Scope and Contents Scrapbooks and other papers, 1937-1969, of the Allie Yniestra School Parent Teacher Association, Pensacola, Florida. Scrapbooks include programs, reports of officers, treasurer reports, bylaws, publicity and newspaper clippings, photographs, and other materials concerning the history of the organization and the school.OTHER INFORMATION: See also the Jeannie Bell Parker Papers, M1976-10, for other papers and information on the history of this school....

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Photographs and personal papers, 1828-1931, of the Anderson, Craig, Hargis, Holden, Kryger, McConaughy, and Pape families of Mobile, Alabama; Pensacola, Tallahassee and Deland, Florida. Includes records concerning Dr. Warren E. Anderson and early hospitals in Pensacola including St. Anthony's Sanitarium and the Pensacola Infirmary among others, and early nurses training under F. Elizabeth Crowell.



Detailed inventory and alphabetical name index available.

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...

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Family papers, 1863-1925, relating to the Baker family of Jackson County, Florida and the William H. Watson family of Pensacola, Florida. Includes land deeds, conveyances, tax receipts, family letters, lineage chart and photographs. Principal correspondents include James L.G. Baker, James L. Baker, Mary Jane Daffin, James S. Baker, William H. Watson, Jr., James B. Watson and Mrs. Elizabeth Dickinson.

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Personal papers including photocopies and photographs of biographical information and materials concerning the history of Pensacola Navy Yard and Warrington, Florida.



Photographs are indexed in the Photograph Collection Index by subject and personal names.

Scope and Contents The records of the firm are extensive as it was the corporate attorney for numerous West Florida businesses including railroad andlumber companies. Select subjects include the American Lumber Company, Bagdad Land and Lumber Company, the Birmingham, Columbus and St. Andrews Railroad Company, Children's Home Society of Florida, Escambia County School Board, Escambia Gulf Beach Resort, First National Bank of Pensacola, First Methodist Episcopal Church, Duncan U. Fletcher, Florida Chautauqua,...

Scope and Contents This collection of some 23,000 glass plates have been digitized and placed online at uwf.digital.flvc.org   &nnsp; http://uwf.digital.flvc.org/islandora/search?type=edismax&collection=uwf%3Awfp&islandora_solr_search_navigation=0   &nnsp; The Bell Collection was acquired from the Pensacola Historical Society on January 27, 1989.  Dean DeBolt and Katrina King transported the wooden photo-graphic crates (Hammer Dry Plate Company, St Louis, Mo.) of glass...

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Parent-Teachers Association records, 1938-1975, including scrapbooks, photographs, minutes of meetings, publications, yearbooks, correspondence and financial records.



These PTA records provide both a history of the organization as well as the Brownsville School, its staff, students, and activities.

Scope and Contents Photocopies of a diary of a trip south, 1921, and a scrapbook, 1881-1978, of William George Bruce, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin businessman and Pensacola, Florida shipyard owner. The diary documents Mr. Bruce's trip to New Orleans and Pensacola, including the Pensacola Navy Yard, and the Bruce, Ollinger, and Watson families, with photographs. The scrapbook covers newspaper clippings, especially family marriages and deaths, for Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Pensacola, Milton, Bagdad and Blackwater,...

Scope and Contents Photographs and artifacts pertaining to his mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, January 24-27, 1985. Materials include photographs of launch and landing, patches flown aboard the spacecraft, and information on the flight crew. Designated mission #51C, this was the 15th flight of the Space Shuttle, and the first Department of Defense mission; the flight was for 48 orbits with takeoff and landing at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. OTHER NOTES: Publicity...

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Personal papers consisting of photocopies of genealogical information and photographs of family members. Included are the Burke, Clifford, Fell, Mooney, and Pinney families, with additional materials on Thomas J. White, Joseph L. White, Carl Timothy Hoffman, and Robert Fell, a carpenter in the U.S. Navy from 1803 to 1820.

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Family correspondence, 1895-1920, newspapers clippings, family photographs and various papers relating to Simpson & Company Lumber Mill, Bagdad, Florida. Mr. H.T. Wright, Mrs. Carpenter's, was a prominent member of this firm. Many photographs from Mrs. Carpenter's family photograph album, 1900-1914, were copied and deposited in the Pensacola picture file.

Scope and Contents Personal papers, 1896-1973, of Dickson H. Carter, Pensacola attorney, consisting of photographs, correspondence, speeches, and other writings. Includes materials pertaining to Judge Francis B. Carter, including Masonic awards and writings. Dickson Carter's speeches include talks before the Pensacola Rotary Club, the Men's Bible Classes of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Florida State Bar Association. Other topics in the collection include Blue Springs...

Scope and Contents Politician; Governor of Florida, 1917-1921. Personal papers, 1894-1967, of Sidney J. Catts, DeFuniak Springs, Florida, and other family members, including correspondence, publications, scrapbooks, photographs, newspaper clippings, and related materials. Much of the papers concern his term as Governor and activities in the Prohibition and Democratic Parties of Florida. Although he ran on an anti-Catholicism platform, his tenure as Governor was marked by...

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Personal papers of Dorothy Clemente consisting of her records as costume designer for the 1939 Pageant of Pensacola, and for the 1950 to 1972 Fiesta of Five Flags festivals in Pensacola, including sketches, designs, photographs, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and related memorabilia. Includes a scrapbook of WCOA radio program covers.



Additional materials received from the estate of Dorothy Clemente, consisting of photographs, newspaper clippings, etc.

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Records including scrapbooks of newspaper articles, programs, and photographs, 1964- .

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National Society Daughters of the American Colonists, Don Tristan de Luna Chapter, Pensacola, Florida.



Records (1983- ), including minutes, bylaws, scrapbooks, photographs, and other materials concerning the history of this organization.

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Research files of Paul Deschenes consisting of photographs, technical manuals, newspaper clippings, magazines, and other materials concerning aviation, primarily dealing with the various models and types of aircraft from earliest planes in the 1900s up to 1970.

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Research records of Lucius F. and Linda Ellsworth pertaining to the development and publication of Pensacola, the Deep Water City (1986) including manuscript drafts, photograph and illustration files, correspondence, publicity about the book, and subject files pertaining to Pensacola, and many photographs and research items not used in the final book. Files include a newspaper index to Pensacola newspapers (1937) by Modeste Hargis.

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Papers and photographs concerning the history of Floridatown, Florida (1910-1937) including the Floridatown Hotel, ferry service from Ferry Pass, Florida, the Escambia Bay Bridge, and the Pace Family. [48 pieces]

Scope and Contents School journal or diary kept by H. F. Foster while attending Normal School at Oswego in 1876; includes comments on lessons and family information; with related photographs. The location (state) is not identified but strongly suspect Oswego, N.Y. because of allusions to weather and heavy snow falls. Journal makes it clear that this was kept by the student at request of teacher to help him write and practice writing, as Foster alludes to his "personal journal"...

Scope and Contents Microfilm of the fonds des colonies serie C13A, Volumes 1-53, covering French occupation of North America, 1694-1819. Filmed as part of the Louisiana Colonial Records Project in 1980, the C13A series covers reports, letters, maps, and other materials on the French settlement and colonization of Louisiana, West Florida, Pensacola, the upper Mississippi River Valley, the Illinois Territory, Canada and other areas of North America. The size of this research archives is beyond the scope of...

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Personal papers, consisting of manuscript letters of the Clifford family in Pensacola (1846-1863), photographs, and photocopies of genealogical research (1946-1978) on the Clifford and Fell families of Pensacola as well as related area families and the Cliffords of Edgecomb, Maine. Includes research on the Pensacola Light House (1824-1978) and lighthouse keeper George T. Clifford.

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Records, 1934-1976, of Henry and Virginia Hilton-Green concerning the Pensacola Yacht Club, the Gulf Yachting Association and the St. Petersburg/Havana yacht races of 1935, 1936, 1941, and 1948, including programs, newspaper clippings, photographs, the Jib Sheet newsletter, and memorabilia about these organizations, club activities and regattas.

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Scrapbooks of the Holly Garden Club, 1953-1956 including photographs, newspaper and magazine clippings, club activities, gardening notes, and related material about the Holly Garden Club and the Pensacola Federation of Garden Clubs. [3 scrapbooks]

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Personal papers including photocopies of the Pensacola High School Tattler (1918-1919), photocopies of early Pensacola postcards and photographs, oral history tapes with Mrs. Johnson, and other related materials.

Scope and Contents Papers, 1840-1981, primarily of the Joyner Family of Cahaba, Alabama, and Pensacola and Bagdad, Florida, including correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other materials of related families including Andrews, Grayson, King, Moyer, Parker, Shaddock, and Stearns. Includes records of the Bagdad Presbyterian Church, 1908-1936, by trustees C. H. Simpson and Mary Joyner, and materials on the Bagdad Post Office, 1896-1940 of which Mary was a Postmaster. Of special note is a...

Scope and Contents Collection of photographs, newspaper clippings, and other papers of the architectural firm of Look & Morrison, including materials of the firm of Yonge & Hart, 1926-1967. Photographs and drawings of projects designed or built include schools, government buildings, private residences, and related structures in Pensacola, Milton, Bonifay, DeFuniak Springs, Fort Walton Beach, Gulf Breeze, Panama City, Marianna, Tallahassee, and Warrington, Florida. See collection inventory for...

Scope and Contents Captain, U.S. Army. Photograph album, 1916, covering service along the Mexican-American border. Comprising 141 photographs showing camp scenes, border patrols, Mexican guards at the International Bridge, Brownsville, Texas; Fort Bliss, and Metamoros, Texas. Lounsberry notes the cause of [his] service was the Pancho Villa raid on Columbus in March, 1916; with additional panoramic photographs of American ships and troops of the American Expeditionary Forces, World War I. ...

Scope and Contents Correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other materials concerning Lieutenant Marston of Pensacola who was killed in action with the Allied Expeditionary Forces in France, July 1918. Correspondents include Lois Mayes, Frank Allen Patillo, and Duncan Fletcher. Also includes papers concerning naming of American Legion post in Pensacola after Marston and on Mrs. Marston's trip to France to the American cemeteries in 1931. Additional items include materials on the death of...