The Jacksonville Historical Society

Links to Historic Photos of Jacksonville

Downtown Jacksonville as seen from Dixieland Park in South Jacksonville, ca. 1910.
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There are many great sources for finding historic photos of Jacksonville on the Web. Here are some favorites:

Nearly 1600 Photos of Jacksonville from the Florida State Archives Photographic Collection - The Spottswood Collection (type "Jacksonville" in the search line)
Hundreds of other additional Jacksonville photos from the Florida State Archives Photographic Collection
91 turn-of-the-century Jacksonville photos from the Library of Congress (type "Jacksonville" on the search line)
Jacksonville Naval Air Station (NAS) Historic photos (click on the "History" button at top)
Jacksonville in Flames - Photos from the Great Fire
Panoramic Photos of Jacksonville in the Library of Congress
Panoramic Maps in the Library of Congress:

Jacksonville - 1876
Jacksonville - 1893

Online Movies:

Scene 1: Riverside Presbyterian's
"Old Brown Church.
Scene 2: Riverside Park
Scene 3: unknown street
Scene 4: unknown doghouse
Scene 5: unknown beautiful home
Scene 6: chase down Forsyth St.

Bouncing Baby
A one-reel comedy made in 1916 in Jacksonville.
Oliver Hardy plays the baby.
(This is a short clip from the original 12-minute movie.)

Courtesy of the Florida Memory Project, Florida Photographic Collection.

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Courtesy of the Florida Memory Project, Florida Photographic Collection.

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Confederate Veterans Convention
This film shows the reunion of 48,000 Confederate war veterans in Jacksonville in 1914. These aging former soldiers dance to fiddle music. Many of them camped in Dignan Park, later renamed Confederate Park.

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