Collections

The materials in the Jordan Park Collection nearly were discarded; the good fortune of the preservation of these items is considerable. Poynter Library received the various photographs, property records, maps, documents, and scrapbooks from Dayton Stone in June 2009. These materials depict the Jordan Park residential units built by the St. Petersburg Housing Authority.

Photographs in this collection appeared in the "Negro News" section of the St. Petersburg Times in the late 1940s through early 1950s.

Collection has St. Petersburg Times' commemorative section titled, "D-Day Remembered", and represents the personal narratives relating to D-Day.

Collection of personal narratives from the attack on Pearl Harbor that appeard in the St. Petersburg Times's "Pearl Harbor Remembered" issue in 1991.

Collection of personal narratives relating to World War II were submitted to the St. Petersburg Times' 60th anniversary commemorative section.

A collection of letters and narratives about individual experiences at the close of the Second World War.