Odd Fellows, Independent Order of.  Pensacola, Florida

            Lithographed broadsides of the Oddfellows Friendly Society, Pensacola, 1883, 1898, and 1923.

            3 items.   Purchase.

            Accession M1968-13/90.

 

 

Okaloosa County Papers

            A collection of single items and folders of materials pertaining to Okaloosa County, including imprints, publications, correspondence, photocopies, reports, and other papers.  Subjects and people include Okaloosa Walton Junior College, the Bob Sikes Airport, environmental impact and planning statements pertaining to Choctawhatchee River, Choctawhatchee Bay, and the East Pass; materials on the cities of Laurel Hill, Milligan, Fort Walton Beach, Valparaiso, and Crestview; photographs (1956-1969); Rabbit Eye Blueberries, Weeden Island and Fort Walton ceramics and publications of William C. Lazarus and the Fort Walton Temple Mound Museum; correspondence of W. H. Mapoles (1929); the Fort Walton Beach Rotary Club; and correspondence of Thomas H. Edney, 1894‑1951, with papers relating to real estate in Crestview.  Detailed inventory available.

            124 items (1.70 c.f.).  Gifts of various donors.

            Accession M1973-10.

 

 

Okaloosa-Walton Junior College Collection

            Records and papers concerning the history and development of Okaloosa-Walton Junior College, Niceville, Florida, 1965 to present, including catalogs, yearbooks, and other publications.

            69 items (.88 c.f.). 

            Accession M1983-02.

 

 

O'Neal, Fannie J. (d. 1994)

            Personal papers, 1942-1987, concerning her work as Housing Manager, NAS Whiting Field and at NAS Pensacola.  Includes correspondence, certificates, biographical information, newspaper clippings and photographs of housing projects and buildings at NAS Whiting Field and NAS Pensacola.  Also includes some records of the Professional Housing Management Association, 1976-1987, and the Milton Garden Club.

            343 items (.7 c.f.).   Gift of Fannie J. O'Neal.

            Accession M1989-04.

 

 

Oral History Collections

            Special Collections maintains oral history collections consisting of audiotape interviews with individuals in the West Florida region on a variety of subjects.  Research collections which contain oral histories are described individually in this Guide and indexed under "Oral history."   This group,

however, encompasses individual oral history tapes which have been donated to the University, along with collateral materials and transcripts.

            A number of oral histories discuss the Pensacola police department and crime in Pensacola, 1912-1915; narrators include Moses Penton (Pensacola Police Chief, 1923; Escambia County Sheriff, 1924-1934); Daisy McAllaster on

the role of women in police work; Francis W. Taylor; and Thomas Bowen, who also discusses the fire department.

            Another group covers the Pensacola Naval Air Station, 1914-1919; these include Lelia Abercrombie, T. T. Wentworth, Harry Carlson, Julian O. Olsen, and

A. F. Forster. 

            Other narrators include W. F. Hill, C. E. Abbott, W. N. Olson, N. O. Anderson, E. Anderson, T. S. Kennedy, Randolph Reedy, Sidney Powell, Ernest L. Madsen, and Blanch McMillan Smith of Chipley, Florida.

            .68 c.f.

            Accession M1981-01.

 

 

Overman Family

            "Tales Our Mother Told."  A series of family sketches about the Overman Family of North Carolina written by a "granddaughter of Eliza Wilson Overman."

            47 leaves (photocopies).  Gift of Ernest Dibble.

            Accession M1968-11/54.

 

 

Overton, Samuel R.

            Photocopies of a letter to his uncle, John Overton, 1823, with a description of affairs in Pensacola, with typescript transcripts.

            2 items.  Originals owned by the Tennessee Historical Society.

            Accession M1968-11/34