Rainer, James

            Photocopies of family letters, tax records, and other materials on James Rainer of Butler County, Alabama, 1862-1897.

            45 items.  Gift of Eva Rae Braswell.

            West Florida Collection No. 580.

 

 

Ramsey, Andrew Boggs (1932-    )

            Records concerning the history of the Florida Tribe of Eastern Creek Indians of Calhoun County, Florida with emphasis on the Ramsey genealogy, the Apalachicola Indians, and the Harjo-Boggs-Parrot Tribe.  Materials consist of bound books of photocopies of research materials including vital records, newspaper clippings, book and journal articles, and other data.  Other names include the Harjo, Parrot, Boggs, Ramsey, Ward, and Stanley families.

            9 items (.88 c.f.).  Gift of Dr. Andrew Boggs Ramsey.

            Accession M1991-06.

 

 

Randolph, Edward Brett (d.1848)

            Diary, 1818, with account of experiences with the U.S. Army in the Apalachicola River region during the First Seminole War.

            Microfilm, 1 reel.  Original owned by the University of North Carolina Library.

            Accession M1968-14/8.

 

 

Ray Hardware Company, Pensacola

            Business records, correspondence and printed ephemera, 1909‑1929.  Includes file of Dun's credit reports, 1909‑1914, on various stores and proprietors in Florida, Alabama and Georgia; with Mr. William A. Ray's reports as treasurer of the First Presbyterian Church of Pensacola, 1911.

            14,204 items (4.90 c.f.).  Gift of Mr. Warren M. Briggs.

            Accession M1974-09.

 

 

Reardon, Anna Smith

            Writer and Historian, DeFuniak Springs, Florida

            Personal papers, 1962-1983, including research files, interview notes, photographs, and newspaper articles about DeFuniak Springs and Walton County, Florida.  Topics include biographies of settlers, genealogical notes on families, and information about DeFuniak Springs and its hotels, historic homes, library, schools, and churches.  Additional files cover the Florida Chautauqua, freemasonry, the turpentine industry, railroads, and Florida towns such as Caryville, Choctawhatchee, Freeport, Grayton Beach, Lakewood, Mary Esther, and Eucheeanna.

            711 items (.9 c.f.).  Gift of E. L. Hollingsworth.

            Accession M1984-03.

 

 

Reedy, Agnes Irene

            School Teacher, Pensacola, FL

            Personal Papers, 1942-1982, consisting of poems, articles, and other published materials, including histories of Myrtle Grove School, Escambia High School, and Five Flags Christian Academy.  Includes newsletters of the Escambia Retired Teachers Association, edited by Miss Reedy.

            76 items (.18 c.f.).  Gift of Miss Agnes Irene Reedy.

            Accession M1983-17.

 

 

Reese, John Lewis

            Personal papers concerning the Reese and West families including genealogical notes on the Pope, Orr, Reese, and West families of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi; biography of Judah P. Benjamin; diary of 1936 tour of American Southwest; Civil War recollections of Mary R. West in western Tennessee and Mississippi, and research records of Elizabeth H. West on the Panton Leslie and Company, 1931.

            15 items (.18 c.f.).  Gift of John Lewis Reese.

            Accession M1983-31.

 

 

Reeves, James Jerauld (b. 1938)

            Legislative correspondence, drafts of bills and general papers, 1966‑1972, relating to the activities of Mr. Reeves in the Florida Legislature.

            6.3 c.f.   Gift of Mr. Reeves.

            Accession M1975-18.

 

 

Reid, Robert Raymond (1789-1841)

            Diary, 1833, 1835.  Typescript prepared by the Historical Records Survey, 1939.  Reid was Judge of the Superior Court of Eastern Florida.  In 1838/39 he became President of the Florida Constitutional Convention held in St. Joseph, and in 1839‑1841 was Governor of the Territory of Florida.

            l item.  Gift of the Florida State Library.

            Accession M1968-11/36.

 

 

Reid, Roger Delbert (b. 1905)

            Emeritus Professor of Biology, University of West Florida, and first American researcher of Penicillin.

            Personal papers, 1935-1978, including correspondence, reprints of scientific papers, and notes.  Includes papers relating to the publication of his text, Microbiology (1st ed., 1975), correspondence with Father Theodore Martin Hesburgh (President, Notre Dame) and work on the advisory board of Lobund Laboratories of Biology, Notre Dame.  Other subjects and correspondents include Thomas H. Weller (Nobel Prize, 1975); Von A. Kasakow, Moscow; papers relating to Sir Alexander Fleming (Discoverer of Penicillin); and the University of West Florida Department of Biology.

            100 items (.34 c.f.).   Gift of Dr. Robert Reid and Dr. John Reihm.

            Accession M1978-04.

 

 

Remington, Albert O.

            75th Regt., Co. H, New York State Volunteers

            Photocopy letters, 1861-1862, of a Union soldier describing his trip from Auburn, New York to Pensacola, life at Fort Pickens, and conditions in Pensacola after the Confederate evacuation.

            1 folder.      Originals at Tulane University.

            Accession M1968-13/111.

 

 

Resler, Walter H.

            Personal papers, 1904-1964, of Walter H. Resler, Brooklyn, New York and Pensacola, Florida including correspondence, photographs, clippings, imprints, glass negatives, periodicals, and microfilm.  Subjects include the history of Brooklyn, Huntington, and Long Island, New York; Abraham Lincoln; World War II, including mobilization, scrap metal drives, and the American Legion of Huntington's Honor Roll of servicemen and women in World War II.  Correspondents include Bernard M. Baruch and Thomas E. Dewey.  Photographs include the Brooks, Resler, and Sanders families; West Palm Beach, Florida; Mexico and Mexico City, and related topics.

            449 items (1.96 c.f.).  Gift of Barbara Ann Resler Weeks.

            Accession M1990-01.

 

 

Retired Officers Association, Pensacola Chapter

            Records and papers, 1971-1985, including minutes, newsletters, correspondence and related materials.  Agencies and subjects include the Escambia County Veterans Round Table, the Naval Aerospace and Regional Medical Center (Pensacola), and military pay legislation with correspondence from U.S. Senators Lawton Chiles, Ed Gurney, Peter H. Dominick, Richard Schweiker, Sam Ervin, Lloyd Bentsen, and Representative Bob Sikes.

            1,107 items (1.68 c.f.).  Gift of LCOL. Phillip M. Theinel.

            Accession M1984-13.

 

 

Richardson, Creel

            Photocopies of research materials concerning Conecuh County, Alabama, 1814-1877, including letters (1844-1860) of James Jones about life in Conecuh, the 1860 Presidential election, cotton business, and activities in Pensacola.  Other materials cover the Battle of Horseshoe Bend and Fort Jackson (1814), Fort Pickens (1861), a biography of Dr. George Columbus Reynolds, and a history of the Perote area, Pike County, Alabama.

            20 items.  Gift of Creel Richardson.

            Accession M1983-14 SC.

 

 

Richardson, Wade H.

            Microfilm of How I Reached Union Lines by Wade H. Richardson, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin teacher.  Published in 1905, this volume details Richardson's life in central Alabama, how he made his way to the Union lines in West Florida and spent from 1863 to 1865 in Pensacola.  Includes mention of the 1863 yellow fever outbreak in Pensacola and the organization of the 1st Florida Cavalry, U.S. Volunteers.

            Microfilm, 1 reel.  Original owned by Duke University Library.

            Accession M1987-07.

 

 

Rish, William J.

            Correspondence and general legislative papers of William J. Rish, who served from the 9th District in the Florida House of Representatives from 1970 to 1978.

            14.0 c.f.

            Accession M1979-01.

 

 

Rivera, Joseph Pedro de

            Manuscript report November 2, 1723, concerning conditions in Escambia Bay (St. Maria de Galve) and St. Joseph Bay, describing the state of affairs with the Indians, and suggesting the means of fortifying these positions for continued Spanish colonization; mentions of Punta de Siquenza.  With typescript translations of this document and of Rivera's 1744 report. 

            27 items (.23 c.f.)  Purchase.

            Accession M1989-15.

 

 

Roark, George James (1889-1962)

            Pensacola City Manager, 1931-1937; 1940-1947; Vice President, Florida League of Municipalities, 1946.

            Papers, 1931-1962, including correspondence, newspaper clippings, drafts of city ordinances, budget files, scrapbooks, and municipal records dealing with Pensacola city government and administration.  Subjects include Ken Brown of the Pensacola Times and West Florida Labor News, the Florida League of Municipalities, the International City Manager Association, the Florida City Managers Association, radio speeches on WCOA by Roark and Pensacola Mayor Wicke, Eglin Air Force base land purchases, the Santa Rosa Island Authority, and the Fiesta of Five Flags.

            586 items (1.36 c.f.).  Gift of Mrs. George J. Roark, Sr.

            Accession M1978-15.

 

 

Robertson, William D.

            Attorney, Milton, Florida.

            Personal papers, 1933-1961, including correspondence, land abstracts, plat maps, and related material of organizations that Mr. Robertson was active in, or for which he performed legal services, primarily in Santa Rosa County.  Correspondents include Lex Green, Bob Sikes, Millard F. Caldwell, Claude Pepper, Charles Andrews; Florida Governors LeRoy Collins, Spessard L. Holland, Fuller Warren; and John C. Malone, Ashley Pace, and J. Edgar Hoover.

            Organizations include the Norman A. Garrett American Legion Post, the Florida Democratic Party (1958), the First Baptist Church of Milton, Florida, the Florida Baptist Convention, the Florida Childrens Commission, the Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association, the Milton Kiwanis Club, the Santa Rosa County Childrens Committee, the Santa Rosa Tuberculosis Association, the Selective Service Board (Milton), the State Democratic Executive Committee, and the University of Florida Alumni Association.

            Other subjects include the Santa Rosa Beach Administration (leases and

development of Navarre Beach); the Santa Rosa County Commissioners (roads, subdivisions, bond issues, water franchises; Eglin Air Force Base (road and land condemnations); and the Santa Rosa County School Board (budgets, Gulf Breeze School).

            1,921 items (2.25 c.f.).  Gift of Mrs. Barbara Robertson.

            Accession M1983-19.

 

 

Robinson, James A.

            President, University of West Florida, 1974-1987

            Honors and awards, 1972-1988, presented by organizations including the Republic of China, the Board of Regents, and the Republic of Korea.

            64 items (4.0 c.f.). 

            Accession M1987-14.

 

 

Robinson, James A.

            President, University of West Florida, 1974-1987

            Personal papers, 1970-1987, constituting correspondence files  as President of the University of West Florida, arranged chronologically.

            15,438 items (3.85 c.f.).

            Accession M1992-16.

 

 

Rogers, David J.

            Botanist; University Professor.

            Personal papers, 1959-1977, chiefly of published articles, essays and publications in the fields of genetics, taxonomy, botany, and computer applications in these fields.

            32 items.

            Accession M1981-38 SC.

 

 

Rogers, John

            Photocopy with transcript; A.L.S., July 22, 1780, Kaskaskia, Illinois Territory, to George Rogers Clark, with news of the Spanish occupation of Mobile and siege of Pensacola.

            1 piece.  Original owned by the St. Louis Historical Society.

            Accession M1968-11/92.

 

 

Rolfs Family Papers

            Correspondence, photographs, business records and general papers of Gerhard Rolfs (1870‑1964), his wife Gila (Gonzalez) Rolfs (1875-1977), and other members of the Rolfs and Gonzalez families.  Includes papers relating to their wedding and visit to Germany, 1905; family correspondence, 1906‑1918; and Mrs. Rolfs's diary of a trip to Germany, 1931.

            Mr. Rolfs, an official with the German‑American Lumber Company, was German Vice‑Consul in Pensacola; included are miscellaneous papers on company affairs, 1914‑1923; his letter book, 1914‑1918; and records of timber leases, 1915‑1916, in Calhoun, Jackson, Washington and Bay counties.  With copy of Pensacola Opera House program, 1917, featuring Sarah Bernhardt, and papers relating to the celebration of Mrs. Rolfs's 100th birthday, 1975.

            938 items.  Gift of Mrs. Gerhard Rolfs and Mrs. Jessie Stille.

            Accession M1977-06, M1977-02.

 

 

Rosasco Family Papers

            Business records, correspondence and general papers relating to the Rosasco family of Pensacola, Milton and Bagdad, 1854‑1976. Originating in Genoa, Italy, the family first settled in California, 1850‑1861, then resettled in Florida about 1885, where it conducted a large shipping and lumbering business.  The papers relate chiefly to William Sebastian Rosasco I (1855‑1931); his wife, Ada Bronnum Rosasco (1855‑1927); their son, William S. Rosasco II (1895‑1944); daughter-in-law, Ethel (Paderick) Rosasco Thomas (1899‑1974); and grandson, William S. Rosasco III (b. 1929).  The papers reflect the commercial, social and civic activities of the family, with emphasis on the Rosasco Brothers Company and its shipping activities; the development by Peter (Pedro) Rosasco of the Bay Point Mill Company, in Santa Rosa County; and other interests of the family.

            Includes ledgers and business papers of Rosasco Brothers, Pensacola, 1881‑1939; accounts of A. T. Rosasco, of Genoa, Italy, and papers relating to barging and tugboating, 1941‑1958.  With genealogical notes on the Rosasco, Paderick and Bronnum families, 1842‑1927; papers of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Rosasco II, 1910‑1950, with correspondence, 1910‑1944, relating to the Revellers of Ariola; papers relating to the Pensacola Port Authority, 1943‑1945, the Aiken Towing Company and Santa Rosa Lumber Company, 1944‑1961; and various family photographs.

            With undated autobiographical note by F. H. Cobb; papers relating to the Bagdad Land and Lumber Company, the Robinson Point Lumber Company, and other firms, 1908‑1936; notes on the lumber industry in the Bagdad area; correspondence, 1930‑1939, between A. T. Rosasco, Genoa, Italy, and W. S. Rosasco I (and II), of Pensacola; papers relating to the libeling of the bark "Launberga," 1917; correspondence of Ethel Paderick Rosasco Thomas, including letters of Sidney J. Catts, William Halsey, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Chester Nimitz, Robert. L. F. Sikes, Fuller Warren, Adm. Forrest Sherman, Charles 0. Andrews, and Claude Pepper; and documents relating to the establishment of the Recreation Center for servicemen in Pensacola, 1941.  With correspondence and papers of W. S. Rosasco III, including records of his service in the Boy Scouts of America and of his business and civic activities in Santa Rosa County.

            83,500 items (4.6 c.f.) and 56 volumes.  Gift of Mrs. Ethel Paderick Rosasco Thomas and William S. Rosasco, III.

            Accession M1968-4, M1969-04, M1972-10, M1977-03.

 

 

Rosasco, William S., III

            Personal papers, including genealogical materials, records of the Santa Rosa Lumber Company, the Pensacola Brikcrete and Block Company, the Milton Exchange Hotel; Mr. Rosasco's papers as a delegate to the 1984 Democratic National Convention, including the John Glenn for President campaign in Florida, with videotape of CNN interviews and coverage; the World Trade Council of Northwest Florida and its trade mission to German; and Mr. Rosasco's campaign for the Florida Senate, 1986; and other records reflecting personal and business activities in Northwest Florida, Milton, and Santa Rosa County.

            With additional research materials on the Rosasco Family and lineage, 14th century to present, including research on the Danish ancestry, the Monichen Family, the Bronnum Family, and Bishop Sixtus Ademsen Aspach.

            15.0 c.f.    Gift of William S. Rosasco III.

            Uncataloged.

            Accession M1990-13, M1980-12.

 

 

Rosasco, William S., III.  Federal Savings and Loan Papers.

            Personal papers, 1957-1960, of William S. Rosasco, III, concerning the planning and application papers for a federal savings and loan association in Milton, Florida, 1957-1960.  Records include biographical statements of the Board of Directors, correspondence and chronological files, newspaper clippings, and related information on the Savings and Loan industry in 1959.

            204 items (.26 c.f.).  Gift of William S. Rosasco III.

            Accession M1991-01.

 

 

Rosasco, William S., III.  First National Bank of Santa Rosa Papers.

            Personal papers, 1981-1985, of William S. Rosasco, III, concerning the planning, establishment, and opening of the First National Bank of Santa Rosa, Milton, Florida.  Includes Board of Directors' records, correspondence with federal regulators, newspaper clippings, and related materials concerning bank operations and policies. 

            809 items (.70 c.f.).  Gift of William S. Rosasco III.

            Accession M1990-14.

 

 

Rosasco, Pietro Luigi (1867-1947)

            Historical notes on the Bay Point Mill Company, 1904-1925, with other papers relating to Pietro Rosasco and the firm.

            4 items.  Gift of Mr. Walter Rosasco.

            Accession M1973-9/2.

 

 

Rosasco-Soule, Adelia

            Author; Poet Laureate of West Florida, 1986-1988.

            Personal papers chiefly consisting of manuscript and typescript literary works including short stories about her life and career, travel diaries, and other writings about the Rosasco family, French customs and habits, Nepal, Italy, Yugoslavia, Washington, D.C., and growing up in Bay Point, Milton, and Pensacola.

            264 items (.88 c.f.).  Gift of Adelia Rosasco-Soule.

            Accession M1981-10.

 

 

Rucker, Brian R.

            History of Santa Rosa County, 1821-1860, Ph.D. thesis for Florida State University, 1990. 

            901 leaves (photocopy) (.35 c.f.).  Original manuscript owned by writer.      Accession M1990-09.

 

 

Rucker, Brian

            Photocopy typescript transcription of records of the U. S. Navy Meteorological Station at Pensacola, Florida covering climate and temperatures at Pensacola, 1879-1940.

            1 folder.

            West Florida Collection No. 413.

 

 

Runyan, William B.

            Family papers and business records of the Runyan & Burgoyne Lumber Company, of Pensacola and Manistee, Ala., 1899‑1911, and the Manistee & Repton Railroad Company, 1907‑1911.  With correspondence of C. P. Gonzalez, a student at the University of Alabama, 1929‑1938.

            400 items (.68 c.f.).   Gift.

            Accession M1971-07.