I decided to catalog the books that I own and the books that I hope to add to my collection. I figured the best way to keep track of them was right here. And the added bonus is that I can share them with you! If you have a book that you have published on the history of the Florida Keys, please email me and I will be happy to add it here. kyvonnehamilton@gmail.com
*Can’t find for sale or very expensive
(OWN) This at the end of a citation indicates that I own the book. If there is something you would like to look up in any of these books, feel free to message me, and I will try to help you.
Albritton, Laura and Jerry Wilkinson. Hidden History of the Florida Keys. The History Press, 2018.
Albritton, Laura and Jerry Wilkinson and Tom Hambright. Key West’s Duval Street (Images of America). Arcadia Publishing, 2017.
*Artman, L. P. Jr. Historical Old Key West (booklet). Florida Keys Gifts and Souvenirs, 1992 (OWN)
*Artman, L. P. Jr. Key West (booklet). Florida Keys Gifts and Souvenirs, 1989 (OWN)
*Born, George Walter. Historic Florida Keys: An Illustrated History of Key West & the Keys. Historical Publishing Network, 2003.
Browne, Jefferson, B. Key West: The Old and the New. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1973 (OWN)
Burke, J. Wills. The Streets of Key West. Pineapple Press, 2014. (OWN)
Caemmerer, Alex. The Houses of Key West. Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 1992.
Cox, Christopher. A Key West Companion. St. Martin’s Press, 1983. (OWN)
Dean, Love. Lighthouses of the Florida Keys. Key West: Historic Florida Keys Foundation, 1992.
Eyster, Jeane and Irving. Islamorada and More. Marathon: Pigeon Key Foundation, 1997.
Key West Tropical Vacationland. Florida Keys Wholesalers. (OWN)
Gibson, Charles Dana. Boca Grande: A Series of Historical Essays. Charles Dana Gibson; 1st edition, 1982.(OWN)
Homan, Lynn M. and Thomas Reilly. Images of Key West. Arcadia Publishing, 2000. (OWN)
Langley, Wright and Joan. Key West: Images of the Past. Christopher C. Belland and Edwin O. Swift, III, 1982. (2 copies)
Maloney, Walter C. A Sketch of the History of Key West, Florida. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1968.
McCarthy, Kevin M. The Book Lover’s Guide to Florida. Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 1992.
*McLendon, James. Pioneer in the Florida Keys: The Life and Times of Del Layton. Miami: I. A. Seemann Publishing, Inc., 1976. (OWN)
Milanch, Jerald T. and Charles H. Fairbanks. Florida Archaeology, Academic Press: New York, 1980.
Nichols, Stephen. A Chronological History of Key West: A Tropical Island City. Key West: Key West Images of the Past, 1989.
*Polk’s Marathon City Directory. 1963
Powell, Jerry and June. Marathon: Heart of the Florida Keys. Marathon: Seagrape Publications, 1980.
Shiver, William Carl. The Historic Architecture of Key West: The Triumph of Vernacular Form in a Nineteenth-Century Florida Town. Ann Arbor: Universtity Microfilms International, 1987 (Ph.D diss.)
*Simpson, Lois. History of Big Pine Key, Florida: 1873-1982. Mayfield, Kentucky: Mayfield Printing Company, 1982.
*Simpson, Lois. The Island of Key Largo, Florida: 1873-1982. Mayfield, Kentucky: Mayfield Printing Company, 1983.
Standiford, Les. Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean. Broadway Books, 2003. (OWN)
Tinajer Araceli. El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader. University of Chicago Press, 2010. (OWN)
Valle, Erick. American Urban Typologies: Key West, Florida. Miami: Village Publishers, 1995.
Viele, John. The Florida Keys: A History of the Pioneers. Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 1996.
Viele, John. A History of the Pioneers. Volume 1. Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 2011. (OWN)
Viele, John. The Florida Keys, Volume 2: True Stories of the Perilous Straits. Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 1999.
Viele, John. The Florida Keys, Volume 3: The Wreckers. Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 2001.(OWN)
Viele, John. Tales of Yesterday’s Florida Keys. Pineapple Press, 2017. (OWN)
Wells, Sharon. Forgotten Legacy: Blacks in Nineteenth-Century Key West. Key West: Historic Florida Keys Preservation Board, 1982.
Westfall, L. Glenn. Key West: Cigar City. Key West: Historic Florida Keys Preservation Board, 1984.
Windhorn, Stan and Wright Langley. Yesterday’s Florida Keys. Miami: E. A. Seemann Publishing, Inc., 1974. (OWN)
White, Louise V. and Nora K. Smiley. A History of Key West Today and Yesterday. Great Outdoors Publishing Co. Inc., 1959. (OWN)
Willis, J. A. The New and Greater Key West Florida Told in Picture and Story. Key West Board of Trade, 1990. (OWN)
Windhorn, Stan and Wright Langley. Yesterday’s Key West. Miami: E. A. Seemann Publishing, Inc., 1973. (OWN 2 copies)
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