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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.

Family correspondence, 1895-1920, newspapers clippings, family photographs and various papers relating to Simpson & Company Lumber Mill, Bagdad, Florida. Mr. H.T. Wright, Mrs. Carpenter's, was a prominent member of this firm. Many photographs from Mrs. Carpenter's family photograph album, 1900-1914, were copied and deposited in the Pensacola picture file.

Papers, 1840-1981, primarily of the Joyner Family of Cahaba, Alabama, and Pensacola and Bagdad, Florida, including correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other materials of related families including Andrews, Grayson, King, Moyer, Parker, Shaddock, and Stearns. Includes records of the Bagdad Presbyterian Church, 1908-1936, by trustees C. H. Simpson and Mary Joyner, and materials on the Bagdad Post Office, 1896-1940 of which Mary was a Postmaster. Of special note is a manuscript journal, initially a store ledger of possibly a tanner, 1840-1841, and then kept by J. B. Joyner of Cahaba, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida, and continued by his wife, Emma Joyner of life in Pensacola and her move to Bagdad in 1869 to teach school.

Letters and correspondence, 1868-1916, of the Leigh family of Bagdad and Milton, Fla., consisting primarily of letters to Sue A. Leigh (later Mrs. S.A. Creary) of Bagdad from friends and relatives. Includes letters of C.H. (Hanks) Dorr describing life as a student at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, 1869-71.

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.