Baars Family Papers
Scope and Contents
Personal papers and business records, 1857-1960, of Henry G. S. Baars, his wife, Mary Elison (Minnie) Dunwoody, and their four children: John Ernest, Theodore Dunwoody, Henry G. S., and Annie E. Baars, of Pensacola Florida. Records include correspondence, ledgers, photographs, maps, genealogy, and related records documenting family life and the professional life of Henry Baars, an exporter of lumber and timber, a real estate developer, and as vice-consul for the Austro-Hungarian Empire at Pensacola.
Papers include abstracts, contracts, deeds, land patents, land maps, maps of the Pensacola Wharf area and various Spanish land grants, stock certificates, tax records, and other business records for the Baars and Caldwell Realty Company, Baars and Hudson Export Company, Baars Air Field, Baars Export Company, Baars-Caldwell-Freeman Company, Bagdad Shipbuilding Company, Baylen Street Wharf, Bermancald Land Company, Christ Episcopal Church, Cordova Bridge, Cordova Park, Dunwoody-Aiken Towboat Company, Garcon Point, Gulf Export Company, Gulf View Heights Company, H. Baars and Company, Lakeview Haven Company, Lakeview Property, Lakeview Streetcar Company, Magnolia Bluff Addition, Maura Place, McDavid-Hyer Company, Metro Hat Works, Palafox Shipbuilding Company, Pensacola Apartment House Company, Pensacola Shipbuilding Company, Richland Farms, and the Silver Shores Hotel Company.
Key correspondents include Reverend Henry C. Blandford, Annie E. Baars Blandford, John A. Merritt, and Alexander and Mary D. Stoddard. Other materials include reminiscences and memoirs of Bryan Dunwoody, and of "Will" Jones Dunwoody (1895) on the Civil War, and minutes of the Pensacola City Council, 1948-1949
A detailed Index to the collection is available at the repository.
Dates
- Created: 1857-1960
- Other: Date acquired: 08/00/1985
Creator
- Baars Family (Family)
Conditions Governing Access
Open to researchers, dependent on our compliance with U.S. Copyright Law, HIPPA requirements, donor agreements and other applicable state and federal statutes. Occasionally we may need to review a collection before permitting immediate access.
Conditions Governing Use
Digital photography, scanning, and photocopying of materials is prohibited. Permission may be granted by the Special Collections Librarian for such reprography dependent on issues of copyright, ownership, condition, donor agreements, etc. In general, staff do not make reproductions of copyright materials or materials for which title is not owned by the institution. Recent revisions in the U.S. Copyright Law extended the copyright of correspondence, letters, and other personal papers to the life of the author plus seventy years.
Extent
4291.00 items
M1985-20 other_unmapped
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement Note
Alphabetical by person, then by company
Source of Acquisition
estate of Henry G. Baars, August 1985
Processing Information
Cataloged 03/28/1990
- Abstracts--Florida. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Baars Air Field.
- Baars Export Company.
- Baars and Caldwell Realty Company.
- Baars and Hudson Export Company.
- Baars family.
- Baars, Annie B.
- Baars, Henry G. S.
- Baars, Henry G. S. (Henry Gerhardt Sophus), 1844-1909.
- Baars, John Ernest.
- Baars, Mary Elison Dunwoody.
- Baars, Theodore Dunwoody, 1876-1941.
- Baars-Caldwell-Freeman Company.
- Bagdad Shipbuilding Company.
- Baylen Street Wharf (Pensacola Fla.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Bermancald Land Company.
- Blandford, Annie E. Baars.
- Blandford, Henry C.--Correspondence.
- Businessmen--Florida--Pensacola. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Christ Episcopal Church (Pensacola, Fla.)
- Consuls--Austria. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Consuls--Florida--Pensacola. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Contracts--Florida. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Cordova Bridge (Pensacola, Fla.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Deeds--Florida. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Dunwoody, Bryan.
- Dunwoody, Jones.
- Dunwoody-Aiken Towboat Company.
- Garcon Point (Fla.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Genealogies--Florida. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Gulf Export Company.
- Gulf View Heights Company.
- H. Baars and Company.
- Lakeview Haven Company.
- Lakeview Property (Firm).
- Lakeview Streetcar Company.
- Land grants--Florida. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Ledgers--Florida. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Lumbering--Florida--Pensacola. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Magnolia Bluff (Fla.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Maps--Florida. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- McDavid-Hyer Company.
- Memoirs--Florida. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Merritt, John A.--Correspondence.
- Metro Hat Works.
- Minutes--Florida. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Palafox Shipbuilding Company.
- Pensacola (Fla.)--City Council.
- Pensacola Apartment House Company.
- Pensacola Shipbuilding Company.
- Photographs--Florida. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Real estate developers--Florida--Pensacola. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Reminiscences--Florida. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Richland Farms.
- Silver Shores Hotel Company.
- Stock certificates--Florida. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Stoddard, Alexander--Correspondence.
- Stoddard, Mary Newman--Correspondence.
- Tax records--Florida. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Baars Family Papers
- Date
- 02/16/2007
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the UWF University Archives and West Florida History Center Repository
11000 University Parkway
Pensacola FL 32514 US
(850) 474-2213
(850) 474-3338 (Fax)
archives@uwf.edu
