John C. Pace Library Special Collections Department
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There are a number of different collections : Manuscripts; Newspapers; Bibliography of West Florida; Rare Books; Photographs; and Maps. The staff is very helpful! Dean DeBolt heads the department and his assistant is Katrina King. Dean said, when asked if there was anything more to say, "You might add that for any questions whatsoever--about visits, hours, questions about items in the list, etc.--simply contact me or send e-mail."
Dean DeBolt
University Librarian
Special Collections and West Florida Archives
John C. Pace Library
University of West Florida
11000 University Parkway
Pensacola, FL 32514-5750
Tele: 850-474-2213; Fax: 850-474-3338
e-mail: ddebolt@mail.uwf.edu
Manuscript holdings
The following is a list of their manuscripts. (Manuscript is the term used for a collection of materials including any of the following: manuscripts, typescripts, publications, brochures, maps, photographs, books, drawings, personal papers, or other items.)
You will need to search the list so you may get an idea of what is available. Then, when you are at the library, you will need to go to an inventory for further definition of the selected manuscript. Once you have decided which items you need, the staff will bring them to you from the special storage rooms.
Abercrombie, Lelia (b.1892) Letter on the illness of her father, Capt. J. Ed. Abercrombie, April 1, 1924, withdrawal from race for Pensacola Harbor Master and endorsing Capt. H. T. Hansen for the position.
10 items (photocopies). Originals owned by Miss Edna Hansen.
Accession M1968-13/83.Action '76
Records, 1971-1976, of the Pensacola-Escambia County Bicentennial Committee, including publications, newspaper clippings, audiovisual materials, correspondence, research files, and other materials concerning community activities to celebrate the American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976.
7.45 c.f. Gift of James Jesse.
Accession M1976-11.Adams, John Quincy
A.L.S., July 3, 1823 to John B. C. Lucas of St. Louis, Missouri, appointing him a commissioner to ascertain claims and titles to lands in West Florida and requesting that he travel to Pensacola.
2 leaves, photocopy. Original owned by the Missouri Historical Society.
West Florida Collection No. 97.Aerial Map Collection
Photographs, blueprints, and related pictorial works consisting of aerial maps of areas of West Florida. Holdings are listed on the collection inventory and subject access is available.
Partly uncataloged. Gift of various donors and agencies, including the West Florida Regional Planning Council.
Accession M1992-17.Alabama Department of Archives and History
Photocopy typescripts of materials concerning Pensacola, Florida, including a diary of Edward Randolph, 1818, concerning the Indian War in West Florida; a travel account of Thomas Stocks, 1819, (Georgia to Pensacola and return); a letter of Henry Hunt, Fort Pickens, to Braxton Bragg, April 23, 1861; and letters of Mark Lyons, 1861-1865, a resident of Pensacola who saw service in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Mobile, Alabama.
200 leaves (1 folder).
Accession M1968-13/137.Alabama Papers
Collection of Alabama-related materials; includes A.L.S., Israel Pickens, Governor of Alabama, February 4, 1823, recommending Col. Benjamin S. Smoot as Naval Agent in Pensacola; a history of Flomaton, Alabama by Korrie Brown; and published materials concerning Daphne, Fairhope, Bay Minette and Mobile, and other south Alabama towns, formerly part of Spanish West Florida.
23 items (.34 c.f.). Gift of various donors.
Accession M1976-04.Alba, Peter
Early settler of Spanish Pensacola, and Pensacola Mayor (1823-24; 1830-1833).
Deeds and legal papers, 1817-1821, with other family papers and a deed to lands in Millview.
16 items (part photocopies). Gift of Mrs. Richard Egan.Accession M1975-04.
Alger-Sullivan Historical Society
Research files, 1986-1989, to support nomination of the Alger-Sullivan Company in Century, Florida, as a historic site; includes newspaper clippings, a history of Century by Rebecca Degan, nomination forms, and bylaws of the Alger Sullivan Historical Society.
1 folder (70 leaves).
West Florida Collection No. 557.Alger-Sullivan Lumber Company
Ledgers, letterbooks, and other business papers, 1900-1957.
The company, one of the largest industries in West Florida, was founded by Russell A. Alger (1836-1907), Secretary of War in the McKinley cabinet, and Martin H. Sullivan (d. 1911) of Pensacola. The name of the town of Century, Fla., derives from the date of the company's founding. Includes letters of Alger, 1900-1901; papers on Company lands in Florida and Alabama; and maps and blueprints of property, 1911-1965. Also miscellaneous papers relating to theRepublican party and the Presidential election of 1964, with lists of voters in northern Escambia County; and papers and printed materials relating to the Southern Pine Association, 1915-1936.
345 volumes, 381 items (5.02 c.f.). Gift of Mr. H. M. Dozier.
Accession M1974-12.Allen, Stephen Decatur
Surveying notes, Sept.-Oct., 1907, of lands in northern Escambia and Santa Rosa counties, and in southern Alabama. With road surveys taken near Bluff Springs and at various points near Jay.
1 volume (photocopy). Original in possession of Mr. M. L. Hall.
Accession M1973-07/2.American Almanacs
Collection of almanacs, 1856-1865 including runs of Ayer's American Almanac, B.A. Fahenstock & Co.'s, John P. Morton & Co.'s Western Farmer's Almanac, Merchant's Gargling Oil Co.'s, Moffat's Almanac, Morton & Griswold's Western Farmer's Almanac, and some issues of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1872-1888.
73 items. Gift of Dr. Ralph Birdwhistell.
Accession M1987-18.American Association of University Women. Pensacola Branch
Correspondence, scrapbooks, minutes and other papers relating to the history and civic activities of the organization, 1926-1972.
2.34 c.f. and 18 scrapbooks.
Accession M1974-15.American Business Women's Association. Pensacola Chapter
Records, 1962-1982, including correspondence, minutes, newsletters, scrapbooks, and materials from the National American Business Women's Association.
1,198 items (1.23 c.f.). Gift of Eve Windsor.
Accession M1985-14.American Red Cross. Pensacola Chapter
Organization papers and minutes, 1917, with notes of activities in the chapter's first year of operation.
1 item (photocopy). Original in possession of the Chapter.
Accession M1968-13/33.American Sunday School Union Papers
Photocopies of reports of West Florida missionaries of the American Sunday School Union, 1882-1905, including Rufus D. Burrows, W. F. Watts, A. T. Sims, C. J. Hammitt, and G. E. Mize. The reports concern travels through West Florida, Sunday Schools visited or established, statistics such as enrollment, names of churches and ministers, and related data.
82 items. From the American Sunday School Union Papers (MF).
Accession M1982-03 SC.Anderson, Edward Clifford
Portions of a diary, 1844, relating to his experiences with the U. S. Navy along the Florida coast, including references to Jonathan Walker's imprisonment at Pensacola.
1 microfilm reel. From the Anderson papers, University of North Carolina Library, Chapel Hill.
Accession M1968-11/44.Anderson Family Papers
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.
179 items (.9 c.f.). Gift of Mrs. William K. Beard.
Accession M1981-20.Apalachicola, Florida
General papers, including extracts pertaining to the community from Florida newspapers, 1821-1860; materials on the Bay City Packing Company; a census taken in 1884-1885 by City Marshal Patrick Lovett, with typescript by Mrs. Rose Gibbons Lovett. Also microfilm copy of City minutes and other papers, 1871-1891; including record of cattle brands, 1874-1880, and cemetery burial permits, 1856-1885.
12 items (photocopies), and 1 microfilm reel. Gift, microfilm by Samford University from originals in possession of Mrs. R. G. Lovett.West Florida Collection Nos. 125-128, and Microfilm No. 175.
Archives of the Spanish Government of West Florida
Prepared by the Works Progress Administration of Louisiana in 1940, and edited by Mary Claire Berthelot, these are typescript translations, in 8 volumes of a group of Spanish West Florida archives, comprising 18 bundles or volumes deposited in the 19th Judicial District Court, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. The original Spanish manuscripts in the 18 volumes are reproduced on microfilm reels 198-205 (8 reels) of the Panton, Leslie and Company Research Collection.
This set may be similar to Microfilm No. 285 (see entry no. 629, this guide) which is similarly described as "Archives of the Spanish Government of West Florida." However that set consists of twelve reels and claims to be typescript translations of 19 bound volumes of Spanish documents.
Microfilm, 6 reels.
Panton, Leslie and Company Research Collection, Microfilm Nos. 216-221.Archivo General de Indias (AGI).
This collection is the most important archives in Spain for research on the Floridas and Louisiana under Spanish dominion. Individual manuscripts are grouped in bundles known as legajos, and hundreds of legajos and thousands of individual manuscripts from the Archivo are available in typescript, photocopy, and microfilm throughout the United States. Special Collections has scattered legajos and documents on microfilm and in photocopy form in the Panton, Leslie and Company papers and in the Panton, Leslie, and Company microfilm research collections. Other collections available include:AGI. Calendar of the Papeles de Cuba, 1781-1821.
A card catalog of 60,000 cards calendaring photocopies drawn from the Papeles de Cuba section of the Archivo General de Indies; the photocopies are owned by the University of Florida, Gainesville. Covers the Spanish colonies in the Caribbean and North America, 1760-1821. Arrangement of the calendar is chronological.
12 microfilm reels.
Microfilm No. 901.AGI. Papeles de Cuba.
Transcripts of Legajos 1568A-B and 1570A relating to affairs in West Florida, 1810-1811.
28 items (photocopies). Originals in possession of the Library ofCongress; gift of Dr. A. B. Thomas.
Accession M1973-05.AGI. Stetson Collection, 1512-1783.
A card catalog of 14,000 cards calendaring a collection of photocopies drawn from the Archivo General de Indies, documenting Spanish activity in the in the Southeastern borderlands. The Stetson Collection of photocopies is owned by the University of Florida, Gainesville.
3 microfilm reels.
Microfilm No. 903.Askew, Reubin O'Donovan (b. 1928)
Program of a dinner honoring Governor Askew, Scenic Hills Country Club, April 2, 1975, sponsored by Pensacola Chamber of Commerce.
1 piece. Gift of Mrs. William Woolsey.
Accession M1968-13/56.Association Books
Books owned and used by notable West Florida individuals or families, or which in themselves offer evidence or act as an artifact documenting an event or milestone in West Florida history. Many items bear inscriptions, autographs, and bookplates. Includes 180 volumes, circa 1750-1850 from the library of Francisco and Fernando Moreno; volumes from the Knox Hill school (1840s) of Walton County; the personal library of Florida Governor Sidney J. Catts; and other items.Owners include Gustave and J. Newton Axelson, William H. Chase, Occie Clubbs, Samuel French, Gilberto Guillemard, C. J. Heinberg, James N. Hyer, Valentine King, C. E. McDougall, Martin McVoy, Stephen R. Mallory, Jr., Esther, Mary, and John Newton, Desiderio Quina, Oliver J. Semmes, Silas Stearns, Francis Taylor, Harry Toulmin, W. H. Watson, Joseph M. White, Julia J. Yonge, and others. A detailed inventory is available in the Special Collections Department.
Ca. 300 items. Gift of various donors.
Accession M1991-07.Association of Upper-Level Colleges and Universities
Records, 1970-1972, consisting of the files of Peter Perceval, Director, UWF University Relations, and Executive Secretary of the Association. Includes correspondence, planning files for the International Conference held at UWF in 1970, and related materials concerning the Association.
455 items (.7 c.f.).
Accession M1984-05.Axelson Family Papers
The Axelson Family Papers, 1849-1944, comprise personal and business records for Presbyterian minister John Newton (1814-1893); his daughters Mary and Esther; his son-in-law, a ship's captain, Gustave Axelson (1858-1910); his grandson, John Newton Axelson (1896-1964) of Pensacola, Florida; John D. C. Newton, and related members of the Axelson and Rogers families of West Florida. The papers include letters, account books, photographs, scrapbooks, school papers and copybooks, real estate and post office records, and related materials about life in Eucheeanna, Mary Esther, DeFuniak Springs, Knox Hill, Milton, and Pensacola, Florida.
Reverend John Newton's papers cover his life as a teacher at Knox Hill Academy (1849-ca. 1863); the Civil War in Florida; his travels as a Presbyterian minister in California, Pennsylvania, Missouri, and Florida (1863-ca. 1870); his private school at Mary Esther, Florida (1870-1888) with ministerial records of baptisms, marriages, and his activities with the Florida Chautauqua, in real estate, and as postmaster at Mary Esther (1871-1890).
The papers of Gustave Axelson, 1888-1911, a ship's captain, include account books and shipping records for trips along the Gulf Coast and Caribbean with letters to his wife, Esther Newton, and children describing sea life and the ports at Pensacola, Mary Esther, Key West, Key Largo, and Jacksonville, Florida as well as Baltimore, New Orleans, Cuba, Belize, and cities in the Yucatan Peninsula; his son's letters, 1913-1918, tell of John Newton Axelson's life as a student at Washington and Lee University and at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and military camp in Kentucky in 1918.
749 items (1.4 c.f.). Gift of Mrs. Louise Axelson.
Accession M1971-04.Azalea Garden Club Papers
Records, 1951-1969 including minutes, financial reports, membership lists, newspaper clippings, photographs and scrapbooks. Includes information on history of organization since its formation in 1932.
111 items (.34 c.f.) and 2 scrapbooks. Gifts of Mrs. George Yarbrough, Mrs. Mary Johnston, Mrs. Guy E. Yaste, and Mrs. Hacker.
Accession M1973-02.Baars Family Papers
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 & Caldwell Realty Company, Baars & 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 & 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 collection inventory and comprehensive index is available in the Department.
4,291 items (8.0 c.f.). Gift of the Estate of Henry G. Baars.
Accession M1985-20.Bailey, Thomas David (1897-1974)
Florida Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1949-1965.
Papers, 1939-1974, including correspondence, speeches, photographs, publications, and biographical materials, relating to his activities as Florida Superintendent of Public Instruction, and work on behalf of education, and educational subjects such as desegregation. Includes his acceptance speech upon the dedication of the University of West Florida's first administration/classroom complex (Buildings 10, 11, and 12) as the Bailey Center, October 9, 1966.
About 150 items (.35 c.f.). Gift of Thomas D. Bailey.
Accession M1968-16.Baker-Holt School Collection
Materials concerning the history and development of Baker-Holt School in Okaloosa County, including publications, grant applications, evaluations, and related materials.
6 items (.35 c.f.).
Accession M1983-08.Baker-Watson Papers
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.
41 items. Gift of Mrs. James B. Watson.
Accession M1980-05 SC.Baptist Hospital, Pensacola, Florida
Minutes, reports and working papers of the Institutional Review Board of Baptist Hospital, 1982- . The committee reviews proposed research that involves human subjects including the use of new technology, lasers, and methodology.
78 items (.35 c.f.). Gift of Dr. Richard C. Smith.
Accession M1987-08.Baroco, James Herbert (1917-1978)
Papers, maps and photographs relating to the Spanish Village on Santa Rosa Island as reconstructed during the Florida Quadricentennial Celebration, 1959.
30 items. Gift of James H. Baroco.
Accession M1968-13/85.Barrineau, Barbara
Personal papers 1946-1951, including a scrapbook, publications, commencement and football programs, and other papers reflecting activities as a student at Pensacola High School (1946-1948), as a student nurse at Sacred Heart Hospital School of Nursing (1948-1951) and at Pensacola Hospital School of Nursing Education (1948), and other activities in Pensacola during this time period.
69 items (.18 c.f.). Gift of Barbara Barrineau (Mrs. R. W. Schreiner).
Accession M1981-13.Battle, Josephine
Postmaster, Warrington, Florida.
Personal papers including photocopies and photographs of biographical information and materials concerning the history of Pensacola Navy Yard and Warrington, Florida.
16 items. Gift of Mrs. John R. Battle.
Accession M1981-30 SC.Bay County Papers.
Collection of materials including manuscripts, photocopies, photographs, maps, and publications pertaining to Bay County, Florida, and to Panama City and St. Andrews Bay. Subjects include St. Andrews Bay Railroad Company (1889-1895), Bay County Chamber of Commerce, Panama City Port Authority, the United States Navy Mine Defense Laboratory, International Paper Company, the Confederate Salt Works, and the United States Naval Coastal Systems, along with other reports and planning documents dealing with the environment, archaeology, history, and local writers.
Selected correspondents and biographical material include Dora Maud Aldridge, Ethel Glass, John W. Askew, George Percy, Angus Laird, Bill Pevey, Jesse B. Hathaway, A. D. Bache, W. A. Brown, and D. K. Middleton.
Users should consult the collection inventory for detailed list of contents, as well as considerable additional material on the County indexed in the Bibliography of West Florida.
60 items (.34 c.f.). Gifts of various donors.
Accession M1973-14.Bay Point Mill Company
Records and papers of the Bay Point Mill Company, 1868-1955, including correspondence, contracts, land abstracts, timber deeds, mortgages, vouchers, tax records, account ledgers, letterbooks, code books, legal papers, and minutes of the Board of Directors. Includes some photographs and materials for the Rosasco Brothers company. Subjects covered include lumbering, shipping, the Pine Institute of America, the Florida Land Owner's Association, the Rosasco Brothers Shipping Company, and related operations of the mill in Santa Rosa County, Florida. Some records are in Italian reflecting the work of the Genoa branch of the Rosasco Brothers company.
24 ledgers and 5.53 c.f. Gifts of William S. Rosasco III, and AdeliaRosasco-Soule.
Accessions M1979-04, M1979-09, and M1981-44.Beggs and Lane Collection
Records, 1906-1930, of the law firm of Blount and Blount and Carter, Pensacola, Florida, predecessor of the firm of Beggs and Lane, comprising case files, correspondence, legal briefs, photographs, abstracts, and other materials concerning the activities of the law partners and clients of the firm. The company was headed by William A. Blount (1851-1820), and partners Alexander Clement Blount, and Francis B. Carter, former justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.
Included among William A. Blount's papers are personal correspondence from family members; genealogical notes; his files on the construction of the Blount Building (1907), and his estate, Sea Marge (1908); his campaign for the U. S. Senate in 1910; some of his work as trustee for the estate of H. M. Flagler and Mary Lily Flagler Bingham, and as attorney for the Florida East Coast Railroad; his work as president of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, and his presidency of the American Bar Association, 1920-1921.
The records of the firm are extensive as this firm was the corporate attorney for numerous West Florida businesses including railroad and lumber companies. Select subjects include the American Lumber Company, Bagdad Land and Lumber Company, Birmingham, Columbus & St. Andrews Railroad Company, the Children's Home Society of Florida, Escambia County, the Escambia County School Board, the Escambia Gulf Beach Hotel, the First National Bank of Pensacola, First Methodist Episcopal Church, Duncan U. Fletcher, Florida Chautauqua, Florida Colonization and Industrial Company of Chicago, Forbes Company, German-American Lumber Company, Gulf Power Company, Kupfrian Park Company, Okaloosa County, City of Pensacola, Pensacola Electric Company, Pensacola Electric Terminal Company (Streetcars), Pensacola and Hervey Hotel Company (San Carlos Hotel), Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, South Florida Stores Corporation (Piggly-Wiggly Stores), Tampa Electric Company, and the Valparaiso Development Company.
Other files includes such topics as bank closures, suits to recover Union Army damages during the Civil War, workmen's compensation cases, land boundary disputes, the streetcar strike in 1908, the organization and operation of businesses, and records accumulated by the business and partners reflecting civic and social life in the West Florida region, 1906-1930.
Users are strongly urged to consult the separate index and inventory (150 pp.) to this collection, for there exists material on nearly every issue affecting the West Florida region of the early twentieth century. See also the Alexander Clement Blount papers, and the Blount Family papers, noted elsewhere in this guide.
57,799 items (77.4 c.f.). Gift of the Beggs and Lane law firm.
Accession M1984-20.Belandville Papers
Belandville, Florida was situated in northeastern Santa Rosa County, founded by Albert J. Beland, and promoted as a settlement for French-Canadians. Papers include publications, maps, promotional literature, business and personal papers of Beland, and related items.
5 microfilm reels. Originals in possession of Beland Family.
Accession M1980-06.Bellin, Jacques Nicholas (1703-1772)
"Observations sur la carte du Golphe du Mexique" [Paris: 1767?], with unsigned manuscript, "Memoire sur la Caroline et le commerce de la France ..." [Charleston: 1786].
2 photocopies. Gift of Mrs. William J. Hudson.
Accession M1968-11/57.Bennett, Dr. Hite (1927-1988)
UWF Associate Professor of Finance and Accounting, 1969-1988.
Personal papers, 1969-1988, including correspondence, committee files, and papers related to his teaching and to the activities of his department and college. Subject files include the Business College Council, the Department of Finance and Accounting, and the Northwest Florida Blood Bank.
738 items (1.40 c.f.). Gift of Dr. Gregory Yost.
Accession M1988-08.Beta Sigma Phi
Records of the Florida Kappa Theta Chapter of Pensacola, FL, 1969-1974, including minutes, attendance registers, financial reports, and other materials about this women's organization.
5 volumes.
Accession M1980-13 SC.Biasco, Frank
UWF Associate Professor of Psychology.
Records as a member of the Escambia County School Board, 1976-1980 including minutes, reports, publications, and related subject files.
Provisional description pending cataloging. Gift of Dr. Frank Biasco.
Accession M1984-17.Bibliography of West Florida
The Bibliography of West Florida is an ongoing project of the Special Collections Department to discover, acquire, and annotate all published materials relating to the West Florida region. Listings include books, journal articles, government publications, technical reports, dissertations, and other kinds of publications covering history, biography, science, the environment, genealogy, literature, and other subjects so long as they reflect some aspect of the West Florida region and its people.
UWF Library Director James A. Servies edited and published Volumes 1-4in 1981; Volumes 5-8 are edited by Dean DeBolt and additional entries continue to be added. Entries are arranged chronologically by year of publication.
The eight volumes are:
Volume 1 -- Materials published between 1535 and 1915.
Volume 2 -- Materials published between 1915 and 1971.
Volume 3 -- Index to Volumes 1 and 2.
Volume 4 -- Also called supplement; additional entries for the
period 1535-1971, and also covers 1972 through 1981.
Volume 5 -- Newly-found items published between 1535 and 1945.
Volume 6 -- Newly-found items published between 1946 and 1981.
Volume 7 -- Materials published between 1982 and 1991.
Volume 8 -- Additional citations to 1535-1991, and 1992-present.Nearly all materials cited are owned by the John C. Pace Library, many of them being in the BWF files of the Special Collections Department. Users should consult the indexes for further research information.
Bickford-Jones Memorial Library, Ferry Pass, Florida
Manuscript and typescript catalog of the library, 1932-1937. Created by the Ferry Pass Woman's Club (organized in 1909), the original collection was donated by Mrs. Myron L. Bickford and the site by Mrs. Austin Jones. With typescript history of Ferry Pass by Mrs. Georgia Parazine and 1953 newspaper clipping on the Club and Library Association.
2 items (100 leaves). Gift of the Library Trustees.
Accession M1968-11/6.Biography Collections
Special Collections maintains a Biography Collection consisting of newspaper clippings, articles, pamphlets, brochures, and other materials about West Florida individuals and families, arranged alphabetically by surname. Includes living and deceased West Florida residents and families. A full index is available in the Department.
675 folders. Various donors.
Accession M1982-11.Blount, Alexander Clement, III (1889-1978)
Pensacola Lawyer; Savings and Loan Administrator
Personal and business papers, 1900-1975, including legal case and collection files, 1900-1918, including those as a law agent for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, 1914-1917; real estate transaction papers both as an administrator of real estate and trusts records of organizations and companies where Mr. Blount was an officer or director. These include records of the Bayou Chico Land Company, 1941-1963; the Children's Home Society of Florida, Pensacola branch, 1940-1955; the Crippled Children's Commission, 1930; the Federal Home Loan Bank of Greensboro, North Carolina, 1952-1956; Gulf Power Company, 1950-1968; the Institute of Government, 1946-1948; Mutual Federal Savings and Loan Association, 1920-1975; the Pensacola Rotary Club, 1940-1947; the Savage Turpentine Company, 1900-1968; the United States Savings and Loan League, 1944-1950; and the Visiting Nurse Association of Pensacola, 1944-1954.
Mr. Blount's papers include genealogical and biographical materialabout the Blount family in Florida and North Carolina, newspaper clippings about A. C. Blount, and correspondence of Mary Ida Saunders, 1914-1918, while a student at Shorter College in Rome, Georgia prior to their marriage in 1917.
8,121 items (7.15 c.f.). Gift of Mrs. A. D. (Edna Ard) Blount.
Accession M1982-18.Blount Family Papers
Correspondence, business papers, maps and family papers, 1726-1965, relating to the Blount family of North Carolina and Florida, particularly William Alexander Blount (1851-1921) and his son, Fernando Moreno Blount (1882-1966), of Pensacola. Includes genealogical papers relating to the Blount family of North Carolina and the Moreno family of Key West and Pensacola.
The papers of W. A. Blount include his letterbooks, 1909-1911, documenting his unsuccessful campaign for election as U.S. Senator; papers relating to the estate of George G. McWhorter, 1890-1896; correspondence with James P. Taliaferro, Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Albert W. Gilchrist, Duncan U. Fletcher, and others, touching political and social activities in Pensacola and at the Navy Yard; and documents relating to the settlement of his estate, 1906-1933.
The papers of his son, F. M. Blount, include correspondence withF. F. Bingham, Millard Caldwell, Scott Loftin, C. P. Mason, John C. Pace, George Smathers, David S. Sholtz, Julien C. Yonge, and others, 1920-1950. A large group of legal papers touches upon the Barella Grant and the Live Oak Reservation, 1828-1936, and includes notes of Joseph M. White, Henry M. Brackenridge, and other owners or claimants. With papers relating to Mr. Blount's architectural and legal practice in Escambia County, especially touching affairs at the Naval Air Station; the Pensacola Chamber of Commerce, 1906-1930; the estate of William Fisher, 1919-1938; the Civil Works Administration, 1932-1934; the Pensacola Port Authority and the Santa Rosa Island Authority; 1945-1947; City of Pensacola bonds and finances, 1949-1955; with other family papers, photographs and local maps.
See also Beggs and Lane Collection, and Alexander Clement Blount Papers listed elsewhere in this guide.
6,780 items (7.48 c.f.). Gift of Dr. Fred A. Blount.
Accession M1967-01.Blueprint Collection
Individual blueprints and architectural drawings acquired by Special Collections are placed in this collection, numerically as received. A full description of each item is listed on the collection inventory, and individual name and subject tracings are made as needed for each accession.
Blueprints and drawings may also be found within manuscript collections, such as family and business papers. Drawings acquired with related documentary materials are normally retained with those collections. Examples of blueprints in the collection include drawings for Sacred Heart Hospital (1962) and the W. C. Payne Medical Arts Building (1974), Pensacola.
Ca. 150 items; partly uncataloged. Gift of various donors.
Accession M1992-11.Boland, John M. (d. 1969)
Realtor.
Personal papers, 1919-1969, including correspondence, business records, imprints, legal papers, land maps, plans and photographs relating to his activities as a realtor, including land speculation at Garcon Point, the San Carlos Hotel, Perdido Manor, Gulf Breeze, and Santa Rosa County; with papers relating to his wife, the former Mrs. Anna Shafer (d. 1975), and her satsuma plantation, "Renz Anna," west of Pensacola 1878-1970.
719 items (1.7 c.f.). Gift of the Estate of John Boland.
Accession M1976-08.Bonifay, Inez (d. 1977)
Family papers, 1873-1976, including correspondence, photographs, funeral notices, history of Fisher-Pou funeral home, and memorabilia, with additional papers of her brother, Harry Haley, a ship's engineer, including the logbook of the S. S. Hulver, 1927-1928.
316 items. Gift of Mr. Barry Bonifay.
Accession M1977-16.Bonifay Family Papers
Family papers, West Florida imprints and printed ephemera, 1853-1930, including greeting cards, Pensacola postcards, communion record of Walter B. Maher, and photographs of the Apalachicola Northern Railroad, assembled by Mrs. W. W. Kyle.
260 items (.34 c.f.). Gift of Mrs. Inez Bonifay.
Accession M1968-17.Bouquet, Henry (1719-1795)
Inventory of personal effects and household goods at Pensacola, Florida, September 4, 1765, prepared by Governor Johnstone and other estate executors; with additional estate administration records.
1 microfilm reel. Original file in British Museum, Add. 21,658.
Panton, Leslie & Company Research Collection, Microfilm No. 25.Bowens Family Papers
Correspondence, 1910-1967, of Domingas Marcella Avery Bowens, Pensacola, her husband, George Bowens, a ship's mate (1920-1940s), and her son, Bertram Bowens, U.S. Army (1945-1950s), with additional letters between the Bowens family members in Maryland and Rhode Island, and the Duarte family of Providence, Rhode Island. Letters concern life in Pensacola, sea trips of George to Europe, Cuba, and other ports, and Army life for Bertram.
276 items (.34 c.f.). Gift of Churchill Roberts and Bill Henderson.
Accession M1979-12.Bowles, William Augustus (1764-1805)
Letter, October 31, 1799 from Wekiva complaining of the bestowal of Cherokee and Muskogee Indian lands on disbanded Revolutionary War soldiers, violations of Indian treaties in the Gulf states, actions of the Panton, Leslie and Company, and other injustices.
9 leaves, photocopy. Newberry Library copy from AGI series, Seville.
Accession M1968-11/24.Bowman, Dicy Villar
Personal papers, 1966-1969, of Dicy Villar Bowman, Pensacola, Florida, as a member of the State Courses of Study Committee, Florida Department of Education. Papers include minutes, reports, and materials concerning textbook selection for state schools.
45 items (.18 c.f.). Gift of Dicy Villar Bowman.
Accession M1984-19.Boyer, Lucille (1894-1968)
Papers, 1903-1966, including correspondence, poetry, a diary, and other materials covering family life, her father Herbert H. Boyer, her brother-in-law Harry Lurton, and her school years at Pensacola High School (class of 1917). With minutes and attendance records, 1960-1969, of The Caxtons, a woman's literary club.
666 items (.68 c.f.). Gift of Mrs. Harriet Major.
Accession M1978-01.Brackenridge, Henry Marie (1786-1871)
Photocopies of manuscript letters, including a letter to Caesar A. Rodney in 1821 on Jackson's treatment of Governor Callava, as well as letters to his wife Caroline Brackenridge, 1827-1832, written from Pensacola, Tallahassee, Alaqua, the Live Oak Reservation, and other places in West Florida regarding business and legal affairs in the Territory. With draft and final typescript transcripts.
Researchers should also consult books authored by Brackenridge as well as citations in the Bibliography of West Florida.
89 items (.35 c.f.). Originals owned by the University of Pittsburgh Library and the Missouri Historical Society.
Accession M1983-01.Bragg, Braxton
Commander, Confederate Troops at Pensacola, 1861-1862
Microfilm of the Pensacola portion of the Braxton Bragg Papers, 1861, dealing with activities at Pensacola, attack on Fort Pickens, correspondence from Montgomery and Richmond, and other materials relating to the defense of Pensacola.
1 microfilm reel. Purchase, Case Western Reserve Historical Society.
Accession M1983-26.Briggs, Warren
Personal papers, 1976-1979, including his records as chairman of the task force for Action 76 goal setting (1976-1977) and as coordinator of Citizens Goals for Pensacola-Escambia (1977-1979). The Action 76 papers include materials concerning the celebration of the American Bicentennial in Florida and Pensacola, the development of citizens' surveys, and publications about the Pensacola Navy Yard, British West Florida, and a history of industrialization in Pensacola. Also included are histories of Tate High School, the dedication of Fort George Park, and dedication of the William Bartram marker.
Citizens Goals for Pensacola-Escambia grew out of the Action 76 citizen goal-setting program and attempted to develop long-term goal setting for the area for the next five years. These materials include reports of task Forces in each subject area, newspaper clippings, and final reports, 1977-1979.
125 items (.35 c.f.) Gift of Warren Briggs.
Accession M1981-45.British Museum.
Manuscript, journal of an officer who travelled over a part of the West Indies and through North America during 1764 and 1765. Includes extensive descriptions of Pensacola, the forts, Santa Rosa Island, the food, climate, Indians, and trips to Mobile, Alabama (1764).
Microfilm. Original in the British Museum titled "King's Mss. 213."
Panton, Leslie and Company Research Collection, Microfilm No. 29.Brosnaham, Maybelle
Manuscript cookbook, ca. 1920, with 56 photographs, ca. 1920-1940, many unidentified, but one shows Sacred Heart Hospital under construction.
1 volume and 56 photographs. Gift of Mrs. Edna Cobb
Accession M1968-11/83.Browder, Lloyd Earl (1903-1980)
Inventor; Pensacola Real Estate Developer.
Personal papers, 1919-1972 including letters, newspaper clippings, financial and income tax records, and other papers concerning his interests in the Bayside Tourist Park, Bay View Trailer Park, Dead Lakes Fishing Camp, the Santa Villa subdivision, and the Browder Fixture Company in St. Louis.
236 items (.35 c.f.). Gift of Mrs. Richard Merritt, Jr.
Accession M1981-03.Brown, Wallace Neal (1914-1976)
Papers relating to Mr. Brown's service in the U.S. Navy, the Civil Air Patrol, and the Pratt & Whitney Company. Includes his flight log book, 1939-1942; log of Torpedo Squadron 85, 1944-1945; and other papers relating to his work at Pratt & Whitney.
92 items (.34 c.f.). Gift of the Estate of Wallace N. Brown.
Accession M1977-04.Brownsville School Records
Parent-Teachers Association records, 1938-1975, including scrapbooks, photographs, minutes of meetings, publications, yearbooks, correspondence and financial records.
18 scrapbooks and 2 boxes (.8 c.f.). Gift of Betty Clark.
Accession M1982-14.Bruce, William George
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, Florida. Subjects include poetry, yellow fever, race problems, and the Blackwater Academy. A separate index is available.
5 items (.45 c.f.).
Accession M1985-10.Bruington, Lola Lee Daniels
Oral history interview of Lola Lee Daniels Bruington, of Pensacola, by Sandra F. Whitehead with tapes and typed transcripts. Mrs. Bruington discusses area cemeteries, (especially St. Michaels), the red light district, bootlegging, her work as educator and nurse at Camp Dix, Bellevue Hospital, and at Vassar, and her childhood and life in Pensacola.
4 items (.18 c.f.). Gift of Dr. Dallas Blanchard.
Accession M1987-10.Bryans, Dr. Herbert L. (1899-1961)
Personal and business records including correspondence, reports, minutes, programs, and patient case files. Includes the business records of Bryan's Pharmacy including receipts, narcotic and drug records, and accounting files. The files of organizations include comprehensive records pertaining to Dr. Bryan's service as a member and officer of many key Florida medical associations; these include the American Medical Association, 1928-1956; the Escambia Blood Bank, 1960; the Escambia County School Board, 1914-1951; the Florida Crippled Children's Commission, 1940-1954; the Florida Medical Association, 1926-1961; the Florida Nurses Association, 1950-1957; and the Florida State Board of Health, 1933-1959.
Other organizations and correspondents include the American College of Physicians, 1928-1938, Baptist Hospital, Chemstrand Corporation, Edward J. Kelly (Mayor of Chicago), Oscar G. Mayer, Pensacola Hospital, C. W. Mayo, Sacred Heart Hospital, John C. McSween, the Escambia County Medical Society, Escambia General Hospital, Florida Governors Fuller Warren and LeRoy Collins, the U.S. Public Health Service, and Zelica Grotto, order of Veiled Prophets.
Includes biographical materials of his father, Dr. Robert L. Bryans, and records of the Escambia County Board of Health, 1885-1889, 1931.
4,716 items (7.58 c.f.). Gift of Robert L. Bryans.
Accession M1982-08.Bryans, Dr. Herbert L. (1899-1961)
Patient medical records of Dr. Herbert Lee Bryans of Pensacola, Florida. 4,300 items. Restricted access.
Accession M1980-07.Bryars, J. L.
Farmer and itinerant preacher; Pine Barren, Florida.
Journals, 1884-1892, with notes of converts at such churches as Beulah Church, Perdido Church, and others in Escambia Counties, Florida and Alabama, and reports to the State Mission Board. With 1865 letter of M. H. Daily, CSA, relating his experiences as a prisoner of war in Maryland.
10 items (photocopies). Originals in possession of Mrs. Lee Gilmore.
Accession M1973-08, folders 19-22.Buchli, James F.
Astronaut; UWF Alumnus
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.
7 items. Gift of James F. Buchli.
Accession M1985-01.Bullard, James G.
Letter, April 10, 1861, written to his wife from Fort McRae.
1 piece (photocopy). Gift of Pensacola Historical Society.
Accession M1968-13/54.Burgoyne, Bruce
Photocopies of research files including his translations of the Carl Philipp Steuernagel diary, 1773-1783, and the diary of Philipp Waldeck, both of whom were German mercenaries who saw service in the British Army in West Florida during the American Revolution. Also includes Burgoyne's typescript transcripts in German of the original manuscripts.
10 items (.53 c.f.). Gift of Bruce Burgoyne.
Accession M1983-09.Burke, Yolanda Pinney
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.
56 items. Gift of Mrs. Yolanda Burke.
Accession M1981-18 SC.Burrow, Dorothy (1902-1980)
Personal papers, 1840-1979, including records as a student, 1916-1919; as a teacher at Pensacola High School, 1928-1967; memorabilia and letters about life at Florida State College for Women, 1919-1923; summer studies at Columbia, 1927; the University of Virginia, 1938; and the University of Wisconsin, 1930. Includes considerable family records of her parents, John McMillan Burrow and Nelle Agnes Barrington Burrow and other relatives including the Anderson, Burrow, Cresap, Pyle, and Vaughn families of Pensacola; the Barrington, Burrow, Conner families of Wabash, Indiana; and the Medbury and Phillips families of St. Mary's, Ohio.
Subject files include the First Presbyterian Church, Pensacola, 1917- 1959, and the hurricanes of 1906 and 1926. Of special note are the letters of two brothers and a nephew of their studies at Annapolis Naval Academy (1920s, 1930s, and 1950s) and subsequent correspondence about life in the Navy, especially the Naval destroyer accident in 1938.
Additional items include a collection of paper dolls, 1910-1918, mostly from the Ladies Home Journal, and small collections of Christmas, Valentine, and Easter greeting cards, 1890s to 1950.
1,489 items (1.5 c.f.). Gift of the estate of Dorothy Burrow.
Accession M1983-04.Busey, Samuel T.
Colonel, 76th Illinois Infantry.
Selected diary entries for February 16, 1865 to April 23, 1865 covering his arrival at Fort Barrancas, Pensacola, and the battle at Spanish Fort.
6 leaves (photocopies).
West Florida Collection No. 95.Butt, Arthur Jordan (b. 1914)
Reprints of medical writings, reviews of his published works, and family papers, 1942-1972. Includes printed text of Albert Einstein, Zur Einheitlichen Feldtheorie (1929); medical fee books, 1961-1966; and family papers, 1942-1970.
417 items. Gift of Dr. A. J. Butt.
Accession M1968-01.Butt Family Papers
Family papers, photographs, and genealogical notes of the Butt, Banks, Shephard, and Alston families of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, 1837-1970. With correspondence, railroad ephemera, photographs and other papers collected by A. J. Butt, Sr., former president of Pensacola Hardware Company.
78 items, 12 scrapbooks. Gift of Dr. A. J. Butt, Jr., and Mrs. Katie Butt Houston.Accession M1976-05.
Callaghan, J. E.
Correspondence relating to the appointment of Capt. J. E. Callaghan, formerly of the 15th Maine Regiment., as Collector of Customs of the Port of Pensacola, 1889-1902.
5 items (photocopies). Gift of Dr. Ernest F. Dibble.Accession M1968-11/53.
Campbell, John
General, His Majesty's Forces in West Florida.
Correspondence, 1779-1781. Typescript transcripts from the Spanish Provincial Records of letters of the British commander of the troops stationed in West Florida.
Microfilm, 1 reel. Acquired from Mississippi Department of Archives andHistory, Jackson. Spanish Provincial Records, Record Group 26, Volume 16.
Panton, Leslie and Company Research Collection, Microfilm No. 58.Campbell, McDonald
Correspondence and photographs of Miss Campbell's family, Laurel Hill, Florida, 1894-1929. Includes letter, 1908, of her father, A. D. Campbell, to her mother's parents asking her hand in marriage; and photograph of young Effie McKinnon McDonald (1888-1936), later a teacher in DeFuniak Springs, Fla.
9 items. Gift of Miss McDonald Campbell.
Accession M1973-10.Campbell Family
Photocopies of genealogical charts of the descendants of Daniel Campbell and Jeanette Gillis, Walton County, Florida, prepared by Mark Curenton.
5 items. Gift of Mark Curenton.
West Florida Collection No. 602.Campbell Family Papers
Educational diplomas, 1899-1933, of Christian C. McDonald and Christian McDonald Campbell for attendance at Palmer College, at Florida State Normal School, and the Okaloosa County public schools in DeFuniak Springs, Florida.
5 items. Gift of Miss McDonald Campbell.
Accession M1988-11.Cantonment Rotary Club Records
Records and papers, 1948-1991, including correspondence, bylaws, financial statements, minutes, and chapter newsletters. Topics include Cantonment Little Major League and Ephemeral Hospital.
3,526 items (3.15 c.f.).
Accession M1984-18.Carlson, Gladys
Photocopies of published genealogical research on family lines written and compiled by Gladys Carlson, Pensacola Florida, including lineage charts, facsimiles of manuscript letters, and related documentation. Family names include Alexander, Barber, Bilyeu, Bird, Brumley, Duckworth, McKnight, Montgomery, Peel, Robinson, Sample, Wallace, and Williams. Places include Lancaster County, Virginia; Mecklenburg County, North Carolina; and Cannon County, Tennessee.
7 items (.18 c.f.). Gift of Gladys Carlson.
Accession M1991-08.Carpenter, Cornelia Brown
Personal papers, 1840s-1920, including correspondence, newspaper clip-pings, photographs, and other materials relating to the Brown, Wright, and Carpenter families; with business records of H. T. Wright, Blackwater and Bagdad, Florida, in the operation of Simpson & Company Lumber Mill at Bagdad; additional letters of Gertrude Wright, H. T. Wright, and of R. M. Bushnell, Saybrook, Connecticut. Subjects include life in Pensacola, 1887-1920, and Knox Hill, Florida, 1840s.
168 items (.68 c.f.). Gift of Mrs. Cornelia Brown Carpenter.
Accession M1979-03.Carswell, Elba Wilson
Journalist; author; folklorist.
Personal papers including research files, writings, genealogical material on the Carswell family, newspaper columns, and other materials. Subjects include folklore, Falling Waters State Park; Washington County, Florida; and Chipley, Florida.
Uncataloged. (5.0 c.f., est.). Gift of Judge E. W. Carswell.
Accession M1982-33.Carter, Dickson H.
Pensacola Attorney
Personal papers, 1896-1973, 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 and the Florida State Bar Association. Other topics include Blue Springs (Marianna, FL), the Milton Land and Investment Company, the Pensacola Commercial and Shorthand School, the astronomy libraries of F. B. and D. H. Carter, and the snowfall in Pensacola, December 1943.
30 items (.23 c.f.). Gift of Mrs. Francis B. Carter.
Accession M1980-09.Cary Family Papers
Family correspondence and business papers of R. M. Cary & Co., later Cary & Co., Inc., coal and building supply merchants, 1898-1955. Includes financial records and papers of the Southport Lumber Company, 1909-1920, and correspondence of George Archibald Cary (1908-1959), Henry H. Cary (b. 1917), and other members of the family, 1920-1961.
Includes genealogical notes on the Cary and Whiting families of Virginia and Florida; papers relating to the estate of R. M. Cary; and letters relating to such local organizations as the Kiwanis Club, Rotary Club, Navy League, and Pensacola Yacht Club. Also includes papers relating to the election campaign of U. S. Senator George Smathers, 1950.
835 items (1.36 c.f.) and 82 bound volumes. Gift of Mr. Henry H. Cary.
Accession M1970-02.Catholic Reading Rack Apostolate of Pensacola
Records, 1962-1984, including correspondence, minutes, newsletters, financial records, and bylaws. The Apostolate raised funds to purchase and maintain religious and inspirational literature in free reading racks throughout Pensacola. Correspondents and key members include Dorothy Clemente, Jim Dowd, and Archbishop T. J. Toolen, Bishop of Mobile.
365 items (.53 c.f.). Gift of Eve Windsor.
Accession M1985-13.Catts, Sidney J. (1863-1936)
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 progressive legislation including prison and mental health reform; Prohibition; inclusion of women in Government and support for Women's Suffrage. He unsuccessfully ran for U. S. Senator in 1920, and again for Governor in 1924 and 1928.
Special Collections also houses a portion of the Governor's Library, 126 books kept intact as part of the Association Books collection.
4,900 items (4.08 c.f.). Gift of the Catts Family.
Accession M1979-11.Cazenave, John B.
Abstract, undated, of the Cazenave grant, Pensacola, transcribed and translated from "Spanish Plat Book," by Fernando Moreno. With copies of two maps of the property.
3 piece (photocopy). Gift of Mr. James Polk.
Accession M1968-11/43.Census Records
The Special Collections Department has Population Schedules on microfilm of United States Censuses for Florida, 1830-1920, as well as a number of other Southern states and adjacent parts of Alabama. These schedules are arranged by year of the census, state, and county, and give details of people residing in these areas. A complete list of holdings is available in the Department, as well as a number of published indexes to various states and years. In addition, for West Florida, a number of early censuses of population prior to 1830 also exist. See especially William S. Coker and C. Douglas Inglis' Spanish Censuses of Pensacola, 1784-1820 (1980) and Coker's "Religious Censuses of Pensacola, 1796-1801" in Florida Historical Quarterly (July 1982).Chamarro, Edgar (1931- )
Nicaraguan Ambassador to the United Nations; Director, Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN); UWF Visiting Professor.
Photocopies of research files and records, 1981-1987, concerning Nicaragua, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional), the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (Contras), La Prensa (newspaper), the Chamarro family, and the covert and disinformation activities of the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency in Nicaragua on behalf of the Reagan Administration.
155 items (.9 c.f.).
Accession M1987-01.Chamberlain, William
Musician; singer.
Papers, 1927, 1942-1959, including letters from John Frenkel, Sr., of WCOA radio, and programs of musical events in churches in which Mr. Chamberlain sang.
25 items. Gift of Mrs. William Chamberlain.Accession M1968-13/78.
Chapman, Alvan Wentworth (1809-1899)
Botanist.
Personal papers, 1859-1868, including his photocopy manuscript "Catalogue of Southern Plants" which was published in 1860, and correspondence concerning his appointment and work as Collector of Customs for the District of Apalachicola, 1866-1868.
25 items (photocopies). Originals owned by the New York Botanical Garden Library and U. S. Treasury Records, National Archives.
Accession M1974-18 SC.Chase, William H.
Engineer, Pensacola Forts.
Letters, 1829-1836, sent to the Engineering Department by Captain William H. Chase, from Pensacola, Florida and New Orleans, concerning the construction of Fort Pickens, and similar Gulf Coast forts.
Microfilm, 1 reel. Originals in National Archives.
Accession M1968-13/154.Cherokee Nation
Proclamation, "By the United States in Congress," forbidding all unwarranted intrusions onto Cherokee lands, September 1, 1788.
1 piece (photocopy). Original in possession of the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California.Accession M1968-11/105.
Chester, Peter
Letter, May 28, 1778, to Bernardo de Galvez, Governor of Louisiana, seeking support and restitution for attacks by rebels made upon British ships and inhabitants of West Florida.
Microfilm. Original in British Museum, Add. 24,322.
Panton, Leslie & Company Research Collection, Microfilm No. 25.Chester, Peter
D. S., November 5, 1776, Pensacola, Florida. Partly printed order to survey a plantation of 600 acres "back and east of Thompson's Creek" for Robert Farmar, Pensacola, Florida, November 5, 1776. Order given to Elias Durnford, Surveyor. Signed by Peter Chester, Thomas Livingston.
1 item. Purchase.
West Florida Collection No. 463.Christ Church, Pensacola, FL
Episcopal Church, Diocese of Florida.
Records of the Church and Parish, 1832-1833, 1842-1964. Includes Parish registers, 1842-1964, with name index, 1824-1927, 1949-1957; baptisms, 1842-1849, 1851-1864, 1870-1889; registers of communicants and confirmations, 1842-1855, 1883-1889, 1957-1961; marriages, 1843-1890; 1928-1956; and funerals or burials, 1842-1889. Also includes Vestry minutes, 1854-1926; and financialaccounts, alms received, offerings for the poor, and expenditures for church furnishings, 1842-1856. Includes records of Rectors Reverend David D. Flowers, J. J. Scott, Charles Forte Peake, and of Reverend Francis Huges Rutledge, Bishop of Florida, and additional church publications and records,
1967- .
With minute books of Mollie Dorr Roberts Chapter, Daughters of the King, 1893-1921; Christ Church Service League, 1924-1934; the 4th District Episcopal Church Florida Women's Auxiliary minutes, 1931-1941.
Also includes registers of St. Katherine's Church, Pensacola, 1904-1934,and records of Christ Church operating in exile during the Civil War as Church
of the Holy Comforter, Montgomery, Alabama, 1862-1865.
.7 c.f. and 2 microfilm reels. Originals in possession of Christ Church.
Accession M1993-22.Church Histories
Special Collections maintains a comprehensive general collection for the filing of materials relating to West Florida churches and religious bodies. These include bulletins, newsletters, programs, publications, church histories, microfilm of records which can include baptism, confirmation, marriage, and death records, minutes of associations and assemblies, annual reports, and similar records. Files are maintained by denomination, city, and name of church.
Occasionally if the files of a particular church become large enough, they are cataloged as an individual collection; examples of these are listed throughout this Guide. Some church publications and serials such as published histories and annual reports of denominations such as the Pensacola Bay Baptist Association, may be located in the Rare Book Collection.
Users should check the collection inventory for this collection, as well as the index to this Guide, the Special Collections Card Catalog, and the Bibliography of West Florida under the names of denominations and the names of individual churches.
6.0 c.f.
Accession M1975-07.City Directories
A key source of information on people, businesses, street names, and addresses are city directories. Published annually and biannually, these are invaluable sources of genealogical, historical, and social information as well as providing information on the growth of cities, economics, and business history. Special Collections maintains a collection of city directories for all cities of West Florida for which directories have been published. For example, city directories for Pensacola are available for 1886, 1892, and 1900 to the present. A supplemental source are telephone books which are collected by the Department and kept by city and date.Claiborne, John Francis Hamtrack (1809-1884)
Historian, newspaper editor, U.S. Representative from Mississippi.
Letterbook, Book E consisting of historical letters collected by Colonel Claiborne of the early Spanish and Mississippi territorial period, 1790s-1820.Contents are described in an inventory at the front of the microfilm; subjects include the laws of the Mississippi Territory and Alexander McGillivray.
Microfilm, 2 reels. Originals in the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson.
Panton, Leslie and Company Research Collection, Microfilm Nos. 79-80.Clemente, Dorothy
Personal papers consisting of her records as costume designer for the 1939 Pageant of Pensacola, and for the 1950 to 1972 Fiesta of Five Flags festivals, 1950-1972, in Pensacola, including sketches, designs, costume drawings with samples of material, photographs, newspaper clippings and related memorabilia. Includes a scrapbook of WCOA radio program covers.
624 items (.23 c.f.) and 23 portfolios/scrapbooks. Gift of Mrs. Dorothy Clemente.
Accession M1981-04.Cleveland, Larkin (1873-1953)
Journalist and Newspaper Editor
Scrapbooks and papers, 1922-1953, including newspaper articles by and about him, collections of his "Uncle Cleve" columns, biographical material and other clippings from the DeFuniak Herald and Pensacola Journal, 1922-1953.
Writing from his newspaper office (The Temple of Truth) in DeFuniak Springs, Florida, "Uncle Cleve" was known throughout the South for his wit and humor and long-running feuds with other newspapermen carried out through the editorial pages of numerous West Florida and Southern newspapers.
14 items (8 scrapbooks & .68 c.f.). Gift of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Moffett.
Accession M1969-06.Clubbs, Occie (1888-1971)
Correspondence and research files relating to her unpublished biography of Stephen R. Mallory (1813-1873), Secretary of the Navy, Confederate States of America; papers relating to the Florida Historical Society, 1939-1940; printed works and papers relating to Miss Clubbs's work as a schoolteacher in Pensacola, ca. 1932-1942; and papers relating to her father, A. V. Clubbs, 1893-1930. Includes letter of Franklin D. Roosevelt to H. Clay Armstrong (1870-1950), 1932, and correspondence with Julien Yonge, Frank Cone, Millard Caldwell, Julian Boyd and Florence Palmer, relating primarily to Miss Clubbs's research on S. R. Mallory.
Includes a table of commandants of the Pensacola Navy Yard, 1826-1911, and a chronology of events surrounding the Fort Pickens "truce," 1860-1861.
1,600 items (3.4 c.f.). Gift of the estate of Miss Occie Clubbs.
Accession M1972-04.Cobb, Edna
Cobb family papers including newspaper clippings on Crestview and Pensacola High School Bands, 1962; grammar school, 1906, and Santa Rosa High School, 1927, diplomas for William Henry Cobb.
8 items. Gift of Mrs. Edna Cobb.
Accession M1973-20 SC.Cobb, Eli Sanford (1889-1977)
Papers relating to Dr. Cobb, a Pensacola ophthalmologist and graduate of Meharry Medical College, with notes of his service in World War I and certificates of his medical studies at the University of Lyon, France.
6 items (photocopies). Originals in possession of the Cobb family.
Accession M1968-13/97.Cochrane, Alexander Forester Inglis, Sir (1758-1832)
Admiral, His Majesty's Royal Navy.
Correspondence, 1814-1815, primarily of letters between Sir Alexander and Spanish Governor Gonzalez Manrique of Pensacola, with English translations of Manrique's letters; with correspondence relating to British naval actions on the Potomac (1814); letters of other British officers; letters exchanged between Governor Manrique and Admiral Pulteney Malcolm, 1815; and a list of negro slaves of the John Forbes and Company.
Microfilm, 1 reel. Originals are part of the Cochrane Papers, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh.
Accession M1968-11/75.Coker, William S.
UWF Professor Emeritus, History
Personal papers including book manuscripts of Indian Traders of the Spanish Border-lands (Panton, Leslie & Co.) and Our Family, Fact and Fancies (Moreno Family) and his M. A. thesis on Mississippi Senator Pat Harrison.
5 items (.53 c.f.). Gift of Dr. William S. Coker.
Accession M1992-09.Cole, John William Buchanan (1906-1968)
Member, Florida House of Representatives; World War II Veteran.
Papers, 1935-1945, including newspaper clippings, photographs, and other memorabilia concerning activities as a member of the Florida House of Representatives (1935), and as a sailor in the U. S. Navy during World War II. Many of the photographs were taken on Pulo Anna, a coral island in the Western Caroline Islands, roughly midway between Palau, site of a major Japanese naval base, and Halmahera, Western Pacific headquarters of the Japanese Air Army, and depict the American invasion of the islands in 1944 and 1945.
With letter from Joseph A. Pelter, 1935, written from Antarctica during the second Byrd Antarctic Expedition.
117 items (.40 c.f.). Gift of the estate of John W. B. Cole.
Accession M1968-03.Coleman, Rev. James
Catholic priest, Pensacola, Florida
Photocopy of the Probate docket, 1865-1869, with will, pleas, affidavits, bills, and related records concerning the settlement of his estate by Executor Rev. John Quinlan.
29 items.
West Florida Collection No. 8.Collier Family Papers
Correspondence, photographs and printed works reflecting the interests of Mrs. Daisy Adams (Mrs. C. H.) Collier (1876-1968) in the Daughters of the American Revolution, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Pensacola Women's Club, and Christ Church, 1916-1950.
With papers relating to the Adams and Collier families of Tennessee andFlorida, and correspondence with Dr. Jack Fleming, Miss Lelia Abercrombie, and others, of Pensacola.
443 items (1.3 c.f.). Gift of Barry Bonifay.
Accession M1969-02.Colonial Dames XVIIth Century Fort San Carlos Chapter, Pensacola, Florida
Records including scrapbooks of newspaper articles, programs, and photographs, 1964-.
61 items. Gift of Mrs. Blasingame.
Accession M1986-03 SC.Confederate States of America
Records of and relating to the C.S.S. Florida, 1862-1864. Reel 1: Smooth logs, September 17--December 31, 1863; May 1--October 3, 1864; Reel 2: Rough logs, August 18, 1862--January 22, 1863; Sept. 17, 1863--April 30, 1864.
Microfilm, 4 reels. From Record Group 76, Boundary and Claims Commissions and Arbitrations, U. S. National Archives. Microcopy T-716.
Microfilm No. 150.Confederate States of America
"Sick and wounded of the Army serving in W. Florida near Pensacola ... October, 1861." With entries relating to medical discharges and deaths following the Battle of Santa Rosa Island, photocopy.
1 piece. Original in possession of the Library of Congress.
Accession M1968-13/21.Cooper Family Papers
Business records of Ewing Brothers Naval Stores, Holt, Florida, 1904-1918 including account books and ledgers; business papers of Cooper & Adams, Holt, Florida, 1923-1930; an account book for Holt Drug Store, Holt, Florida, 1933, 1949; records of a prison work farm at Holt, Florida, 1930-1933; and other Cooper family records and materials concerning Holt, Florida.
71 items including 7 ledgers. Gift of Max Cooper.
Accession M1969-09.Coronation Collection
Booklets and newspapers concerning the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of England, 1952-1953 with materials on Blenheim Palace and the Tower of London. With newspaper clipping announcing end of Korean War.
23 items (.34 c.f.)
Accession M1987-09.Cowley-McEvers Papers
Business records, correspondence and photographs of the Rox Stationery Co., operated by Rox Cowley (1878-1952), his wife, Eva May (McEvers) Cowley, and her sister, Miss Maude McEvers, 1915-1952. With papers relating to the Bronnum estate, the First Presbyterian Church, a travel diary (1931) to Montreat, North Carolina, Pensacola Yacht Club, and Pensacola organizations.
428 items (1.02 c.f.). Gift of Mrs. S. G. Kennedy.
Accession M1975-19.Crabtree, Ruth
Scrapbook, 1944, compiled for a history class taught by Occie Clubbs, includes photographs, maps, and publications on Pensacola history from 1559 to 1944, with emphasis on 1940-1944 and Pensacola during World War II. Includes articles on the snowfall of December 1943.
1 item (40 pp.). Gift of Ruth Crabtree.
Accession M1968-11/68.Crary, John Williamson (1814-1897)
Inventor; Brickmaker; Newspaper Editor.
Papers, 1834-1897, including correspondence, copies of patents, drafts of editorials, newspaper clippings, and family papers while in Pensacola and Bluff Springs, Florida. With printing plate of cover of Scientific American, January 1861, featuring Crary's Brickmaking Machine.
Uncataloged. (.7 c.f., etc.).
Accession M1982-29.Crawford, Webster T.
"Once on the Rio Sabinas," typescript history of the Redbones Indians of Western Louisiana and the Sabine River Country (Texas/Louisiana border).
1 item (80 leaves, photocopy). Gift of E. W. Carswell.
Accession M1968-11/27.Creek Indian Project
Records and Papers pertaining to the Creek Indians of Northwest Florida, collected by the University of West Florida faculty members, Jane Dysart and Lucius Ellsworth, as part of a grant project. Records include research bibliographies and research publications dealing with the history of the Creek Indians from earliest settlement to 1980, census records, claims made to the federal government in 1906 and 1957, a newspaper index of materials about the Creeks in Northwest Florida (1950-1980), records about the efforts toward formal recognition, and oral histories of Creek Indians of Florida.
A detailed inventory of the oral histories, narrators, and subjects isavailable; narrators are listed in the index to this Guide.
1,096 items (2.7 c.f.). Gift of Drs. Jane Dysart and Lucius Ellsworth.
Accession M1981-07.Creek Nation
"Treaty with the Creeks" August 7, 1790. Treaty signed by Alexander McGillivray of Pensacola, and 26 Creek Indian chiefs with President George Washington pledging mutual peace and friendship.
17 negative photostats from the National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Accession M1968-11/35.Crist, Anna Louise
Reminiscences of a schoolteacher of Milton and Mulat, Santa Rosa County, ca. 1903, as published in various issues of the Milton Gazette, 1951-1952.
14 items. Gift of Mrs. Jassamine Shubert.
Accession M1973-09.Crosby, Harold Bryan
Lawyer; President, University of West Florida; President, Florida International University; Regents Professor, UWF.
Personal and professional papers, 1939-1993, reflecting his activities in the Army Air Corps (1942-1955), education at Converse College and the University of Florida Law School, as a member of the Pensacola law firm, Yonge, Beggs, and Lane (1950-1951), as a faculty member and dean at University of Florida (1953-1962), as President of the University of West Florida (1964- 1974), as President of Florida International University (1975-1977), law practice in Tallahassee and Pensacola (1977-1993), as Special Master in equal employment opportunity cases of Stallworth vs. Monsanto (1973-1980) and in a similar suit against Eglin Air Force Base (1981-1991), and as Regents Professor, University of West Florida,1980- .
Correspondents include George Smathers, Adlai Stevenson, Leroy Collins, and Edmund Skellings. Other major subjects include the Crosby Family, the R. B. Camp Estate, Lt. Col. William B. Maxwell, the Leroy Collins for Governor campaign (1954-1955), the Florida Endowment for the Humanities (1973-1976), Junior Achievement of Pensacola, United Way of Escambia County (1968-1970), the Pensacola Rotary Club, and the Escambia County Juvenile Court Board of Advisors (1952) which includes history of juvenile law in Florida, 1825-1952.
Partly cataloged. (25.0 c.f., est.). Gift of Harold B. Crosby.
Accessions M1980-02 and M1981-35.Cumberland, Richard
Journal, 1779-1781, with correspondence and related materials concerning his secret negotiations on behalf of Great Britain to Spain.
Microfilm. Original in British Museum, Add. 28,851.
Panton, Leslie and Company Research Collection, Microfilm No. 26.Curenton, Mark C.
Personal papers, 1989-1990, including correspondence, draft plans, and maps of the downtown area of Port St. Joe, Florida in preparation of a Downtown Redevelopment Plan, as part of the Community Redevelopment Center, University of Florida.
See also his history of the Sixth Florida Volunteer Infantry (West Florida Collection No. 615), a Confederate Civil War Regiment from Walton County.
21 items. Gift of Mark C. Curenton.
Accession M1990-04 SC.Daughters of the American Colonists
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.
142 items (1.0 c.f.). Gift of the Chapter.
Accession M1991-11.Daughters of the American Revolution
Yearbooks, scrapbooks, and other materials concerning the Pensacola Chapter from its formation in 1922 to present.
17 items. Gift of the Pensacola DAR.
Accession M1982-15.Davis School Records
School records, 1935-1975, of Davis School, Atmore, Alabama including registers of attendance, 1935-1960 which show students attending, addresses, parents' names and occupations; the principal's record and report forms, 1940-1975 giving annual reports of the school; and school bus driver's reports, 1937-1942. Includes some records for Ernest Ward School, Walnut Hill, Florida, and Nakomis School, Nakomis, Alabama.
178 items (3.83 c.f.). Gift of Mrs. Ruth Godwin.
Accession M1981-24.Davison, William Henry (1824-1916)
Diary, June 1, 1876 to November 21, 1876, describing his work at the Pensacola Quarantine Station at the Live Oaks Plantation, with notes on ships and cargo checked through the station.
75 leaves, typescript photocopy. Gift of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.Accession M1968-11/47.
Day, John
Pensacola realtor.
Papers, 1944-1960, including resumes, bylaws of the Florida Motor-Hotel Association of Pensacola, Florida, and a master plan blueprint of a development on Perdido Bay in Escambia County, 1960.
4 items. Gift of Mrs. Robert Manuel.
Accession M1968-11/5..
Diamond, John T. (1878-1963)
Photocopies of typescript stories written by J. T. Diamond concerning the history of Pine Level and Jay, Florida, including schools, roads, churches, cemeteries, social life, the Civil War, and the logging industry. Subjects include cattle, Christmas, the Cobb family, Cora School, the Diamond family, ghost stories, Jay Cemetery, Jay Consolidated School, Mount Carmel Cemetery, postal history, and folklore.
34 items (.35 c.f.). Originals in possession of Mrs. Alma McClurkin.
Accession M1993-08.Dillon, Mrs. M. Land
Personal papers, 1958-1965, consisting of publications, newsletters, correspondence and other materials relating to the Warrington Presbyterian Church, the Pensacola Council of Ministers, the Episcopal Church and the National Council of the Churches of Christ. Includes other materials concerning race relations, Communism, John F. Kennedy, Dan Smoot, and desegregation.
212 items (.68 c.f.). Gift of Mrs. M. Land Dillon.
Accession M1968-22.Diocese of Louisiana and the Floridas
Microfilm of the records, 1576-1803, of the Diocese of Louisiana and the Floridas, Catholic Church. The early period, 1576-1785, is represented by only forty documents, thus the bulk of materials cover 1786 through 1803 on the churches in New Orleans, Louisiana, Natchez, and West Florida region.A separate booklet index is available, but it also located on reel one.
12 microfilm reels. Originals in University of Notre Dame Archives.
Microfilm No. 947.Dodd, Horace S.
Personal papers, 1858-1860, consisting of 27 letters written from Apalachicola, Florida to his girl friend, Emma Guild in Auburndale and Bangor, Maine, with 18 letters from Emma to Horace. Dodd describes life in Apalachicola, the economy, fires, city life, while Emma discusses the social life of Auburndale and Bangor.
45 items (.18 c.f.). Purchase.
Accession M1993-29.Dodds, Thomas
Corporal, Captain Russell's Company, Illinois Militia, Black Hawk War.
Land grant, October 10, 1860, to Thomas Dodds for 139 acres of land at Opelousas, Louisiana; assigned by Dodds to Thomas Coopwood. Signed for President James Buchanan by a secretary.
1 item. Gift of Mr. Walt Aymond.
Accession M1968-11/77.Pat Dodson Oral History Collection
Oral history project conducted by Mark David Clark concerning the history of advertising and advertising agencies in Pensacola, with specific emphasis on recollections of Pat Dodson (Mayhew Wilson Dodson, 1929-1975) and the contributions of Dodson and his firm, Dodson, Craddock and Born, to Pensacola. Includes interviews with business partners, family, advertising executives, and Dodson's interest in historic preservation in Pensacola.Narrators are indexed in this Guide.
17 interviews (.35 c.f.). Gift of Mark D. Clark.
Accession M1989-13Dodson, Craddock, and Born Collection
Brochures, publications, annual reports, stationary, and other advertising and printed materials developed by Dodson, Craddock, and Born, a public relations firm in Pensacola, Florida, 1957-present. Includes materials produced for banks, real estate developments, tourism, and corporations in Pensacola, Fort Walton Beach, Panama City, and Destin, Florida as well as other areas in the Florida panhandle and southern Alabama.
1,238 items (2.85 c.f.). Gifts of Mr. W. M. (Pat) Dodson and firm; and Frank Craddock.
Accession M1969-03.Dominiquez Grant
Abstract (typescript) of Township 2 South, Range 30 West, tracing ownership from the original Spanish grant, 1790 to 1941.
1 item (photocopy). Gift.
Accession M1968-13/34Duncan, William S. (1888-1970)
Personal papers, 1897-1967, concerning his work as port manager for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and as member of the Board of Directors of the Pensacola Port Authority (1954-1967). Includes biographical materials, comprehensive minutes, correspondence, and reports of the Port of Pensacola and its directors, financial reports of the Port, records relating to Port fires in 1955, 1958, and incorporation of the Port Authority in 1947 and 1959. Other records include daybooks of ship arrivals and departures, exports, and imports, 1930-1960.
812 items (.88 c.f.). Gift of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Noonan, Jr.
Accession M1975-13.East Florida Papers
Records of the Spanish administration of the occupation of East Florida, 1783-1821. These records were seized by the United States government in St. Augustine in 1821, preserved in Tallahassee, and donated to the Library of Congress in 1905. The collection consists of 85,000 documents in 381 bundles or legajos. Among these files of Spanish Governors' correspondence are substantial materials documenting the Spanish regime in West Florida.
Select examples of records include matrimonial licenses, 1785-1803 (reel 132); accounts of Jesse Fish, 1763-1770 (reel 146); municipal accounts, 1792-1820 (reel 148); records of civil proceedings, 1786-1821 (reel 163); papers on captures, shipwrecks, protests, etc., 1789-1813 (reel 164), and miscellaneous papers, 1784-1821 (reel 174). In addition, an Index of Royal Decrees, 1595-1762 (bundle 489) and the Montiano letters (bundle 37) relate to a much earlier period of Spanish control of the Floridas.
175 microfilm reels. Originals in the Library of Congress.
Panton, Leslie and Company Research Collections, Microfilm Nos. 261-435.East Florida Papers Calendar
A calendar is a listing of a group of document with an entry for each document identifying the date, writer, place of origin, receiver, place of destination, subject of report, and other descriptive details.
The East Florida Papers Calendar is a microfilm of 56,000 catalog cards prepared by the University of Florida which index the East Florida Papers (see previous entry in this Guide). Cards are in chronological order.
11 microfilm reels. Purchased from University of Florida.
Microfilm No. 902.Ebenezer Baptist Church
Minute book of the church, 1846-ca. 1958, formerly known as Holmes Valley Church (1846-1865) and as Ebenezer Baptist Church of Christ, (1866-1958) of Holmes County, Florida.
1 volume (photocopies). Original in possession of Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Accession M1968-11/9Edwards, Dorothy Alice (Commons) (1913-1977)
Founder, UWF Woman's Club; wife, UWF Professor Palmer Lowell Edwards.
Personal papers, 1970-1977, concerning her activities in the Southeastern Theatre Conference (1973), the inauguration of University of West Florida President James Robinson (1975), and the University of West FloridaWomen's Club (1974).
23 items. Gift of Dr. Palmer L. Edwards.
Accession M1977-10 SC.Eglin Air Force Base, Florida
Users researching the history of this facility should check the Bibliography of West Florida and newspapers of the area. For example, Russell D. Roth's "History of the Air Proving Ground Command" 1935-1940, and a list of base commanders, 1935-1963, are examples of some of the materials available. A chronological history of the Armament Development and Test Center, 1913-1945, with listing of acronyms and abbreviations in use at the base is also available as West Florida Collection No. 257.Ehm, Mildred Lee
"Aimley: the Story of an American Family", an unpublished genealogy of the Ehm and Lee families of Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. Mimeographed.
1 volume. Gift of Mrs. Emma Lee Turnbull Kurkowski and the author.
Accession M1968-11/106.Elbert, Donald L.
Gulf Breeze Councilman, 1964-1966; Mayor, 1974-1976.
Personal papers, 1961-1976, including correspondence, reports, maps, minutes, and other materials concerning Gulf Breeze, Florida during his administration as Councilman and Mayor. Subjects include transportation, collective bargaining, housing, water and sewers, zoning, elections, Pensacola Beach, health, sanitation, animal control, budgets and related topics.
589 items (.68 c.f.). Gift of Elbert Family.
Accession M1980-01.Ellicott, Andrew (1754-1820)
Surveyor and mathematician.
Papers, 1777-1829, comprising correspondence, maps, charts, and reports of astronomical observations, chiefly of Ellicott's work in surveying the boundary between the United States and Florida under Pinckney's Treaty (1795), and his surveys of the city of Washington, the boundary between Georgia and South Carolina, the town of Presque Isle (later Erie), Pennsylvania, and the boundary between the United States and Canada. Selected correspondents include Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Benjamin Hawkins, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Stephen Minor, Timothy Pickering, and James Wilkinson.
Microfilm, 2 reels. Original collection in the Library of Congress.
Panton, Leslie and Company Research Collection, Microfilm No. 77-78.Ellis, Thomas Howard
Genealogical records relating to the Ellis and Pearce families of Dothan, Alabama, and Milton, Florida, including deeds for sales of lands, information on the Pearce Point Lumber Company (1870s), and a lineage register for the Allen family of Virginia which includes the Watts, Pearce and Ellis families.
5 items (photocopies). Gift of T. H. Ellis.
Accession M1981-25 SC.Ellsworth, Lucius F.
UWF Professor of History, 1969-1983.
Personal papers, 1971-1976, including correspondence as Assistant to the Provost, and research files concerning lumbering in West Florida, the Bagdad Land and Lumber Company, brickmaking in Pensacola and the firm of Raiford and Abercrombie, Jay Gould and the leather industry, John Williamson Crary, and Fort Jefferson at Key West. University subjects include academic rank at UWF, the Presidential Selection Advisory Committee (1974), Dr. James A. Robinson, and the State University System Faculty Senate Council (1974-1975).
629 items (1.25 c.f.). Gift of Dr. Lucius F. Ellsworth.
Accession M1988-19.Ellsworth Research Collection
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.
2,426 items (2.7 c.f.). Gift of Lucius and Linda Ellsworth.
Accession M1982-13Escambia Amateur Astronomer's Association
Papers (1977- ), including publications of local, regional andnational astronomical organizations, such as The Meteor, New Horizons, and The Reflector. Topics covered include astronomy and sky-watching in the West Florida region.
86 items (.35 c.f.). Gift of UWF Physics Department and the Association.
Accession M1988-18.Escambia County, Florida
A collection of single items pertaining to Escambia County and including imprints, publications, correspondence, and other papers. Subjects include the Escambia County Volunteer Fireman's Association, the Northwest Florida Comprehensive Health Planning Council, the Escambia Republican Executive Committee, an anonymous historical sketch of schools in Century; an index to historical court cases by Leora Sutton; Escambia Oil Company; the Escarosa Humanities Center; environmental materials relating to dredging of Pensacola Harbor, water temperatures in the Pensacola Estuary, the vegetation of Santa Rosa Island, Escambia Bay Oysters, and the lower Escambia River; the Southern States Lumber Co., Muscogee; agriculture and history of Molino, Florida; photocopies of letters of T. M. Myers, 1822, 1837 describing Cantonment Clinch, and written to his wife at Fort Barrancas; typescripts of a group of letters of Loomis Langdon, 1856, 1861 (written on board frigate Brooklyn off Fort Pickens), 1864 (Battle of Olustee), and 1906 recollections of General Lewis G. Arnold, telling of 1856 Seminole War and 1861 Fort Pickens activities; materials on Beelersville; place names in Escambia County; creation of the town of South Flomaton; and a large group of photocopies of letters sent to Governors of Florida from individuals in Escambia County, 1839-1907. Detailed inventory available.
Ca. 200 items (1.3 c.f.). Gifts of various donors.
Accession M1973-08.Escambia County, Florida. Election Records.
Statistical summaries of vote tabulations in Escambia County elections, 1970-1976, including U.S. Presidential primaries, general elections, and special elections. Records provide numbers of registered voters in each precinct broken down by Party affiliation, and final tabulations of votes cast broken down by candidate or proposition.
331 items (.23 c.f.). Gift of Office of Supervisor of Elections, Escambia County, Florida.
Accession M1989-14.Escambia County, Florida. Election Returns.
Election returns, 1826 to 1926. Under Florida law, each County had to send a letter to the Secretary of State, Tallahassee, certifying the election, with names of candidates and numbers of votes received. However, many of the early years also list the names of those who voted.
Microfilm, 1 reel. Originals in RG 156, Series 21, Florida State Archives.
West Florida Collection No. 496.Escambia County, Florida. Marriage Records.
Marriage certificates issued by Escambia County, Florida, 1850-1890, (Books C-L); each certificate shows full name of applicants (male and female) and certification of ceremony with date solemnized and person performing ceremony (includes church affiliation). Some, not all, indexes available.
1,412 items (1.35 c.f.). Gift of office of Circuit Court Clerk, Escambia County, Florida.
Accession M1982-23.Escambia County, Florida. School Records.
Financial and statistical records for Escambia County schools, 1877-1967, including attendance registers (1947-1951), bond and check registers ledger books (1877-1952), payroll registers, and warrant registers. Includes teacher lists for schools, furniture distributions, early development of Pensacola Junior College, and other information.
69 ledgers. Gift of Dr. Louis Dumas.
Accession M1981-28.Escambia County, Florida. Sheriff's Department.
Records, 1988-1991, of the Citizen's Advisory Committee, Inc. including correspondence, articles of incorporation, minutes, subcommittee records, and working papers. Key correspondents include Escambia County Sheriff Charlie Johnson, Committee President Earl Archer, and Michael L. Ferguson. Subjectscover operations of the Sheriff's Department of Escambia County, Florida, 1989-1991, including budgets, organization, and law enforcement activities.
124 items (.23 c.f.). Gift of Linda Boldyreff.
Accession M1992-18.Escambia County, Florida. Tax Assessor.
Records, 1913-1939, containing correspondence concerning the assessments of property, tax assessment regulations, tax appeals, and related subjects.
1,642 items (.9 c.f.). Gift of Escambia County Tax Assessor.
Accession M1982-20.Escambia County Pharmaceutical Society
Minutes, notes, drafts, and bylaws, 1887-1888.
1 microfiche. Gift of Elizabeth D. Vickers.
West Florida Collection No. 306.Escambia County Retired Teacher's Association
An oral history collection consisting of audiotape reminiscences and related collateral materials of members of the Association.
35 items. Gift of Miss Agnes Irene Reedy.
Accession M1980-03.Escambia Education Association
Records, 1967-1968, and newspaper clippings primarily concerning the teachers' strike in Pensacola, Florida, August 1967 - March 1968.
250 items (.34 c.f.). Gift of Dr. Ray Oldenburg.
Accession M1969-07.Federal Writers' Project, Florida
Typescripts of articles prepared by the FWP on Watson's Outlaws on Chokoloskee Island; Greek Colony, Tarpon Springs; the Minorcans in Florida; and the Creoles in Pensacola.
63 items.
West Florida Collection No. 52 (Oversize).Federal Writer's Project. Pensacola Newspaper Research
Photocopy typescript of "Pensacola Newspaper Research" abstracted and prepared by Pensacolian, Modeste Hargis for the Federal Writer's Project in Florida in 1934. This 320-page document is a compilation of items from Pensacola newspapers, 1838-1934, which the compiler felt of historic or intrinsic interest. A name and subject index is available.
18 items (photocopies). Gift of Dr. Gary Mormino.
Accession M1988-03.Ferry Pass, Florida
Papers, 1936-1940, relating to the Ferry Pass community and to the Bickford-Jones Memorial Library. With a contemporary copy of map of "Cedar Grove," Santa Rosa County, 1848, and other documents relating to the estate of William Lewis Criglar.
10 items. Gift of Mrs. Helen Wells.
Accession M1968-11/8.Ficke, Peter N., III
Log book and guest register for the yacht "Chinook" of the Houston Yacht Club, 1949-1950 with reports of trips, engine problems, photograph of yacht, registration papers from Lloyd's Register of American Yachts, and copies of the survey of the yacht (1949).
15 items.
West Florida Collection No. 539.First Presbyterian Church, Pensacola
Records, 1880-1987, including registers, minute books, histories, worship service bulletins, newsletters, publications, sermons, and other papers. Early records on microfilm cover 1880-1975 and include a roster of pastors, elders, communicants and baptisms, 1896-1969; session minutes, 1880-1975; board of deacons minute books, 1885-1933; and other papers.
(.9 c.f. and 3 microfilm reels).
Accession M1993-25.First United Methodist Church, Pensacola
Records, 1870-1974, including financial reports and budgets, minutes, newspaper clippings, and other materials. Subjects include building fund drives, history, membership, Sunday School reports, the papers of Sunday School Superintendent James W. Andrews (1916-1933), and the unification of the Methodist Episcopal and Methodist Episcopal South churches in 1924. With microfilm of registers, correspondence and papers of the Church, 1870-1974, with lists of pastors, members, deaths, baptisms, and marriages, 1870-1898; sunday school records, 1884-1905; trustee minutes, 1910-1915, 1927-1935, and 1949-1974; treasurer's accounts, 1927-1950; and reports to the District Conference of the M. E. Church, South, 1883-1974. With record book of the Dixie Congregation, Brewton, Ala., and affiliated churches, ca. 1894-1946.
Ca. 200 items and 6 microfilm reels (.53 c.f.).
Accession M1977-07.Fish Cheer
Also known as the Gulf Coast Fish Cheer, this underground newspaper was published in Pensacola, 1971.
Microfilm, 1 reel. Underground Newspaper Collection (reel 79).
Accession M1968-11/112.Fisher Family Papers
Correspondence, business papers, photographs, notebooks, and scrapbooks, 1833-1971. Includes one volume of manuscript poems attributed to Stephen Russell Mallory (1812-1873). Most of the papers relate to William Fisher (1884-1964), a lawyer, businessman and civic leader in Pensacola, who married Ruby Angela Mallory, 1907. With an account of the wedding and other papers, photographs and genealogical notes relating to the Abercrombie, Quina, Alston, McDonnell, Mason, Pasco, Pierce, and Shaftall families of Pensacola.
Also includes memorial book of tributes to William Fisher, Sr. (1860-1903); papers relating to Stephen Russell Mallory (1848-1907), later U.S. Senator; and notes relating to Ruby Angela Mallory Fisher (b. 1883), H. Clay Armstrong (1870-1950), Ruby Angela Moreno Mallory (1815-1901), Kate Simpson Mallory, W. A. Blount, William H. Chase, George Reese, John B. Jones, and Walter Wicke.
122 items (1.02 c.f.). Gift of the Estate of William Fisher.
Accession M1972-12.Florida. Board of Regents.
Records of the Board of Regents, 1964- , including minutes, agendas, reports, publications, budgets, mission statements, program reviews, and other working papers of the Board and its state universities. Subjects concern educational budgets, policies, governance, academic policies, planning, and related educational concerns.
1,264 items (10.0 c.f.)
[cr 11 Oct 1988; lstrv 09 Nov 1999].
Accession M1988-13.Florida. Department of Education.
Narrative reports of County Superintendents of schools, 1900-1906, 1912-1924, for Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton, and Washington Counties. Includes reports on schools, buildings, lists of superintendents, and other education information.
Photocopies.
West Florida Collection No. 40.Florida. First Judicial District
Papers, 1889-1901, of the Board of Medical Examiners including minutes, and approvals of medical licenses, with rosters of physicians.
1 microfiche. Gift of Elizabeth D. Vickers.
West Florida Collection No. 306.Florida Baptist Association
Minutes of the Florida Baptist Association, West Florida, 1849-1957, including printed annual reports, minutes, information on churches, ministers, and activities in the West Florida region. Also includes minutes of the Florida Baptist Association, Pensacola Bay, 1887-1957.
Microfilm, 2 reels. Publication of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Microfilm No. 567 and Microfilm No. 593.
Florida Chautauqua
Printed ephemera and correspondence relating to the Florida Chautauqua, DeFuniak Springs. With papers relating to the purchase of land in the town, 1883, and letter of Mr. N. Colver, Secretary of the Florida Chautauqua, 1904.
8 items (part photocopy). Gift of Mrs. A. E. Mock.Accession M1973-11/9.
Florida Education Association
Papers, 1966-1968, including minutes, newspaper clippings, publications, and other materials, especially of their support of the Pensacola teacher's strike, 1967-1968.
500 items (.34 c.f.). Gift of Jean Hern.
Accession M1968-12.Florida Nurses Association, District One, Pensacola
Records, 1943-1976, including minutes, correspondence, membership lists, treasurer's reports, history, charter, bylaws and publications.
839 items (1.15 c.f.).
Accession M1977-15.Florida Panhandle Health Systems Agency, Inc.
Records, correspondence and reports, 1972-1976, of the Agency (previously known as Northwest Florida Comprehensive Health Planning Council, Inc.). Includes text of planning documents and studies relating to various hospitals and other health care facilities in Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, and Jackson counties.
5,135 (4.03 c.f.). Gift of Richard Ihns.
Accession M1977-05.Florida Pulp and Paper Company
Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, photographs and printed materials, ca. 1940-1948. The company was founded by James H. Allen (1880-1950) in 1941 and consolidated with St. Regis Co. in 1946.
1 volume. Gift of Ashley D. Pace.
Accession M1974-06.Florida Railroads
Research materials, 1909-1926, pertaining to panhandle railroads including the Alabama and Western Florida Railroad Company, the Atlanta and St. Andrews Bay Railway Company (the "Bay Line), the Birmingham, Columbus and St. Andrews Railroad Company, and the Apalachicola Northern Railroad.
4 folders. Gift of Jerry Yares.
West Florida Collection No. 610.Florida Secession Convention, 1861
Microfilmed Proceedings of the Florida Secession Convention, called on January 3, 1861 to consider seceding from the United States and joining the new Confederate States of America. With debates and proceedings, Florida Constitution of 1861, continued proceedings of late 1861 and 1862, and journals of the Florida House and Senates.
Part of a microfilm set of State Secession Debates, 1859-1862 (19 reels) which cover all Southern States; see especially Alabama (reel 1) and Florida (reel 3).
Microfilm, 19 reels.
Microfilm No. 632.Floridatown Collection
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 items. Gift of James Gallops.
Accession M1982-22 SC.Floridiana
A collection of single items pertaining to Florida including imprints, publications, photocopies, publications, and other materials, 1818-1981. Includes speeches of Florida Congressman David Levy and James Belser of Alabama urging admittance of Florida into the Union in 1845. A detailed inventory is available.
150 items (.68 c.f.). Gifts of various donors.
Accession M1968-14.Folch y Juan, Vicente (1754-1829)
Spanish Governor of West Florida.
A.L.S., Pensacola, November 1810, to David Holmes, Governor of Mississippi Territory, Nov, 1810, concerning the unsettled conditions in West Florida and the relocation of Indians. With translation.
2 items. Gift.
Accession M1968-11/65.Forbes Papers
Papers, 1779-1854, concerning the Panton, Leslie, and Company including account books, ledgers, and other materials, and the Forbes and Innerarity families. Includes letters of Colonel Henry Wilson during the Mexican-American War.
Microfilm, 3 reels. Originals owned by the Mobile Public Library.
Panton, Leslie and Company Research Collection, Microfilm Nos. 38-40,and UWF Library Microfilm No. 104.
Forsyth, Joseph (1805-1855)
Merchant in lumber, real estate, and merchandise.
Ledger, daybook and will (1864-1870) of this Bagdad, Florida merchant.With "condensed statement of the executors of the estate," 1855-1862, compiled by E. E. Simpson and B. D. Wright.
3 folders (photocopies). Originals owned by R. Bruce Morrison.
Accession M1968-11/64.Fort Barrancas, Florida
Papers, 1818-1899, including manuscripts, letters, reports, and photocopies of materials relating to the history of Fort Barrancas, including capitulation of Spanish forces to Andrew Jackson, 1818; inventory of supplies and equipment; reports of troops, 1861-1862; and related materials.
17 items (.34 c.f.). Purchase, and gifts of various donors.
Accession M1974-03.Foster, H. F.
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.
8 items.
Accession M1981-22 SC.Fowler Butane Company
Records, 1938-1956 of the Fowler Appliance Company and its successor, the Fowler Butane Gas Company, Pensacola, 1938-1956 including customer records, social security reports for employees, tax and financial statements.
400 items (.35 c.f.). Gift of Robert L. Bryans.
Accession M1982-07.Franklin, Samuel R. (Admiral)
Manuscript journal covering the commissioning and voyage of the U.S.S. Pensacola, April 1885 to August 1887. Covers European and Mediterranean trips with newspaper clippings from the Baltimore Sun about trip.
1 microfilm reel. Original owned by the New York Historical Society.
Accession M1983-25.French Archives
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 this Guide to describe, but there is considerable data on settlements, Indians, transportation, forts, shipwrecks, battles and war, Jesuit activity, troop movements, and more. Most materials are in French language.
Microfilm also includes select folios of records from the archives ofSanta Domingo (ADC 1 and 2).
With maps of Fort Conde and Fort Charlotte (Mobile), excerpts from Mobile newspapers, 1821-1824, photographs of manuscripts which include letters on William Augustus Bowles and Alexander McGillivray, Creek Indian activities at Pensacola, and John Forbes.
Includes the diary, 1815-1835, of Major George Birch (d. 1837) concerning army life in the south including a description of the Battle of New Orleans and Indian troubles. Photocopied from the George Birch Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Includes photocopies of the papers, 1820-1823, of Abraham L. Sands (1781-1840) including correspondence, orders, requisitions, legal papers, invoices, and inventories relating to Army life in Florida; of special note are materials related to Mobile, New Orleans, Fort Charlotte, Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky, Fort St. Marks, the Apalachicola River, Pensacola, Fort San Carlos de Barrancas, the 1821 hurricane, and Fort Petite Coqueille. From originals in the Yale University Library.
458 items and 65 reels of microfilm. Gift of William S. Coker; loaned for copying by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act Office, Mobile.
Accession M1981-15.Friends of Perdido Bay
Research files and library of the Friends of Perdido Bay consisting of environmental publications, reports, studies, correspondence, consultant reports, water pollution data, fish reports, and other materials pertaining to the environment of Perdido Bay and Perdido River.
11.0 c.f. Gift of the Friends of Perdido Bay.
Uncataloged.
Accession M1993-06.Frye, J. William, III
Pensacola attorney; Judge, First Judicial Circuit.
Personal papers, 1948-1976, comprising records relating to law school at the University of Florida, Gainesville (1953-1957), law practice in Pensacola, the States' Attorney campaign (1960), as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention (1964), and related papers of work in organizations such as the American Bar Association, the Gulf Breeze Youth Sports Association, the Pensacola Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Warrington Elks Club, and the Young Democratic Clubs of America and the Young Democratic Club of Escambia County, Florida.
1,363 items (.7 c.f.). Gift of Judge William J. Frye, III.
Accession M1978-11.Gage, Thomas
General, British Forces in North America.
Selected letters, March 1770, concerning assignments, orders, and reports from Pensacola, Florida. Correspondents include Lieutenant Jones of His Majesty's 15th Foot Regiment, Elias Durnford, Frederick Haldimand, and a report on repairs to the barracks at Pensacola.
Microfilm, 1 reel. From Gage Papers, Clements Library, University of Michigan.
Accession M1968-13/156.Gaines, Edmund Pendleton (1777-1849)
A.L.S. (photocopy), Pensacola, August 8, 1818 to Major General Andrew Jackson, describing the fortifications at Pensacola.
1 item (photocopy). Gift of James W. Moody.
Accession M1968-11/69.Gaines, Marion T.
Newspaper editor and writer, Pensacola News Journal
Personal papers, 1939-1975, including correspondence and records as a member of the City of Pensacola Human Relations Committee, 1966-1971. Correspondents and subjects include Reubin O'Donovan Askew, Aubrey W. Fitch, Charles O. Andrews, Bob Sikes, John Holliday Perry, J. Edgar Hoover, and materials relating to minority employment and race relations in Pensacola, a report on Pensacola city parks (1969), and related papers.
123 items (.34 c.f.). Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Gaines.
Accession M1983-22.Galvez, Bernardo de
A.L.S., Pensacola, Florida, April 22, 1781 to Chevalier de Monteil on artillery around Fort George during Siege of Pensacola. With additional biographical and genealogical materials (photocopies).
6 items. Gift of Galvez Commission (1981) and purchase (1982).
Accession M1980-17.Galvez, Bernardo de
Correspondence, 1779-1781. Typescript transcripts in Spanish.
Microfilm, 1 reel. Acquired from Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson. Spanish Provincial Records, Record Group 26, v. 15.
Panton, Leslie and Company Research Collection, Microfilm No. 59.Galvez Commission
Records, 1980-1981, including minutes, correspondence, budget and planning documents, publications and research files and other materials concerning the Galvez celebration, May 3-10, 1981 honoring the bicentennial of the capture of Pensacola by the Spanish under Bernardo de Galvez in 1781. Subjects include Fort Barrancas, the H.M.S. Mentor, Fort George, Seville Square, Bernardo de Galvez, the H.M.S. Bounty, the historical drama Yo Solo, Juan Sebastian Elcano (ship), the North Hill Preservation Society, Palafox Place, and related activities of the commission and celebration.
1,414 items (2.1 c.f.). Gift of the Galvez Commission.
Accession M1981-08.Gamble, Thomas
A.L.S., Pensacola, Florida, June 3, 1772, to Lord Barrington; states Gamble has heard from General Gage concerning Gamble's appointment to rank of Captain, and thanks Barrington for his support in securing the appointment.
1 item. Purchase.
Accession M1989-01.Gardner, George Frederick (1896-1980)
Diaries (1955-1980) and notebooks (1937- ) including journals of a trip to Canada and Detroit in 1937, to Florida in 1940, and letters describing Saipan, Marianas Islands, in 1949. Subjects include life in Pensacola, Hurricane Frederic (1979), weather, and orchid culture. Some entries in shorthand.
57 items (1.02 c.f.). Gift of Gardner family and Marjorie Reynolds.
Accession M1980-20.Gazeta de Madrid
Microfilm set of this Spanish newspaper, 1779-1781, covering the movement of Galvez' forces against Mobile and the siege and capture of Pensacola, May 1781.
Microfilm, 1 reel. Originals in the Newberry Library, Chicago.
Accession M1968-13/152.Georgia. Executive Department.
Passports issued by the governors of Georgia, 1785-1820. These passports are permits to travellers and settlers heading westward into areas of west Georgia, present-day Alabama, and West Florida. This series is a typescript copy prepared by Mrs. J. E. Hays as part of the Works Progress Administration in Georgia, 1940. Includes a supplement of passports taken from the letters of Benjamin Hawkins, U. S. Agent to the Creek Indians.
Microfilm, 1 reel. Originals in the Georgia Department of Archives and History.
Microfilm No. 1175.Gilman Family Papers
Photocopies of correspondence, newspaper clippings, veteran records, wills, Bible records, deeds and land records, and other genealogical materials primarily pertaining to the Gilman or Gillman family of Alabama and West Florida, compiled by Doris G. Enfinger of Pensacola, Florida. Includes related families of Tindle, McMillan, Ashcroft, and Thomas families of Holmes, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Escambia Counties, Florida, and Alabama, as well as Gilman families in other areas of the United States. Key correspondents include Annie L. Thomas, Doris G. Enfinger, and Merton T. Goodrich.
510 leaves (.18 c.f.). Gift of Mr. Darrell Gillman.
Accession M1991-09.Gilmer, F. W.
Photocopy of A.L.S., February 16, 1816, to Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, Virginia. Details the legal history of the Spanish claim upon the lands of Florida.
3 leaves. Original in the Missouri Historical Society.
West Florida Collection No. 96.Glass Plate Negatives Collection
Also known as the Bell Glass Plate Photograph Collection, this collection consists of glass plate negatives, primarily portraits of Pensacola individuals, families, children and a few event (e.g. weddings) pictures. The date range is predominantly 1900-1930, however this is not exact. For example, one negative was a picture of an artist's portrait of Dr. John Gorrie (1803-1855). Other photographs include Florida Governors, ministers, priests, Pensacola mayors, and other prominent citizens and visitors to Pensacola. All photographs came in envelopes with identifications, and is believed to be the archives of Pensacola photographer H. Lee Bell who operated from 1910 to 1949. A separate name index is available.
7,500 pieces (337 boxes or 46.25 c.f.). Gift of Pensacola Historical Society.
Accession M1988-20.Glynn, James (1801-1871)
A private journal kept on board the U.S.S. Pensacola on a passage from Pensacola, Fla. to Norfolk, Va., December 5, 1859 - January 31, 1860.
Microfilm, 1 reel. Original owned by the Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia.
Microfilm No. 138.Godwin, Ruth
Correspondence, scrapbooks, and records, 1963-1971, relating to Mrs. Godwin's activities as State Democratic Committeewoman, Florida First Congressional District. With papers relating to the Lady Bird Johnson Special train tour, 1966; the National Democratic Convention in Chicago, 1968; election campaign ephemera; and an unpublished history of Oak Grove, compiled by C. R. Walker.
126 items (.34 c.f.)
Accession M1977-12.Goldsby, John Raymond (1931- )
Personal papers, 1909-1970, consisting of photocopies of bills of sale, tax receipts and certificates, receipts from merchants, physicians, and hospitals in Pensacola, land abstracts, chattel mortgages, promissory notes, and genealogy records concerning the Goldsby family and Myrtle Grove, Florida.
114 items. Gift of John R. Goldsby.
Accession M1981-05 SC.Gonzalez, M. F.
Business records of the M. F. Gonzalez Company, Pensacola, Florida, grain dealers and grist mill operators, 1889-1904.
2 ledger books. Gift of Mr. Charles F. Gonzalez, Jr.
Accession M1976-07.Goodnight, Lyman (1896-1976)
Stereoscopic photographs of activities at the Pensacola Naval Air Station, 1926-1940; correspondence with his wife, 1940-1947. Includes photographs of Charles Lindbergh and Franklin Delano Roosevelt; notes on Lt. Goodnight's service in the Naval School of Aerial Photography from its establishment, 1918, until his retirement, 1949, as Chief Training Officer.
95 items (.34 c.f.). Gift of Mrs. Beverley Seiffert.
Accession M1978-12.Gray, John (b. 1916)
Engravings of arms and armament, pastoral scenes and flora and fauna, with other illustrations and prints, French and German, mid-18th to early 19th centuries. With general papers relating to Mr. Gray's real estate activities in Pensacola and the Perdido Bay area, 1944-1960.
94 items. Gift of Mr. John Gray.
Accession M1967-04.Gray, John D.
Promissory notes payable to William Gray, St. Joseph, Florida, Calhoun County, March 25, 1841; with 1905 typescript of the 1849 tax assessment of John Gray lands in St. Joseph town, with certification by Florida Comptroller, 1905.
3 items. Gift of J. McHenry Jones.
Accession M1973-16.Great Britain. Public Record Office.
Colonial Office Papers, 1760-1794, (primarily the C.O. 5 series) concerning administration of His Majesty's colonies in East and West Florida, including correspondence files for the Board of Trade, Secretary of State (East Florida), commissioners, the Council and Assembly, surveyors reports, land grants, mortgages, conveyances, plantations records, minutes of the Treasury Board, and other records concerning Newfoundland, South Caribbee Islands, Tobago, Pensacola, Quebec, West Florida, and St. Vincent.
Includes C.O. Series 5, volumes 66-67, 70, 114, 162, 164-165, 540-564,570-635; C.O. Series 23, volumes 24-39, 49, 53, 61-62; C.O. Series 37, volumes 22-23, and Treasury Office Series 1, volumes 449-450; War Office Series 1, volume 6; Audit Office Series 1, volumes 1261-1262, and Series 3, volumes 126-127.
See also a 'Finder's Guide' index of names and subjects prepared by UWFstudents, Lee T. McKnight and Sandra A. Thomas which cover West Florida portions of volumes 574 through 580 of the C.O. 5 series. (West Florida Collection, No. 236).
Microfilm, 54 reels. Originals in the Public Record Office, London.
Panton, Leslie and Company Research Collection, Microfilm Nos. 143-197.Great Britain. Public Records Office
Colonial Office Record Group 27/14, Bahamas. Includes lists of all American, British, and foreign vessels arriving and departing Bahamian ports, 1807, 1810-1813, with names of ships, masters, tonnage, men, where built and where registered, owners, where bound for, and cargo; with lists of Her Majesty's revenues from imports, 1768-1787; with marriage, birth, and death register for Christ Church, New Providence, 1784-1785; and land surveys for grants to Loyalists, 1786-1787.
Microfilm, 1 reel.
Panton, Leslie and Company Research Collection, Microfilm No. 47.Great Britain. War Office.
Expedition to the southern coasts of North America, 1815 (volume 143) and 1816 (volume 144). (PRO 1/143; 1/144).
These are bound volumes of letters received and information forwarded to the War Office concerning British troops and actions along the Florida coast including Pensacola, Apalachicola, and relation with Creek and Muscogee Indians during the War of 1812. Volume 143 begins with an account of the surrender of Pensacola by the Spanish to American troops under Andrew Jackson. Other subjects include Alexander Cochrane and the Negro Fort at Apalachicola; lists of Florida refugees aboard Her Majesty's vessels; Edward Nicolls' reports on Indian Affairs with lists of Indian towns and allies of Great Britain.
With selections from Chatham Papers of various letters on the American Revolutionary campaigns; includes extracts of letters of Thomas Forbes (PRO 30/8/344).
Microfilm, 1 reel. Originals in Public Records Office, London.
Panton, Leslie and Company Research Collection. Microfilm No. 88.Greenslade, John G.
Transcripts by Admiral Greenslade's mother, Mrs. Marie Taylor Greenslade, of correspondence and papers relating to the Panton, Leslie Company. The text of some of the documents were printed in the Florida Historical Quarterly, ca. 1931-1939. With correspondence, notes and other papers exchanged between Mrs. Greenslade and Mr. Julien Yonge, Editor of the Quarterly, 1923-1934.
471 items (.68 c.f). Gift of Admiral Greenslade.
Accession M1977-14.Gregory, Francis H.
Report of Capt. Gregory on the fitness of the U.S. Frigate "Raritan," at Pensacola, Sep 4, 1846.
l item (photocopy). Purchased from Temple University Library.
Accession M1968-13/44.Griffith, Leon Odell (1921-1984)
Pensacola journalist, writer, and newspaperman.
Personal papers, 1946-1981, consisting of correspondence, manuscripts, galley proofs, newspaper clippings, published articles, poetry, and materials pertaining to the editing and publication of his books, Seed in the Wind (1960); The Longest Strike (1975); his biography of Ed Ball; John Holliday Perry: Florida Press Lord (1974). With copies of unpublished short stories and books, research files on Edward Ball, the Griffith and Miller family genealogy, John Holliday Perry, the Escambia County Government Study Commis-sion (1966), the Santa Rosa Free Press, and President Jimmy Carter's campaign for the U. S. Presidency (1974-1976). Correspondents include Alban W. Barkley, Braden Ball, James Branch Cabell, Warren Fuller, Claude Pepper, Robert L. F. Sikes, John Johnson, Millard Caldwell, with additional items pertaining to Florida newspapers, Random House, Inc., Louis F. Wolfson, Florida National Banks, and the Florida East Coast Railroad.
515 items (2.38 c.f.). Gift of Leon Odell Griffith, Mark O'Brien,Dr. Norman Vickers, and Mrs. Mary Griffith.
Accession M1974-11.Grinnell, A. Albert
Pensacola Bar Pilot.
Papers, 1864-1867, concerning his service as a "Union" man, as a bar pilot, and related services in placing harbor beacons. In 1865, he was possibly the oldest Bar pilot in Pensacola.
5 items (photocopies). Gift of Arnold Rosenbleeth.
West Florida Collection No. 116-120.Gulf Breeze, Florida.
Televised docu-dramas concerning sightings of unidentified flying objects in Gulf Breeze, by Ed Walters, and others, 1988.
2 videocassettes.
West Florida Collection No. 517-518.Gulf Breeze Rotary Club
Records, 1964, 1974-1983, including minute books and photocopies of newspaper clippings and programs.
9 items. Gift of Randy Bell III.
West Florida Collection No. 279.Gulf Islands National Seashore
Records, 1960- , including correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings and other papers pertaining to the establishment of the Gulf Islands National Seashore on Santa Rosa Island, 1960-. Materials cover the environment, beaches, leases of land, the Santa Rosa Island Authority, Pensacola Beach, Villa Sabine, and the development of Fort Pickens, the Live Oak Reservation, Perdido Key, and Fort Barrancas, as well as papers of the National Seashore Committee.
1,004 items (1.93 c.f.). Gift of Mrs. William Woolley.
Accession M1972-05.Gulf Yachting Association
Records and papers, including Lipton Cup races, and other materials.
Undetermined. Gift of the Association.
Uncataloged.
Accession M1993-07.Haggott, Dr. John P.
Agent, American Tract Society.
Manuscript journal, 1846, of his visit to Pensacola to sell religious publications with descriptions of Pensacola, Milton, Bagdad, Ferry Pass, and Mobile, Alabama. Subjects include the Simpson Family, the Presbyterian and Catholic churches of Pensacola, the Navy Yard and ships stationed there, and the mills at Bagdad and Milton. With accounts of books sold, sermons given, and names of churches.
3 items. (.18 c.f.). Purchase.
Accession M1993-33.Haldimand, Frederick, Sir (1718-1791)
Commander, Posts of Three Rivers, Pensacola, and St. Augustine, 1758-1777; Acting Commander in Chief in North America, 1773-1774; Governor of Quebec, 1778-1784.
Personal papers, 1758-1784, including correspondence, reports, letter-books, accounts, and other materials. Of key importance are those materials pertaining to British control of the Floridas, 1763-1784; these include letter-books and correspondence pertaining to Pensacola under the command of William Taylor, Indian affairs in the Floridas and the southeast United States. A contents list and index to microfilm reels is available.
See also the calendar of the Haldimand papers covering 1765-1773 made by Robert R. Rea (West Florida Collection No. 256).
Microfilm, 115 reels. Originals held by the British Museum.
Special Collections Microfilm No. 1070.Hanshaw, Celia
Teacher, Santa Rosa County.
Personal papers, 1900-1954, including letters of John Diamond, County Superintendent of Education; correspondence during Miss Hanshaw's years at Florida State College for Women (now Florida State University); school certificates, programs and invitations, 1908-1931, with related papers.
27 items. Gift of Mrs. A. B. Chavers.
Accession M1973-09.Hargis, Modeste (1875-1948)
Historical notes on Pensacola and Escambia County, prepared for the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1937, with materials on the origin of the city name, geography, Escambia communities, agriculture, education, naval stores, religion, and similar topics. With typewritten draft report to the Federal Writers Project, 1936, on Pensacola during the Spanish American War, compiled by Miss Hargis and Isabel R. Grant.
2 items (199 leaves). Gift of the Pensacola Public Library.
Accession M1968-11/17; M1968-11/19.Harris, Naomi
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.
77 Items (.18 c.f.). Gift of Mrs. Naomi Harris.
Accession M1981-27.Harrison, Benjamin
D.S., land grant to Missouri Leonard for 159 acres of land in Florida, November 25, 1899.
1 item. Gift of Mrs. Paul Gray.
Accession M1968-11/48.Hartley Sports Car Club, Pensacola, FL
Records, 1964-1965, including programs, schedules of events and other publications of the local chapter of the Sports Car Club of America, Gulf Region.
35 items (.34 c.f.). Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hartley.
Accession M1975-03.Hawkins, Benjamin (1754-1818)
Will and testament, January 9, 1812, and letter to Capt. Smith, Fort Hawkins, September 23, 1809.
4 items (photocopies). Originals in State Historical Society of Missouri.
Accession M1968-11/49; M1968-11/55.Hawkins, John T.
Memorandum book, 1861-1863, pages 224-250; testimony before a Congressional committee investigating the construction of the U.S.S. Pensacola.
1 microfilm reel. Original owned by the New York Public Library.
Accession M1968-11/51.Heinberg, Charles Jerome, M.D.
Physician; Gulf Breeze Mayor
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, programs, and other materials concerning his activities as mayor of Gulf Breeze (1961-1971), and professional activities in medical associations, medical research, and membership in the Triological Society. Includes a preliminary water study for Gulf Breeze (1961), Heinberg's history of Pensacola Hospital (Sacred Heart Hospital), and publications, reprints of published articles and typescripts of medical research papers written by Dr. Heinberg. See also a second collection containing historical notes on Gulf Breeze; scrapbook, 1961-1971 relating to Dr. Heinberg's service as the first mayor of the community; general papers relating to the Live Oak Reservation lands.
42 items (.68 c.f.). Gift of Dr. C. J. Heinberg.
Accession M1981-06 and Accession M1973-03.Hentz, Caroline Lee (Whiting) (180