Collections

This collection contains records both personal and organizational of the Headquarters located in East Orange, New Jersey, between the years of 1948-1949. These records include correspondence, financial statements, member rosters and cards, programs, photographs, publications, and records of memorial services. Also included in this collection are numerous ribbons, delegate badges, and other miscellaneous ephemera.

The Bank of America Black American Sheet Music Collection consists of approximately 4000 pieces of published sheet music created, performed, or published by African American musicians in the nineteenth or twentieth centuries or that portrays African American themes during these periods in the United States.

This collection contains research records about Egmont Key compiled by Barbara Schmidt in the course of research about Egmont Key, with an emphasis on the modern military history of the site. The records, many of which are reproduced from originals in the Smithsonian and other places, provide insight into the management of the site by the U.S. armed forces, the personnel who served there, its role in public health, its defenses and structures (including Fort Dade), and those who were buried on the site. This collection focuses on the Fort Dade period (1898-1923), when the U.S. military maintained an active presence and erected defenses on facilities.

The collection is comprised of an over-size scrapbook which details the opening of Bartke's Restaurant at Tampa International Airport on August 17, 1952 as well as numerous newspaper clippings and photographs of Tampa International Airport during the 1950s. Included are restaurant reviews, editorials and special feature articles about groups who booked dinners at Bartke's Restaurant.

Includes account books of William O. Bearss, tax assessments, abstract titles of land, Amanda Bearss' autobiography (manuscript, photocopy and typescript form), and assorted family papers documenting the family's citrus and other agricultural enterprises, land dealings and activities.

This collection consists of eleven 10 1/2 inch reels of 1/2 inch magnetic audio tapes used as the basis for a record album released by Kaloosa Records of Tampa, Florida in 1972. The music was recorded live at the White Springs Bluegrass Festival, held at the Steven Foster Memorial Folk Festival in White Springs, Florida. Ben Brown, a University of South Florida graduate, produced and directed the recording. Performers featured at the festival included Charlie Cox, Dave Bellamy, Country Grass, Chubby Anthony, Dale Crider, Grade and the Good Guys, Thompson family, Orange Blossom Bluegrass, Rose City Boys of Thomasville, Georgia, and Sunny Bluegrass.