Daniel Family Collection

   Records of the Daniel and Pollard families of Butler and Crenshaw Counties, Alabama, 1830-1927 including bills of sale for goods purchased in Montgomery and Greenville, Alabama; receipts for sale of cotton and payment of taxes, court summonses, and related materials.

   181 items (.23 c.f.). Gift of Phillip W. Woolley.

   Accession M1984-10.

 

 

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.

 

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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 M1989-13

 

 

Dodson, 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 M1968-13/34

 

 

Duncan, 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.