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Coe's Sundries Interior, Parramore Avenue photograph, 1947

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The Coe's Sundries Interior, Parramore Avenue photograph, 1947 is an 8x10 photograph of the inside of Coe's Sundries convenience store on Parramore Avenue in Orlando, Florida. Pictured are the owners, a man and a woman, who are not named. The inscription on the back says "North Parramore St Orlando Across from Jones High." This collection provides insight into Parramore Avenue and convenience stores in the late 1940s. According to the inscription on the back of the photograph, Coe's Sundries was located on Parramore Avenue across the street from Jones High School. Jones High was a historically Black school founded in 1895 and integrated in 1970. Jones High was located on Parramore Avenue and Washington Street until 1952. Parramore Avenue is a historically Black neighborhood founded in 1880, when the mayor at the time, James B. Parramore, designated this segregated area for Black workers. The Wells'Built Hotel, was one of few central Florida lodgings to be listen in the Green Book.
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Coe's Sundries Interior, Parramore Avenue photograph, 1947 0.002 Linear Feet 1 photograph

 
The Coe's Sundries Interior, Parramore Avenue photograph, 1947 is an 8x10 photograph of the inside of Coe's Sundries convenience store on Parramore Avenue in Orlando, Florida. Pictured are the owners, a man and a woman, who are not named. The inscription on the back says "North Parramore St Orlando Across from Jones High." This collection provides insight into Parramore Avenue and convenience stores in the late 1940s. According to the inscription on the back of the photograph, Coe's Sundries was located on Parramore Avenue across the street from Jones High School. Jones High was a historically Black school founded in 1895 and integrated in 1970. Jones High was located on Parramore Avenue and Washington Street until 1952. Parramore Avenue is a historically Black neighborhood founded in 1880, when the mayor at the time, James B. Parramore, designated this segregated area for Black workers. The Wells'Built Hotel, was one of few central Florida lodgings to be listen in the Green Book.
UWF University Archives and West Florida History Center

Cole, James William Buchanan, Papers, 1944-1945

117.00 items
Clippings, photographs, miscellaneous papers assembled by Mr. Cole, member of the Florida House of Representatives, and veteran of the U.S. Navy in World War II.  Includes a number of photographs of the Caroline Islands, South Pacific, during and subsequent to its invasion by U.S. forces, 1944-45.  With other photographs and items of Pensacola interest.
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Cole, James William Buchanan, Papers, 1944-1945 117.00 items

 
Clippings, photographs, miscellaneous papers assembled by Mr. Cole, member of the Florida House of Representatives, and veteran of the U.S. Navy in World War II.  Includes a number of photographs of the Caroline Islands, South Pacific, during and subsequent to its invasion by U.S. forces, 1944-45.  With other photographs and items of Pensacola interest.

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Group of mounted clippings, March-April, 1935, concerning Mr. Cole's activities as a member of the Florida House of Representatives. 16 leaves. With photographs of Governor Sholtz signing a bill, witnessed by members of the legislature (Mr. Cole, standing, left-rear); and letter, January 25, 1935, from Joseph A. Pelter to Mr. Cole, written from Antarctica during the second Byrd Antarctic Expedition (with envelope, stamp removed). 6 pieces

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Photographs taken and/or collected by Mr. Cole during his service with the U.S. Navy during World War II. Included are 20 prints each with typed or manuscript description of various scenes; and 87 prints of similar unidentified subjects. Many of the photographs were taken on Pulo Anna, a coral island in the Western Caroline Islands, roughly midway between Palau, site of a major Japanese naval base, and Halmahera, Western Pacific headquarters of the Japanese Air Army. Many of the photographs are believed to portray battle scenes during the American invasion of the islands in 1944/45. 107 pieces

FSU Special Collections & Archives

Coleridge Augustus Jemmott papers, 1942-1946, Date acquired: 05/10/2011, bulk 1943

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Coleridge Augustus Jemmott was an African American soldier in the United States Army, "I" company, 22nd Quartermaster Regiment. He served in Italy and North Africa as a sergeant, transporting the "Anizio Annie" cannon, from 1942 to 1945. The collection contains photographs and ephemera from Jemmott's war years. There are sixty black-and-white photographs of Jemmott with his unit in North Africa and Italy. There is also a menu from a Casablanca restaurant, Port of Leghorn entry card, newspaper clippings, and a North African Theater uniform patch.

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Coleridge Augustus Jemmott papers, 1942-1946, Date acquired: 05/10/2011, bulk 1943 3 folders

 
Jemmott, Coleridge Augustus

Coleridge Augustus Jemmott was an African American soldier in the United States Army, "I" company, 22nd Quartermaster Regiment. He served in Italy and North Africa as a sergeant, transporting the "Anizio Annie" cannon, from 1942 to 1945. The collection contains photographs and ephemera from Jemmott's war years. There are sixty black-and-white photographs of Jemmott with his unit in North Africa and Italy. There is also a menu from a Casablanca restaurant, Port of Leghorn entry card, newspaper clippings, and a North African Theater uniform patch.

Florida Gulf Coast University Archives

Honors College, 2008-2020

9 items Digital Objects

This collection cotains photo collages from the Honors Program.

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FSU Special Collections & Archives

Joseph K. Pettengill collection, 1944-1945, Date acquired: 02/11/2005

1.00 boxes
The Joseph K. Pettengill Collection was donated to Florida State University by Robert Sherman Pettengill in 2005, having discovered his father's letters after retiring in 1999.  The centerpiece of the Pettengill Collection is a series of letters from Joseph Pettengill, an army clerk with the G-3 Section of the 6th Army Group, Hq Special Troops in the ETO, to his mother and wife throughout his time serving in the United States Army in World War II.
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"Collectables", 1944-1945 Box 05.0030, Folder 022

 

Photo copy of "collectables" (originals included with letters).

Context, 1911-1964 Box 05.0030, Folder 016

 

A short essay written by Robert S. Pettengill about the collection, partiuclarly the letters that provides biographical informations and highlights a number of specific letters for interested researchers.

FSU Special Collections & Archives

Susan Bradford Eppes Papers, 1850-1949

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Personal papers of Susan Branch Bradford Eppes (1848-1942) including a biography of Eppes, photographs, correspondence, typescript works by Eppes, documentation of the Eppes family, and publications collected by Eppes.

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Collected publications, 1892-1926 Box 682, Folder 17

 

13 items: Road Laws of Leon County, Florida 1909; A National Southern Collection at the University of North Carolina; Theuriet, Andre. L'Abbe Daniel. NY: William R. Jenkins, undated; Lest We Forgot: Memorial Address Delivered Before Anna Dummett Chapter, 1089, United Daughters of the Confederacy, October 1, 1907; Panacea Springs, Summer 1902; Racine. Berenice. Paris: Librairie Hachette, undated; Souvenir...The Florida Ostrich Farm, Jacksonville; Celebration of the Return of the Confederate Battle Flags to the State of Florida. 1905. 2 copies; Constitution and By-Laws of Camp Lamar, United Confederate Veterans, Leon County, 1892; Dorman, G.H. Fifty Years Ago: Reminiscences of '61-65. Tallahassee: T.J. Appleyard, undated; A Catalog of Southern Literature. Macon, GA: J.W. Burke Co. undated; Address Before the Confederate Veteran Camp of New York at Mount Hope, New York by Leonora Rogers Schuyler. May 30, 1914.

  1. Collections, 1850-1943
UCF University Archives

University of Central Florida Office of the President: Robert A. Bryan Collected Materials, 1991-1997

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This small quantity of materials briefly documents the appointment and retirement of Robert A. Bryan who served as interim president of the University of Central Florida from 1991-1992. The material includes news clippings, photographs, certificates, programs and invitations.
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UWF University Archives and West Florida History Center

Nichols, William Newton, Papers, Date acquired: 01/00/1984

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Unpublished literary manuscripts of William Newton Nichols including two bound typescript volumes (The Saga of the Clan, Footprints on the Sands of Time), one photocopy typescript (Rambling Notes on the Ancient City of Panzacola), one untitled typescript, and a group of short stories, all fictional with some set in West Florida, undated.

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Collection Description and Inventory Folder 1

 

Unpublished literary manuscripts of William Newton Nichols including two bound typescript volumes (The Saga of the Clan, Footprints on the Sands of Time), one photocopy typescript (Rambling Notes on the Ancient City of Panzacola), one untitled typescript, and a group of short stories, all fictional with some set in West Florida, undated. [5 pieces]

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Nichols, William Newton, Papers, Date acquired: 01/00/1984 5.00 items

 
Nichols, William Newton

Unpublished literary manuscripts of William Newton Nichols including two bound typescript volumes (The Saga of the Clan, Footprints on the Sands of Time), one photocopy typescript (Rambling Notes on the Ancient City of Panzacola), one untitled typescript, and a group of short stories, all fictional with some set in West Florida, undated.

Florida Atlantic University Libraries

Collection of Bound Yiddish Manuscripts, n.d.

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The collection consists of 26 handwritten Yiddish journals that were created by an unknown author.  Throughout all of the journals the name Ya'akov Me'ir b.R. Tsevi ha-Levi Bleiberg is stamped. The paginated journals have a range of topics from essays and reports to biographies and poetry.  Also, there are some tipped in newspapers clippings.

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Collection of Bound Yiddish Manuscripts, n.d. 1.00 Linear Feet

 

The collection consists of 26 handwritten Yiddish journals that were created by an unknown author.  Throughout all of the journals the name Ya'akov Me'ir b.R. Tsevi ha-Levi Bleiberg is stamped. The paginated journals have a range of topics from essays and reports to biographies and poetry.  Also, there are some tipped in newspapers clippings.

Journals, n.d. Box 1

 

All 26 journals are kept in one box.

FSU Special Collections & Archives

William Leslie Eaton papers, 1942-1998, Date acquired: 07/21/1997, bulk 1942-1945

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William Leslie Eaton served aboard the destroyer U.S.S. Longshaw (DD-559) until its sinking on May 18, 1945. The collection includes reproductions of official documents surrounding the sinking of the U.S.S. Longshaw, along with several pictures of the sinking. It also contains materials related to the general naval war in the Pacific Theater, including information about the U.S.S. Mississippi's bombardment of Shuri Castle at Okinawa, carrier raids on Japan, and messages from admirals praising the Pacific Fleet.

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