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Special Collections and University Archives Finding Aids: All Items

2007

Nelson Poynter Memorial Library -- Catalogs; Florida -- Archival resources; Archives -- Florida -- Catalogs; American newspapers -- Florida -- Pinellas County; Gulf Beach News -- Indexes; Journalism and Media Studies Provenance; Local and Regional History Provenance

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Walter Fuller Archives Of The Gulf Beach News [Finding Aid], Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Shawn Reynolds, Walter Pliny Fuller (1894 - 1973) Nov 2007

Walter Fuller Archives Of The Gulf Beach News [Finding Aid], Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Shawn Reynolds, Walter Pliny Fuller (1894 - 1973)

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Special Collections and Archives acquired nearly 200 individual and unique issues of the Gulf Beach News in October 2007. These issues represent the largest and most complete run of this newspaper known to exist. They came indirectly from the collection of Walter Pliny Fuller (1894-1973), a native of Bradenton and early pioneer of St. Petersburg who wrote for local newspapers and earned a notable reputation as an amateur local historian. Fuller frequently contributed articles for this newspaper. He also authored two first-person accounts of St. Petersburg history. The contents occupy 2.75 linear feet and include 198 individual issues of the …