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 Adelia

Rosasco-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 1-4

in 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 material

about 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.

            12,067 items (10.34 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 with

F. 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.