Ladies Library Association, DeFuniak Springs, FL

            Public Library Association         

            Records, 1887-1962, including list of members, constitution, minutes, membership fee books, guest book listing of books borrowed and other records on the creation, history, and building of the DeFuniak Springs Public Library.

            Microfilm, 2 reels.  Originals in the DeFuniak Springs Public Library.

            Accession M1980-04.

 

 

Land Records

            Users tracing lands and owners in West Florida are urged to consult the the Territorial Papers of the United States, Florida volumes (edited by Clarence E. Carter); Spanish Land Grants (compiled by the Works Progress Administration); the Public Lands series of the American State Papers; land surveys, plat maps, and the Sanborn Fire Insurance Map collections.  All of these materials are available in Special Collections and some are listed in this guide.  Check the index to this guide under 'land' and related terms.

 

 

Landreth, John

            Surveyor.

            Journal of John Landreth, surveyor, to the agency of James L. Cathcart and James Hutton, Esq., agents for selecting any unappropriated lands of the United States as may be found to produce live oak and red cedar timbers suitable for naval purposes, commenced in 1818 and ended in 1819.

            A diary of a surveying expedition to the Gulf Coast, 1818-1819, a preliminary to creation of the Live Oak Reservation in Florida.  An edited published version by Milton B. Newton, Jr. was published in 1985.

            Microfilm, 1 reel.  From U.S. National Archives, Record Group 45, Naval Records, Washington, D.C..

            Microfilm No. 167.

 

 

Landrum Family Papers

            Correspondence, diaries and papers of Frank Coleman Horton (b. 1872), of Mobile and Pensacola, and his wife Esther Landrum Horton.  Includes papers of Judge James Landrum, family photographs and account books, and documents reflecting the social life of the Gulf Coast in the period 1888‑1910.

            With genealogical notes on the Dickson, Coleman and Landrum families, 1819‑1940; a framed sampler, 1807; letters of John Coleman Horton, a student at the University of Alabama, ca. 1890; letter from family members in Mobile and Brewton, Alabama; medical records of Dr. Stephen M. Gonzalez, 1896; cash books and records of the Pensacola Evening Journal, 1887‑1889; criminal docket of the Escambia County Justice of the Peace, 1899-1901; correspondence of Miss Kate Landrum, 1905; and of a small group of Florida Newspapers.

            2,007 items (1.92 c.f.).  Gift of Mr. W. D. Horton.

            Accession M1971-03.

 

 

Langdon, Capt. L. L.

            Captain, 1st U. S. Artillery.

            Report of action of the Artillery at Battle of Olustee (Baker County), Florida.  Manuscript report from Headquarters, Artillery Brigade, Jacksonville, Florida to Lt. R. M. Hill, March 25, 1864.

            14 items.  Photostats.

            West Florida Collection No. 10.

 

 

Larned, Frank

            Captain, 2nd U. S. Artillery.

            Letterbook and miscellaneous papers, 1862‑1864, of Capt. Larned of the 2nd Artillery, U.S. Army, Fort Barrancas, Florida.  Bound photocopy volume.

            1 item.  Original owned by the Virginia Historical Society.

            Accession M1968-11/89.

 

 

Lawbaugh, Vera Aldridge Keller

            Author; Editor; Pensacola writer and teacher.

            Literary writings and editorial works, 1915-1917, 1925, including issues of The Concept, 1915-1917, a literary magazine of Converse College, Spartansburg, South Carolina, with articles by Vera A. Keller as author and as assistant editor; includes The Finale, yearbook of Covington High School, Covington, Georgia, 1925 which is dedicated to Vera A. Keller, teacher of French and History.

            11 items (0.35 c.f.).  Gift of Museum of West Florida History.

            Accession M1981-36.

 

 

League of Women Voters.  Pensacola Chapter

            Correspondence, financial papers, scrapbooks and photographs, research files, 1950‑1977.  Subjects include charter government for Escambia County; elections and voter laws; League history, and text of the League's survey, 1974, of the Pensacola Public Library.

            817 items. (.34 c.f.).

            Accession M1975-10.

 

 

Lebaron Family Papers

            Correspondence of Rev. Earle Robert LeBaron (1900‑1972) and his father Leonard LeBaron (d. 1943), former city electrician of Pensacola, 1907-1914. 

Leonard LeBaron's papers include his reports as city electrician, 1907-1914, 1931-1933; papers relating to the city's purchase of a radio station in 1925; poetry and materials on his various inventions and patents.

            Rev. Earle LeBaron joined the Roman Catholic priesthood but resigned from the Church in 1932; he later married and divorced, served in other denominations and as an acting chaplain, U.S. Navy, taught at East Carolina College and conducted a radio program in Greenville, North Carolina.  His papers cover his strained relations with the Roman Catholic Church and later the Episcopal Church, especially over leaving the church, marrying, and divorce.  Other materials cover his activities against integration, involvement with the National States' Rights movement, the Socialist Party, the Association of Citizens' Councils, and the Pensacola White Citizens Council.   With additional publications, 1952-1972, about the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Communist threat to America.  With correspondence of Rev. LeBaron with Bishop Toolen and others, 1925, and an undated genealogical sketch of the LeBaron family of Mobile, Alabama, and Pensacola.

            1,109 items (1.2 c.f.).   Purchase.

            Accession M1975-12.

 

 

Leigh Papers

            Letters and correspondence, 1868-1916, of the Leigh family of Bagdad and Milton, Florida.  Consists primarily of letters to Sue A. Leigh (later Mrs. S.A. Creary) of Bagdad from friends and relatives.  Includes letters of C.H. (Hanks) Dorr describing life as a student at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, 1869-1871.

            Subjects and correspondents include Bellville, Columbiana, Evergreen, Haynes and Hazelwood, Alabama; Bagdad, Bay Point, and Milton, Florida; Hopkinsville, Kentucky; Sewanee and University Place, Tennessee; Huston, Jonesville, Powellton and San Antonio, Texas; C.H. (Hanks) Dorr, Mrs C.B. (Beatrice) Gaylord, J.H. Hughes, Mary Judge, Sue Leigh, Capt. J.D. Leigh, Rebecca McLean, N.A. Milton, Virginia Martin and Hattie C. Sawyer; General Gorgas, Bishop Greene and the University of the South.

            120 items (0.35 c.f.).   Gift of R. E. Neville, Jr.

            Accession M1980-08.

 

 

Literary Works

            Manuscripts and proofs of various literary, historical and scholarly works produced by West Florida people.  Includes works by John Diamond, Frederick Greenhut, Bertha Henry, Connie Marse, Carl Oldenburg, John Sherrill, Adelia Rosasco-Soule, William James Wells, and others.  Subjects include logging in Santa Rosa County, and reminiscences of John H. Sherrill, Jr., as a prisoner of war in Germany and Poland, November 1944 - April 1945 as a member of the 83rd Armored Reconnaissance Battalion.  Unpublished materials may carry restrictions.

            23 items (1.4 c.f.).   Gift of the authors.

            Accession M1975-02.

 

 

Live Oak Reservation Papers

            Draft of a brief by J. McHenry Jones relating to the Live Oak Reservation, Gulf Breeze Peninsula; with text of documents, abstracts and other legal papers describing ownership of the land.

            With miscellaneous printed materials on the history of the Naval Live Oak Reservation established in 1826; an archaeological study of the Florida Gulf Coast Indians by Randy Head, undated; and other papers relating to the property which became part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore in 1969.

            10 items (.9 c.f.).   Gift of Dr. C. J. Heinberg.

            Accession M1977-11.

 

 

Lloyd, Pat

            Journalist, Pensacola News Journal.

            Biographical materials, 1969-1987, including certificates and awards.

            24 items (.80 c.f.).   Gift of Anne Jacobi and Lucy H. Van Swearingen.

            Accession M1987-15.

 

 

Lonely Hearts Murders

            Collection of research materials on Martha Jule Seabrook Beck (1920-1951) and Raymond Fernandez of Pensacola, Florida whose series of murders of 'lonely hearts clubs' attendees in the 1940s brought national notoriety and ultimately the electric chair.  Their exploits were the basis of a number of books and movies.

            15 items.

            West Florida Collection No. 609.

 

 

Look & Morrison Collection

            Collection of photographs, newspaper clippings, and other papers of the architectural firm of Look & Morrison, including materials of the firm of Yonge & Hart, 1926-1967.  Photographs and drawings of projects designed or built include schools, government buildings, private residences, and related structures in Pensacola, Milton, Bonifay, DeFuniak Springs, Fort Walton Beach, Gulf Breeze, Panama City, Marianna, Tallahassee, and Warrington, Florida.  See collection inventory for complete list of structures.

            244 items (.45 c.f.).  Gift.

            Accession M1983-05.

 

 

Louisville & Nashville Railroad

            Correspondence Ledger

            Index volume, 1916, to the letter-books and correspondence of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Pensacola; entries arranged alphabetically by sender, with date of letter, subject, and file number.  Extensive listing for E. O. Saltmarsh, Superintendent.

            1 volume.  Gift of Alan Gantzhorn.

            Accession M1982-28.

 

 

Lounsberry, Vernon L.

            Captain, U. S. Army.

            Photograph album, 1916 covering service along the Mexican-American border.  Comprising 141 photographs showing camp scenes, border patrols, Mexican guards at the International Bridge, Brownsville, Texas; Fort Bliss, and Metamoros, Texas.  Lounsberry notes the cause of [his] service was the Pancho Villa raid on Columbus in March, 1916; with additional panoramic photographs of American ships and troops of the American Expeditionary Forces, World War I.

            1 album (.18 c.f.) and 5 photographs.   Gift of Dr. Earl Watson.

            Accession M1991-03.

 

 

Luna Papers

            Microfilm of the spanish documents pertaining to Don Tristan De Luna, 1559-1560, that were partly transcribed in Herbert Ingram Priestley's The Luna Papers (1928).

            1 microfilm roll.  Gift of Randy Head.

            Accession M1983-28.