Irene Coates Narrative (2 of 4)
Experiences of former slaves
African American women in Jacksonville
Development of Jacksonville
Narrative based on the <a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Irene Coates Interview Notes</a>.<br /><br />The pages of this document are numbered in the original, and page two is missing (the back of the paper containing page one 1 blank, and we have not located page 2 elsewhere). We have numbered the pages and images correspondingly, and there is, therefore, no page 2 in the edition, and no image named <em>jhs-195918-03-02-02.jpg</em>.
Viola Muse
Jacksonville Historical Society, Viola Muse Collection, Folder 3, Item 2
The Viola Muse Digital Edition, University of North Florida
1936-1940
Melinda Peacock (document scanning)
Zariah Grant (transcription)
Kimberly Council (transcription, encoding, and edition)
Amelia Dixon (encoding and edition)
Laura Heffernan (edition)
Tru Leverette (edition)
Clayton McCarl (edition)
Made public online with the permission of the Jacksonville Historical Society
<a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/93">Irene Coates Narrative (1 of 4)</a>
<a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/86">Irene Coates Narrative (3 of 4)</a>
<a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/97">Irene Coates Narrative (4 of 4)</a>
<a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/3">Irene Coates Interview Notes</a>
<a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/119">Charles and Irene Coates Age and Date Calculations</a>
Handwritten, five pages
EN
Biographical narrative
jhs-195918-03-02
19th Century Florida
20th Century Florida
"Early Jacksonville History: Introduction" (3 of 3)
African American women in Jacksonville
Experiences of former slaves
Development of Jacksonville
<p>The beginning of an introduction to an early history of Jacksonville to be based, presumably, on the <a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/3" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>Irene Coates Interview Notes</span></a>.</p>
<p>This is a more complete version than than found in <a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/72" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>"Early Jacksonville History: Introduction" (1 of 3) </span></a>and <span><a href="http://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/73" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Early Jacksonville History: Introduction" (2 of 3)</a>.<br /><br />The word <em>Copy </em>is written diagonally by hand across the first page.<br /></span></p>
Viole Muse
Jacksonville Historical Society, Viola Muse Collection, Folder 18, Item 3
The Viola Muse Digital Edition, University of North Florida
1936-1940
Melinda Peacock (document scanning)
Mak Kapetanovic (transcription, encoding, and edition)
Laura Heffernan (edition)
Tru Leverette (edition)
Clayton McCarl (edition)
Made public online with the permission of the Jacksonville Historical Society
<a href="http://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/72">"Early Jacksonville History: Introduction" (1 of 3)</a>
<a href="http://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/73">"Early Jacksonville History: Introduction" (2 of 3)</a>
<a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/112" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>Alternative page 4 of "Early Jacksonville History: Introduction" (3 of 3)</span></a>
<a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/109">Material Related to "Early Jacksonville History: Introduction"</a>
Typewritten, four pages
EN
Historical notes
Biographical notes
jhs-195918-18-03
19th Century Florida
20th Century Florida
Irene Coates Interview Notes
Experiences of former slaves
Development of Jacksonville
African American women in Jacksonville
<p>Notes that Muse made during her interview with Irene Coates, aged 76, a long-time resident of Jacksonville, Florida. <br /><br />The interview was conducted on December 3, 1936, at the home of Irene and her husband Charles, also interviewed by Muse on that same occasion (see <a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/2" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>Charles Coates Interview Notes</span></a> and <span><a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/id/119" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charles and Irene Coates Age and Date Calculations</a>)</span>.<br /><br />The notes in this document were used in the creation of the published narrative about Irene Coates, found on pages 74-79 of <a href="https://unfdhi.org/violamuse-editions/content/works-cited.xml#wpa-sn-vol3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Works Progress Administration Federal Writers’ Project, <em>Slave Narratives</em>, vol. 3</a> and included in this edition as <span><a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/97" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Irene Coates Narrative (4 of 4)</a>.</span><br /><br />The notes from Muse's interview with Irene Coates deal primarily with the geography of Jacksonville and how it had changed since Coates relocated there as a young girl. The documents related to the early history of Jacksonville in <a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/collections/show/18" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>JHS Folder 18: Jax History</span></a> are based on her recollections. The city, as she describes it, is largely represented on <a href="https://unfdhi.org/violamuse-editions/content/works-cited.xml#koch-1876" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Augustus Koch's <em>Bird's-Eye View of Jacksonville</em>, <em>1876</em></a> and <a href="https://unfdhi.org/violamuse-editions/content/works-cited.xml#lebaron-1885" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J. Francis Le Baron's <em>Duval County, Florida, </em>1885</a> and <a href="https://unfdhi.org/violamuse-editions/content/works-cited.xml#lebaron-1887" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Map of City of Jacksonville</em>, <em>1887</em></a>.</p>
<p>The published narrative of the Irene Coates interview <span>acknowledges only in passing</span> the geographical focus of the Irene Coates interview, noting the following: "She relates many tales of happenings during the time that this city grew from a town of about four acres to its present status." Instead, much of the material in the summary of the Irene Coates interview actually appears to be drawn from the <a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charles Coates Interview Notes</a>.</p>
Viola Muse
Jacksonville Historical Society, Viola Muse Collection, Folder 12, Item 7
The Viola Muse Digital Edition, University of North Florida
1936-12-03
Melinda Peacock (document scanning)
Clayton McCarl (transcription, encoding, and edition)
Laura Heffernan (edition)
Tru Leverette (edition)
Made public online with the permission of the Jacksonville Historical Society
<a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/93">Irene Coates Narrative (1 of 4)</a>
<a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/94">Irene Coates Narrative (2 of 4)</a>
<a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/86">Irene Coates Narrative (3 of 4)</a>
<a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/97">Irene Coates Narrative (4 of 4)</a>
<a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/119">Charles and Irene Coates Age and Date Calculations</a>
<a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/72" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>"Early Jacksonville History: Introduction" (1 of 3)</span></a>
<a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/73" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>"Early Jacksonville History: Introduction" (2 of 3)</span></a>
<a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/74" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>"Early Jacksonville History: Introduction" (3 of 3)</span></a>
<a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/75" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>Alternate page 4 (2 of 2) of Irene Coates Narrative (1 of 4)</span></a>
<a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/109" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>Material Related to "Early Jacksonville History: Introduction"</span></a>
Handwritten, eleven pages
English
Interview notes
jhs-195918-12-07
19th Century Florida
20th Century Florida