Archival Collections

Family papers, business correspondence, maps, and other documents, 1726-1965, primarily relating to W.A. Blount and his son, F.M. Blount, of Pensacola.

Personal papers, 1942-1987, concerning her work as Housing Manager, NAS Whiting Field and at NAS Pensacola. Includes correspondence, certificates, biographical information, newspaper clippings and photographs of housing projects and buildings at NAS Whiting Field and NAS Pensacola. Also includes some records of the Professional Housing Namagement Association, 1976-1987, and the Milton Garden Club.

Special Collections maintains oral history collections consisting of audiotape interviews with individuals in the West Florida region on a variety of subjects.  Research collections which contain oral histories are described individually in the "Guide to Special Collections" and indexed under "Oral history." 

Records, 1946-1983, including minutes, reports, correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and files concerning the history and activities of the organization. Subjects and correspondents include carrier cruises, the foreign flight student program, golf tournaments, the Naval Sea Cadet Corps, Navy Day, NJROTC Field Days, Ellyson Field, Saufley Field, Whiting Field, the Pensacola Naval Air Station, and the U.S.S. Monterey, Antietan, Independence, and tweedy; a larg biographical file contains information on prominent Naval personnel on the national and local levels, and correspondents include Spessard L. Holland, George Smather, Bob Sikes, Raymond C. Dyson, Dave Johnson, Hugh J. Leitch, Stockton B. Colt, James M. Sheffer, John B. Connaly, and Eddie Rickenbacker.

Records (1968-1973) including correspondence, materials on the UWF Corpus Christi Center, student theses, commencement programs, and related materials. Select thesis subjects cover airports in Atlanta, Pensacola, and NAS Pensacola, the port of Corpus Christi, satellite development and deployment, the usage of airships in transportation, and emergency rescue missions in space.

Student practicum reports submitted to the Department of Biology, University of West Florida, 1993-2002, in fulfillment of degree requirements for Master of Science.  Areas of study included red foxes, floodplain management, environmental landscaping, copper in wetlands, oyster harvesting, bottlenose dolphins, sheepshead minnows, sea turtles, erosion control, estuarine sediments, Florida Crown conch, salt marshes, ultraviolet radiation, fungi, habitat preservation, the Santa Rosa beach mouse, aircraft bird strikes, and recovery of dunes from hurricanes.  Geographic sites studied are in West Florida including Hurlburt Field, Krul Lake, St. Andrew Sound, Choctawhatchee Bay, Bayou Texar, Gulf Islands National Seashore, Pensacola Naval Air Station, Sherman Field Naval Air Station, and Santa Rosa Island.

Pamphlets, advertising brochures and other imprints, ca. 1950-1966, designed or written by Mr. Weddell, prominent Pensacola artist and publicist.

William David Crawford served as a U.S. Navy pilot who flew PB4Y-1's in the Pacific Theater during the Second World War. This collection consists of his memoir.