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Sister City Scrapbook, 1962-1983, Date acquired: 07/13/2017 1.00 folders

Taylor, Sanford

Digital images with printed copy of scrapbook concerning the Pensacola People to People Council, Inc., and its successor, Pensacola Sister Cities International, Inc., 1962-1983, including newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, pamphlets, brochures and other materials collected by Sanford Taylor about Pensacola's connections with sister cities of Chimbote, Peru; Miraflores, Peru; and Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Includes materials concerning Harold B. Grow, Mrs. John A. Merritt (Betty Merritt), Mrs. Calvin Todd (Anne Todd), Vince Whibbs, Reinhold Holm, as well as materials about the Chimbote earthquake, visits of officials from sister cities, the Reader's Digest award to the city, and the involvement of the University of West Florida.

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Sister City, Waverly, Iowa, 1970-1973 Folder 2

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Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve, 1965-2011 2 Linear Feet

Materials largely relate to the history and preservation of the Six Miles Cypress Slough Preservation, including oral histories, advocacy works, and news articles. Oral histories were collected through Dr. Carlson's Research in Public History course, primarily from 2012.

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Sixto Campano Collection, Circa 1848-1974 17 Volumes

The Sixto Campano Collection contains 1,076 pieces of original American sheet music dating from 1848 to 1974, with almost 900 titles published before 1924. The bulk of the collection contains pre- and post-Civil War minstrel pieces, commomnly known as "plantation melodies", as well as ragtime, vaudeville, blues, and jazz pieces. Noted composers and songwriters include W.C. Handy, Scott Joplin, John Rosamond Johnson, Bob Cole and Bert Williams. Images, illustrations and photographs demonstrate 19th and early 20th century attitudes towards African Americans and include Gene Buck, Walter Dittmar and the Starmer Brothers.

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