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Scrapbooks, 1968-1987, of Jean McCrellen, Pensacola, Florida including newspaper clippings primarily concerning genealogy and family history in Pensacola and West Florida. Topics include cemetery research, families, family reunions, surnames, and the Family Quest columns of Dot Brown from the Pensacola News Journal. Key names and subjects include Austen Nolf, Pat Enfinger, F. Wilbur Helmbold, G. Norman Simons, the Quina family, Irish genealogy, Gladys Daw, Dicy Bowman, Dean DeBolt, and the West Florida Genealogical Society.

Partial exhibit files offered by plaintiff in the United States District Court suit, McMillan versus Escambia County, 1977, seeking to establish single member district elections for Escambia County Commissioners. These files are mostly photocopies of records and reports, 1955-1977, of both the City of Pensacola and Escambia county showing breakdowns by race in such areas as school board members and teachers, elected officials, appointments to committees and public boards, election poll workers, local government employment, and allocation of road paving projects and recreational facilities. Other materials include U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity reports, U.S. Housing and Urban Development applications for community block development funds, affirmative action plans, annual budget and audit reports, and federal revenue sharing applications. Additional files cover the 1959 extablishment of at-large voting; campaign disclosure files for Louis L. Brown, Peter Gindl, Charles E. Deese, Kenneth J. Kelson, Jack Kenney, Marvin Beck, Zearl Lancaster; and the proposed charter for Escambia County.