Collections

Press clippings and correspondence received and collected by Whitaker, relating to Emmett Till and racism in the American South, including poll tax receipts and a 1962 pamphlet on the integration of the University of Mississippi campus.

This oral history transcript relates to Stewart Abbott Fraser who served in the U.S. Navy during World War II in the Pacific Theater. Fraser served aboard the USS Missouri. Fraser was also present during the formal Japanese surrender on September 2, 1945

This collection relates to William Hugh Stickler and Ann Stickler Potter. Stickler worked as a scientist on the Manhattan Project at the Oak Ridge Tennessee Plant during World War II. Ann Stickler, the daughter of William, recounts her experiences of the war as a child and the time spent with her father. This collection contains newspapers, pamphlets, magazines, and notebooks all relating to the creation of the Atomic Bomb.

Records, 1892-1985, including correspondence, annual reports, certificate of ownership books, perpetual care records, minute books, payroll files, burial registers, and plat maps showing names of individuals in St. John's cemetery, and other records pertaining to the history of St. John's Cemetery and Escambia Lodge No. 15 of Free and Accepted Masons.

A broadside regarding St. John's Church in Jacksonville, Florida. A notation in the handwriting of Miss Louise Richardson, Librarian at Florida State University Library, attached to the broadside reads, "Broadside St. John's Church, Jax. Fla. Lot purchased Oct '59 from O. Norwood. Very rare," and the question mark following the date "1845," pencilled in at the top of the broadside, indicates uncertainty as to when it was printed.

Administrative records; member registries; meeting minutes of the Vestry and church circles; Bibles, Books of Common Prayer, hymnals, and other liturgical works; documentation of the history of St. John's Church and the Episcopal Diocese of Florida; service bulletins and other periodicals; sermon transcripts; photographs; and motion pictures.