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

Personal papers, 1933-1961, including correspondence, land abstracts, plat maps, and related material of organizations that Mr. Robertson was active in, or for, which he performed legal services, primarily in Santa Rosa County. Correspondents include Lex Green, Bob Sikes, Millard F. Caldwell, Claude Pepper, Charles Andrews; Florida Governors LeRoy Collins, Spessard L. Holland, Fuller Warren; and John C. Malone, Ashley Pace, and J. Edgar Hoover.

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.

The Rob Rollins collection contains 306 photographs in Hollywood, Florida from 1930 to 1949. Photographs include individuals, groups, buildings, homes, landscapes, cemeteries, and Hollywood Maid Bakery.

The Rogers Family Papers contain correspondence, speeches, ephemera, photographs, newspaper clippings and publications from 1930 to 1992 documenting Dwight L. Rogers, his family, and his career in the Florida House of Representatives as well as the United States Congress. Ephemera include political promotional flyers for the election of Paul Grant Rogers, son of Dwight L. Rogers, to the United States Congress. Correspondence includes a letter to Florence Roberts Rogers, wife of Dwight L. Rogers, from the Fort Lauderdale Park Methodist church. Publications include pamphlets from Broward County social clubs.

The collection contains personal and business documents of Rosa Holmes Walker, a Black funeral home director and businesswoman active in Jacksonville, Florida, during the early twentieth century. Included in the collection are materials relating to business records, ledgers, death certificates, removal and burial permits, funeral home bills and correspondence, and real estate correspondence from New York, New York. The collection also includes materials from her relatives, Henry and Fannie Glover of St. Augustine, Florida (early twentieth century) and to the Glovers of South Carolina (nineteenth century). Inclusive years are 1871-1943, with the bulk of the materials from 1920-1930. Few personal items are included in the collection. The Collection complements the Eartha M.M. White Collection as a source for Black history in Jacksonville, Florida, and provides documentation of a successful businesswoman flourishing in early twentieth century Northeast Florida.