Archival Collections

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.

Oral history interview of Lola Lee Daniell 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.

Family correspondence, 1895-1920, newspapers clippings, family photographs and various papers relating to Simpson & Company Lumber Mill, Bagdad, Florida. Mr. H.T. Wright, Mrs. Carpenter's, was a prominent member of this firm. Many photographs from Mrs. Carpenter's family photograph album, 1900-1914, were copied and deposited in the Pensacola picture file.

Personal papers of George F. Gardner (1896-1980) consisting of 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.

Personal papers including photocopies of the Pensacola High School Tattler (1918-1919), photocopies of early Pensacola postcards and photographs, oral history tapes with Mrs. Johnson, and other related materials.

Records, 1948-1999, of the Pensacola Dinner Club, Inc., an affiliate of the Associated Clubs, Inc. (Men's Supper Clubs) of Topeka, Kansas. Records include minutes of directors, financial statements, newsletters, correspondence and contracts with visiting speakers, bylaws and other operating records.

Collection contains correspondence, minutes of directors, reports, programs, publicity material and newspaper clippings of four organizations in which Mr. Todd, present owner of T.T. Todd Wholesale Grocery Company, was a director of during the late 1950s and early 1960s. These include The Fiesta of Five Flags, The Pensacola Port Authority, the State Chamber of Commerce and the Pensacola Y.M.C.A.

Photographs, ca. 1870-1892, partly identified, of the Watson, Allen, and Didmus Families of Bagdad, Milton, and Pensacola, Florida. Photographs range from tintypes to cabinet photos to carte-de-visites, from photographers in Mobile and Montgomery, Alabama, and Milton and Pensacola, Florida. Persons identified include W.L. Brackin, D.D. Duglass, A.E. Dupey, J.C. Forbes, Dasie Green, E.L. Green, V.J. Snedicor, Lula J. Stillmas, Capt. J.R. Storks, W. W. Watson.