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	Record Group Number:	900000
	Series/Collection Number:	M77- 166
	Creator:	Smith, Elizabeth Fisher, d. 1977
	Title, Dates:	Mary Elizabeth Fisher Smith papers, 1898-1899, 1935-1977.
	Amount:	1.50 cubic ft.
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	Biographical/Historical:	Mary Elizabeth Fisher Smith was a schoolteacher in Wakulla County. In 1963, she started the "Magnolia Monthly," a magazine chronicling news and local features, and with a focus on Wakulla County and North Florida history. Smith edited this award-winning publication until her death in 1977, doing the typing and mimeographing herself.
	Summary:	The collection contains personal papers of Mary Elizabeth Fisher Smith that document her life and various interests. The collection includes her diaries, scrapbooks and correspondence. It also includes stories, essays and a ledger book (1966, 1968-1971) from the Magnolia Monthly, published at Crawfordville. Of interest to genealogists is a Teacher Daily Register from Wakulla County from 1898-1899. Her diaries (1935-1939, 1954 and 1960-1963) reflect her early interest in writing, her personal views on social and political issues, and information on her early family life and the people close to her. Her scrapbooks (1935-1953) reflect her academic life, participation in the war effort in Florida, the birth of her children, family history and tidbits on life in North Florida. The correspondence (1939-1977) includes incoming and outgoing letters to family members and friends.
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	Ownership/Custodial History:	Harold Smith is Mrs. Smith's widower.
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	Subject Access Fields:	Education--Florida--Teachers School census Florida Women History 20th century Florida World War, 1939-1945 Florida Diaries. aat Scrapbooks. aat Crawfordville (Fla.) Wakulla County (Fla.)
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