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The materials in this collection represent the subject's work as a photographer and postcard artist/collector in early 20th century Dennmark and Wisconsin.

This collection primarily consists of newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, and personal notes regarding Roberts City residents and culture.

Genealogical research papers and materials concerning John Roberts, Zachariah Wesley Roberts, John Rich, James Rich, Benjamin Franklin Tidwell, Lewis Benton, and related families of Alexander, Andress, Andrews, Antone, Archer, Bell, Benton, Biggs, Booker, Burns, Butler, Butt, Byrd, Clifford, Clopton, Coe, Conley, Danforth, Ellis, Etheridge, Frazier, Gates, Gibson, Gilmore, Goldbach, Grant, Green, Johnson, Jones, Koza, Leone, Lutz, McQuigg, McWilliams, Mills, Moore, Morton, Neal, Oberhaus, Phillips, Pickert, Pierce, Pinney, Pokrant, Price, Rich, Richards, Roberts, Robertson, Schlafer, Staples, Stewart, Tidwell, Tolton, Watson, and Watt families of Pensacola, Florida, and Pleasant Grove (Escambia County), Florida; Mobile County, Alabama; and southern Alabama. Includes census and lists of residents of Warrington and Woolsey, Florida in 1878, and a dwelling survey of Warrington in 1930-1931.

Business forms, letterhead papers, blueprints, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, sound recording, and related materials. This collection deals with the Rosasco and Bronnum families and their history and business ventures. There are family biographical sketches, and scrapbooks about William S. Rosasco Jr. and the USO during World War II. There are letters, land contracts, logging contracts, materials about land management, timber and naval stores, export documents, purchase and sale of tugboats, contracts for building barges, deeds, leases, tax papers, bills, reports, business papers about the Santa Rosa Lumber Company, the Bay Point Mill Company, Pinewood, Florida, Aiken Towing Corporation and other businesses, liquidation papers, legal papers, and a shipping businesses in Pensacola.

The Roscoe Ralph Oglesby Collection is comprised of personal correspondence and memorabilia. The correspondence, dated November 26, 1928 to May 17, 1934, includes letters from Harrel N. Tague and representatives of the YMCA as well as a letter from Governor George C. Perry of Virginia (18 items). The memorabilia, dated 1929 to 1945, includes programs from various stage productions and YMCA functions and a signed appointment from Governor Perry (44 items).

This collection consists of an oral history interview transcript of Roy Mack Holt, who was enlisted in the U.S. Navy and worked as a Navy aircraft pilot during World War II, serving on anti-submarine patrols on the Atlantic coast and the Caribbean Sea (Cuba, Brazil, and Morocco). The interview covers his life before and after service. The interview also describes his years after the war studying at Florida State University. This collection also includes a small fragment of his obituary.

The collection contains items related to Rubie Byrd Hardwick's years as a student at Florida State College for Women.