Pace Family Papers

            Family papers, deeds and business records of Hardy Pace (1784-1836), Twiggs County, Georgia, his son, Thomas B. Pace (1813‑1890), and their descendants in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties, 1835‑1967.  Includes a variety of documents, 1890‑1920, relating to the lumber and naval stores industries owned by James G. Pace (1867‑1948), and genealogical notes of the Pace family in Georgia and Florida.  Includes business records of the Escambia Land & Manufacturing Company, 1910‑1919; Pace Farms, Inc., 1937‑1943; the Avant‑Pace Company, 1920‑1939; and other family enterprises.

            510 items (1.31 c.f.).  Gift of Thomas M. and Ashley D. Pace, Jr.

            Accession M1968-21.

 

 

Panama Canal Collection

            Papers, 1967-1973, concerning the issue of return of the Panama Canal to Panamanian control in 1973, including reprints of Congressional reports, statements of Congressmen, copies of letters and other materials primarily concerning Representative Daniel Flood, 1967-1973.

            33 items.  Gift of Rear Admiral (Ret.) F. Virden.

            Accession M1983-12 SC.

 

 

Panton Family Papers

            Papers and records of the Panton Family, 1785-1896, including correspondence, abstracts, deeds, publications, and maps, concerning William Panton, James Innerarity, and John Leslie.  Emphasis is on letters between family members, although the bulk of content is the Panton, Leslie and Company, and attempts by the family to recover the Panton estate and payment for lands seized by the United States government.

            572 items (2.0 c.f., est.).   Purchase.  Partly cataloged.

            Accession M1993-27.    

 

 

Panton Leslie & Company Collection

            Editorial and research files of Dr. William S. Coker, Editor, The Papers of Panton, Leslie and Company.  Includes an extensive body of correspondence, business papers, court records, and other documents relating to the British firm and its successors, John Leslie and Company, and John Forbes and Company, 1739‑1847.  The company, under a monopoly granted by the Spanish government, engaged in an extensive Indian trade throughout the Old Southwest, and continued under British and American governance.  The documents in the editorial files, photocopied from depositories throughout the world, were selectively published on microfilm (see Papers of Panton, Leslie & Company, this Guide).

            The papers touch virtually every aspect of frontier life in Spanish and British Florida and adjacent states.  In addition to records of the company, the collection includes exhaustive documentation from other sources, historical publications, and writings (1900-1987) about the company, its massive trading empire in the Southeast United States, and company trading posts throughout present-day Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and operations in Tennessee, South Carolina, Cuba, the Bahamas, and London.  Headquarters of

the Company was Pensacola, Florida.

            The emphasis of the collection is on Spanish‑American relations with the Upper and Lower Creeks, Seminole, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Cherokee tribes; the correspondence of members of the firm, including William Alexander (d. 1799), John Forbes (1769?‑1823), Thomas Forbes  (d. 1808), John Forrester, James Innerarity (1770?‑1847), John Innerarity (1783‑1854), John Leslie (1749?‑1803), Robert Leslie (1758?‑1798), Alexander McGillivray (1750‑1793), William Panton (1742?‑1801), and William Simpson (d. 1813); papers of related companies, such as Forbes, Munroe (Nassau), E. & J. Gairdner (Charleston), MacKenzie & Glennie (London), and Mather & Strother (Mobile); and U.S. officials such as Richard K. Call, Henry Dearborn, Benjamin Hawkins, Andrew Jackson, Joseph M. White, and James Wilkinson.

            Includes correspondence of British (and Spanish) East Florida officials including Patrick Tonyn, Thomas Brown, Vicente Manuel de Zespedes, Juan Nepomuceno Quesada, Enrique White, Juan de Estrada, Sebastian Kindelan and Jose Coppinger; and Spanish West Florida and Louisiana, including Arturo O'Neill, Vicente Folch y Juan, Francisco de St. Maxent, Matheo Gonzalez Manrique, Jose Masot, Jose Maria Callava, Esteban Miro, Baron de Carondelet, Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, and Marques de Casa Calvo.

            With papers relating to William Augustus Bowles, Louis Milfort, Chief Perryman, Peter McQueen, Edward Nicolls, George Woodbine, Robert C. Ambrister, Alexander Arbuthnot, Colin Mitchell, Edmund Doyle, and William Hambly.

            A portion of the collected papers were microfilmed (see Papers of Panton, Leslie & Company, this Guide).  In addition to the papers and research files, the microfilm research collection numbers 525 reels.  Where possible, these have been described elsewhere in this Guide; nearly 100 reels are of Spanish archival records from archives in Seville, Madrid, and Simancas, Spain.

            31 c.f. and 525 microfilm reels.   Gift of Dr. William S. Coker.

            Accession M1986-10.

 

 

Papers of Panton, Leslie & Company

            Microfilm set of the records of the company, 1783-1847, compiled by Dr. William S. Coker, with accompanying guide which lists the materials chronologically with notes on writer, receiver, date, place, and content.

            Microfilm No. 946.  Sets are available in both the main library and in Special Collections.

 

 

Parker, Jeanie Bell

            Records concerning the history of Allie Yniestra school and its Parent-Teacher Association, 1931-1966, including newspaper clippings, World War II Scrapbook, and other materials.

            31 items.  Gift of Jeanie Bell Parker

            Accession M1976-10 SC.

 

 

Parker Family Papers

            Microfilm of 144 research materials concerning the Parker and allied families of Bay, Washington, Jackson, Escambia and Dade Counties, Florida.  Includes photocopies, typescripts, genealogical forms and charts, census forms, family papers, and other items researched or collected by Linda Pazics Kleback, for the Parker Family Reunion in 1990.

            Microfilm, 1 reel.   Gift of Linda Pazics Kleback.

            Accession M1992-07.

 

 

Parkin, Thomas

            Bound scrapbook of notes, writings, newspaper clippings, maps, and other materials concerning Peru, Panama, Colombia, and South America, 1874-1905.  Manuscript narrative may document Parkin's 1907 trip to Peru, however it is written in the third person and is possibly taken from published sources.

            1 volume (.18 c.f.). 

            Accession M1989-16.

 

 

Parramore Family

            Records including notations, clippings, and related material of the Parramore Family of North Carolina, Georgia, and Pensacola, Florida, collected by Mrs. Henry Parramore.  Includes family Bible (1828) with several pages of genealogical data.

            23 items (.35 c.f.).  Gift of Mrs. Ruth T. Rogers.

            Accession M1992-05.

 

 

Paterson, Daniel (1738-1825)

            [Maps] Cantonment of His Majesty's forces in N. America... New York, 29 March 1766; with October 11, 1765 edition also.  Shows British military bases and troop strengths including West Florida.

            Microfilm, 1 reel.   Original in the British Museum, Add. 11,287.

            Panton, Leslie & Company Research Collection, Microfilm No. 25.

 

 

Patterson, Russell G.

            Papers, 1935-1943, consisting of a travel log or chronicle of the "Pagan Moon," a 37-foot schooner on a cruise from Pensacola to Havana, Cuba, and return, 1935; a travel log of a trip, New York to Asmara, East Africa, 1942; and photograph albums on trips to Africa and Arabia.  These include scenes of Aden, Eritrea, Kenya, Uganda, Abyssinia, Egypt, and elsewhere in Africa.  A second group of photographs cover the Casablanca Conference and other World War II battle scenes.  Subjects include Generals Montgomery, Eisenhower, B. O. David (only Black American General), Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Algiers, New Guinea, King George VI, Dunkirk, Eleanor Roosevelt, Guadacanal, and the Pensacola Bay Bridge.

            168 items (.34 c.f.).   Gift of Mrs. R. G. Patterson.

            Accession M1968-20.

 

 

Pearce, George

            UWF Emeritus Professor of History

            Personal papers chiefly of research files and materials collected on the history of the United States Navy in Pensacola, 1826-1911, including publications, articles, microfilm, archival records, and similar items.

            2.0 c.f., est.    Gift of Dr. George Pearce.  

            Uncataloged.

            Accession M1992-04.

 

 

Peck, John (Capt.)

            Letter, March 20, 1770, from N. B(rown). and Co., Providence, Rhode Island, instructing Captain Peck on the sale of cargo and the sloop Cumberland or Three Friends at Pensacola.

            1 item.  Original owned by the John Carter Brown Library.

            Accession M1968-11/62.

 

 

Pensacola

            A collection of single items and files pertaining to Pensacola including publications, photocopies, correspondence and other materials.  Major items in the collection have been described elsewhere in this Guide, however users should look at the annotated collection inventory for additional materials.

            Accession M1968-11, M1968-13.

 

 

Pensacola.  City of Pensacola.

            Small group of various ledgers; includes paving installments, 1937-1941, 1951-1952; state and county redemptions, 1939-1957; sanitary sewer bond book, 1921; lists of lands sold for nonpayment of taxes, 1916-1940.

            9 ledgers.   Gift.

            Accession M1988-07.

 

 

Pensacola and Georgia Railroad Company

            Minutes of proceedings of stockholders, with report of the president and directors at their meeting held in Tallahassee, December 3, 1856.

            Microfilm, 1 reel.            Original held at University of Florida Library.

            Special Collections Microfilm No. 1174.

 

 

Pensacola Altrusa Club

            Records and papers, 1953-1983, of the Pensacola Altrusa Club, also known as the Altrusa Club of Pensacola, including correspondence, publications, minutes, newsletters,  a history of the Club by Maude Hollowell, and records concerning the clubs in Districts 3 and 4, and Altrusa International.

            4,608 items (3.85 c.f.).   Gift of Mary Wesley.

            Accession M1982-30.

 

 

Pensacola Art Center

            Records, 1919-1982, consisting of publicity files and newspaper clippings of events and exhibits, brochures, photographs, scrapbooks, guest books, and related materials concerning the history of the Center, the Pensacola Art Association, the Pensacola Art Club, and the Pensacola Museum of Art.  Includes scrapbook of photographs of actor Charlton Heston and family touring Peniscola, Spain, 1961, during filming of El Cid.

            1,112 items (1.33 c.f.).  Gift of Mary Takach.

            Accession M1983-10.

 

 

Pensacola Arts Council

            Papers, 1975-1979, including correspondence, publicity, newspaper clippings, programs, and other materials.

            134 items (.63 c.f.).

            Accession M1979-05.

 

 

Pensacola Board of Realtors

            Records pertaining to the development of the Multiple Listing Service, 1952-1962, including minutes, listing applications, listing newsletters, and related items with descriptions of Pensacola homes and real estate.

            150 Items. 

            Accession M1983-11 SC.

 

 

Pensacola Dairy Company

            Business records and history, 1911-1975, including customer ledgers, newspaper clippings, and other materials on the company and its successor, The Dairy Bar, operated by the brothers Nathan and Bennie Bear.  With additional materials about Ida Dean Grae, a sister, and skilled weaver and dyer.

            Nathan and Bennie Bear arrived in Pensacola in 1910 from Warsaw, Poland via New York.  The Company was located at 131 East Gregory Street.

            18 items.   Gift of Pearl Eskin.

            Accession M1975-08.

 

 

Pensacola Equal Suffrage League

            Records, 1914-1918, including correspondence, membership lists, telegrams, and newspaper clippings, as well as reports and letters from the Florida Equal Suffrage Association, the Men's Equal Suffrage League of Orlando, the Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference, and the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

            See also photocopy of letter of Elizabeth Stoner, Washington, D.C., January 31, 1915 addressed to "Pensacola Suffragists" on actions in the U.S. House of Representatives in Accession M1968-13, No. 133.

            200 items.   (Folder 38 of the Murphy Papers)

            Accession M1968-02.

           

 

Pensacola-Escambia Development Commission Records

            Records, 1980-1982, of the Pensacola-Escambia Development Commission, including minutes, reports, correspondence, and other materials concerning the development of Ellyson Field, creation and appointment of first Executive Director, and related work of the Commission in promoting industrial development in Pensacola.  Subjects include Panhandle League of Cities, taxation, annexation, fire protection and government services, Human Relations Commission, revenue studies, and United Way of Escambia County.  Key individuals include C. E. Teasely, Larry N. Walker, Vince Whibbs, and Donald L. Whitman.

            138 items (1.79 c.f.). 

            Accession M1992-01.

 

 

Pensacola Junior College Collection

            Records and publications, 1963-    , including student handbooks, directories, newsletters, Preview, and related materials.

            240 items (1.4 c.f.). 

            Accession M1983-21.

 

 

Pensacola Letters

            Small group of photocopy letters written from Pensacola between 1825 and 1852.  Subjects and correspondents include Henry Marie Brackenridge, Lt. Richard H. Morris, W. L. Campbell, J. G. Williams, the Marines in the Pensacola Navy Yard, the U.S.S. Raritan, and John Hutchinson.

            7 items.  Gift of Charles L. Booher.

            Accession M1990-06 SC.

 

 

Pensacola Lions Club

            Records, 1928-    , including minutes, correspondence, membership records, and related materials about the club's history and activities in Pensacola, Florida.  Includes publication files of the weekly Bulletin and the Florida Lion.  Subjects include services for the blind, the Naval Air Training Bases (1945-1946), and the Salvation Army of Pensacola.

            3,542 items (2.4 c.f.).  Gift of Pensacola Lions Club.

            Accession M1987-17.

 

 

Pensacola Little Theatre

            Scrapbooks, programs, photographs and miscellaneous papers, 1938‑1970.  Includes file of its program, the Call Board, 1946‑1970; chronological files of past performances, 1938‑1970; and publications of the Music Study Club, Pensacola, 1927‑1970.

            2,881 items and 9 scrapbooks (3.75 c.f.).  Gift of Mrs. Vera Lawbaugh and Gerald Quina.

            Accession M1970-03.

Pensacola Lost Neighborhoods Collection.

          Records, 1999- , consisting of newspaper clippings, correspondence, and supporting materials. The Pensacola Lost Neighborhoods Collection consists of a series of newspaper columns and supporting materials from the Pensacola News Journal in February and March, 1999 highlighting the areas of the Tanyard, West Hill or Belmont-Devilliers, and Hawkshaw, primarily African-American neighborhoods of Pensacola, Florida, with emphasis on their history and social life, 1900 through the 1950s. Includes letters and reminiscences of Jean Badgett Burgess, Ida Y. Coleman, Victoria Gaines Grasty, Neil Graham Hibbert, Diane Gaines Jackson, Rita E. Jones, Callie (Nix) Martin, Brenda Davis Ricks, Helen Smith, and Theresa Taylor. Series writers and editors included Elizabeth Trevor Buchinger and Michael Ryan.

          35 pieces. Oversize folder. Gift of Pensacola News Journal, 1999.

          Accession M1999-01.

 

 

Pensacola Maternity Home

            Scrapbook, 1941-1949, for the Pensacola Maternity Home, also known as the Pensacola Maternity Hospital including newspaper clippings, photographs, and news of its staff and women auxiliaries.

            1 scrapbook.  Gift of Mrs. Gertrude Johnson Scott.

            Accession M1984-14.

 

 

Pensacola Mountains

            Photocopies of research materials by Marion Viccars on the history of the naming of the Pensacola Mountains in Antarctica.

            1 folder (9 leaves).         

            West Florida Collection No. 392.

 

 

Pensacola Music Association

            Records, 1947-1964, including event programs and photographs.  The Association presented musical artists including opera singers, quartets, chamber and philharmonic orchestras and other musical events in Pensacola.  Select artists include Duke Ellington, Marcel Marceau, Max Rudolf, and Beverly Sills.

            141 items (.36 c.f.).  Gift of Dr. Nathan S. Rubin.

            Accession M1990-11.

 

 

Pensacola Navy League Records

            Records, 1946-1983, including minutes, reports, correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and files concerning the history and activities of the organization.  Subjects and correspondents include carrier cruises, the foreign flight student program, golf tournaments, the Naval Sea Cadet Corps, Navy Day, NJROTC Field Days, Ellyson Field, Saufley Field, Whiting Field, the Pensacola Naval Air Station, and the U.S.S. Monterey, Antietam, Independence, and Tweedy; a large biographical file contains information on prominent Naval personnel on the national and local levels, and correspondents include Spessard L. Holland, George Smathers, Bob Sikes, Raymond C. Dyson, Dave Johnson, Hugh J. Leitch, Stockton B. Colt, James M. Sheffer, John B. Connally, and Eddie Rickenbacker.

            9,826 items (5.04 c.f.).  Gift of Warren M. Briggs.

            Accession M1983-03.

 

 

Pensacola Navy Yard

            Manuscript journal, 1876-1879, of C. A. Higgins, Chief Engineer, covering labor costs, stores, and other information for the Engineering Department and its Machine Shop, Pattern Shop, Boiler Shop, Foundry, and Copper Shop.

            Detailed entries cover costs of labor, loans of equipment, receipts of tools and stores, hours and pay for specific jobs, coal used, inventories of tools and items drawn from stores, and expenses for and boiler drawings for the U. S. Tug Rose.

            1 item.  Gift of Robert Booher, Jr.

            Accession M1981-16 SC.

 

 

Pensacola Opera House

            A collection of photocopies of programs, broadsides and general papers of the Pensacola Opera House, 1898‑1930, collected by Mrs. D. B. Smith with some programs from New Orleans and from the Saenger Theater of Pensacola.  With additional research and history of the Opera House by Marion Viccars.

            Arranged in 3 volumes (.90 c.f.). 

            Accession M1969-10.

 

 

Pensacola Philatelic Society

            Records, 1957-1974, including minutes, correspondence and other papers.

            125 items (.34 c.f.).

            Accession M1975-01.

 

 

Pensacola Police Department

            Monthly crime reports and statistics, 1973-1987.

            .7 c.f.   

            Accession M1968-13/43.

 

 

Pensacola Police Department

            Police Call books and a Warrant book, 1909//1928, with arrests listing the name, location, and City Code number under which each arrest was made; with notes of fire alarms telephoned in from call boxes. 

            5 volumes.   Gift of James C. Davis.

            Accession M1979-06.

 

 

Pensacola Printing Company

            Correspondence and imprints, 1950‑1964; political broadsides; issues of the Pensacola Standard, 1941-1960.  With correspondence of M. E. B. Jones relating to State elections of 1950, and the Presidential election of 1960, including correspondence of Fuller Warren, George Smathers, and others; notes on the history of Whitfield Memorial Baptist Church, 1905‑1960; and papers relating to the strike of the Pensacola Typographical Union, 1964.

            366 items (.34 c.f.).  Gift of the Company.

            Accession M1970-07.

 

 

Pensacola Quilter’s Guild

         Records, 1987- , including minutes, membership records, newsletters, scrapbooks, videotapes and photographs concerning the organization as well as its sponsorship of quilt shows and the Florida Heritage Quilt Project. Includes materials of related regional sewing craft organizations including the Emerald Coast Fiber Arts Guild, the Gulf Coast Stitchery Guild, the Gulf Coast Weavers Guild, and the Gulf Coast Quilting Association. Subjects include American fabric arts, arts and crafts, and American stitchery, both contemporary and historical.

         Includes photographs and records of Panhandle Florida quilts recorded as part of the Florida Quilt Heritage Project to document quilts, 1800-present held in private hands.

         1,329 items. 6.85 c.f.   Gift of Pensacola Quilters Guild Board, 1998.

         Accession M1998-08.

 

Pensacola-Related Imprints

            Microfilm of five Pensacola imprints including statements of Stephen Russell Mallory (1851, 1855); constitution of the Hope Hook and Ladder Fire Company (1873); bylaws of the Damon Lodge No. 13, Knights of Pythias (1887); and constitution of Pensacola Lodge, No. 4, International Order of Odd Fellows.

            Microfilm, 1 reel.  Originals at P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History, Gainesville.

            Accession M1985-11 MF.

 

 

Pensacola Rotary Club

            Records of the Pensacola Rotary Club, 1915-    , including minutes, correspondence, newsletters, membership files, audiotapes, scrapbooks and related materials.  Includes audiotapes of speakers and programs; see the collection inventory for a full list of topics and individuals.

            5,035 items (3.15 c.f.).  Gift of the Pensacola Rotary Club.

            Accession M1974-05.

 

 

Pensacola Shipbuilding Company

            Papers, 1917-1921, including photographs, maps, and other information.  This company, located on Bayou Chico, built ships for the U. S. Merchant Marine during World War I.

            82 items (.45 c.f.).  Gift of Dr. William Miller.

            Accession M1976-01.

 

 

Pensacola Sources

            Research, 1822-1842, on Pensacola and West Florida compiled from issues of the Niles National Register and the Army and Navy Chronicle.  Includes photocopies of excerpts about annexation of West Florida by Alabama; the territorial legislature; naval news, including the arrival of ships, crews, obituaries of naval personnel; commerce; the arrival of Andrew Jackson in 1818; and yellow fever.

            33 items.          

            West Florida Collection Nos. 356 and 357.

 

 

Pensacola Symphony Orchestra

            Records, 1954-1978, including correspondence, minutes, financial records, newspaper clippings, and publications.

            83 items and 20 folders (2.00 c.f.).

            Accession M1974-19.

 

 

Pensacola-Tallahassee Diocesan Council of Catholic Women

            Records, 1939-    , including newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, and other records of the organization.  Records cover history of the Council including Diocese changes and organizational changes of the Council as a part of the Mobile Diocese (to 1954), the Mobile-Birmingham Diocese (1955-1968), the St. Augustine Diocese (1969-1975), and the creation of the Pensacola-Tallahassee Diocese in 1976.

            Subjects include the National Council of Catholic Women, the Florida Council of Catholic Women, the International Year of the Woman (1976) and related DCCWs in other West Florida towns. 

            Many of the materials also cover the history of various Catholic churches and parishes, their priests, and activities in the community.  Includes materials about Maria Von Trapp's appearance at the 1961 Mobile-Birmingham annual meeting, and a photograph of Mother Teresa taken at the 1976 meeting.  Subjects include abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment.

            351 items and 11 scrapbooks (.68 c.f.).  Gift of the Diocesan Council, Mrs. John Geist and Mrs. Elaine S. Sheppard.

            Accession M1988-09.

 

 

Pensacola Yacht Club

            Records, 1934-1976, including programs, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other materials concerning club activities, regattas, the Gulf Yachting Association, and the Jib Sheet newsletter; includes materials and memorabilia of Henry and Virginia Hilton-Green and the St. Petersburg/Havana yacht races of 1935, 1936, 1941, and 1948.

            51 items (1.31 c.f.).  Gift of Earl Lanneau.

            Accession M1982-12.

 

 

Penton, Frank

            Personal papers, notes, and photographs concerning the history of Santa Rosa County.  Includes material on Floridatown, Pace, Mulatto, Avalon Beach, and various lumber mills and industries.

            25 items.  Gift of Mr. Frank Penton.

            Accession M1981-33 SC.

 

 

Peruvian Collection

            Publications, imprints, illustrations, maps, slides, artifacts, and other materials relating to Peruvian history and life assembled from a variety of sources by Ronald M. J. Gordon.  The library of Mr. Gordon about Peru was cataloged into the UWF library collections; a listing of the library is available in this collection.  With typescript manuscripts "The other side of the mountain; or the air conquest of the Peruvian Amazon" (1947) and "Intimate glimpses of Peru under Leguia and the Revolution of August 22, 1930: by Captain H. B. Grow, Inspector General of Aviation in Peru".

            245 items (1.20 c.f.).  Gift of Capt. Harold B. Grow.

            Accession M1968-07.

 

 

Pfeiffer Family

            Papers, 1891-1963, includes newspaper clippings, school records, and other materials of Edgar W. Pfeiffer (1926-1943), Gertrude Pfeiffer Jorden (1919-1954), Mary Elizabeth Briggs Council Pfeiffer (1927-1963), and related materials of the Joseph C. Pfeiffer, Sr. family of Pensacola.  Includes school records for Sacred Heart Academy and Pensacola High School; dance and social invitations to area clubs, 1926 1930; information on Pfeiffer's Bakery; and papers of related Jorden and Wigand families.

            126 items (.45 c.f.).  Gift of Mrs. Ann Kell Hurd.

            Accession M1983-23.

 

 

Pfeiffer, Herman J. M. (b.1900)

            Historical notes of the Pfeiffer family of Pensacola, ca. 1869‑1960.  Includes papers relating to the Immanuel Lutheran Church, Rev. J. F. W. Reinhardt, and genealogical and biographical studies of prominent members of the Pfeiffer family.

            60 items.  Gift of Mr. Pfeiffer.

            Accession M1968-13/41.

 

 

Pfeiffer Printing Company

            Business records, 1940‑1968; customer sample book, ca. 1962; miscellaneous printed works, 1961‑1971.  Includes examples of printed ephemera, letterheads, broadsides, and serial publications; papers relating to local political activities, including campaign posters of Reubin Askew; and a wide variety of printed works by civic and cultural organizations.

            3,645 items (6.00 c.f.).  Gift of the Pfeiffer Printing Company.

            Accession M1976-09.

 

 

Phillips Family Papers

            Photocopies of materials concerning Dr. Lawrence C. Phillips including newspaper clippings, recipes, obituary notices with additional materials concerning Ian Phillips, Occie Clubbs, and historic homes of Pensacola.

            29 items.  Originals in the possession of Miss Portia Phillips.

            Accession M1982-02 SC.

 

 

Photograph Collections

            Photographs, drawings, engravings and slides of West Florida scenes and subjects, ca. 1750‑present, throughout the ten county region, with emphasis on Pensacola and environs, 1890‑present.  Includes portraits of West Florida residents, public buildings, street scenes, homes, business establishments, churches, and views of the waterfront.    Files are arranged by county, city, and subject.  However researchers should realize that many of the manuscript collections include photographs and visual works in addition to other photograph collections such as the glass plate negative collection and University of West Florida photographs.

            Altogether the Department has nearly 30,000 photographs in various

collections.  Researchers should begin with the central "user file" of photographs, and proceed to consult collections and books for other visual works.

 

 

Pierpont, J. Harris (1864-1943)

            Pensacola physician; son of "Jingle Bells" composer.

            Papers, 1893-1940, including commissions as vice-consul for Argentina at Pensacola, 1893, 1902, 1906, and 1940, signed by U. S. Presidents Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt and F. D. Roosevelt; sketchbooks of bacteria, 1899; and a physicians day-book, with names of patients, dates visited, and treatment, 1886-1889.

            10 items.  Gift of Mrs. M. M. Marple.

             Accession M1974-14.

 

 

Pine Level Baptist Church, Jay, Florida

            Minutes and financial records, 1927‑1945.

            1 volume (photocopy).  Original owned by Pine Level Baptist Church.

            Accession M1975-7/15.

 

 

Pintado Papers

            Typescript copy of translations of originals in East Baton Rouge Parish Courthouse, 1768‑1862, containing information on British, French and Spanish land grants in West Florida.  Done by the Federal Writers Project, the papers consist of seventeen books, four memo booklets, and eighteen bundles of papers, reduced to eleven volumes in the WPA translation.

            See also the entry for the Archives of the Spanish Government of West Florida in this Guide for additional information.

            Microfilm, 5 reels.  Originals owned by Louisiana State University Library.

            Microfilm No. 226.

 

 

Pintado Papers

            Papers, 1781-1842, of Vincente Sebastian Pintado (1774-1829), alcalde,  commandant, and surveyor general of Spanish West Florida from 1799 to 1817.  The bulk of materials relates to land surveys, land purchases, and deed covering the period 1800 to 1817.  Correspondence includes copies of his outgoing letters as well as letters from Carlos de Grand-Pre, Captain Francisco Rivas, Ira C. Kneeland, Christoval de Armas, Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Carlos Trudeau, Christopher Bolling, Vincent Folch, Manuel Lopez, Antonio Cruzat, and Juan Morales.  Includes information on the Nicolls raid in the Apalachicola River area and the Kemper brothers' raids in Louisiana in 1804-5.

            With sixty-two maps and plat maps of the coastal area from West Florida to the Mississippi River, with special attention to the Baton Rouge, Feliciana, Mobile, and Pensacola districts.  Among the papers is a list of vegetation found near Perdido Bay (ca. 1815), a Spanish/Talapuche Indian vocabulary, and a detailed 1813 map of Pensacola.

            A detailed inventory appears on the first reel of the microfilm.  Special Collections also has an inventory done by Dr. William S. Coker (West Florida Collection No. 221).

            Microfilm, 6 reels.  Originals owned by the Library of Congress.

            Special Collections Microfilm No. 900.

 

 

Placebo Press

            Publications of the Placebo Press, 1976-1982, including newsletters and booklets of poetry, biographies, and other published items issued by this private press in Pensacola, Florida.   Writers include Terri Catledge, Ann Collins, Rebecca Craig, Cecil Curtis, Mary Curtis, Julie Weeks Dickerson, William L. Dike, Angel Falker, Naomi Dodge Haney, Amanda Stegenga, and Pamme Stegenga.  Subjects include Easter, recipes, walking sticks or canes, poetry, reminiscences, and short stories.

            37 items (.35 c.f.).  Gift of the Placebo Press.

            Accession M1978-08.

 

 

Pleas, Charles Earl (1867?-1954)

            Nurseryman and Botanist; Photographer.

            Correspondence, 1935-1948, and photographs, 1895-1905, with newspaper clippings and publications concerning his work in the development of the Kudzu vine in West Florida.  Includes glass plate negatives of scenes in and near Chipley, Florida, including nature and plant life..

            195 items and 189 negatives (1.36 c.f.).  Gift of E. W. Carswell.

            Accession M1970-04.

 

 

Polk, James K.

            Notes and research files of James K. Polk used for writing his master's thesis, Pensacola Commerce and Industry, 1821-1860.  Topics include railroads, slavery, brickmaking, sawmills, shipping, John Innerarity, Joseph Forsyth, Arcadia Mill, descriptions of Pensacola in the 1800s, and notes on businesses and trades in Pensacola, 1820-1860, and excerpts from the Pensacola Gazette.

            1,064 items (.63 c.f.).  Gift of James K. Polk.

            Accession M1985-12.

 

 

Polk, James K.

            One album leaf with 17 photographs of Dachau Concentration Camp (Dachau, Germany) after capture by American forces, 1945; with typescript description of camp conditions and information on prisoners.

            5 items.  Gift of James K. Polk.

            Accession M1968-11/22.

 

 

Pollock, Oliver (1737?-1823)

            Letter, New Orleans, to Bernardo de Galvez, July 7, 1781, with a four‑line verse in praise of Galvez's capture of British Pensacola.

            l item (photocopy).  Original owned by the Missouri Historical Society.

            Accession M1968-11/93.

 

 

Popham, William Lee

            Transcript of Popham vs. U. S., No. 4698, U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 1925.   Popham was charged with fraud in the operation of investment companies in the Apalachicola, Florida area, 1919-1924.

            1 item (1,153 pp.).         

            West Florida Collection No.123 (oversize).

 

 

Preston, David Robinson (1803-1850)

            Photocopies of a journal of a Presbyterian missionary to Pensacola and to St. Charles, Missouri, 1828‑1829.  Includes notes of conditions in Pensacola and its religious activities; brief mention of his visitations to the Escambia settlements, especially the Simpson family estate, Woodbine; and mention of his activities in the smaller communities in southern Alabama.

            3 items.   Originals owned by the University of West Virginia Library.

            Accession M1977-17 SC.

 

 

Price, Elsie Goldsby

            Personal papers and photographs concerning the Boyett, Goldsby, Helton, McNair, and Adams families of Myrtle Grove, Florida (now Pensacola).  Includes Pensacola High School memorabilia of 1933, and a photograph of a water baptism by the Union Hill Baptist Church of myrtle Grove.

            11 items and 25 photographs.  Gift of Elsie Goldsby Price.

            Accession M1981-17 SC.

 

 

Professional Secretaries International, Pensacola

            Records, 1958-     , including minutes, publications, officer files, scrapbooks, and materials concerning its activities in education, the annual Pensacola Secretary of the Year and Boss of the Year events, and early years when the organization was known as National Secretaries Association..

            8 c.f. (est.).      

            Partly uncataloged.

            Accession M1993-32.