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This oral history interview transcript relates to the life experiences of Catherine Black, an American woman who grew up in the Great Depression and came of age during World War II. Black recounts growing up during the Great Depression, graduating college, her life on the home front, and her life after the war. She discusses raising a child when her husband was at war, living in Arkansas near a Japanese internment camp, becoming a early widow after the war, her remarrige, and her second husband's experiences as a B17 Bomber Pilot during the War.

Collection includes letters with holograph poems, one of which was by Ernest Dowson. Newspaper clippings, newsletters and two pictures - one of Governor John W. Martin and one of Major John W. Tench.

This collection contains one scrapbook created by Southern College student Catherine Young in the 1920s. It presents an intomate view of student life in the 1920s. Of special interest are photos of Southern College when it was temporarily located at Clearwater immediately prior to the 1922 move to Lakeland, as well as a pristine copy of The Southern (student newspaper) from February 4, 1921. Also included is a copy of an early Alma Mater for Southern College, as well as newspaper clippings, programs, and ephemera related to events at both Clearwater and Lakeland.

Politician; Governor of Florida, 1917-1921.