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Oral history interview of Lola Lee Daniell Bruington, of Pensacola, by Sandra F. Whitehead with tapes and typed transcripts. Mrs. Bruington discusses area cemeteries, (especially St. Michaels), the red light district, bootlegging, her work as educator and nurse at Camp Dix, Bellevue Hospital, and at Vassar, and her childhood and life in Pensacola.

Land records, plat maps, proceedings, papers, correspondence.

Manuscript journal, 1846, of his visit to Pensacola to sell religious publications with descriptions of Pensacola, Milton, Bagdad, Ferry Pass, Florida and Mobile, Alabama. Subjects include the Simpson Family, the Presbyterian and Catholic churches of Pensacola, the Navy Yard and ships stationed there, and the mills at Bagdad and Milton. With accounts of books sold, sermons given, and names of churches.