Archives of Florida.