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Records of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) of Pensacola, Florida, 1881-present. Includes annual reports, minutes, newspaper clippings, press releases, and photographs and other materials concerning the history of the YMCA, its buildings, programs, and activities in Pensacola. Key individuals include Oscar Brock, Maurice Davis, and Robert Hart. Includes materials on the United Service Organization (USO).

The bulk of this collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and photographs. A wide variety of materials related to Gagarin's family and his ballet performances are included, as well as items regarding Russian nobility, perfume advertising and the perfume industry, deportation, immigration, World War II, the Tampa Municipal Hospital, the Florida State Hospital, the Pan-American Federation, and letters to the United States President regarding the death of John F. Kennedy. The bulk of this collection consists of business and personal correspondence. Miscellaneous materials include photographs, employment applications, Gagarin's birth certificate and marriage license, receipts, perfume advertisements, and newspaper clippings.

This collection includes photographs of the Watrous family, especially Louise and her sisters Mary and Margaret, photos of Claibourne and Louise Phipps, correspondence, copies of news clippings about the Phipps family, a journal (1854), a character book (1913), and an autograph book (1881-1883).

This collection contains photographs, papers, and ephemera of the Florida AFL-CIO labor union that Allen collected in his 29 years of service to the organization.