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Newspapers, magazines, journal articles, and other materials relating to the assassination of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy including issues of the New York Times, Life, Look , National Geographic, and other printed and published materials. Other topics include the Bay of Pigs, Ethel Kennedy, and Lyndon Baines Johnson.

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...

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Papers, 1928-1937, including financial records, insurance registers, and underwriter agent contracts. Client files include Levey Brothers, a glass company with descriptions and drawings of all store fronts and their glass on Palafox Street (1936); John H. Myrick Automobile fleet at Gonzalez; and Semmes Coal and Ice Company. Other subjests include Frank W. Pearson and Hardware Mutual Insurance Company, underwriters.

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Business papers, correspondence, and advertising matter, 1894-1901, of John A. Kirkpatrick, proprietor of Kirkland LeConte Pear Orchards, and of Nickelsen and Kirkpatrick.

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Research materials and oral histories of Korean War Veterans in Pensacola and West Florida, including reminiscences, books, research files, video and audio interviews, and other materials produced as a student project at Pensacola State College, 2005.

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Records, 1887-1962, including list of early members, constitution, minutes, membership fee, books, guest book and listing of books borrowed. Materials are on two Microfilm Reels.

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Author; Editor; Pensacola writer and teacher.



Literary writings and editorial works, 1915-1917, 1925, including issues of The Concept, 1915-1917, a literary magazine of Converse College, Spartansburg, South Carolina, with articles by Vera A. Keller as author and as assistant editor; includes The Finale, yearbook of Covington High School, Covington, Georgia, 1925 which is dedicated to Vera A. Keller, teacher of French and History.

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Correspondence, 1920-1970, of Rev. Earle Robert LeBaron (1900‑1972) and papers, 1907-1936, of his father Leonard LeBaron (1855-1943), former city electrician of Pensacola. 1907-1933.

Scope and Contents Letters and correspondence, 1868-1916, of the Leigh family of Bagdad and Milton, Fla., consisting primarily of letters to Sue A. Leigh (later Mrs. S.A. Creary) of Bagdad from friends and relatives. Includes letters of C.H. (Hanks) Dorr describing life as a student at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, 1869-71. Most of the letters describe events and the community of the writers and occasionally echo the events in Milton and Bagdad described in the...

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Biographical materials, 1969-1987, including certificates and awards.

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...

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Correspondence Ledger. Index volume, 1916, to the letter-books and correspondence of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Pensacola; entries arranged alphabetically by sender, with date of letter, subject, and file number. Extensive listing for E. O. Saltmarsh, Superintendent. [1 item]

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. ...

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Microfilm of the spanish documents pertaining to Don Tristan De Luna, 1559-1560, that were partly transcribed in Herbert Ingram Priestley's The Luna Papers (1928).

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Records, 1944-1991, of George W. Macauley. Records consist of ship logs, date books, newsletters, and military publications pertaining to various military vessels. Also contains magazines and periodicals dealing with the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm.

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...

Scope and Contents Personal papers, 1934-1980, of Ernest Mason (1904-1983) including correspondence, case files, circuit court opinions, biographical information, committee files, and other papers concerning his activities on the Florida Bar, as a circuit judge, and as a senior judge of the Court of Record, Escambia County, Florida. Key subjects and topics include Edward Ball, the Circuit Judges Conference (1971-1976), the Escambia County Law Library, the First Presbyterian Church, the National Tuberculosis...

Scope and Contents Personal papers and photographs (1913-1965) covering her education at Pensacola High School (1913-1917) and at Duke University (1937), her activities in Campfire Girls, and as a missionary in Argentina for the Southern Baptist Convention (1922-1926), and literary manuscripts of her work as a poet.  Other materials include Pensacola High School memorabilia (1920-1922) of Mary Louise Davis, and records of her father Charles T. Davis and his patent medicine business (Davis Remedy manufactured...

Scope and Contents Scrapbooks, 1968-1987, of Jean McCrellen, Pensacola, Florida including newspaper clippings primarily concerning genealogy and family history in Pensacola and West Florida. Topics include cemetery research, families, family reunions, surnames, and the Family Quest columns of Dot Brown from the Pensacola News Journal. Key names and subjects include Austen Nolf, Pat Enfinger, F. Wilbur Helmbold, G. Norman Simons, the Quina family, Irish genealogy, Gladys Daw, Dicy Bowman, Dean DeBolt, and the...

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Beginning of the University of West Florida". Bound scrapbook of newspaper clippings, pamphlets, etc., relating to the origin and development of the University, March, 1961-April, 1965.

Scope and Contents Papers of the McGill and Suarez families of Penscola, Florida, 1836-1962, including letters, land deeds, promissory notes, indentures, tax receipts and other materials dealing with Joseph Suarez and his heirs, 1836-1905, and Gerald Byrne McGill and his family, 1905-1962. Subjects and writers include Isasc Hulse, Stephen T. Mallory II, the Navy Yard at Pensacola; St. John's Cemetery; Camp Ward No. 10 of United Confederate Veterans; Spanish Fort, Alabama and Josiah Blakely; the Louisville and...

Scope and Contents   &nnsp; Business records, correspondence and family papers of Elwood McLaughlin (d. 1952) and his grandson, Henry E. McLaughlin (1918-1965), of Pensacola. Includes extensive files of records relating to the several railroad lines owned by the family, 1868-1962, the most important of which were the Pensacola & Perdido (1874), the Pensacola, Alabama & Tennessee (1897) formerly the Pensacola-Northern Railroad, and the Pensacola, Mobile and New Orleans (1911). With...

Scope and Contents Partial exhibit files offered by plaintiff in the United States District Court suit, McMillan versus Escambia County, 1977, seeking to establish single member district elections for Escambia County Commissioners. These files are mostly photocopies of records and reports, 1955-1977, of both the City of Pensacola and Escambia county showing breakdowns by race in such areas as school board members and teachers, elected officials, appointments to committees and public boards, election poll...

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Transcription of Civil War letter of William McPherson, Walton Guards Florida Volunteers, East Pass (Destin), Florida, August 26, 1861 to General Braxton Bragg, Pensacola, Florida.

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Legislative papers of Jerry Melvin, who served in the Florida Legislature ca. 1968-1978. He received the Most Outstanding Freshman award in 1969.