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Edward T. Burke Jr. collection, 1940-2003, Date acquired: 07/10/2003, bulk 1940-1946

4 boxes 1 folders

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The materials in the Edward T. Burke Jr. collection document activities of a U.S. Navy Chief Torpedoman who served on the U.S.S. Broome in the Atlantic and Mediterranean theaters during World War II and his life after the war. i)

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Edwin Crusoe IV Poems, Date acquired: 12/07/1967, bulk 1967

1.00 folders

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Xerox copies of printed poems and manuscripts, as follows:

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Edwin L. Gibson daybook, 1836-1838, Date acquired: 01/09/1930

1.00 items

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This item is a day-by-day account of work done and/or activities in the area of Centerville, Alabama. The author is unknown, and it is poorly written and in poor condition. It provides a description of menial or slavish labor performed, such as picking corn, picking cotton and slaughtering pigs and beef. It furnishes an insight into how people lived and worked during the early 1800s.

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Ed Worthington Papers, Undated

2 folders

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WFSU air checks, student radio productions, Florida Flambeau newsclippings, "body language" pamplet, photos of students filming, show script

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Sanibel Writers Conference, 2011-2013

3 items

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The Sanibel Writers Conference contains autographed programs from the Sanibel Island Writers Conference from 2011 to 2013.

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Eileen Durham Mackey Collection, Circa 1918

1 Folder

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The Eileen Durham Mackey Collection contains a photograph of Eileen Durham Mackey as an infant .At the age of six, Eileen Durham Mackey became an early resident of Fort Lauderdale, Florida when she and her family moved to the city in 1925.

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Roland Cadoret papers, 1943-1995, Date acquired: 12/05/2008, bulk 1944

1.00 folders

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Roland Cadoret served as a B-17 pilot in the 351st Bomb Group, 8th Air Force, in the European Theater.  His collection contains a manuscript, "The Battle of Grounded Eagles," in which he details his entire POW experience from mission briefing to liberation, an excerpt from his diary, and his photocopied version of General Dwight D. Eisenhower's letter to Invasion Forces. The Polebrook Post 351st Bomb Group Association 8th Airforce Vol. XXVII-No. 2, and the English version of the Moorsburger Beitung, a newspaper, which had special stories all about the POWs which were kept at Stalag VII-A.

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Eldon B Tucker collection, 1937-1977, Date accessioned: 2005-05-15

3 Linear Feet 1 doc box, 1 OS box

Eldridge Williams papers, 1940-1963, Date acquired: 07/26/2001

1.00 folders

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This collection consists of an oral history interview transcript of a retired African American lieutenant colonel, and one of the Tuskegee Airmen, as he discusses his experiences during WWII and the Korean War.

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Eldrige F. Williams Collection, 1941-1992

1 Paige Box

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Papers and 12 original photographs from Lt. Col. Eldrige F. Williams' time in the United States Army and Air Force. The materials date from 1941 to 1992 and document Williams' experience as a Tuskegee Airman as well as his life after World War II. The photographs include a portrait of Captain Charles "Buster" Hall, the first Black pilot to down a German fighter, official Air Force photographs of Black military basketball, football, baseball, and tennis players and teams (including the Tuskeegee War Hawks), and photographs of Tuskegee airmen with their planes.

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