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Jaroslav Duda, Jr. presents historic Bible to his American cousins. June 2009, Original Image
Jaroslav Duda,Jr., grand-nephew of Andrew Duda, Sr. and a resident of Piestany in Slovakia, presents a gift to his American cousins during their Reunion trip to Slovakia in June, 2009. An early "Kralice" edition of the Holy Bible in the Czech language, handed down for generations through Jerry's family is presented to Judy Duda, a representative of the Duda Family Council
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Jaroslav Duda, Jr. With His Wife, Eva, and Her Father. Slovakia, 2010
Jaroslav Duda, Jr. (right), grand-nephew of Andrew Duda, Sr. on the day of his daughter Petra's wedding to Samuel Michaelek in Piestany, Slovakia. October, 2010. With 'Jerry' is his wife, Eva, and her father, Mr. Mrazik.
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Jefferson C. Ensminger's photography studio
Black and white image of the building housing Jefferson C. Ensminger's home and photography studio. At the left of the image is a multi-storey white building with the name, "The Park Drug Store" painted on the side. Two individuals can be seen standing outside the building. A dirt road, Park Avenue, separates the drugstore and the studio. In the center of the image is a two-storey brick building. On the second floor of the building, including the veranda, was the home of Jefferson C. Ensminger, photographer. On the bottom floor was a Fishing Tackle and Guns Store (with the sign on the outside of the building), along with a small office that belonged to John W. Wellington, who was a real estate developer. Attacked to the back of the building was J. C. Ensminger's photography studio, which is the white building with the small sun roof. The stairs at the foot of the white building led up to J. C. Ensminger's residence on the top floor. On the side of the white building is a painted sign that reads, "Photography Gallery". A sign hanging on the wood fence advertises "Ensminger Bros., Photographers". J. C. Ensminger owned the studio with his brother, James Madison Ensminger, but only J. C. was known to live and work in Sanford, Florida. On the back of the photograph is typed, "First Ensminger Bros. Studio on Park Avenue, between 1st and Commercial (present day parking lot)."
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Joe B. Mikler Wedding Party Outside Brick Church, July 30, 1939
The attendants for the wedding of Anna Jakubcin to Joe B. Mikler pose outside the new brick church, July 30, 1939. Left to right. 1. Mary Tesinsky 2. Olga Jakubcin 3. Julia Jakubcin Beasley 4. bride, Anna nee' Jakubcin 5. groom, Joe B. Mikler 6. Johnny Mikler 7. Andrew (Andy) Jakubcin, Jr. 8. Paul Tesinsky. This was the 2nd wedding performed after the new brick church was completed. Sepia snapshot, scanned on Epson 10000XL at SLLC, 2011.
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Joe L. and Ethel Mikler on daughter Josie's Christening Day, Oct. 9, 1942
Proud parents, Joe. L. and Ethel Mikler hold infant daughter, Josephine, on the day of her Christening. October 9, 1942. Snapshot (courtesy: Elaine Lavender) scanned at SLLS, 2001 for archival collection.
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Joe L. and Ethel Mikler on daughter Josie's Christening Day, Oct. 9, 1942
Proud parents, Joe. L. and Ethel Mikler hold infant daughter, Josephine, on the day of her Christening. October 9, 1942. Snapshot (courtesy: Elaine Lavender) scanned at SLLS, 2001 for archival collection.
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John and Eleanor Mikler, 1982
Color studio photo of Mr. and Mrs. John (Eleanor Mihok) Mikler. c.1982. John was the son of Michael Mikler, a founding member of the Slavia community and St. Luke's Lutheran Church.
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John and Katherine (Katie) Mikler Duda, c. 1970
Colored photo of Mr. and Mrs. John Duda, Sr., c. 1970. Katherine (Katie) Mikler was John's first wife, but she passed away in 1974, after 50 years of marriage. She was the oldest daughter of Joseph Mikler, Sr. and was only about 1 year old when her family moved to Florida to found the Slavia community and St. Luke's Church.
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John and Katie Duda's First Home, c. 1940s
The first (frame) home built by Katie and John Duda, Sr. in late 1930s was located on the original 40 acre Duda farm on Mikler Road. But the house in this photo, unfortunately, burned to the ground in the middle of the night, c.1950, and the family was thankful to escape with their lives and just a few belongings. A large new block home was built on the same lot soon afterwards.This house stood until 2005 when it had to be demolished because of extensive damage from a a huge oak tree that toppled onto the house, apparently because of fatal damage inflicted on the tree by Hurricane Charlie in 2004. The site of the original house is currently an empty lot.
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John and Katie Duda with their family, c.1950, Enhanced Image
Katie and John Duda, Sr. with their five children in a family photo, c. 1950. Left to right (front): Katherine Martha Duda, Katie Duda, John Duda, Sr. Standing: 1.Walter Duda 2.Edward Duda 3.John L. Duda 4.Luther Duda
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John and Katie Duda with their family, c.1950, Original Image
Katie and John Duda, Sr. with their five children in a family photo, c. 1950. Left to right (front): Katherine Martha Duda, Katie Duda, John Duda, Sr. Standing: 1.Walter Duda 2.Edward Duda 3.John L. Duda 4.Luther Duda
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John B. Stetson
John B. Stetson, hat manufacturer and benefactor of Stetson University. The photo has what appears to be Stetson's autograph.
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John B. Stetson Estate Water Tower
Water tower on the estate of John B. Stetson, Stetson University benefactor, in DeLand, Florida.
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John B. Stetson, Jr.
John B. Stetson, Jr., son of Stetson Univeristy benefactor John B. Stetson and University trustee. Wearing World War I uniform, with the rank of Captain.
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John B. Stetson, Jr.
John B. Stetson, Jr., son of University benefactor John B. Stetson and a University Trustee, in World War I uniform.
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John B. Stetson, Jr. in World War I airplane
John B. Stetson, Jr. in World War I biplane. J. B. Stetson, Jr. was the son of Stetson University founder John B. Stetson and a University trustee.
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John B. Stetson Mansion
Winter home of Stetson University benefactor John B. Stetson. Located on Camphor Lane, DeLand, Florida. The house still stands and has been extensively restored.
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John B. Stetson University, DeLand, Fl.
Used color postcard of small shots of campus buildings at John B. Stetson University. Buildings include DeLand Hall, Elizabeth Hall, Stetson Hall, Hall of Science, and Chaudoin Hall. Two cent Washington stamp, canceled June 4, 1910.
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John Duda and Anna Duda, students at Oviedo School, c.1912
John Duda can be seen (farthest right, second row) and sister, Anna Duda (farthest left, third row) with other students outside the Oviedo School building, c.1912. Like many of the other students at that time, John had no shoes and went to school barefooted. John and Anna were the oldest children in the Andrew Duda, Sr. family. They had arrived from Europe only months earlier and had to learn the English language, along with other school subjects.
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John Duda and Anna Duda, students at Oviedo School, c.1912
John Duda can be seen (farthest right, second row) and sister, Anna Duda (farthest left, third row) with other students outside the Oviedo School building, c.1912. Like many of the other students at that time, John had no shoes and went to school barefooted. John and Anna were the oldest children in the Andrew Duda, Sr. family. They had arrived from Europe only months earlier and had to learn the English language, along with other school subjects.
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John Duda and Anna Duda, students at Oviedo School, c.1912, Original
John Duda can be seen (farthest right, second row) and sister, Anna Duda (farthest left, third row) with other students outside the Oviedo School building, c.1912. Like many of the other students at that time, John had no shoes and went to school barefooted. John and Anna were the oldest children in the Andrew Duda, Sr. family. They had arrived from Europe only months earlier and had to learn the English language, along with other school subjects.
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John Duda: A School Boy in the Austro Hungarian Empire, c. 1910
A fascinating image, showing John Duda as a school boy (age 6 or 7) in the village school of Tagkohany, Trencin Co in the 'Kingdom of Hungary,' 1910. Note that this area is now part of the Slovak Republic, but after World War I ended in 1918, it was part of Czechoslovakia for 7 more decades. Young John is at the far right of the middle row(head is circled). Someone in "the old country" mailed this mounted photo to his mother (Katarina) some years later. Note that Katarina brought John and his 3 siblings by boat to the US to join their father, Andrew Duda, Sr. Their ship landed in NYC on June 28, 1912 and John continued his schooling in Oviedo, FL that year.
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John Duda in Celery Field in FL. c. 1970s
John Duda stands in a field of DUDA celery, probably at the family's Belle Glade farm in south Florida. c.1970s
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John Duda in Havana, Cuba. c. 1954
John Duda (seated alone, dressed in dark suit, white shirt and dark tie, 4th row, just to left of pillar with light) representing his family business (A. Duda and Sons, Inc., in Slavia, Florida) attends a Cattleman's Association meeting at the Expo Center in Havana, Cuba. c. 1954
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John Duda Working in Cleveland Factory, c. 1920
John Duda, a teenager at the time this photo was taken, is seen at work in a furniture factory in Cleveland, OH, c.1920. For a period of 10 years, beginning in 1916, the Andrew Duda, Sr. Family returned to Ohio to earn sufficient capital to farm the 40 acres they had purchased in Slavia in 1911. Upon their return, they built their first home on their property on Mikler Road in Slavia and incorporated their family business as A. Duda & Sons
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John F. Forbes
Stetson University's first President, John F. Forbes. Forbes served from 1895 to 1903.
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Johnny Mikler and His New Car, c. 1940s
Johnny Mikler poses proudly in front of his new automobile (model not identified, but c.1940s) on the homestead of the Michael Mikler Family.
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Johnny Mikler with friends on the Michael Mikler farm. 1930s, Black and White
Johnny Mikler (center) with two friends. (Boy on left may be George Jakubcin, Jr.; boy on right, unidentified)on his family's farm....the Michael Mikler homestead. 1930s.
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Johnny Mikler with friends on the Michael Mikler farm. 1930s, Original
Johnny Mikler (center) with two friends. (Boy on left may be George Jakubcin, Jr.; boy on right, unidentified)on his family's farm....the Michael Mikler homestead. 1930s.
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John O. Gross Science Hall
A black and white printed postcard of the front of John O. Gross science hall. The building has a brick edifice and a triangular roof. The building also has paned windows and a columned entrance. On the right side of the building is a door that exits out on the grass, as well as a second story exit with a staircase leading down to the grass. In the distance behind the building are many trees. To the left of Gross Science Hall is an unidentified white two-story building, with a front porch. In the forefront of the image is a sidewalk with scrub palm trees. From the top of the image hang branches covered in Spanish moss. On the front of the image is printed along the bottom, "Bethune-Cookman College-- Daytona Beach, Florida." On the back of the postcard is printed, "Science Hall: Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida--a co-educational Institution, founded by Mary McLeod Bethune. It has an enrollment of 600 students, 32 teachers and workers, and physical plant and equipment worth almost one million dollars. Teacher-training, junior college and industrial curricula. An institution built by faith, hardwork, courage, and cooperation." At the bottom left of the postcard is written "This side for correspondence," and on the right side of the postcard is written "This side for address." Written on pencil on the back is "early 1960s." The photographer of the image is unknown, but the printer of the postcard is Whitman's Phototypes of Canton, Pennsylvania.
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Johnson's Florida.
1863 map of Florida, by A.J. Johnson, published by Johnson and Ward, includes inset map of the Florida Keys. Inscribed in pencil on lower right corner of map: 4 Oc '38 Gift A.J. Hanna. Back of map has attached to it appendix to geographical index numbered page 55.
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Jones High School
Black-and-white photograph of Jones High School students, standing in front of the school building. The children and faculty are all dressed in uniform, a man stands in front holding an American flag. According to the website Orlando: A Visual History found at http:and/www.cfhf.net/orlando/1921.htm the school was constructed 1921-22 and the site on 101 North Parramore Avenue was the third location of the first public school for blacks in Orlando, which was first established in 1895.
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Joseph Mikler, Sr. at Church Picnic and Worship, 1942
Joseph Mikler, Sr.on the picnic grounds of St. Luke's Lutheran Church. May, 1942. Sepia snapshot, scanned on Epson 10000XL at SLLC, 2011.
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Joseph Mikler, Sr. Family, c. 1950
The Children of Joseph Mikler, Sr. are gathered with their parents for a group photo, c.1950. Left to right: ROW 1: Sue Mikler Colbert, Katarina Strauch Mikler, Joseph Mikler, Sr., Katherine (Katie) Mikler Duda. ROW 2: Betty Mikler Pempey, Paul Mikler, Joe L. Mikler, Jr., Steve Mikler, Andrew Mikler, Anna Mikler Duda. 5"x7" reprint (Courtesy: Judy Duda) scanned at SLLS, 2001, for 90th anniversary display.
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Joseph Mikler, Sr. Family, c. 1950
The Children of Joseph Mikler, Sr. are gathered with their parents for a group photo, c.1950. Left to right: ROW 1: Sue Mikler Colbert, Katarina Strauch Mikler, Joseph Mikler, Sr., Katherine (Katie) Mikler Duda. ROW 2: Betty Mikler Pempey, Paul Mikler, Joe L. Mikler, Jr., Steve Mikler, Andrew Mikler, Anna Mikler Duda. 5"x7" reprint (Courtesy: Judy Duda) scanned at SLLS, 2001, for 90th anniversary display.
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Joseph Mikler, Sr. packs celery on Slavia farm, 1920s
Joseph Mikler, Sr., with unidentified assistants, is on his knees cutting and packing the celery grown on the Mikler family farm in Slavia. c.1920s. 8x10 black and white print, scanned at SLLC, 2011.
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Joseph Mikler, Sr. packs celery on Slavia farm, 1920s
Joseph Mikler, Sr., with unidentified assistants, is on his knees cutting and packing the celery grown on the Mikler family farm in Slavia. c.1920s. 8x10 black and white print, scanned at SLLC, 2011.
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Joseph Mikler, Sr. with family on his 70th birthday, March, 1950
March 19, 1950. The family of Joseph Mikler gathers to celebrate "Dedko's" 70th birthday. Left to right: Front/children: 1. Patsy Mikler, 2. Liz Mikler, 3. Josie Mikler, 4. Katherine Mikler, 5. Shirley Mikler, 6. Raymond Mikler, 7. Luther Duda, 8. Katherine Duda, 9. Sylvia Mikler, 10. Robert Mikler, 11. Billy Mikler, 12. Joseph Duda, 13. Eleanor Duda, 14. Ferdinand S. Duda, Jr. REAR: 1. Andrew Mikler (holding Andy, Jr.), 2. Mildred Mikler (holding Sandy...Andy's twin), 3. Betty Mikler, 4. Mrs. Katarina ("Babka") Mikler, 5. Joseph Mikler, Sr., 6. Joe L. Mikler, 7.Ethel Mikler, 8. Katie Mikler Duda, 9. John Duda, Sr., 10. Walter Duda, 11. Margaret Mikler, 12. Steve Mikler, 13. Paul Mikler, 14. Virginia Mikler, holding Martha, 15. Ferdinand Duda, Sr., 16. Anna Duda, holding Susan, 17. Sue Colbert, holding Tim, 18. Jim Colbert. 8"x10" mounted print (Courtesy: Virginia Mikler), scanned at SLLS, 2001, for archival collection.
