Begin with the record.

Black and white photograph of visitors in early twentieth century clothing standing and sitting on Palm Beach, with parasols and bathers in the sea.

Case record

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Palm Beach County, Florida2 min read

The Chillingworth case across three Florida counties

Two victims, two prosecutions and three counties. The court records show how the Chillingworth case moved beyond Palm Beach.

Black and white photograph of a large river steamboat with twin smokestacks, small rowboats and waterfront docks in Miami.

Case record

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Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida2 min read

Amy Billig: still missing from Coconut Grove

Amy Billig disappeared from Coconut Grove at seventeen. Her official missing-person notices preserve identifying details and a route for anyone with information.

Memorial

Flamingo, Florida Bay2 min read

Why a Florida Bay trail bears Guy Bradley's name

At Flamingo, a waterfront trail remembers the Audubon warden killed while protecting birds in 1905, decades before Everglades National Park opened.

Georgia

Historic black and white print of Atlanta's Lower Peachtree Street, with streetcars, shops and tall buildings along the road.

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Atlanta, Georgia2 min read

Where to explore Leo Frank's records online

An engineering diploma and a marriage certificate are among the personal records identified in a guide connecting readers with Leo Frank collections.

Savannah, Georgia2 min read

Savannah's streets, one pasted revision at a time

A 1916 Savannah map can carry revisions added through 1953. The pasted layers preserve a working record of a city that kept changing.

Alabama

Memorial

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Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama2 min read

The window Wales gave Birmingham after the bombing

Small donations in Wales helped create a stained-glass window for Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. John Petts's surviving designs trace the making of that gift.

South Court Street, Montgomery, Alabama2 min read

How Montgomery saved the Freedom Riders' station

Montgomery's former Greyhound station faced demolition for a courthouse expansion. A preservation effort helped turn it into the Freedom Rides Museum.

Washington, D.C.

Panoramic historic postcard looking west along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, with a streetcar, pedestrians, trees and commercial buildings.

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Tenth Street NW, Washington, D.C.2 min read

Petersen House: Lincoln's death room, a different bed

The bed displayed in Petersen House is a period furnishing; the original is in Chicago. The room preserves more than one kind of history.