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This collection contains an assortment of personal belongings of Carlos Barnett and his family and their transition to the United States. This includes personal letters, immigration papers, photographs, negatives of photographs, obituaries, and personal mementos, including of religious beliefs.

Papers of Dixie Hollins family and estate, focusing on business records related to holdings in St. Petersburg and Crystal River areas of Florida, primarily from the 1920s until the 1980s. These business interests include the Pasadena Golf/Country Club, St. Petersburg Printing Company, various municipal bonds, residential properties, and especially the Hollinswood Ranch estate situated near Crystal River, Florida.

The 17th-20th Century Correspondence and Documents consists of letters, documents, and various forms of correspondence relating to notable names and celebrities from between 1618 and 1981.

The Waverly records include Office Files about day-to-day business mostly between 1930 and 1950's. Of special note are the files from the WWII years discussing rationed items. James C. Morton (JCM) was an operations director, and his files date mostly in the 1950's and are about fruit. Operations and Supply files include documents about running and supplying the Waverly complex. The Membership newsletters are dated 1937 and 1938, then jump to 1957 and run until 1977. Files from Audio-Visual materials include scrapbooks, photographs, and negatives. The first scrapbook includes images for a retirement party for W.C. "Bill" Pedersen. Bill Pedersen created the Waverly Welcome House (photographs), a rest area and spot for tourists to learn about citrus growing, while purchasing fruit. The Welcome House was located between Cypress Gardens and Bok Singing Tower, along Route No. 540 in central Florida. The second scrapbook, includes, clippings, documents and photographs of people and places around the compound

This collection centers around a Brigadier General in the U.S. Air Force.  It includes items related to his time in the military and his personal life before and after retirement. It includes personal letters, special orders, magazines, books, newspapers and clippings, event brochures, pamphlets, education records, personnel files, flight logs, photographs, VHS Tapes, cassette tapes, and flags spanning from the 1930s until the early 2000s.

This collection relates to Robert S. McClelland who served as U.S. Navy liaison with the 7th U.S. Army during World War II. The materials in the Robert S. McClelland collection consist of eleven original photographs covering the liberation of a German concentration camp, a crematorium, photographs of the German town of Gmünd, and a photocopy of Robert S. McClelland's U.S. Naval record. The items in the collection include badges, buttons, an armband, a silver spoon, and haberdashery all relating to different Nazi party groups such as the Deutscher Volkssturm Wehrmacht, the National Socialist People's Welfare, the Women's Reicharbeitdienst and the Nazi party in general.

This collection relates to the 484th Bombardment Group (Heavy) that was assigned to the 15th Air Force and based in Torretta, Italy as a component of the Foggia Airfield Complex during World War II and assigned B-24 Liberator heavy bombers.  The materials contained in this collection were subsequently assembled during the post-war period by the 484th Bombardment Group Association.  The collection contains official reports, data sheets, statistics, newspapers, Missing Air Crew Reports, personal histories, photographs, and unit histories.