Unearthing St. Augustine's Colonial Heritage

Title:	Unearthing St. Augustine's Colonial Heritage.	15 views
Type of Resource:	mixed material
Summary:	The University of Florida (UF) has partnered with the City of St. Augustine to "unearth" archival repositories previously inaccessible to researchers worldwide. The digital archive supports research in a broad range of subjects: Florida and U.S. history, Spanish colonies, Native Americans, slavery, Inventory of Digital Libraries 39 exploration, architecture and urban planning, social and economic development, missionary work, military defenses and warfare. Over 25,000 photographs, maps, overlays of the city, architectural drawings, government records, transcriptions of key Spanish documents, and archaeology site summaries have been digitized, with a majority of them geo-located. The collection not only satisfies the needs of a wide variety of researchers including historians, archaeologists, architects, historic preservationists, and those in the digital humanities, but the project also helps in telling St. Augustine's unique "story" of colonial heritage on a global scale. FIU GIS Center partnered with UF libraries to create this interactive web interface for this digital archive collection.
Identifier:	5217 (IID)
Links:	http://maps.fiu.edu/saug/
Persistent Link to This Record:	http://purl.flvc.org/fiu/fd/5217
Host Institution:	FIU

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