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Pictured is a 1966 photo, from the Florida Memory Project, of boaters using the boat ramp at Ruskin Commongood Park. This collection houses Items, articles and artifacts, not otherwise classified
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Ruskin - Miscellaneous
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Title Abstract for Ruskin Electrical lines 1926-28
Type: Still Image
Year: 1926, 1926
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Description: This title abstract, while for running of electrical lines in Ruskin, is significant for a couple of reasons. In the first document, RELEASE OF RESERVATIONS, The Ruskin Commongood Society grants permission to run electric lines provided that no "manufacturing, banking, or mercantile business shall be conducted on lands with out specific Commongood Permission. It also shows that Adaline… more
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1924 New Years Eve Reception Book
Type: Still Image
Year: 1924, 1924, 1924, 1924
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Contributors: Miller
Description: 1924 New Years Eve guests in attendance at the home of Mrs. (Adaline) Miller. Note the people visiting from Ruskin and from south in Manatee County.
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John Ruskin's American Utopia
Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Contributors: A. M. "Mac" Miller
Description: This is a survey of 5 communities founded on the principals of John Ruskin in the United States. Communities in Tennessee, Georgia, Missouri and Illinois were precursors to the establishment of the Ruskinite community in Florida, beginning in 1906. Each of these 5 communities, including the Florida community, are discussed in this paper.
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1914 Ruskin Land Solicitation Post Card
Type: Still Image
Year: 1914, 1914
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Contributors: N. E. Dickman Realty
Description: N. E. Dickman, one of the founding Dickman brothers, was responsible for Realty Sales. This postcard solicited inquiries about land in Ruskin.
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1925 New Years Eve Reception Book
Type: Still Image
Year: 1925, 1925, 1925, 1925
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Contributors: Adaline Dickman Miller
Description: 1925 New Years Eve Reception guests in attendance at Mrs. A. D. Miller's. more
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Ruskin Directory 1966
Type: Still Image
Year: 1966, 1966
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Publisher: Ruskin Junior Woman's Club
Description: This 1966 Directory was published by the Ruskin Junior Woman's Club biennially. It is a very useful directory on businesses, churches, professionals who did business in the Ruskin area. more
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Memoir of 1906 Ruskin: Letter by C. E. Walker
Type: Still Image
Year: 1974, 1974
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Contributors: C.E.Walker Walker
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Voices in the Wind Program
Type: Still Image
Year: 1956, 1956
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Description: Voices in the Wind was an outdoor drama depicting Florida History. It was produced by the Florida Outdoor Drama Association with local support provided by the Ruskin Chamber of Commerce and the Ruskin Woman's Club. The outdoor drama attracted large crowds in the 1950s. This program is for the special Governor's Night on February 6, 1956. The theater was named the Suncoast Theater. more
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Hurricane
Type: Still Image
Year: 1942, 1942
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Contributors: Lawler Dickman, Pauline Dickman
Description: Description of 1942 Hurricane in Ruskin.
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1942 Story of Tomato Festival Queen Eugenia Exum
Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Contributors: Eugenia Exum Holston Exum
Description: Short autobiographical sketch of Eugenia Exum's election as 1942 Tomato Festival Queen, accompanied by pictures. more
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75th Anniversary Ruskin Woman's Club
Type: Still Image
Year: 1987, 1987
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
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1819-1967 time lines
Type: Still Image
Year: 2008, 2008
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Description: This timeline was prepared by "Mac" Miller, highlighting selected dates of early Ruskin History and the larger history of "Intentional Communities" founded upon the ideas developed by John Ruskin. more
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An Unforgettable Seance
Type: Still Image
Year: 1979, 1979
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Contributors: Lawler, Pauline Dickman
Description: Evidence of spiritualism at the College. Memoir by Pauline Dickman Lawler
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1923 New Years Eve Reception Book
Type: Still Image
Year: 1923, 1923, 1923, 1923
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Contributors: Buckland
Description: 1923 New Years Eve guests in attendance at the home of Mrs. Buckland. Provides names of Ruskin residents who attended reception.
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Historical Drawings: Ruskin Calendar 1986
Type: Still Image
Year: 1986, 1986
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Description: This 1986 Ruskin Calendar contains Historic Drawings of Ruskin FL
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Dickman Realty Brochure: Enchanted Circle
Type: Still Image
Year: 1962, 1962
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Description: Locally produced marketing brochure by Dickman Realty on the Enchanted Circle towns of Bahia Beach, Ruskin and Sun City Center. Because Sun City Center opened in January 1961, it is likely that this brochure was created c. 1962. Photos of homes on Bahia Beach were typical of construction.
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Glenn Dickman and Artesian Farms - 1994
Type: Still Image
Year: 1994, 1994
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Contributors: Glenn Dickman
Publisher: Incorporated Society off Planters
Description: From The Planter, Nov. 7, 1994 article on Glenn Dickman and Artesian Farms, Inc. Glenn continued the tradition of his father, Lyle, and his grandfather, Paul, in the Dickman family business of farming. This article describes that effort.
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Ruskin Buildings: Cypress Creek Elementary 5th Grade Project
Type: Still Image
Year: 2005, 2005
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Publisher: Cypress Creek Elementary
Description: This 76 page school project was created by Mark Dunn's 5th Grade Class at Cypress Creek Elementary School. It's importance is that the project details many of the historical buildings, and people, who helped Ruskin grow. There is a history written for each buidling along with photographs and crude, but interesting, architectural drawings illustrating many of the styles that made… more
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The Story of The Coffee Cup Restaurant
Type: Still Image
Year: 2002, 2002
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Contributors: Aleta Jonie Maschek, Michaels, Everett
Publisher: News Observer
Description: This collection of materials was compiled and authoried by Aleta Jonie Maschek. The Coffee Cup Restaurant, a Ruskin institution at the corner of today's US 41 and Shell Point Road (a vacant lot is all that remains on the SE corner), was originally owned and operated by Paul B. and Ester C. Dickman. Most of the material contained in the collection was published in the News Observer (the… more
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Ruskin's Marin Estates 1956
Type: Still Image
Year: 1956, 1956
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Description: Marketing Brochure and map of Paul B. Dickman's Marin Estates. Created om the period of 1954-1956, Marin Estates was along reclaimed land along the Ruskin Inlet, dredged by Paul Dickman. Marin Estates featured modern, albeit small, water front homes in 4 original developments, shown on this map: Pelican Point, Campus Shores, Sandpiper Point, and Point Heron. more
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Ruskin News and Commongood Charter
Type: Still Image
Year: 1910, 1910
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Description: Partial page 1 of April 1910 edition (#2) and complete supplement of July 1910 (#3). Together, these two photocopies of the Ruskin News (the official newspaper of early Ruskin) will help the reader understand something of the disagreements that led early colonists to create a new Commongood Bylaws in 1910,replacing an earlier management, seemingly out of disagreement with the way that Manager A… more
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1913 Guaranty Title Company
Type: Still Image
Year: 1913, 1913
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Description: This 1913 Woodward - Crowder Title Document contains many Ruskin Florida Area Land Transactions from 1883 through 1913 including - 1907 George McA Miller and the Ruskin Common goods - J. Fred Lender - 1883 Sr Edward James Reed - 1909 Dickman - 1909 Harriet E. Orcutt - and many others. George McA Miller and Ruskin FL founders start around the page stamped 83 or PDF page 86. It also details the… more
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Marketing Brochure (c 1955) for Ruskin 001g
Type: Still Image
Year: 1955, 1955
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Description: Marketing Brochure for Ruskin FL. From internal clues of the newly opened oSunshine Skyway Bridge (opened in September 1954)and the recommendation to see Carl Clough's Dream Castle (completed in 1954) it can be assumed that this brochure was created around 1955. more
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Ruskin By The Bay - 1993
Type: Still Image
Year: 1993, 1993
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Description: 1993 Marketing brochure created by the Chamber of Commerce for public distribution. Contains short history of Ruskin along with multiple photographs and descriptions of the culture and economy of late century Ruskin.
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Marketing Brochure (c 1965) for Ruskin
Type: Still Image
Year: 1965, 1965
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Description: Marketing Brochure highlighting Ruskin's Business and Play opportunties. From internal evidence of Sun City Center(established 1961) picture, and wardrobe of students at East Bay High School (which opened in 1957), it is likely that this brochure was created in early to mid 1960s, no later than 1965-6 as this was when E. G. Simmons park was renamed from its prior name Mangrove Point. more
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The Clubhouse: Perils of Pauline
Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Contributors: Lawler, Pauline Dickman
Description: Memories of managing the Woman's Clubhouse. more
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1960 Heart of Ruskin
Type: Still Image
Year: 1960, 1960
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Description: Vine Ripe 20 Pounds Produce of USA Heart of Ruskin Florida west coast staked Tomatoes Distributing Co. Ruskin, Florida. Would have been affixed to packing crate.
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Pioneer Women of Ruskin
Type: Still Image
Year: 1979, 1979
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Contributors: Dickman, Pauline Dickman
Description: Memoir of Ruskin Women who migrated to Ruskin in 1906.
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Marketing Brochure: Ruskin By The Bay
Type: Still Image
Year: 1998, 1998
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Contributors: Ruskin Chamber of Commerce
Publisher: Ruskin Chamber of Commerce
Description: Marketing Brochure created by the Ruskin Chamber of Commerce highlighting Ruskin in late 20th Century.
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Ruskin Day 1914 Notice
Type: Still Image
Year: 1914, 1914, 1914, 1914
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Description: Copy of newspaper ad, likely from Ruskin's local paper, of a community celebration of Ruskin's 5th Anniversary on June 12, 1914. Note a couple of things about this ad. It names the college as Ruskin Institute. Few references show this name. Note also that the anniversary is for the "First allotment." This likely refers to the first allotment of lands offered for public… more
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Ruskin Commongood Society
Type: Still Image
Year: 1963, 1963
Member of: Ruskin - Miscellaneous
Contributors: Noretta D. Sheffield
Description: English Class Project report on Commongood Society.
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