Pensacola Lost Neighborhoods Collection, 1999, Date acquired: 07/14/1999
Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Pensacola News Journal
- Extent:
- 35.00 items
- Language:
- English
Background
- Scope and content:
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.
NOTES: The Pensacola News Journal ran several articles on the "Lost Neighborhoods" and requested readers to write letters and share reminiscences. These collected letters and materials (which make up the above collection) were donated to Special Collections at a reception at UWF in July 1999.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Pensacola News Journal, July 14, 1999
- Processing information:
Cataloged 05/29/2003
- Arrangement:
Chronological; letters are alphabetical
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
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
