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Citrus Park Colored School collection, 1921-1996, 1996-11-20

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Collection consists of research materials used by the Historic Tampa-Hillsborough County Preservation Board to designate the Citrus Park Colored School as an historic landmark.

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Creek Indian Project Records, 1817-1981, Date acquired: 06/00/1981, bulk 1950-1981

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Records and papers pertaining to the Creek Indians of Northwest Florida, collected by the University of West Florida faculty members, Jane Dysart and Lucius Ellsworth, as part of a grant project. Records include research bibliographies and research publications dealing with the history of the Creek Indians from earliest settlement to 1980, census records, claims made to the federal government in 1906 and 1957, a newspaper index of materials about the Creeks in Northwest Florida (1950-1980), records about the efforts toward formal recognition, and oral histories of Creek Indians of Florida.

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Chaim Pozner collection, 1938-1949

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The Chaim Pozner Collection includes official documents relating to Dr. Pozner's work for organizations and institutions related to Jewish culture/religion, administration of Jewish affairs and land in the Middle East, and Zionism. Much of the collection is dedicated to Dr. Pozner's position as Director of the Jewish Agency for Palestine in Geneva, as well as his work with the Jewish Agency Finance Department. Additional agencies reflected in the collection are the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, Zionist General Council, Labor Zionist Committee for Relief and Rehabilitation, Inc., Zionist Organization for America, Jewish Agency for Palestine Welfare Delegation in Italy, Executif de l'organisation Sioniste Mondiale, European Relief Committee of Mizrachi and Hapoel Hamizrachi, Agence juive pour la Palestine Bureau de Paris, 22nd Zionist Congress, Zionistische Organisation Danzig, World-Union of Jewish Socialist Parties, Poale Zion--Hitachdouth, Z.-S.-Organisation JICHUD, Memorandum on the Administration of Palestine, and Directoraat-Generaal voor Bijzondere Rechtspleging Politieke Recherche-Afdeling Amsterdam.

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Russell M. Cooper papers, 1960-1975

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The papers consist of drafts and working papers for his history of early development of the University of South Florida. The papers were published as The Vision of a Contemporary University: A Case Study of Expansion and Development in American Higher Education, 1950-1975 through Tampa: University Presses of Florida, 1982.

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Walter Heinrich collection, 1958-1992

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Three quarters of the collection contains information on administration; the remaining quarter contains information on training. The administrative portion includes documents regarding the office's accreditation, creating a new jail, the Community Corrections Partnership Act, Jail Administrators Conference, a speech, and a jail report. Items concerning training consist of police and administration examinations and articles relating to basic field training.

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Barrineau, Barbara, Papers, 1946-1951, Date acquired: 07/00/1981

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Personal papers, 1946-1951, including a scrapbook, publications, commencement and football programs, and other papers reflecting activities as a student at Pensacola High School (1946-1948), as a student nurse at Sacred Heart Hospital School of Nursing (1948-1951) and at Pensacola Hospital School of Nursing Education (1948), and other activities in Pensacola during this time period.

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McCormick Bridge Proposal collection, Acquisition date: 2007, bulk 1927-1930

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This collection contains materials utilized during the president of the Tampa Subway Corporation, William T. McCormick's, toll bridge proposal, including a pitch binder full of documents, a map, a lithographic print depicting the Florida wilderness, and an article about the state of Florida's infrastructure in 1930s.

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Dr. Alvin Wolfe papers, bulk 1950-2023

Reardon, Anna Smith, Papers, 1962-1983, Date acquired: 05/00/1984

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Writer and Historian, DeFuniak Springs, Florida.

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Reese, John Lewis, Papers, Date acquired: 00/00/1984

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Personal papers concerning the Reese and West families including genealogical notes on the Pope, Orr, Reese, and West families of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi; biography of Judah P. Benjamin; diary of 1936 tour of American Southwest; Civil War recollections of Mary R. West in western Tennessee and Mississippi, and research records of Elizabeth H. West on Panton, Leslie and Company, 1931.

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