Burrow, Dorothy, Papers, 1840-1979, Date acquired: 07/00/1983
Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Burrow, Dorothy
- Extent:
- 1489.00 items
- Language:
- English
Background
- Scope and content:
Personal papers, 1840-1979, including records as a student, 1916-1919; as a teacher at Pensacola High School, 1928-1967; memorabilia and letters about life at Florida State College for Women, 1919-1923; summer studies at Columbia, 1929; the University of Virginia, 1938; and the University of Wisconsin, 1930. Includes considerable family records of her parents, John McMillan Burrow and Nelle Agnes Barrington Burrow and other relatives including the Anderson, Burrow, Cresap, Pyle, and Vaughn families of Pensacola; the Barrington, Burrow, Conner families of Wabash, Indiana; and the Medbury and Phillips families of St. Mary's, Ohio.
Subject files include the First Presbyterian Church, Pensacola, 1917-1959, and the hurricanes of 1906 and 1926. Of special note are the letters of two brothers and a nephew of their studies at Annapolis Naval Academy (1920s, 1930s, and 1950s) and subsequent correspondence about life in the Navy, especially the Naval destroyer accident in 1938.
Additional items include a collection of paper dolls, 1910-1918, mostly from the Ladies Home Journal, and small collections of Christmas, Valentine, and Easter greeting cards, 1890s-1950.
- Acquisition information:
- Ann Lett, Pensacola, Florida, from the estate of Dorothy Burrow, July 1983
- Processing information:
Cataloged 07/22/1983
- Arrangement:
Arrangement is chronological.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Wabash (Ind.)
Saint Mary's (Ohio).
Hurricanes--Florida--Gulf Coast.
Midshipmen--Maryland--Annapolis--Correspondence.
Yellow fever--Florida--Pensacola.
Winter Garden (Fla.)
Pensacola (Fla.)--Mardi Gras.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe.
High school students--Florida--Pensacola.
Women teachers--Florida--Pensacola.
Women college students--Florida.
School records--Florida--Pensacola.
Greeting cards.
Genealogies.
Paper dolls--United States.
Christmas cards.
Valentine cards.
Easter cards. - Names:
- Pensacola High School.
Florida State College for Women.
Columbia University.
University of Virginia.
University of Wisconsin.
First Presbyterian Church (Pensacola, Fla.)
United States Naval Academy.
United States. Navy.
Saint John's Cemetery, Pensacola (Fla.)
Anderson family.
Burrows family.
Burrow family.
Conner family.
O'Connor family.
Cresap family.
Pyle family.
Vaughan family.
Vaughn family.
Barrington family.
Medbury family.
Phillips family--Genealogy.
Burrow, Dorothy, 1902-1980.
Burrow, John McMillan.
Burrow, Nelle Agnes Barrington.
Burrow, Nellie Linn. - Places:
- Pensacola (Fla.)
Access and use
- 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:
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University Archives and West Florida History Center11000 University PkwyPensacolaFL32514USA
