Archival Collections

This collection comprises video materials which have been digitized and placed online for viewing. The materials in this collection (and this site) tend to be single videotapes which have come to the Archives and may not be part of another collection or for which access is easier through this collection. Each videotape has been digitized and each has its own description.

Typescript, books, passport, photograph. This collection contains a small group of materials of Frederick A. Greenhut and the Greenhut family of Pensacola, Florida, including genealogical information and Greenhut's career in the National Archives. There is a photocopy of chapter eight of the typescript for "Thomas, Stately Tomb", a copy of "Dynamics of Dutch Politics" in the Journal of Politics, written by Richard C. Bone, Greenhut's passport, dated 1969, an unidentified color photograph, probably the Greenhut family, on board a cruise vessel, and the following two books: The Holy Scriptures, according to the Masoretic Text, a new translation; and Macaulay's essays and bibliographies, volume IV. There is also material related to bookbinding.

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.

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

Genealogical research papers and materials concerning John Roberts, Zachariah Wesley Roberts, John Rich, James Rich, Benjamin Franklin Tidwell, Lewis Benton, and related families of Alexander, Andress, Andrews, Antone, Archer, Bell, Benton, Biggs, Booker, Burns, Butler, Butt, Byrd, Clifford, Clopton, Coe, Conley, Danforth, Ellis, Etheridge, Frazier, Gates, Gibson, Gilmore, Goldbach, Grant, Green, Johnson, Jones, Koza, Leone, Lutz, McQuigg, McWilliams, Mills, Moore, Morton, Neal, Oberhaus, Phillips, Pickert, Pierce, Pinney, Pokrant, Price, Rich, Richards, Roberts, Robertson, Schlafer, Staples, Stewart, Tidwell, Tolton, Watson, and Watt families of Pensacola, Florida, and Pleasant Grove (Escambia County), Florida; Mobile County, Alabama; and southern Alabama. Includes census and lists of residents of Warrington and Woolsey, Florida in 1878, and a dwelling survey of Warrington in 1930-1931.

Personal papers of Marion Viccars, 1961-81, including correspondence, diaries, publications, newspaper clippings, awards, and other materials concerning the development of the Special Collections Department at the John C. Pace Library, University of West Florida, Pensacola, during her tenure as Special Collections Librarian (1967-80), notes on her travels abroad, includes research notes regarding the Yonge family of Pensacola.

The major portion of the papers were from the files of William H. Watson, senior member of the Pensacola law firm of Watson & Pasco, and its successors. Mr. Watson was born in Walton County, Florida, February 22, 1876. He read for the law and was admitted to the bar in 1897. Samuel Pasco (1878- ), Clarence J. Brown (1890- ), Samuel Pasco, Jr.(1909- ), and James Baker Watson (1909-1976) also served at various time with the firm.