Federal Writers' Project, Florida

            Typescripts of articles prepared by the FWP on Watson's Outlaws on Chokoloskee Island; Greek Colony, Tarpon Springs; the Minorcans in Florida; and the Creoles in Pensacola.

            63 items.

            West Florida Collection No. 52 (Oversize).

 

 

Federal Writer's Project.  Pensacola Newspaper Research

            Photocopy typescript of "Pensacola Newspaper Research" abstracted and prepared by Pensacolian, Modeste Hargis for the Federal Writer's Project in Florida in 1934.  This 320-page document is a compilation of items from Pensacola newspapers, 1838-1934, which the compiler felt of historic or intrinsic interest. A name and subject index is available.

            18 items (photocopies).    Gift of Dr. Gary Mormino.

            Accession M1988-03.

 

 

Ferry Pass, Florida

            Papers, 1936-1940, relating to the Ferry Pass community and to the Bickford‑Jones Memorial Library.  With a contemporary copy of map of "Cedar Grove," Santa Rosa County, 1848, and other documents relating to the estate of William Lewis Criglar.

            10 items.   Gift of Mrs. Helen Wells.

            Accession M1968-11/8.

 

 

Ficke, Peter N., III

            Log book and guest register for the yacht "Chinook" of the Houston Yacht Club, 1949-1950 with reports of trips, engine problems, photograph of yacht, registration papers from Lloyd's Register of American Yachts, and copies of the survey of the yacht (1949).

            15 items.

            West Florida Collection No. 539.

 

Fillingim Papers.

        Papers, 1921-1955, of Teno Dale Fillingim (T. D. Fillingim), Pensacola, Florida, primarily consisting of his research notes, drafts, correspondence, writings, and publications produced for the Jacksonville Office of the Federal Writers Project in Florida. Subjects include histories and genealogies of Pensacola families, businesses, and city officials, from 1820s through 1930s.

        441 pieces (.79 c.f.). Gift of Suzanne Weathers, October 2005.

        Accession M2005-04.

 

First Presbyterian Church, Pensacola

            Records, 1880-1987, including registers, minute books, histories, worship service bulletins, newsletters, publications, sermons, and other papers.   Early records on microfilm cover 1880-1975 and include a roster of pastors, elders, communicants and baptisms, 1896‑1969; session minutes, 1880-1975; board of deacons minute books, 1885‑1933; and other papers.

            (.9 c.f. and 3 microfilm reels).  

            Accession M1993-25.

 

 

First United Methodist Church, Pensacola

            Records, 1870-1974, including financial reports and budgets, minutes, newspaper clippings, and other materials.  Subjects include building fund drives, history, membership, Sunday School reports, the papers of Sunday School Superintendent James W. Andrews (1916-1933), and the unification of the Methodist Episcopal and Methodist Episcopal South churches in 1924.  With microfilm of registers, correspondence and papers of the Church, 1870-1974, with lists of pastors, members, deaths, baptisms, and marriages, 1870‑1898; sunday school records, 1884‑1905; trustee minutes, 1910‑1915, 1927‑1935, and 1949‑1974; treasurer's accounts, 1927-1950; and reports to the District Conference of the M. E. Church, South, 1883-1974.  With record book of the Dixie Congregation, Brewton, Ala., and affiliated churches, ca. 1894‑1946.

            Ca. 200 items and 6 microfilm reels (.53 c.f.).

            Accession M1977-07.

 

 

Fish Cheer

            Also known as the Gulf Coast Fish Cheer, this underground newspaper was published in Pensacola, 1971.

            Microfilm, 1 reel.    Underground Newspaper Collection (reel 79).

            Accession M1968-11/112.

 

 

Fisher Family Papers  

            Correspondence, business papers, photographs, notebooks, and scrapbooks, 1833‑1971.  Includes one volume of manuscript poems attributed to Stephen Russell Mallory (1812-1873).  Most of the papers relate to William Fisher (1884‑1964), a lawyer, businessman and civic leader in Pensacola, who married Ruby Angela Mallory, 1907.  With an account of the wedding and other papers, photographs and genealogical notes relating to the Abercrombie, Quina, Alston, McDonnell, Mason, Pasco, Pierce, and Shaftall families of Pensacola.

            Also includes memorial book of tributes to William Fisher, Sr. (1860‑1903); papers relating to Stephen Russell Mallory (1848‑1907), later U.S. Senator; and notes relating to Ruby Angela Mallory Fisher (b. 1883), H. Clay Armstrong (1870‑1950), Ruby Angela Moreno Mallory (1815‑1901), Kate Simpson Mallory, W. A. Blount, William H. Chase, George Reese, John B. Jones, and Walter Wicke.

            122 items (1.02 c.f.).   Gift of the Estate of William Fisher.

            Accession M1972-12.

 

 

Florida.  Board of Regents.

            Records of the Board of Regents, 1964-    , including minutes, agendas, reports, publications, budgets, mission statements, program reviews, and other working papers of the Board and its state universities.  Subjects concern educational budgets, policies, governance, academic policies, planning,  and related educational concerns.

            1,264 items (10.0 c.f.)

            [cr 11 Oct 1988; lstrv 09 Nov 1999].

            Accession M1988-13.

 

 

Florida.  Department of Education.

            Narrative reports of County Superintendents of schools, 1900-1906, 1912-1924, for Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton, and Washington Counties.  Includes reports on schools, buildings, lists of superintendents, and other education information.

            Photocopies.

            West Florida Collection No. 40.

 

 

Florida.  First Judicial District

            Papers, 1889-1901, of the Board of Medical Examiners including minutes, and approvals of medical licenses, with rosters of physicians.

            1 microfiche.   Gift of Elizabeth D. Vickers.

            West Florida Collection No. 306.

 

 

Florida Baptist Association

            Minutes of the Florida Baptist Association, West Florida, 1849-1957, including printed annual reports, minutes, information on churches, ministers, and activities in the West Florida region.   Also includes minutes of the Florida Baptist Association, Pensacola Bay, 1887-1957.

            Microfilm, 2 reels.   Publication of the Southern Baptist Convention.

            Microfilm No. 567 and Microfilm No. 593.

           

 

Florida Chautauqua

            Printed ephemera and correspondence relating to the Florida Chautauqua, DeFuniak Springs.  With papers relating to the purchase of land in the town, 1883, and letter of Mr. N. Colver, Secretary of the Florida Chautauqua, 1904.

            8 items (part photocopy).   Gift of Mrs. A. E. Mock.

            Accession M1973-11/9.

 

 

Florida Education Association

            Papers, 1966-1968, including minutes, newspaper clippings, publications, and other materials, especially of their support of the Pensacola teacher's strike, 1967-1968.

            500 items (.34 c.f.).   Gift of Jean Hern.

            Accession M1968-12.

 

 

 

 

Florida Nurses Association, District One, Pensacola

            Records, 1943-1976, including minutes, correspondence, membership lists, treasurer's reports, history, charter, bylaws and publications.

            839 items (1.15 c.f.).

            Accession M1977-15.

 

 

Florida Panhandle Health Systems Agency, Inc.

            Records, correspondence and reports, 1972‑1976, of the Agency (previously known as Northwest Florida Comprehensive Health Planning Council, Inc.).  Includes text of planning documents and studies relating to various hospitals and other health care facilities in Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, and Jackson counties.

            5,135 (4.03 c.f.).   Gift of Richard Ihns.

            Accession M1977-05.

 

 

Florida Pulp and Paper Company

            Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, photographs and printed materials, ca. 1940‑1948.  The company was founded by James H. Allen (1880‑1950) in 1941 and consolidated with St. Regis Co. in 1946.

            1 volume.   Gift of Ashley D. Pace.

            Accession M1974-06.

 

 

Florida Railroads

            Research materials, 1909-1926, pertaining to panhandle railroads including the Alabama and Western Florida Railroad Company, the Atlanta and St. Andrews Bay Railway Company (the "Bay Line), the Birmingham, Columbus and St. Andrews Railroad Company, and the Apalachicola Northern Railroad.

            4 folders.           Gift of Jerry Yares.

            West Florida Collection No. 610.

 

 

Florida Secession Convention, 1861

            Microfilmed Proceedings of the Florida Secession Convention, called on January 3, 1861 to consider seceding from the United States and joining the new Confederate States of America.  With debates and proceedings, Florida Constitution of 1861, continued proceedings of late 1861 and 1862, and journals of the Florida House and Senates.

            Part of a microfilm set of State Secession Debates, 1859-1862 (19 reels) which cover all Southern States; see especially Alabama (reel 1) and Florida (reel 3). 

            Microfilm, 19 reels.

            Microfilm No. 632.

 

 

Floridatown Collection

            Papers and photographs concerning the history of Floridatown, Florida (1910-1937) including the Floridatown Hotel, ferry service from Ferry Pass, Florida, the Escambia Bay bridge, and the Pace family.

            48 items.   Gift of James Gallops.

            Accession M1982-22 SC.

 

 

Floridiana

            A collection of single items pertaining to Florida including imprints, publications, photocopies, publications, and other materials, 1818-1981.  Includes speeches of Florida Congressman David Levy and James Belser of Alabama urging admittance of Florida into the Union in 1845.  A detailed inventory is available.

            150 items (.68 c.f.).  Gifts of various donors.

            Accession M1968-14.

 

 

Folch y Juan, Vicente (1754-1829)

            Spanish Governor of West Florida.

            A.L.S., Pensacola, November 1810, to David Holmes, Governor of Mississippi Territory, Nov, 1810, concerning the unsettled conditions in West Florida and the relocation of Indians.   With translation.

            2 items.   Gift.

            Accession M1968-11/65.

 

 

Forbes Papers

            Papers, 1779-1854, concerning the Panton, Leslie, and Company including account books, ledgers, and other materials, and the Forbes and Innerarity families.  Includes letters of Colonel Henry Wilson during the Mexican-American War.

            Microfilm, 3 reels.  Originals owned by the Mobile Public Library.

            Panton, Leslie and Company Research Collection, Microfilm Nos. 38-40,

and UWF Library Microfilm No. 104.

 

 

Forsyth, Joseph (1805-1855)

            Merchant in lumber, real estate, and merchandise.

            Ledger, daybook and will (1864-1870) of this Bagdad, Florida merchant.

With "condensed statement of the executors of the estate," 1855‑1862, compiled by E. E. Simpson and B. D. Wright.

            3 folders (photocopies).  Originals owned by R. Bruce Morrison.

            Accession M1968-11/64.

 

 

Fort Barrancas, Florida

            Papers, 1818-1899, including manuscripts, letters, reports, and photocopies of materials relating to the history of Fort Barrancas, including capitulation of Spanish forces to Andrew Jackson, 1818; inventory of supplies and equipment; reports of troops, 1861-1862; and related materials.

            17 items (.34 c.f.).    Purchase, and gifts of various donors.

            Accession M1974-03.

 

 

Foster, H. F.

            School journal or diary kept by H. F. Foster while attending Normal School at Oswego in 1876; includes comments on lessons and family information; with related photographs.

            8 items.  

            Accession M1981-22 SC.

 

 

Fowler Butane Company

            Records, 1938-1956 of the Fowler Appliance Company and its successor, the Fowler Butane Gas Company, Pensacola, 1938-1956 including customer records, social security reports for employees, tax and financial statements.

            400 items (.35 c.f.).   Gift of Robert L. Bryans.

            Accession M1982-07.

 

 

Franklin, Samuel R. (Admiral)

            Manuscript journal covering the commissioning and voyage of the U.S.S. Pensacola, April 1885 to August 1887.  Covers European and Mediterranean trips with newspaper clippings from the Baltimore Sun about trip.

            1 microfilm reel.   Original owned by the New York Historical Society.

            Accession M1983-25.

 

 

French Archives

            Microfilm of the fonds des colonies serie C13A, Volumes 1-53, covering French occupation of North America, 1694-1819.  Filmed as part of the Louisiana Colonial Records Project in 1980, the C13A series covers reports, letters, maps, and other materials on the French settlement and colonization of Louisiana, West Florida, Pensacola, the upper Mississippi River Valley, the Illinois Territory, Canada and other areas of North America.   The size of this research archives is beyond the scope of this Guide to describe, but there is considerable data on settlements, Indians, transportation, forts, shipwrecks, battles and war, Jesuit activity, troop movements, and more.  Most materials are in French language.

            Microfilm also includes select folios of records from the archives of

Santa Domingo (ADC 1 and 2).

            With maps of Fort Conde and Fort Charlotte (Mobile), excerpts from Mobile newspapers, 1821-1824, photographs of manuscripts which include letters on William Augustus Bowles and Alexander McGillivray, Creek Indian activities at Pensacola, and John Forbes.

            Includes the diary, 1815-1835, of Major George Birch (d. 1837) concerning army life in the south including a description of the Battle of New Orleans and Indian troubles.  Photocopied from the George Birch Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

            Includes photocopies of the papers, 1820-1823, of Abraham L. Sands (1781-1840) including correspondence, orders, requisitions, legal papers, invoices, and inventories relating to Army life in Florida; of special note are materials related to Mobile, New Orleans, Fort Charlotte, Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky, Fort St. Marks, the Apalachicola River, Pensacola, Fort San Carlos de Barrancas, the 1821 hurricane, and Fort Petite Coqueille.  From originals in the Yale University Library.

            458 items and 65 reels of microfilm.   Gift of William S. Coker; loaned for copying by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act Office, Mobile.

            Accession M1981-15.

 

 

Friends of Perdido Bay

            Research files and library of the Friends of Perdido Bay consisting of environmental publications, reports, studies, correspondence, consultant reports, water pollution data, fish reports, and other materials pertaining to the environment of Perdido Bay and Perdido River.

            11.0 c.f.    Gift of the Friends of Perdido Bay.

            Uncataloged.

            Accession M1993-06.

 

 

Frye, J. William, III

            Pensacola attorney; Judge, First Judicial Circuit.

            Personal papers, 1948-1976, comprising records relating to law school at the University of Florida, Gainesville (1953-1957), law practice in Pensacola, the States' Attorney campaign (1960), as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention (1964), and related papers of work in organizations such as the American Bar Association, the Gulf Breeze Youth Sports Association, the Pensacola Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Warrington Elks Club, and the Young Democratic Clubs of America and the Young Democratic Club of Escambia County, Florida.

            1,363 items (.7 c.f.).  Gift of Judge William J. Frye, III.

            Accession M1978-11.