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Temple Terrace Beacon Newspaper Collection : A Finding Aid, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Kelsey Peduzzi

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For many years, the Temple Terrace Public Library maintained copies of the Temple Terrace Beacon. This local publication, first published in 1931, focused on news and events in the City of Temple Terrace as well as the surrounding University community. Kelsey Peduzzi, a librarian at the Temple Terrace Public Library, embarked on a project to scan and digitize issues of the newspaper in the library’s possession. After this successful project led to the creation of a digital archive of more than 800 issues of the newspaper on the Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative’s digital collections webpage, the library decided that …

"Womyn's Words" Collection Of Pat Ditto : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Phillip Sroka, Pat Ditto, Women's Energy Bank

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Womyn’s Words was a monthly periodical published by the Women’s Energy Bank, Inc. that began in 1983. Pat Ditto and other editors and contributors to this publication devoted their efforts to the St. Petersburg and Tampa Bay area in support of the local LGBTQ+ community. Although they primarily advocated for the empowerment and civil rights of women, they also spent a significant amount of time supporting political causes that would benefit the gay community as a whole. Significantly, Womyn’s Words, as early as 1996, was promoting intersectional awareness with their “Afro-Centric Series.” A large portion of their publications was used …

Gary R. Mormino Collection Of Historic Periodicals : A Collection Guide, Phillip Sroka, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives.

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This collection includes a variety of newspapers and a smaller collection of news magazines that generally document current events in the United States and throughout the world during the 1930s and 1940s. The majority of the newspapers came from Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania, though occasional issues from areas such as Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, and other cities also reside within the collection. These materials came to us via donation by Dr. Gary R. Mormino, Professor Emeritus of History and Florida Studies, and a member of the faculty within the USF System since 1977. Professor Mormino frequently …

"Richard And Les" Pride Collection Of Monographs : A Collection Overview, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Phillip Sroka

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This collection includes a variety of scholarly non-fiction and general interest fiction and non-fiction related to gay and lesbian studies, with a strong emphasis on materials related to gay male history, culture, and literature. The items were received in a June 2016 donation from Les, a resident of Hillsborough County. A native of Hawaii who came of age in California, Les met Richard, a man who grew up along the coast of southeast Florida. For more than four decades, their friendship, partnership, and marriage took them to careers and opportunities in various areas of the United States, as well as …

William Hamilton Underground Newspaper Collection, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., Jodi Geever-Ostrowsky, Patricia M. Landon

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This collection includes a variety of underground newspapers, various pamphlets and flyers, and various documents related to political activities, social justice, American involvement in the Vietnamese conflict, and other events during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Collected by William “Bill” Hamilton, a 1995 graduate of the University of South Florida, these materials illustrate the topics of discussion from that time and how the alternative and underground press characterized the rapidly changing social landscape. Most of the underground papers and miscellaneous documents originated from the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Mr. Hamilton donated these papers to the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library …

The 'Muggs And Skeeter' Cartoon Collection Of Wally Bishop, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., Glorea Charland

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This collection consists of more than 450 panels of the “Muggs and Skeeter” cartoon drawn by Wallace Bond “Wally” Bishop, a longtime resident of St. Petersburg. Wally Bishop and his wife, Louise C. Bishop became leaders in a variety of social circles and cultural organizations in the greater St. Petersburg area. In the late 1930s, they bought the elaborate mansion constructed by C. Perry Snell on Brightwaters Boulevard at the mouth of Coffee Pot Bayou. In Louise’s later life, her profound concern for ethics in undergraduate education led to the establishment of the Bishop Center for Ethical Leadership and Civic …

Emil August Nordstrom Scrapbook [A Collection Guide], Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., Anthony J. Casale

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Emil August Nordstrom served as an engineer for the City of St. Petersburg, later as a partner in an architectural and engineering firm in St. Petersburg, and also as executive director of the Housing Authority of St. Petersburg. Born in 1883 or 1884, Nordstrom passed away in St. Petersburg on August 26, 1973, and was survived by his daughter, Dorothy King. This small scrapbook contains clippings and information about Nordstrom’s engineering work and structures he was involved with in the City of St. Petersburg between 1926 and 1937. Although none of the clippings appear to be about Nordstrom in the …

"Billy Dean" Scrapbook [A Collection Guide], Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., Anthony J. Casale

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This scrapbook includes a compilation of newspaper clippings from a variety of sources and covers the mid-1930s. Approximately one-half of these clippings focus on stories related to St. Petersburg or Florida more broadly, while the remainder cover events as broad as English royalty to the Second Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936). The compiler of the materials in this scrapbook is unknown, though the name “Billy Dean” appears on this document. It is uncertain as to whether this was an actual proper name, or whether it was a nickname or pseudonym. Jen Runyon donated this scrapbook and another one that captures the activities …

Papers Of Nelson Poynter, Third Accession, Jodi Geever-Ostrowsky, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives.

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On 13 September 2013, William C. Ballard—a former member of the Fisher & Sauls law firm—deposited a collection of personal correspondence and other documents related to the management and operation of the Times Publishing Company with Special Collections and University Archives, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. These documents, held by the firm since approximately 15 June 1978, the date of Nelson Poynter’s death, cover the years primarily from 1936 through 1959 and may have been helpful in establishing intra-familial relationships regarding the St. Petersburg Times [now Tampa Bay Times], St. Petersburg Evening Independent, and other publishing and operational entities of the …

Earl Weir Floridiana Collection, Second Accession, Jodi L. Harman, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., Earl Weir

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Earl Weir, a longtime St. Petersburg resident who now lives outside of the area, originally donated materials related to his family’s history and the Tampa Bay region in 2012. Many items from the original accession were digitized versions of home movies, and they were received in multiple installments. Some artifacts were also included in the original accession, such as an electric clock from Webb’s City, a longtime department store located in St. Petersburg. Mr. Weir donated a second accession of items in early 2014 while visiting the Poynter Library. This finding aid enumerates materials from this second accession only, comprised …

The Neighborhood News Photographic Collection, Jodi L. Harman, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives.

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Many of the images in this collection once appeared in the “Negro” news section of the St. Petersburg Times. At some point in time, they were acquired by the Neighborhood News Bureau, a partnership of USFSP and other entities that documents events in and shares news of Midtown, an area of southern St. Petersburg with a substantial African American population. In January 2014, Dr. Deni Elliott, Chair of Journalism and Media Studies at USFSP and the Eleanor Poynter Jamison Chair of Media Ethics and Press Policy, transferred this collection from the Neighborhood News Bureau offices to the Poynter Library to …

Florida History Research Collection : An Index, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur

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A listing of various term papers and seminar papers in Special Collections and University Archives, as of November 2012. Access to some papers is restricted. Papers that are available for public inspection must be examined within the library and may not be photocopied. Please consult with staff.

Pinellas County Property Appriaser : Historical Property Records, 1974-1999, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., Amber Thessen, Samantha Musella, Pinellas County (Fla.)

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NOTE: This collection is no longer housed in the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Please contact the Pinellas County Property Appraiser's Office to access these materials.

This collection consists of microfiche records transferred from the custody of Pinellas County Property Appraiser’s Office in the Pinellas County Courthouse to Special Collections and University Archives, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library, University of South Florida St. Petersburg. Under records retention schedules in effect, the Property Appraiser’s Office determined that these materials were obsolete, superseded, and/or had lost their administrative value. The microfiche in this collection are maintained in the original order they were received. No …

Gerald A. Notaro Collection Of St. Pete Pride Archives : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., Amber Thessen, Gerald A. Notaro,

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Gerald A. Notaro, librarian emeritus at USF St. Petersburg, donated his collection of photographs and ephemera from St. Pete Pride, an annual event in the Grand Central District that has grown into one of the largest gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) celebrations in the southeastern United States. The rich collection of photographic images documents St. Pete Pride events in the early 2000s. Notaro donated these items on 15 March 2012, shortly before his retirement from the USFSP faculty.

Mary Nicol (Shenk) Dodd Collection Of Writings And Reviews [Finding Aid], Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., Amber Thessen

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This collection was received in June 2008 in bound notebooks from Karen A. White, the Regional Chancellor of USF St. Petersburg at the time and an accomplished violinist. Under the byline Mary Nic Shenk, Dodd wrote regular reviews of operas and musical performances in the St. Petersburg Times (now Tampa Bay Times) beginning in the early 1960s. This donation includes articles and clippings removed from bound notebooks collected by Shenk, covering the period from the early 1960s forward into the 1980s. Some clippings reside in clear plastic folders; others are glued onto white paper. Dodd graduated from the Eastman School …

W. R. "Butch" Evans Collection Of Pre-Columbian Surface Artifacts : Catalogue Of Accessions In Original Order, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, W. R. (Butch) Evans, Samantha Musella, Sylvia Martinez Mullenix

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This collection includes nearly 800 items donated by W.R. “Butch” Evans in summer 2011. Evans, a resident of Pinellas County, collected the artifacts, chert, pottery sherds, lithic tools, shell tools, and other items while exploring coastal areas and estuaries of Florida. He located “surface finds,” items providing evidence of pre-Columbian settlements that appeared along beaches, river beds and shorelines, and other similar areas of Florida. Out of respect for those middens and mounds remaining, Evans did not violate or desecrate historical sites while collecting these materials. This catalog represents a preliminary inventory of the materials in the W.R. “Butch” Evans …

Ada Fernald Rees Collection : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., Ada Fernald Rees (1877 - 1969), Hope L. Black, Marta L. Jones

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This small collection consists of correspondence and various other ephemera related to Ada Fernald Rees’s association with the Pinellas County Federation of Women’s Clubs. This specific organization no longer exists as of this date, but at the time it was connected to the Florida Federation of Women’s Clubs, as well as the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. Ada Fernald Rees came to Tarpon Springs, Florida, with her first husband, George F. Fernald, in 1898. Although Ada lived in Tarpon Springs, she regularly contacted the St. Petersburg Woman’s Club. During her time with the club, Ada served as vice president, and …

Odette Patterson Collection : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Marta L. Jones

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Born in Pau, France, of an American G.I. father and a French mother, Odette Patterson (nee Walling) came to the United States with her family following the end of World War I. By all accounts bright and hardworking, Odette created her version of the American Dream by succeeding in the then-male dominated business world during the 1940s through the 1960s. After succeeding in a series of secretarial jobs at various places, she worked her way up to becoming a well-regarded advertising manager with First Federal Savings and Loan Association of St. Petersburg. After the death of her husband Charles A. …

Jordan Park Collection [Finding Aid], Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., Marta L. Jones, Heather Husted

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The materials in the Jordan Park Collection nearly were discarded; the good fortune of the preservation of these items is considerable. Poynter Library received the various photographs, property records, maps, documents, and scrapbooks from Dayton Stone on 18 June 2009. Stone had discovered these items while cleaning out an abandoned property in St. Petersburg. Subsequent review of the materials revealed the necessity of some conservation work and arrangement due to the condition in which these items had existed prior to his fortunate discovery. These records fill an important gap in our history. The initial Jordan Park residential units were constructed …

Rev. Ray Brubaker Evangelical Booklet Collection : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., Marta L. Jones, James Anthony Schnur

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Ray Metzler Brubaker (5 April 1923-1 May 2009), the son of a minister, grew up in a conservative Christian Pennsylvania household where he was forbidden to listen to the radio. Eventually his parents permitted him to listen to religious broadcasts and news programs; this, along with his Christian upbringing, undoubtedly influenced the course of Rev. Brubaker's life. Although clergy had preached over the air since the earliest days of radio, Brubaker took religious broadcasting a step further by discussing current news events and connecting them with his religious message. A great believer in the Second Coming of Christ, Brubaker often …

Twentieth Century Sheet Music (1908-1968) : A Collection [Guide], Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., Marta L. Jones, Patrick Quinn

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The collection includes sheet music scores printed between 1908 and 1968. Quite a few of the pieces date back to the earlier part of the twentieth century; these are the selections that generally have the most elaborate cover art. Pieces are numbered by box and folder.

Florida Humanities Council Grant Research Materials [Finding Aid], Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., Maria Kreiser

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This collection of materials was received from the Florida Humanities Council (FHC), a non-profit organization with headquarters at USF St. Petersburg. As the state affiliate for the National Endowment for the Humanities, FHC provides grants for public humanities programs and resources on a wide range of Florida topics. This collection offers a valuable resource for researchers looking to gain insight on cultural, recreational, and educational projects and programs offered to the public throughout the state of Florida from 2001 to 2005. Items in this collection are resultant materials from programs funded (at least in part) by FHC grants. FHC sponsored …

Cmdr. Melville J. Walters Jr. Operation Deep Freeze Iii Antarctic Research Collection, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., Marta L. Jones

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Commander Melville J. Walters was born in Washington D.C. and joined the Navy in 1943; between 1957 and 1958, during what was known as the International Geophysical Year, Walters was a supply officer at the McMurdo Naval Air Facility in the Antarctica. The McMurdo Sound Naval base, along with other stations like it, was used for Operation Deep Freeze III, a Navy supported research expedition undertaken to gather scientific data about the Antarctic. In his later years, Walters moved to the Tampa Bay Area, Florida; after his death, a group of items collected by Walters, both during his time spent …

Presbyterian Towers Resident Association Records (Nigel Watson Files) : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Shawn Reynolds, Nigel Watson

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Nigel J. Watson, longtime real estate agent and activist, moved into the Presbyterian Towers in 2004. Located at 430 Bay Street NE in downtown St. Petersburg, this facility has offered senior residential living since opening in 1968. In the early 1960s, Southwest Florida Presbyterians sought solutions to the problem of people (mostly retirees) who had difficulty locating affordable housing. With loan assistance from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, local Presbyteries began to build facilities. As of summer 2008, the Presbyterian Homes and Housing Foundation of Florida, Inc., operated Presbyterian Towers with sponsorship by the Tampa Bay …

David Dubinsky / International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union Research File, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Susan Beth Donoff

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Ms. Susan B. Donoff, a graduate student in history at the University of South Florida, investigated the horrific 25 March 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City. As part of her research, she sought to examine how the fire transformed the labor movement and how notable leaders of the time—especially Frances Perkins and members of Tammany Hall— assumed important roles in promoting progressive reforms. Perkins, who later served as the first female cabinet member when she began her tenure as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Secretary of Labor, championed the plight of those who perished in the …

Raymond O. Arsenault Collection : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Kathleen Arsenault, Raymond Arsenault, Jon L. Wilson, Shawn Reynolds

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A member of the USF faculty since 1980, Raymond O. Arsenault specializes in the social, political, and environmental history and historiography of the American South, though his teaching and research interests cover nearly all areas of American history, culture, and civilization. He serves as the John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History. In the summer of 1998, Arsenault donated some of his research files and miscellaneous materials to the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. In 2001, 2004, and 2008, he sent additional materials for preservation as part of this collection. This guide includes accessions through the spring of 2008.

Winston T. Bridges, Jr., Historic Newspaper Collection : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., Winston T. Bridges, Shawn Reynolds

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Winston Bridges came to the campus as an assistant professor of education in 1970. He taught primarily in the area of social foundations of education. When Dean Karen Spear departed for Colorado in June 1990, Bridges—then coordinator of the College of Education at USF St. Petersburg—accepted an appointment to serve as interim dean. Bridges continued the focus on interdisciplinary studies started by deans Lowell Davis and Karen Spear. Shortly after H. William Heller arrived in the fall of 1992, Bridges was appointed associate dean. Bridges served as the chief academic officer on campus before his retirement in 2003, returning in …

College Of Marine Science Historical Photograph Collection : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Shawn Reynolds

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The College of Marine Science, a Tampa-based academic unit of the University of South Florida, physically resides on the St. Petersburg campus. Since its beginnings as a Marine Science Institute in the late 1960s, this unit and its mission have grown to occupy an academic department within the College of Natural Sciences, later the College of Arts and Sciences, and as a distinct college within the University. The thirteen photographic prints included in this collect represent images primarily from the early years of the St. Petersburg campus.

The Wartime Newspaper Collection : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Shawn Reynolds

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The Clearwater Sun newspaper was published between 1914 and 1990. Few original issues prior to the 1970s exist, and issues from the earliest years (pre-1926) do not exist in microfilm. The St. Petersburg Evening Independent served as the Sunshine City’s afternoon newspaper between 1906 and 1986. Similar to the Sun, early issues rarely exist. This collection represents a small sample of original issues of the Clearwater Sun and the Evening Independent from the end of the Second World War and the beginning of the Korean War. The Poynter Library received these papers as a donation from the Tampa Bay History …

Japanese Reconstruction Records Of Archie Tillman Mcdaniel, Jr. : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Shawn Reynolds, Doris Jeannie Mcdaniel-Pappas, Jeannette Esther Mcdaniel, Archie Tillman Mcdaniel Iii, Kathy Mcdaniel

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Doris J. (Jeannie) McDaniel-Pappas, a Florida native and alumni of Eckerd College’s Program for Experienced Learners, donated this collection of family records to the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library on 30 July 2007. These materials document the activities of her father, Archie Tillman McDaniel II, a veteran of the Second World War who served in Japan after the war came to an end and became an early advocate for civil rights.