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.

Scope and Contents Records, 1937-1989, including correspondence and newspaper clippings, registrations for camellias originated in Pensacola, publications including the Camellia Journal (1962-1987) and Camellia Notes (1961-1989), and biographies of club members and presidents. OTHER INFORMATION: Annuals of the American Camellia Yearbook (1977-1984, 1986) received with the collection were cataloged with the existing set of the Yearbook (SB 413 C18 A5) in the main library stacks. In...

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Personal papers, including publications, citations, and photographs, reflecting personal and military career interests. Subjects include Nantucket, Massachusetts, Lenin, World War II, and General Westmorelard.



NOTE: A number of books donated by Capt. Metzger have been placed in the library collections and into Rare Books.

Scope and Contents Papers, 1927-1973, including correspondence, typescripts and drafts of poetry, subject and idea files, genealogical information, photographs, and books containing published works. Other subjects and correspondents include the Milner, Thiot, Winship, and Wylly families, Henry Harrison (1903- ), Wightman Fletcher Melton (1867-1944), the Poetry Society of America, and the National Writers Club. NOTES: As a working writer, FTM often edited...

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Records, 1913- , including minutes, yearbooks, annual reports, correspondence, history files, and other records. Begun as the Milton Civic League in 1913, the organization advocated improvements to the City of Milton including sanitation and cleanliness. The organization became the Milton Woman's Club in 1916.

Scope and Contents Correspondence, business records, scrapbooks, maps and miscellaneous printed works relating primarily to Pensacola and environs, 1802-1960. With photographs of Pensacola scenes and a group of about 100 volumes forming part of the original library of Dr. Fernando Moreno of Pensacola ca. 1835-1855.   &nnsp; Includes business records of William Nichols, Marianna, 1831-1879; Henry Whitmire, Milton, 1850-1861; and Gideon Murphy, Milton, 1856-1899; letters addressed to Augustus E....

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Research records of Frank H. Murphy concerning the Bonaparte family in America and the Murat family of Florida, including biographical sketches, journal articles, bibliographies, and other materials.

Scope and Contents Pensacola Environmentalist. Personal papers, 1968-1977, including correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, published hearings, testimony, and other materials concerning the St. Regis Paper Company, Cantonment, Florida and the discharge of industrial waste into Perdido Bay, 1971-1975. Correspondents include U. S. Senator Edward Gurney, U. S. Representative Robert Sikes, the Pollution Control Board of Florida, the U. S. Envirionmental Protection Agency, and local, state,...

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Records and papers of the Music Study Club, Pensacola, Florida, 1920-1998, including minutes, officer's reports, membership rosters, meeting programs, financial records and correspondence, printed programs, yearbooks, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and other materials concerning the club.

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Records, 1975-1987, of the Pensacola Chapter of the National Association of Accountants. Records include minutes, treasurer's reports, membership information, editorial committee records, chapter newsletters, national association publication (Association Leader), and yearbooks.



NOTES: Dr. Yares was a professor of accounting at the University of West Florida. He retired in 2001.

Scope and Contents Photocopy records including history of the church and donation of its building to the Bagdad Historic Preservation Association, Minutes of the congregation (1938-1941) and Sunday School records (1918-1953). Congregation minutes report activities of the church, membership, financial reports, and policies; Sunday School records show attendance, teachers, and lessons used. OTHER INFORMATION: There are gaps in the continuity of the minutes...

Scope and Contents Select run of the New York Times Mid-Week Pictorial War Extra, November 12, 1914 through August 19, 1915, covering World War I through maps and pictures of events around the world. OTHER INFORMATION: This set is being retained for research and exhibit use. A complete bound set of the publication is held by the Library (D 501 N6) and a physical examination shows the bound set to be deteriorating and in poorer condition than this smaller...

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Records of the Newport Company, Pensacola, Florida, 1930-1931, and its subsidiaries, including copies of articles of incorporation, stock issuances, correspondence, and related papers concerning the organization of Newport Company, the Newport Chemical Corporation, and the E. I. DuPont de Nemours Company.

Scope and Contents Unpublished literary manuscripts of William Newton Nichols including two bound typescript volumes (The Saga of the Clan, Footprints on the Sands of Time), one photocopy typescript (Rambling Notes on the Ancient City of Panzacola), one untitled typescript, and a group of short stories, all fictional with some set in West Florida, undated. NOTE: Subjects of manuscripts are somewhat vague; perhaps mystical in nature. Mr. Nichols was a local author who used the pen...

Scope and Contents Photocopies of typescript and manuscript correspondence, 1957-1964, of Mary Flannery O'Connor, Milledgeville, Georgia, with Maryat Lee, of New York City, dealing with life in Milledgeville, O'Connor's trips, writings, and work as an aothor, race relations in the South, and the events of the late 1950s and 1960s that affected the South. SOURCE NOTE: Photocopy set, gift of UWF faculty member, Dr. Robert E. (Buzz) Lee, who inherited the letters...

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Records and papers concerning the history and development of Okaloosa-Walton Junior College, Niceville, Florida, 1965 to present, including catalogs, yearbooks, and other publications.

Scope and Contents Personal papers, 1942-1987, concerning her work as Housing Manager, NAS Whiting Field and at NAS Pensacola. Includes correspondence, certificates, biographical information, newspaper clippings and photographs of housing projects and buildings at NAS Whiting Field and NAS Pensacola. Also includes some records of the Professional Housing Namagement Association, 1976-1987, and the Milton Garden Club. OTHER INFORMATION: Mrs. O'Neal retired in 1978 after 35 years in...

Scope and Contents Special Collections maintains oral history collections consisting of audiotape interviews with individuals in the West Florida region on a variety of subjects.  Research collections which contain oral histories are described individually in the "Guide to Special Collections" and indexed under "Oral history."  This group encompasses individual oral history tapes which have been donated to the University, along with collateral materials and transcripts....

Scope and Contents Collection of personal and historical items including materials concerning Pearl S. Buck, Clementine Churchill (Mrs. Winston S. Churchill) and Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Russia in 1812. OTHER INFORMATION: Check accession file for notes if items are in use, in exhibits or display areas. Additional Notes: 06/26/2000 Framed Napoleon broadside placed on display in the reading room; it is visible but shaded from...

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Records, 1958-1978, of Norman W. Paget. Records consist of his publications pertaining to child abuse, adoption, teenage marriage, and child welfare education. Also contains publishings of various others on related fields.

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Papers, 1967-1973, concerning the issue of return of the Panama Canal to Panamanian control in 1973, including reprints of Congressional reports, statements of Congressmen, copies of letters and other materials primarily concerning Representative Daniel Flood, 1967-1973.

Scope and Contents Editorial and research files of Dr. William S. Coker, Editor, the Papers of Panton, Leslie and Company. Includes an extensive body of correspondence, business papers, court records, and other documents relating to the British firm and its successors, John Leslie and Company, and John Forbes and Company, 1739-1847. The company, under a monopoly granted by the Spanish government, engaged in an extensive Indian trade throughout the Old Southwest, and continued under British and American...

Scope and Contents Microfilm of 144 research materials concerning the Parker and allied families of Bay, Washington, Jackson, escambia and Dade Counties, Florida. Includes phtocopies, typescripts, genealogical forms and charts, census forms, family papers, and other items researched or collected by Linda Pazics Kleback, for the Parker Family Reunion in 1990. OTHER INFORMATION: The original collection may be at the Bay County Public Library in Panama City; this...

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Bound scrapbook of notes, writings, newspaper clippings, maps, and other materials concerning Peru, Panama, Colombia, and South America, 1874-1905. Manuscript narrative may document Parkin's 1907 trip to Peru, however it is written in the third person and is possibly taken from published sources.

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Records including notations, clippings, and related material of the Parramore Family of North Carolina, Georgia, and Pensacola, Florida, collected by Mrs. Henry Parramore. Includes family Bible (1828) with several pages of genealogical data.



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The family data information in the Bible and notes have been photocopied on acid-free paper. Users should use folder 3 of the collection, rather than the actual Bible.

Scope and Contents Personal papers, circa 1938-1960, of Lennie Pate, teacher and educator, of Pensacola, Florida, comprising biographical records concerning her kindergarten students and activities of her kindergarten classes at N. B. Cook and A. K Suter elementary schools in Pensacola, Florida. NOTES:   &nnsp; Useful collection for genealogical information on Pensacola families. A detailed listing of names is available at the repository. ...

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Records, 1919-1982, consisting of publicity files and newspaper clippings of events and exhibits, brochures, photographs, scrapbooks, guest books, and related materials concerning the history of the Center, the Pensacola Art Association, the Pensacola Art Club, and the Pensacola Museum of Art. Includes scrapbook of photographs of actor Charlton Heston and family touring Peniscola, Spain, 1961, during filming of El Cid.