Collections

This collection contains biographical material, photographs, and sheet music related to Anne Roselle's career as a soprano during the early to mid twentieth century. Most of the sheet music dates from the turn of the century through the 1940s. Biographical information includes awards, lists of performances, news articles, and personal recollections by Ms. Roselle. Promotional material is also included, as well as official portraits and candid photographs.

The collection contains materials from the different eras that the Konsler family was involved with Florida Southern College. Rev. C.T. Howes attended the College while it was in Sutherland and later Lakeland (1921-1923) while his daughter attended the College in Lakeland (1942-1944). She was also later involved with the Alumni Association. This collection has been arranged chronologically.

Research files of Paul Deschenes consisting of photographs, technical manuals, newspaper clippings, magazines, and other materials concerning aviation, primarily dealing with the various models and types of aircraft from earliest planes in the 1900s up to 1970.

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other materials concerning Lieutenant Marston of Pensacola who was killed in action with the Allied Expeditionary Forces in France, July 1918. Correspondents include Lois Mayes, Frank Allen Patillo, and Duncan Fletcher. Also includes papers concerning naming of American Legion post in Pensacola after Marston and on Mrs. Marston's trip to France to the American cemeteries in 1931. Additional items include materials on the death of Pensacola merchant Frank Marston and glass lantern slides of Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, Paraguay, and the Danish West Indies.

Personal papers and photographs (1913-1965) covering her education at Pensacola High School (1913-1917) and at Duke University (1937), her activities in Campfire Girls, and as a missionary in Argentina for the Southern Baptist Convention (1922-1926), and literary manuscripts of her work as a poet.  Other materials include Pensacola High School memorabilia (1920-1922) of Mary Louise Davis, and records of her father Charles T. Davis and his patent medicine business (Davis Remedy manufactured in Pensacola), as well as numerous family photographs.

Personal papers, including publications, citations, and photographs, reflecting personal and military career interests. Subjects include Nantucket, Massachusetts, Lenin, World War II, and General Westmorelard.

This record group contains materials produced and used by the Florida Southern College Public Relations Department and its predecessors. Materials include photographs, many of which were also used to illustrate The Interlachen yearbook and other college publications. Photographs include buildings, students, faculty and staff, and dignitaries and visitors to the campus. In addition to photographs, the collection includes news releases produced by the college and news articles relevant to the college. Several large, bound albums are present, and these contain news articles dating back to 1922 and the college's arrival in Lakeland.

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.

The Waverly records include Office Files about day-to-day business mostly between 1930 and 1950's. Of special note are the files from the WWII years discussing rationed items. James C. Morton (JCM) was an operations director, and his files date mostly in the 1950's and are about fruit. Operations and Supply files include documents about running and supplying the Waverly complex. The Membership newsletters are dated 1937 and 1938, then jump to 1957 and run until 1977. Files from Audio-Visual materials include scrapbooks, photographs, and negatives. The first scrapbook includes images for a retirement party for W.C. "Bill" Pedersen. Bill Pedersen created the Waverly Welcome House (photographs), a rest area and spot for tourists to learn about citrus growing, while purchasing fruit. The Welcome House was located between Cypress Gardens and Bok Singing Tower, along Route No. 540 in central Florida. The second scrapbook, includes, clippings, documents and photographs of people and places around the compound

This collection contains correspondence between William L. Drew and various companies and entities involved in the Florida Citrus Industry during the 1920s.