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William Clutterman was a 1st Lieutenant in the 6th Emergency Rescue Squadron (ERS) of the US Army Air Corps. He was a B-17 pilot from his enlistment in Nov. 1942 to his discharge on Dec. 24, 1945. His typed memoir includes his experience of basic training, flight training, overseas posting on Manila and Okinawa, witnessing the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima from 30 miles away aboard a B-17, and his discharge. As a pilot in the ERS, his duties included flying a plane with a 27-foot boat underneath which was dropped to rescue downed fliers. His account is based on his own memories and written after 1994. The memoir includes copies of personal photographs and the collection includes his Veteran's Questionnaire.

The collection contains approximately 250 musical works, of which more than 100 are manuscript facsimiles. Many works in the collection remain unpublished. Composers from both the Americas and Europe (particularly East Europe and Russia) are represented. Most of the pieces were composed by contemporaries of Cramer, and many were composed as a direct result of Dr. Cramer's activity. Many of the scores are inscribed by the composer or Dr. Cramer, or both. Most works are for piano and trombone; however, there are also pieces accompanied by organ, orchestra or band, as well as pieces for trombone alone. Also included in the collection are four boxes of correspondence with with composers, publishers, and other musicians, dating from 1947-1989.

Biographical sketch of William Hankins; current and historical materials relating to the economic development of Florida; holograph notes; 68-page holograph looseleaf book listing names and addresses and pertinent information about sawmills in Florida; group of 61 pictures of timberlands and sawmills in South Florida, some aerial topographic; holograph and photocopies of holograph maps of 23 Florida counties consisting of 403 sheets, some colored; Edison flat discs relating to timber and lumber industry in Florida; clippings from newspapers and 'The Southern Lumber Journal' relating to forests, sawmills and equipments for sawmills in Florida; description and history of river boats in Florida with names of their captains, and 12 books relating to forestry, timberlands and sawmills in Florida.