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Article detailing funding for a new playground in Winter Park.

Eulalie Osgood Grover, a local children's author, was probably best known as the creator of a series of reading primers for young readers centered around the characters known as the "Sunbonnet Babies." Miss Grover was born June 22, 1873, in…

Eulalie Osgood Grover signed the dedication page in the copy of the Sunbonnet Babies in Italy, which is housed in Winter Park History and Archives.

This is the title page from The Sunbonnet Babies' Primer, which was published in 1902 by Rand McNally and Company.

The Sunbonnet Babies' books were all created to be instructive and used in the classroom. In the back of each book was a word list to assist the teachers in picking out key words and phrases.

In this example from Sunbonnet Babies ABC Book, you see an example of the educational text and illustration Miss Grover developed to be used as a teaching aid
Also note that in the photograph above of Miss Grover, she is reading the very page…

This is the book cover of the The Overall Boys, which was published in 1905. The Overall Boys was written after Miss Grover received many requests from boys and their mothers to include boy characters in her Sunbonnet Babies' primers.

In this page from The Overall Boys, Jack, Joe, Tim and Ted are introduced to young readers. Though drawn by the same artist, Bertha L. Corbett, unlike their little girl counterparts, their faces are shown.

This is a postcard showing the Langford Hotel as it looked when it opened. When it opened in 1956 it was Central Florida's premiere resort hotel. The Langford Hotel was located in downtown Winter Park and was convenient to shopping, the golf…

Florida Master Site File on the William Probst Historical Home

This is the home of Evaline Lamson, one of the women credited with starting the Winter Park Public Library. Her home was also the original location for library services, keeping books and pamphlets and books on the porch and in the hall.
Miss…

Article published in the Orlando Sentinel

Letter from Lucy Hollmon? to Mrs. Hiram Powers

An obituary of a prominent citizen in Winter Park.

Article describing the placement of a memorial stone on Rollins' Walk of Fame in honor of Mary McLeod Bethune.

Article detailing the laying of a memorial stone on Rollins' Walk of Fame for Zora Neal Hurston.