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Harness Horse and Jockey Training at Ben White Raceway
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A companion exhibit to Summer Showcase: Art, Dance, Music and Theatre is located in display cases
outside the Special Collections & University Archives. Showcasing local history collections from the department, the
display includes items from the Ben White Raceway Papers, Carey Hand Funeral Home Collection, and Thomas
and Georgine Mickler Collection are on display.
Photographs, directories and brochures from the now closed Ben White Raceway give a window into the past of
this famed Orlando harness racing facility. The Carey Hand Funeral Home Collection consists of early records
and other memorabilia from the Orlando Funeral Home (1891-1952). Patrons will be surprised to learn that
Melvil Dewey, the inventor of the Dewey Decimal system widely used by public libraries to catalogue their
books, had a Central Florida connection. Exhibit visitors can view his entry in the Carey Hand Funeral Home
register and undertaker's memoranda from 1931.
Items on display from the Mickler Collection were drawn from the Henry Nehrling Papers and Mickler Postcard
Collection. The postcards on display are of the Maitland Art Center and some historic parks and buildings
located in downtown Orlando. Included are the San Juan Hotel and an artist's rendering of the new Orlando
Public Library building before its construction in 1985. The Henry Nehrling Papers are comprised of
correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings and writing relating to famed ornithologist and
horticulturist Henry Nerhling's research gardens in Gotha, Florida.
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