Collections

Photocopies of correspondence, remarks from the Fine Arts Festival honoring Lamar Dodd, interview with Dr. Champion by Brian Hitchens

This collection relates to John C. Henning who served in the Eighth Air Force, Second Air Division, 14th Combat Wing, 392nd Heavy Bombardment Group, 578th Squadron at Station #18 at Wendling, England during World War II. The collection contains privately published statistics for the 392nd Heavy Bombardment Group.

Includes diaries of John Daley, Charles Nichols, and Wallace Carlberg, written while aboard the DM-29, Mine Fleet 3, USN. Ship log books include that of the USS Wiley DM-29 from Nov.1 - Dec.31, 1944, and that of the USS Shamrock Bay, CVE-84, from Nov.1 - 30, 1944.

Holograph letter written by John D. Bates, Sr. in 1863 to his son, John D. Bates, Jr. of Boston, Mass. The letter relates to the capture of the Confederate cruiser FLORIDA. Also discusses briefly France's offer of the Mexican crown to Maximilian. Along with the letter and its envelope, there are two enclosures. One is a holograph letter from Captain William Lull (1863) to John D. Bates, Sr. in regard to his ship. The other is a handwritten sheet of instructions on firing a furnace.

This item is an original letter bearing the signature of John D. Gray, Tallahassee, Florida, March 24, 1836, addressed to Philip Ford. The letter discussed "End Plates" and "Spikes;" evidently to be used in the construction of the St. Joseph-Lake Wimico Railroad, the first railroad built in Florida.

This collection relates to John D. Griffin, a World War II memorabilia collector who assembled this collection. This collection contains letters and documents related to a German soldier who was killed in action on the Russian front in 1943, German death notice cards, Japanese propaganda, Honorable Discharge forms and certificates, Pretzel, Gillepsie and Stouffer letters discussing their time in China, the initiation of the Pretzel Stouffer Law Firm, and photographs at the China House in Chongqing, China.

The John D. MacDonald Collection contains 271 books by John Dann MacDonald published in various editions and languages between 1948 and 1995.

Photographs of John E. Champion with politicians, various administration, and a picture of his granddaughter with a sugar replica of Westcott.