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Materials, 1946-1991, concerning Lucy Petree (1898-1991), educator, of Pensacola, Florida, and her work in founding the Eugene Petree Memorial School (1947-1950), Pensacola's first school for the retarded and handicapped and subsequent work with the Crippled Children's Home, the Pensacola Chapter of the Association for Retarded Citizens, and related activities concerning the education of retarded and handicapped children in Pensacola, Florida.

Papers, 1891-1963, includes newspaper clippings, school records, and other materials of Edgar W. Pfeiffer (1926-1943), Gertrude Pfeiffer Jorden (1919-1954), Mary Elizabeth Briggs Council Pfeiffer (1927-1963), and related materials of the Joseph C. Pfeiffer, Sr. family of Pensacola. Includes school records for Sacred Heart Academy and Pensacola High School; dance and social invitations to area clubs, 1926-1930; information on Pfeiffer's Bakery; and papers of related Jorden and Wigand families.

This collection contains the personal papers of Sergeant Philip Hosid of Company D 110th Infantry Regiment of the 11th Armored Division. In this collection are Hosid's discharge papers, Certificate for a Bronze Star, Authorization for Issuance of Awards, Newspaper clippings of 11th Armored Division's liberation of Mauthausen, a Certificate of Appreciation,The Thunderbolt: The Official Publication of the 11th Armored Division, and an 11th Armored Division periodical.

This collection relates to Staff Sergeant Philip Lester Brinson who served with the U.S. Army Air Corps in the tail gunner position on B-26B aircraft number 41-18058 Martin Marauder with the 450th Bomb Squadron, 322nd Bombardment Group (Medium) during World War II. On September 9. 1943, this aircraft was hit by flak on a mission to Boulogne, France. The aircraft subsequently flipped over and crashed into the English Channel which killed the entire crew. Brinson was awarded the Purple Heart medal and Air Medal with 1 oak leaf cluster. This collection includes photographs, documents, Brinson's engraved Purple Heart Medal, and his wallet that was returned to the family after his death.

The collection of Philip Stockton May contains a nine-page memoir. His memoir is about his experience from when he volunteered for the service in 1943 from Jacksonville, Florida to 1965 when he married a U.S. Navy widow.

Nine original typescripts by author Philip Wylie, many with manuscript notes and edits. Includes the text of two addresses given by Wylie at Florida State University in 1956 and 1958.

The Phillip Weidling Collection contains 91 photographs, negatives, and papers that belonged to the Weilding family of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The photographs document the early airfields and aviators of Broward County, the early history of Port Everglades, the development of the city of Sunrise in the 1950s, boats, and golfing during the 1910s-1920s.

This collection relates to U.S. Navy Signalman 1st Class Phillip King Zimmerman who served aboard the U.S.S. Boston as a part of the first crew and the U.S.S. Baltimore heavy cruisers during World War II in the Pacific Theater. This collection includes two logbooks that Phillip Zimmerman maintained during his tour aboard the Boston , information relating to Zimmerman's oral history, photographs from service, two of his hats, and ephemera.