Scope and Contents Records, 1948-1999, of the Pensacola Dinner Club, Inc., an affiliate of the Associated Clubs, Inc. (Men's Supper Clubs) of Topeka, Kansas. Records include minutes of directors, financial statements, newsletters, correspondence and contracts with visiting speakers, bylaws and other operating records. The Pensacola Dinner Club was an organization that conducted social and educational dinner meetings wherein members could hear programs of national speakers on a variety...

Scope and Contents Records, 1980-1982, of the Pensacola-Escambia Development Commission, including minutes, reports, correspondence, and other materials concerning the development of Ellyson Field, creation and appointment of first Executive Director, and related work of the Commission in promoting industrial development in Pensacola. Subjects include Panhandle League of Cities, taxation, annexation, fire protection and government services, Human Relations Commission, revenue studies, and the United Way of...

Scope and Contents Small group of photocopy letters written from Pensacola between 1825 and 1852. Subjects and correspondents include Henry Marie Brackenridge, Lt. Richard H. Morris, W. L. Campbell, J. G. Williams, the Marines in the Pensacola Navy Yard, the U.S.S. Raritan, and John Hutchinson. OTHER INFORMATION: Descriptions are based on the photocopies provided; there is a great deal of illegibility to the materials which cannot be verified in the...

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Records, 1928- ,including minutes, correspondence, membership records, and related materials about the club's history and activities in Pensacola, Florida. Includes publication files of the weekly Bulletin and the Florida Lion. Subjects include services for the blind, the Naval Air Training Bases (1945-1946), and the Salvation Army of Pensacola.

Scope and Contents The Pensacola Lost Neighborhoods Collection consists of a series of newspaper columns and supporting materials from the Pensacola News Journal in February and March, 1999 highlighting the areas of the Tanyard, West Hill or Belmont-Devilliers, and Hawkshaw, primarily African-American neighborhoods of Pensacola, Florida, with emphasis on their history and social life, 1900 through the 1950s. Includes letters and reminiscences of Jean Badgett Burgess, Ida Y. Coleman, Victoria Gaines Grasty,...

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Scrapbook, 1941-1949, for the Pensacola Maternity Home, also known as the Pensacola Maternity Hospital including newspaper clippings, photographs, and news of its staff and women auxiliaries.

Scope and Contents Records, 1947-1964, including event programs and photographs. The Association presented musical artists including opera singers, quartets, chamber and philharmonic orchestras and other musical events in Pensacola. Select artists include Duke Ellington, Marcel Marceau, Max Rudolf, and Beverly Sills. OTHER INFORMATION: Dr. Nathan S. Rubin was a founder and for many years, the Music Director, of this organization. Many of the photographs of...

Scope and Contents Records, 1946-1983, including minutes, reports, correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and files concerning the history and activities of the organization. Subjects and correspondents include carrier cruises, the foreign flight student program, golf tournaments, the Naval Sea Cadet Corps, Navy Day, NJROTC Field Days, Ellyson Field, Saufley Field, Whiting Field, the Pensacola Naval Air Station, and the U.S.S. Monterey, Antietan, Independence, and tweedy; a larg biographical file...

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Manuscript journal, 1876-1879, of C. A. Higgins, Chief Engineer, covering labor costs, stores, and other information for the Engineering Department and its Machine Shop, Pattern Shop, Boiler Shop, Foundry, and Copper Shop.



Detailed entries cover costs of labor, loans of equipment, receipts of tools and stores, hours and pay for specific jobs, coal used, inventories of tools and items drawn from stores, and expenses for and boiler drawings for the U. S. Tug Rose.

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Police Call books and a Warrant book, 1909//1928, with arrests listing the name, location, and City Code number under which each arrest was made; with notes of fire alarms telephoned in from call boxes.

Scope and Contents Records of the Pensacola Quilter's Guild, 1987- , including minutes, membership records, newsletters, scrapbooks, videotapes, and photographs concerning the organization as well as sponsorship of quilt shows and the Florida Heritage Quilt Project. Includes materials of related regional sewing craft organizations including the Emerald Coast Fiber Arts Guild, the Gulf Coast Stitchery Guild, the Gulf Coast Weavers Guild, and the Gulf Coast Quilting Association. Subjects include...

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Microfilm of five Pensacola imprints including statements of Stephen Russell Mallory (1851, 1855); constitution of the Hope Hook and Ladder Fire Company (1873); bylaws of the Damon Lodge No. 13, Knights of Pythias (1887); and constitution of Pensacola Lodge, No. 4, International Order of Odd Fellows.

Scope and Contents Records, 1939- , including newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, and other records of the organization. Records cover history of the Council including Diocese changes and organizational changes of the Council as a part of the Mobile Diocese (to 1954), the Mobile-Birmingham Diocese (1955-1968), the St. Augustine Diocese (1969-1975), and the creation of the Pensacola-Tallahassee Diocese in 1976. Subjects include the National Council of Catholic Women, the Florida...

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Official records of the Pensacola Yacht Club, including articles of incorporation, bylaws, committee records, records on facilities and grounds, minutes, membership records, information on regattas and races, publications including the Jib Sheet, and other materials concerning this organization, the Junior Yacht Club, and the Gulf Yachting Association.

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Personal papers, notes, and photographs concerning the history of Santa Rosa County. Includes material on Floridatown, Pace, Mulatto, Avalon Beach, and various lumber mills and industries.



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Miscellaneous imprints, illustrations and other materials, assembled from a variety of sources, relating to Peruvian history and life. Includes notes prepared by Mr. Ronald M.J. Gordon, and received with the purchase of his collection, and other pamphlets, reprints and ephemera obtained elsewhere.

Scope and Contents Materials, 1946-1991, concerning Lucy Petree (1898-1991), educator, of Pensacola, Florida, and her work in founding the Eugene Petree Memorial School (1947-1950), Pensacola's first school for the retarded and handicapped and subsequent work with the Crippled Children's Home, the Pensacola Chapter of the Association for Retarded Citizens, and related activities concerning the education of retarded and handicapped children in Pensacola, Florida. OTHER INFORMATION: ...

Scope and Contents Papers, 1891-1963, includes newspaper clippings, school records, and other materials of Edgar W. Pfeiffer (1926-1943), Gertrude Pfeiffer Jorden (1919-1954), Mary Elizabeth Briggs Council Pfeiffer (1927-1963), and related materials of the Joseph C. Pfeiffer, Sr. family of Pensacola. Includes school records for Sacred Heart Academy and Pensacola High School; dance and social invitations to area clubs, 1926-1930; information on Pfeiffer's Bakery; and papers of related Jorden and Wigand...

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Photocopies of materials concerning Dr. Lawrence C. Phillips including newspaper clippings, recipes, obituary notices with additional materials concerning Ian Phillips, Occie Clubbs, and historic homes of Pensacola.

Scope and Contents Records, 1972-2000, of the Pilot Club of Greater Pensacola, a service club. Includes awards and certificates, newsletters, yearbooks, and other materials noting the club's history, fund-raising activities, and service programs, such as Hurricane Opal counseling, Epilepsy Services of Northwest Florida, and recycling in Escambia County. This Pilot Club was organized February 5, 1969, as club #594 in the Florida District. Its last newsletter was April 2000 and it...

Scope and Contents Papers, 1781-1842, of Vicente Sebastian Pintado (1774-1829), alcalde, commandant, and surveyor general of Spanish West Florida from 1799-1817. The bulk of the materials relates to land surveys, land purchases, and deed covering the period 1800-1817. Correspondence includes copies of his outgoing letters as well as letters from Carlos de Grand-Pre, Captain Francisco Rivas, Ira C. Kneeland, Christoval de Armas, Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Carlos Trudeau, Christopher Bolling, Vincent Folch,...

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Correspondence (1935-1948) and photographs (1895-1905); together with newspaper clippings and publications concerning Pleas's work in the development of the Kudzu vine in West Florida. Includes glass plate negatives of scenes in and near Chipley, Fla., including nature and plant life.

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Notes and research files of James K. Polk used for writing his master's thesis, Pensacola Commerce and Industry, 1821-1860. Topics include railroads, slavery, brickmaking, sawmills, shipping, John Innerarity, Joseph Forsyth, Arcadia Mill, descriptions of Pensacola in the 1800s, and notes on businesses and trades in Pensacola, 1820-1860, and excerpts from the Pensacola Gazette.

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Personal papers and photographs concerning the Boyett, Goldsby, Helton, McNair, and Adams families of Myrtle Grove, Florida (now Pensacola). Includes Pensacola High School memorabilia of 1933, and a photograph of a water baptism by the Union Hill Baptist Church of myrtle Grove.



See accession 81-5 for other materials on Goldsby and Helton families of Myrtle Grove.