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Records, 1938-1956, of the Fowler Appliance Company and its successor, the Fowler Butane Gas Company, Pensacola, 1938-1956 including customer records, social security reports for employees, tax and financial statements. [400 pieces]

This collection contains a Pre-World War II photograph album of Shanghai, a photograph album of construction of the base and social life on Samar, Philippines,  cruise books from 1958 and 1959 commemorative cruises of the USS Stribling, commissioned in 1945. The collection also contains a Fall 1957 Oak Leaf yearbook of the US Navy Supply Corps School, Athens, GA, with biographies of students from former German and Japanese World War II navies as well as American students. A 1963 cruise book commemorates the USS Yancey, commissioned in 1944. Also included is a U.S. Navy alpaca lined coat, white navy dress pants and jacket, white navy hat, two brand new green fatigue pants, a new green fatigue shirt, and three navy dress blue pants.