The Allen Lastinger Center for Florida History is a new interdisciplinary center for academic excellence housed within University of North Florida’s Thomas G. Carpenter Library. The Center collects primary and secondary source material related to the state of Florida's transportation and banking industries, from Precontact to the present, placing Florida history within the larger context of the history of the United States and Atlantic world. Comprised of books, maps, manuscripts, postcards, and other ephemera, the Center’s foundational collection has a strong focus on banking, tourism, cartography, and trade. Feel free to reach out at lib-Lastingercenter@unf.edu or hilary.streifer@unf.edu.

Image caption: Some of the framed maps and prints from the Lastinger collection

Submitted by: Susan Swiatosz, University of North Florida