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Correspondence, papers, records, journals, cashbooks (or account books), scrapbooks, newspaper articles, passport, currency, manuscripts, books, songs, pictures, stamps, clippings and legal papers. This collection contains a wide variety of materials. The correspondence, papers, records, bookkeeping journals and cash books of Julius Diamond reflect the economic conditions of the time and are good examples of how merchandising business was conducted. The scrapbook, assembled by John W. Trench, contains manuscripts, Civil War letters and clippings, describing events such as the battles of Gettysburg, Bull Run and Vicksburg. There is an original holograph passport issued by Consul General at Marseilles, France, to a native of Italy, taken during the war. Newspaper clippings discuss the price of gold, burial ceremonies, and the sale of enslaved persons. Also included are recipes, poems, songs and jokes written during and about the Civil War, as well as other historical documents not preserved elsewhere.

This collection contains banking records from various businesses and banks dating back to the early 19th century. Included are bank receipts, record books, cash and receipt books, and financial ledgers. Such records are from the Gradner Maine General Store, Edwin Robinson, and the York County Water County.

Publications, programs, brochures, and records concerning the history of the Saenger Theatre in pensacola, Florida from its building in 1924 through restoration in 1981 and history since. Includes research notes, photocopies, newspaper clippings, photographs, and memorabilia.

The collection primarily consists of photocopies of manuscripts, scores, and printed music composed by Gardner. A photograph and biographical documents are also included.

This collection is comprised primarily of typescripts and carbon copies of correspondence, legal documents, and other papers from the files of Tampa lawyer Martin Caraballo, receiver of the Sanchez and Haya Real Estate Company and trustee for the Sanchez estate. The papers relate primarily to management of rental properties, real estate, and other assets belonging to the Company and the Sanchez estate. It includes a small number of documents relating to the Sanchez y Haya Cigar Company and its acquisition by Gradiaz-Annis Company in 1930. Also present are documents relating to several lawsuits involving the Sanchez estate. The bulk of the papers date from the period 1923 to 1942 and chronicle the declining fortunes of the Sanchez estate (due to the economic distress generated by the collapse of the Florida land boom in 1925-1926 and the subsequent  economic depression of the 1930s).

A group of land records, 1856-1935, including mortgages, land grants, promissory notes, and other materials for lands in Santa Rosa County. Includes such firms as Balentine and Whitley, Milton, Florida; S. J. Stewart & Bro., Milton, florida; and Presidential land grants signed in proxy by Franklin Pierce, and William McKinley. An annotated calendar of names and land descriptions is available in the collection inventory.

Voter Registration Books, 1914-1950 of primary and general elections, and poll tax registers, 1928-1936, for Santa Rosa County, Florida. Registration books are arranged by precinct, show name of voter, age, occupation, city or place of residence, and election, with occasional notes of place moved to, married name, or reason for deletion from the rolls (death, etc.). Poll tax registers show name of voter and receipt number for that year. Each ledger is indexed by initial letter of surname.

The Alex and Carol Stepick Collection consists of materials depicting the plight of the Cuban and Haitian refugees in the 1980s in Miami, Florida. The documents detail the treatment of refugees once on American soil and the condition in the countries they were escaping from; highlighting the contrasting experiences of Cuban and Haitian refugees. The collection demonstrates the work of Dr. Alex Stepick, Florida International University Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, in emphasizing the refugee situation on a local and national level. Materials also detail political lobbying on behalf of the Haitian refugees, and increasing awareness of their situation. The collection contains scholarly research, studies, and publications relating to the Cuban and Haitian refugees. The collection includes census-related materials, congressional records, economic reports, letters, newspaper articles, political materials, press releases, professional publications, research notes, surveys, etc.

The Scarborough Papers include correspondence pertaining to mercantile business, land plats and deeds, a journal of mercantile business and plantation records. These materials about Scarborough's business afford a clear picture of early Florida merchandising and farming and contain many names of citizens of West Florida and of South Georgia. There are printed materials such as Hazeltine's almanac, The delineator and Literary digest. The 1907 Christmas issue of The delineator contains a number of Christmas songs, recipes and any amount of "styles of the month." The newspapers in the collection include six issues of The Sun, a Tallahassee, Florida, newspaper. These issues contain articles about the proposed project of draining the Everglades, and tobacco growing in Leon County.