FLVC logo

Search

USF Libraries - Tampa Special Collections

William E. Allen labor union collection, 1942-1979, Date acquired: 00/00/1996, bulk 1950-1970

1.25 Linear Feet 3 boxes

This collection contains photographs, papers, and ephemera of the Florida AFL-CIO labor union that Allen collected in his 29 years of service to the organization.

Top 3 results view all 71
UCF Special Collections

Judith and Warren Kaplan Collection, Women's and Gender Studies, 1792-2016, bulk 1900-2000

25.1 Linear Feet 34 boxes, 1 flat file, 1 object
Created by Judith and Warren Kaplan, the collection contains a wide variety of materials related to Women's History, with special emphasis on stamps, suffrage, and women of achievement in United States history.
Top 3 results view all 930
UWF University Archives and West Florida History Center

Johnson, Thomas A., Papers, 1800-1945, Date acquired: 10/00/1967

1.69 items
Approximately 1,686 pieces relating to the life and public service of Mr. Thomas A. Johnson (1888-1961), of Pensacola, Florida.   &nnsp; The collection includes a wide variety of personal papers, documents, business papers, and general correspondence related to the various public and private offices held by Mr. Johnson. Of special interest are the correspondence, notes, clippings, and photographs concerning his service as Chairman of the Florida State Road Department, 1941-1944, and related documents touching on a wide span of activities in the State during the administrations of Governors Holland and Caldwell.   &nnsp; Incorporated within this collection are significant groups of papers, documents and photographs relating to the Bruce Dry Dock Company, the State Road Department, the Overseas Highway (U.S. #1, to Key West), the Pensacola Bay Bridge, and the U.S. Study Commission on the Southeast River Basins.
Top 3 results view all 11

1800-1953

 
General Papers

1900-1940

 
ca.

1900-1956

 
Papers relating to the Bruce Dry Dock Company, Pensacola, Florida,
UWF University Archives and West Florida History Center

Foster, Ellen, Collection, 1805-1980, Date acquired: 08/00/1986

61.00 items

Deeds, wills, land surveys, newspaper clippings, research materials. This collection contains manuscripts and research files concerning the Krebs family of Pascagoula, Mississippi, as well as materials, some photocopied, of historical research concerning Pensacola, Florida. Other subjects and persons relevant to this collection include Justin Flood, Lewis Gabriel, cotton gins, inventions, the Panton Leslie Company, Fort Barrancas, Florida, Fort George, Florida, sasquatch, Bernardo de Galvez, the Pensacola Opera House, and Pensacola folklore.

Top 3 results view all 64

1805, December 5 Pascagoula Folder 2

 

Sales contract between James White and Joseph Krebs--object, a small round island, two cows and other animals against a negroe and 150 piaster. In French and laminated. 15 1/4 x 12 in. [3 pieces]

  1. Box 1

1805 (July) Folder 1

 

A [?] following a word denotes a handwritten word where the translation may be inaccurate due to illegibility or difficulty reading handwriting (Folders 1-21). Appears to be the account of travel expenses paid out by Francois Krebs and cousin for travel to Marseilles (Caribbean) and back, on behalf of his father-in-law in the affair Delalande-Amount 1200-(Currency not given). In French and laminated. 15 1/4 x 12 in. [1 piece]

  1. Box 1

1812, June 2 Parish of Pascagoula Folder 3

 

Receipt for note given by Antoine and Mary Krebs to Justin Flood, Lewis Gabriel, his brother and Isabel, his mother. Justice of the Peace, George Farragut. Laminated. 13 3/4 x 8 in. [1 piece]

  1. Box 1
Broward County Historical Archives

Frederick DeCoste Collection, 1920-1977

9 Hollinger Boxes

The Frederick DeCoste Collection contains papers produced or gathered by Frederick DeCoste concerning his career and activities such as writings, correspondence, photographs, publications, and research files on Florida and Saint Augustine history.

Top 3 results view all 250
UWF University Archives and West Florida History Center

McGill Family Papers, 1836-1962, Date acquired: 10/29/1982

145.00 items

Papers of the McGill and Suarez families of Penscola, Florida, 1836-1962, including letters, land deeds, promissory notes, indentures, tax receipts and other materials dealing with Joseph Suarez and his heirs, 1836-1905, and Gerald Byrne McGill and his family, 1905-1962. Subjects and writers include Isasc Hulse, Stephen T. Mallory II, the Navy Yard at Pensacola; St. John's Cemetery; Camp Ward No. 10 of United Confederate Veterans; Spanish Fort, Alabama and Josiah Blakely; the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and the Nixson family. [145 pieces]

Top 3 results view all 8

1836-1848 Folder 1

 

1836. Dec. 13. Indenture for sale of 616 acres of land to Isaac Hulse, Surgeon, U.S. Navy, Pensacola from Jose Suarez, Baldwin Co., Alabama. [1 item]

1852-1871 Folder 2

 

1852. Sept. 20. Petition of heirs and kin of Peter Swarris agreeing to pay proportionate shares of legal fee should will of late Peter Swarris be set aside. Signers include Yancy, Keys, Suares, Perrenot, and Billiards. [1 item]

1872-1901 Folder 3

 

1898. Mar. 7. Letter from Hilary A. Herbert, Attorney, Washington, D.C. to Frank Suarez, Millview, Fla. concerning life in Washington, prospects of war with Spain, and comments between friends. 3 pp. [1 item]

UCF Special Collections

Michael A. Spencer Bromeliad Research Collection, 1754-2014

130 Linear Feet 259 boxes, 2 flat files
Michael A. Spencer assembled this collection of publications, photographs, drawings, correspondence programs and other materials focusing on the discovery, taxonomy and cultivation of bromeliads. Mulford B. Foster, Racine Foster and Lyman B. Smith are among the significant bromeliad collectors whose work is documented here.
Top 3 results view all 3663
UWF University Archives and West Florida History Center

Feinberg, Charles E., Collection of Walt Whitman, 1860-1952, Date acquired: 10/00/1986

55.00 items

The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman consists of published materials about Walt Whitman and papers of the Walt Whitman Fellowship, 1860-1952. Also included are several framed portraits of Whitman.

Top 3 results view all 16

(1860) Folder 1

 

Engraving of Walt Whitman by S. A. Schoof, from frontispiece, 3rd edition, Leaves of Grass. Trimmed to 5 1/8 x 7 7/8, with tissue guard. [1 piece]

  1. Box 1

(1889) Folder 2

 

Printed advertisement for Walt Whitman's Complete Poems and Prose ... [1 piece]

  1. Box 1

(1890) Folder 3

 

An Original Unused Envelope of Walt Whitman, circa 1890, from the Collection of Horace Traubel, Literary Executor of Walt Whitman, Authinticated by Charles E. Feinberg ... [1 piece]

  1. Box 1
USF Libraries - Tampa Special Collections

Rick and Patricia Ballantyne cigar label collection, 1880-1930, Date acquired: 12/01/2016

2.50 Linear Feet 6 boxes
Collection of cigar labels from the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Top 3 results view all 1896

1861

 

Inner Cigar Box Label

  1. Box 2
  2. Folder 8

1861

 

Inner Cigar Box Label

  1. Box 3
  2. Folder 11

1861

 

Inner Cigar Box Label

  1. Box 4
  2. Folder 14
USF Libraries - Tampa Special Collections

Fred Bautz Cigar Label collection, 1890-1945, Date acquired: 00/00/1985

6.26 Linear Feet 16 boxes
The Fred Bautz Cigar Label Collection covers a wide range of artistic styles used in cigar advertisement, as well as lithographic techniques used in creating those labels. The collection covers labels from the late 19th century through the mid-1940s, and geographically covers examples from the United States and Europe. The labels from the 1920s were also among the last to use the old chromolithographic printing process. The proofs themselves have a wide range of color use, ranging from six to twenty colors per proof, and include examples from several lithographic corporations, such as American Lithography, Hepenheimer and Sons, Whitch and Schmidt, George  Harris, Schumaker and Ettlinger, and Haywood S. and V. Lithographers.
Top 3 results view all 1049

1861 Box 1, Folder 3

 
  1. #-A

723 Box 1, Folder 2

 
  1. #-A

Limit your search

more »

more »

more »

more »

more »

more »

more »