The Peter R. Durland papers illustrate Captain Peter R. Durland's experiences during his time as a member of the 70th Infantry Division and 29th Infantry Division of the United States Army from 1943-1946. From 1945-1946, Durland served as Major General Leroy Watson's aide, completing various tasks for the General and accompanying him to the Nuremberg Trials. The collection includes an oral history interview transcript, photographs, and papers related to the war crime trials.
James Sedalia Peters II served in the Navy at the Great Lakes Training Center as a specialist teacher in psychology. Peters was born in Ashdown, Arkansas. After his application for conscientious objector status was rejected, he enlisted in the Navy in 1942 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was then sent to the Great Lakes Training Center and then to Camp Robert Smalls for boot camp. After that he entered Class "A" School and became a specialist teacher in psychology. He spent three years at the Great Lakes Training Center. After the war, Peters founded the WWII Black Navy Veterans of Great Lakes. The collection contains a speech Peters gave to a convention of the organization, which deals with the plight of African Americans. The collection also includes a copy of his thesis. It discusses the psychological effects of African Americans' migration from the South to Hartford, Connecticut, because of the national defense boom in 1941. The collection includes his published book.
This collection relates to Peter T. Suzuki, a Japanese American scholar who spent two years in internment camps during World War II. This collection contains a series of publications, newspapers, and articles relating to Suzuki and information on the effects of Japanese relocation and prejudice during World War II. The collection also includes information on Japanese Americans' post-war experience.
Materials, 1946-1991, concerning Lucy Petree (1898-1991), educator, of Pensacola, Florida, and her work in founding the Eugene Petree Memorial School (1947-1950), Pensacola's first school for the retarded and handicapped and subsequent work with the Crippled Children's Home, the Pensacola Chapter of the Association for Retarded Citizens, and related activities concerning the education of retarded and handicapped children in Pensacola, Florida.
The Pettis Family Collection contains correspondence, personal papers, photographs, newspaper clippings, and awards regarding the Pettis family's Great American Family Award honor and community service in Broward County.
Papers, 1891-1963, includes newspaper clippings, school records, and other materials of Edgar W. Pfeiffer (1926-1943), Gertrude Pfeiffer Jorden (1919-1954), Mary Elizabeth Briggs Council Pfeiffer (1927-1963), and related materials of the Joseph C. Pfeiffer, Sr. family of Pensacola. Includes school records for Sacred Heart Academy and Pensacola High School; dance and social invitations to area clubs, 1926-1930; information on Pfeiffer's Bakery; and papers of related Jorden and Wigand families.
The PFLAG Tampa collection includes materials related to the Tampa chapter of PFLAG, a national LGBTQ+ advocacy organization, as well as materials related to organizations with which PFLAG Tampa and its founders, John and Nancy Desmond, collaborated. This collection contains a significant volume of materials related to Tampa Pride, the group which organizes the annual Tampa Pride Festival, both from PFLAG's involvement with the festival and John and Nancy Desmond's time as board members for the organization. Materials in this collection include organizational documents, promotional materials, community resources, and events ephemera and realia.
This scrapbook includes newspaper clippings of old buildings in Tallahassee, Florida including public buildings like churches, the state Capitol, the Governor's Mansion, the Florida Supreme Court, Florida State University, banks, hotels, and libraries. There are also clippings regarding residences.
Phi Beta Kappa manuals, bylaws, minutes, induction, programs, and bulletins, correspondence, initiation cards, nomination lists, Form of Initiation, Delegate Manual, the Key Reporter, addresses delivered at different chapters, books
