DeSoto Historical Society Museum Shop

Museum Shop Publications

Foot Prints & Landmarks: Arcadia and DeSoto County, Florida (2002)

More Foot Prints & Landmarks: Arcadia and DeSoto County, Florida (2004)

$40.00 each or both for $75.00

Howard Melton’s series of hard cover historical books on DeSoto County’s past, people & places are available from the DeSoto County Historical Society: Add $5 shipping and handling for each book: use Paypal or send a check or money order to the DeSoto County Historical Society, P.O. Box 1824, Arcadia, FL  34265.

Available at select local merchants:

Antiques and More, 23 W. Oak St.

Biggar and Biggar Antiques, 133 W. Oak St.

Blinking Owl Books, 114 W. Oak St.

Glass, Antique or Not, 127 W. Oak St.

Recollections:   A Collection of Historical Photographs, Documents, Letters, Diaries, Stories, Recipes, Sayings, and Other Memorabilia about Arcadia and DeSoto County, Florida.

            Recollections I is $7.00. Recollections II, III, and IV are $8.00 each.

Four paperback books is a serial history of Arcadia and DeSoto County, Florida, containing a variety of articles by various authors. Add $2 shipping and handling for each book: use Paypal or send a check or money order to the DeSoto County Historical Society, P.O. Box 1824, Arcadia, FL  34265.

Available at select local merchants:

Biggar and Biggar Antiques, 133 W. Oak St.

Blinking Owl Books, 114 W. Oak St.

Glass, Antique or Not, 127 W. Oak St.

Cracker Cures: A Compendium of Cures, Concoctions, Potions, Remedies, Magic, Old Wives’ Tales, Omens, Luck Signs, and Talismans, 3rd Revised Edition            $5.00

Originally published in 1976, reprinted in 1978, and revised as a second edition in 1984. Cracker Cures, 3rd, rev. ed., preserves the original information and format (with corrections for clarity) and includes additional information from Florida Ethnobotany by Daniel F. Austin. Add $2 shipping and handling for each book: use Paypal or send a check or money order to the DeSoto County Historical Society, P.O. Box 1824, Arcadia, FL  34265.

Available at select local merchants:

Biggar and Biggar Antiques, 133 W. Oak St.

Blinking Owl Books, 114 W. Oak St.

Glass, Antique or Not, 127 W. Oak St.

The History of the Smith-Brown School 1892-1950: Depicts its colorful unified progress through the years as well as new thoughts and trends for future programs which are sure to make the streams of learning continuous and enjoyable.

$10.00

The Society joined with the HCW Foundation to publish this “reprint edition” of the original book that was “sponsored by the Membership and Publicity Committee of the Smith-Brown Parents-Teachers Association: Mrs. Hattie J. Allen, Chairman; Mrs. Thomasena Floyd, Secretary; Mrs. Para Lee Manual; Mrs. Bernice Rubin; Mrs. Venzula Jones; Mrs. Lucia A. Watson; Mrs. Josephine Browning.” A new foreword by Carol Mahler summarizes events leading to the closure of the school in June 1970. Add $4 shipping and handling for each book: use Paypal or send a check or money order to the DeSoto County Historical Society, P.O. Box 1824, Arcadia, FL  34265.

Set of Four Reproduction Vintage Postcards

$2.00 for set of four

The Howard and Velma Melton Historical Research Library has an amazing collection of vintage postcards, and these four images, including a brief history, are printed on textured card stock similar to how they were originally published. Add $2 shipping and handling for each set: use Paypal or send a check or money order to the DeSoto County Historical Society, P.O. Box 1824, Arcadia, FL  34265.

1927 Rosin Arcade on Oak Street, 1926 Plaza Hotel on Magnolia Street, 1914 IOOF/WOW  Building, 1911 Train Depot and Tree of Knowledge on Oak Street

Available at select local merchants:

Blinking Owl Books, 114 W. Oak St.

Museum Shop:  Pioneer Day T-shirts

Pioneer Day T-shirts

$15.00 each in red, blue, or black. Sizes: S, M, L, XL, XXL, and XXXL.

Youth sizes in blue only: S, M, & L.

The Pioneer Day t-shirts feature an original caricature of James Mitchell “Acrefoot” Johnson (1850-1922) drawn by Luke Wilson. Nearly seven feet tall and weighing 250 lbs., “Acrefoot” was named either for his size-14 shoes or for walking 130 miles round-trip to deliver the mail from Fort Ogden to Fort Meade before the train provided mail service.

Museum Shop:  Society Caps

Society Logo Caps

$10.00 each in beige with green logo embroidered.

Museum Shop:  Lithographs by Guy LaBree

End of Message (22” x 24”)  1996 – $100.00

Hunter in the Grass (20” x 24”)  1996 – $100.00

Transmutation Chant (16” x 20”)  1981 – $50.00

Guy LaBree (1941-2015), known as “the Barefoot Artist of the Florida Seminoles,” was a long-time resident of DeSoto County.  Two of his paintings represent the Seminole Tribe of Florida in the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, and Carol Mahler’s book about him was published by the University Press of Florida in 2010. His widow Pat LaBree donated lithographs of three of the more than 1,000 canvases he painted, and the lithographs are on sale now to benefit the Society.  The Transmutation Chant lithographs are signed and numbered by Guy LaBree.  The others are not signed or numbered.

Hunter in the Grass (20” x 24”)  1996 – $100.00

End of Message (22” x 24”)  1996 – $100.00

Transmutation Chant (16” x 20”)  1981 – $50.00

Please call to check availability and current shipping costs:

(863) 266-5774

Send check or money order to:

DeSoto County Historical Society,
P.O. Box 1824, Arcadia, FL  34265.