Bruce, William George, Papers, 1881-1978, Date acquired: 00/00/1985

Summary

Creator:

Bruce, William George

Extent:

5.00 items

Language:

English

Background

Scope and content:

Photocopies of a diary of a trip south, 1921, and a scrapbook, 1881-1978, of William George Bruce, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin businessman and Pensacola, Florida shipyard owner. The diary documents Mr. Bruce's trip to New Orleans and Pensacola, including the Pensacola Navy Yard, and the Bruce, Ollinger, and Watson families, with photographs. The scrapbook covers newspaper clippings, especially family marriages and deaths, for Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Pensacola, Milton, Bagdad and Blackwater, Florida. Subjects include poetry, yellow fever, race problems, and the Blackwater Academy. A separate index ia available.

OTHER INFORMATION:

There are additional collections available pertaining to the Watson, Bruce, and Johnson families.

Negatives of the photographs in the diary are filed with photographic negatives under collection number M1985-10.

Acquisition information:

photocopied from original diary and scrapbook loaned by Martin Bruce, 1985

Processing information:

Cataloged 11/24/1985

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Poetry.
Yellow Fever.
Race Relations.
Milwaukee (Wis.)
Florida--Race relations.
Bagdad (Fla.)
Blackwater (Fla.)
New Orleans (La.)--Description and travel.
Memphis, Tennessee--Description and travel.
Pensacola (Fla.)--Yellow Fever.
Marianna (fla.)--Description and travel.
Businessmen--Florida--Pensacola.
Businessmen--Wisconsin--Milwaukee.
Diaries--Louisiana--New Orleans.
Scrapbooks--Florida.
Scrapbooks--Wisconsin--Milwaukee.
Death notices--Florida.
Death notices--Wisconsin--Milwaukee.
Announcements--Florida.
Announcements--Wisconsin--Milwaukee.
Photographs--Florida.
Photographs--Wisconsin--Milwaukee.
Diaries--Florida--Pensacola.

Names:

Blackwater Academy.
Pensacola Navy Yard (Fla.)
St. Michael's Church--Clergymen.
Bruce Dry Docks.
Bagdad Dry Docks.
Ellis family--Genealogy.
Johnson family--Genealogy.
Bruce, William George, 1856-1949.
Watson family.
Bruce family.
Ollinger family.
Davis family.
Moehring family.
Mallory, Stephen Russell, 1848-1907.
Voss family.
Bruce, Wallace.
Chaffin family.
Cawthon family.
Ferguson family.
Crenshaw family.
Fabry family.
Harvey family.
Rosasco, Mrs. Peter.

Places:

Pensacola (Fla.)
Milton (Fla.)
Pensacola (Fla.)--Description and Travel.
New Orleans (La.)

Restrictions:

Open to researchers, dependent on our compliance with U.S. Copyright Law, HIPPA requirements, donor agreements and other applicable state and federal statutes. Occasionally we may need to review a collection before permitting immediate access.

Terms of access:

Digital photography, scanning, and photocopying of materials is prohibited. Permission may be granted by the Special Collections Librarian for such reprography dependent on issues of copyright, ownership, condition, donor agreements, etc. In general, staff do not make reproductions of copyright materials or materials for which title is not owned by the institution. Recent revisions in the U.S. Copyright Law extended the copyright of correspondence, letters, and other personal papers to the life of the author plus seventy years.

Location of this collection:

UWF University Archives and West Florida History Center

University Archives and West Florida History Center

11000 University Pkwy

Pensacola

FL

32514

USA

Contact:

https://uwf.edu/library/databases-and-collections/university-archives-and-west-florida-history-center/