Collections

The materials in this collection deal with Philip St. George Cocke's plantations. There is a plantation record book entitled "Plantation & farm, instruction, regulation, record, inventory & account book". This book is "for use of the managers on the estate of Philip St. George Cocke, and for the better ordering and management of plantation and farm business in every particular," and contains holograph daily records of work and production on the plantation, as well as an inventory of enslaved persons, live stock, implements and supplies.

The collection of Philip Stockton May contains a nine-page memoir. His memoir is about his experience from when he volunteered for the service in 1943 from Jacksonville, Florida to 1965 when he married a U.S. Navy widow.

Nine original typescripts by author Philip Wylie, many with manuscript notes and edits. Includes the text of two addresses given by Wylie at Florida State University in 1956 and 1958.

This collection relates to Phillip Leamon who served during World War II as a corporal with the 11th Armored Division in the European Theater. This file contains photocopies of photographs from his personal life and military service such as Bastogne and Mauthausen Concentration Camp. It also contains transcripts from an interview conducted February 2, 1999.

Photocopies of materials concerning Dr. Lawrence C. Phillips including newspaper clippings, recipes, obituary notices with additional materials concerning Ian Phillips, Occie Clubbs, and historic homes of Pensacola.

The Phillip Weidling Collection contains 91 photographs, negatives, and papers that belonged to the Weilding family of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The photographs document the early airfields and aviators of Broward County, the early history of Port Everglades, the development of the city of Sunrise in the 1950s, boats, and golfing during the 1910s-1920s.

This collection relates to U.S. Navy Signalman 1st Class Phillip King Zimmerman who served aboard the U.S.S. Boston as a part of the first crew and the U.S.S. Baltimore heavy cruisers during World War II in the Pacific Theater. This collection includes two logbooks that Phillip Zimmerman maintained during his tour aboard the Boston , information relating to Zimmerman's oral history, photographs from service, two of his hats, and ephemera.

Select materials from this collection have been digitized and are available through the FSU Digital Library as part of a larger photograph collection.

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).