Collections

John Richard Pandora served in the U.S. Army during World War II in Austria. This collection contains letters from a friend Richard Boucher, who served in the U.S. Navy, European currency, photographs, a postcard, and a copy of a newspaper article.

This collection contains various materials that belonged to U.S. Navy Roman Catholic Chaplain John Robert Long, who served in the U.S. Navy from 1944-1966. The collection includes photographs, publications, religious literature and personal correspondence.

The collection of John Robert Denny contains an oral history transcript of an interview provided by the Reichelt Program for Oral History. Also included in the collection are newspapers, a map, a manuscript, letters, artifacts, fine art, documents, photographs, and ephemera. There are also letters from Denny to his parents.

Letter from John Rodman to Joseph Reed Ingersoll on behalf of a Mr. Tibball seeking to place a claim before Congress to obtain indemnification for losses sustained by him, in consequence of his being prevented from cutting timber on land granted to him by the Spanish government, before his grant should be confirmed by the U. S. Government.

The John Rodstrom Aerial Photograph Collection contains aerial photographs of Capone Island in Deerfield Beach and the Andrews Avenue Bridge and FEC Railway Bridge in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Scrapbook titled "Veterans of World War I" that contains newspaper clippings and ephemera such as programs related to veterans and Barrack No. 554 of the Veterans of World War I located in Broward County, Florida. Most clippings and ephemera date to 1958-1959.

Paul Johnson served in the Navy aboard the USS Pamanset, a fuel tanker in the Pacific Theater. This collection includes a manuscript by Johnson entitled "The Unsung Heroes of WWII: 'The Fleet Tankers': USS Pamanset AO-85". It has short recollections of Johnson's service aboard the USS Pamanset, which served in the Philippines and at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. During the war, the ship helped with rescue operations after the USS Mississinewas, another fuel tanker, was destroyed by a Japanese "Kaiten" suicide submarine. The manuscript also contains photocopies of wartime and reunion photos, copies of official documents (Navy Trials/Commissioning Logs and a captain's log), and reunion meeting documents, including letters from Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. In the postwar era, it visited Japan in fall 1945.

Diary, August 1916-June 1917, Bonifay, Florida, including newspaper clippings, letters from her father A. D. Johnson, business and calling cards, recipes, obituaries, programs, and other materials concerning family life, activities in Bonifay, the Grace family, Bonifay High School, the School of Music, the Isis Theater (Pensacola), and the Army, Navy, and Community Sing for Liberty Loan Day, 1917.

Personal papers including photocopies of the Pensacola High School Tattler (1918-1919), photocopies of early Pensacola postcards and photographs, oral history tapes with Mrs. Johnson, and other related materials.