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Franklin Adams Collection, 1960-2019

13.00 Linear Feet 12 boxes
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The materials in this collection reflect the subject's interest in environmental preservation. Mr. Adams served in a number of environmental interest organizations such as the Isaac Walton League of America (IWLA), The Florida Water Task Force, and the Florida Wildlife Federation, to give but a few examples. The bulk of the collection contains correspondence, news clippings, legal documents, and blueprints/aerial maps of affected lands.

Bert Williamson Webb papers, 1941-1945, Date accessioned: 2018-10-26

1 folders
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This collection relates to Bert Williamson Webb who served as a Captain in the U.S. Army with the 178th Ordnance Depot Company during World War II in the European Theater of Operations. Webb received a Bronze Star Medal for his service. This collection includes a manuscript memoir of Webb's World War II service in the U.S. Army, photographs, unit history with roster, and pre-war cadet booklet.

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Florida Citrus Mutual Papers, 1930s-2000s

3.1 Linear Feet
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This collection encompasses various materials produced by or written on the Florida Citrus Mutual organization. It has a wide date range, with files beginning in the 1930s, and ending in the early 2000s. It includes records of legal issues, including tariffs and regulatory laws. It also includes several business files, from meeting accounts to associate records to statistics reports to marketing materials. It has the 1987-2002 Market News Bulletin for the organization. It also contains three boxes of photographs, which largely feature members of the organization.

Ellen Peterson Legacy Collection, 1923-2018

9.00 Linear Feet
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This collection includes the scrapbook and journal from her bike trip, family photos, and correspondence from various stages of her life. Also included are projector slides, Sierra Club awards, an energy map of Southwest Florida, posters, bumper stickers, Happehatchee flyers, and pictures of her Florida home, which later became a part of Happehatchee. The largest part of this collection is the newspapers documenting her effort to save the planet.

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1980s Pictures, 1980-1989 Box 3, Folder 20

 

African Safari Pictures, 1980-1989 Box 3, Folder 19

 

Harrison "Buzz" Price papers, 1948-2006

178.9 Linear Feet 357 boxes, 8 flat files
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The Harrison "Buzz" Price collection, 1952-2006 is comprised of reports, proposals, research, photographs, and company files related to Price's work career as an economics consultant for theme parks and tourist attractions. The collection primarily documents the business activities of the Harrison Price Company (HPC), but some materials from earlier projects with Economic Research Associates (ERA) are also included. This collection offers insight into the theme park and tourism industry in the U.S. and internationally. It features background research involved in planning attractions, feasibility analysis reports for attraction locations, and notes from collaborative sessions on project ideas. Price was involved in projects for Disneyland, Walt Disney World, Six Flags, Universal Studios, MGM, Cedars Fair, Knott's Berry Farm, and several other entertainment organizations and resorts. The papers are divided into eight series: Reports, Proposals, Speeches, World's Fairs, Images, Subject Research Materials, Project Research Materials, and Price Company Files. Harrison "Buzz" Price was born in Oregon City, Oregon on May 17, 1921. In 1930, his family moved to San Diego, California. In 1942, Price earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology. After serving in the Army during World War II, he also earned an M.B.A. from Stanford in 1951. That same year, Price joined the Stanford Research Institute, where he assisted in locating the site for Disneyland in Anaheim, California. He managed the Stanford Research Institute's LA office for several years before founding Economic Research Associates (ERA), a consulting company in economics, in 1958. While at ERA, Price helped to locate the site for Walt Disney World in Central Florida in 1963, wrote a Universal Studios tour feasibility analysis in 1964, and carried out 6,000 consulting studies. In 1969, Price sold ERA to Planning Research Corporation, the world's largest conglomerate of professional service consulting. He became Planning Research Corporation's Chairman of the Board after serving seven years in corporate management. Price went on to start an independent consulting company in 1978, founding the Harrison Price Company. In 1994, Price was the first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) and was elected to the International Association of Amusement Parks Hall of Fame in 1995. For 37 years and up until his death, Price served, alongside Edie Wasserman, as a trustee of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Price also published a book in 2004 about his work in the themed entertainment and attractions business titled Walt's Revolution! By the Numbers. Harrison "Buzz" Price passed away in Pomona, California on August 15, 2010, at the age of 89.

AESOP Scrapbook (Association of Educational Secretaries & Office Personnel), 1968–1998 (bulk 1968–1986)

1 Linear Feet 2 boxes: over 50 files; framed certificates, memoranda, minutes, photographs, newsletters, event memorabilia, constitutions and bylaws.
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This collection documents AESOP's local and state-level activities through a broad variety of formats:

Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council Collection, 1920-2020

408 Linear Feet
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Southwest Florida (SWFL) has a unique environmental ecosystem consisting of preserves, sanctuaries, swamps, estuaries, and coastlines. The Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council Collection offers an extensive array of documents, reports, maps, and materials documenting the development and conservation of the SWFL region from the Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council.

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Harold E. Watson collection, 1929-2013, Date acquired: 12/05/2013

5 Linear Feet 10 boxes 1 folders 1 oversized folder 1 items flag box
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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.

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2nd Bombardment Association, 1939-1988 13.0078 - Box 2, Folder 009

 

Aerospace Historian, 1966-1990 13.0078 - Box 8, Folder 006

 

Career Development, 1937-1989 13.0078 - Box 3, Folder 003

 

Burt Szabo music collection, 1955-2017

11.8 Linear Feet 30 boxes
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The Burt Szabo music collection is comprised of sheet music of pieces Burtz Szabo collected, composed, arranged, and/or published. Albert Edward "Burt" Szabo, a composer, arranger, and music educator, was born in Ohio in 1931. He composed and published several pieces of music for barbershop quartets, choruses, schools, and churches. Szabo was a faculty member of the music department at the University of Central Florida (then Florida Technological University). He taught courses in music composition, music theory, and music calligraphy and created the melody and lyrics for the university's alma mater in 1974. A strong proponent of the barbershop musical style, Szabo worked for the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) in Kenosha, Wisconsin as their Music Publications Editor from 1982 to 1992. He was inducted into the Barbershop Society Hall of Fame in 2009 and worked as an Arrangement judge for the Barbershop Harmony Society. His publications, such as the Barbershop Arranging Manual and his work on the Barbershop Harmony Society staff, cemented his long-lasting influence on the musical style. Szabo passed away in 2022.
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Gentges Family collection, 1937-2018, Date accessioned: 2018-05-07

8 Linear Feet 14-1/2 boxes, 1-full box 1 items flag box
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This collection relates to Staff Sergeant Charles R. Gentges who served with the 34th Infantry Division in the North African and Italian campaigns during World War II. He was awarded the Purple Heart Medal with two oak leaf clusters and the Bronze Star Medal. The collection also relates Charles R. Gentges' wife Florence, and daughter, Mary Elizabeth Gentges.

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34th Indiana Division Veterans Association Papers, 1950-2018 18.0014 - Box 13, Folder 002

 

Charles and Florence Marriage Related Papers, 1945-2005 18.0014 - Box 12, Folder 013

 

Photographs, 1942-1991 18.0014 - Box 13, Folder 004