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FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY - STROZIER LIBRARY
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee, Florida 32306
(850) 644-3271
Hours: M-F 9:00-6:00

Series/Collection Number: Box 483-503, 518-550 Oversize
Creator: West Yellow Pine Company
Title: West Yellow Pine Company, 1955-1916. Special Collections Manuscripts

The West Yellow Pine Company records include correspondence, letterpress books, time books, invoices, account records, lumber orders, lumber reports, and railway waybills. The collection also includes the records of the Madison Southern Railway, owned by the West Yellow Pine Company.

Series/Co

llection Number: Box 197-206.
Creator: Rosasco Family, Santa Rosa Lumber Company, Bay Point Mill Company, Aiken Towning Corportation, etc.
Title: Rosasco Family. Papers, 1910-1973. Special Collections Manuscripts.

Business forms, letterhead papers, blueprints, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, sound recording, and related materials. This collection deals with the Rosasco and Bronnum families and their history and business ventures. There are family biographical sketches and scrapbooks about William S. Rosasco Jr. and the USO during World War II. There are letters, land contracts, logging contracts, materials about land management, timber and naval stores, export documents, purchase and sale of tugboats, contracts for building barges, deeds, leases, tax papers, bills, reports, business papers about the Santa Rosa Lumber Company, the Bay Point Mill Company, Pinewood, Florida, Aiken Towning Corporation and other businesses, liquidation papers, legal papers, and a shipping businesses in Pensacola.

Series/Collection Number: Box 1175-1207
Creator: Leonard Family
Title: Leonard Papers, 1913-1950. Special Collections Manuscripts.

Business papers, correspondence, bills, purchase orders, receipts, daybooks, time books and related materials. The Leonard papers are an extensive collection of business records of the Leonard brothers' (Samuel A. and Wade Hampton Leonard) enterprises in Calhoun County, Florida, dating principally from 1914. The excellent and complete quality of the records make them extremely valuable, not only as a naval store enterprise during a time when Florida was the principal naval stores state, but also as an illuminating record of the business and social life of Calhoun, Jackson and other counties along the Apalachicola and Chipola rivers, and of the day of steamboats on these rivers. Other subjects covered by the collection include: lumber, Florida Governor Cary A. Hardee, tobacco, cotton, resin, and Julia W. Leonard.

STATE OF FLORIDA ARCHIVES
R.A. Gray Building
500 S. Bronough Street
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0250
(850) 245-6700
Hours: M-F 9:00-4:30, Sat 9:30-3:30

Series/Collection Number: .S 878
Creator: Florida. Office of the Governor
Title: Coastal Plains Regional Commission Administrative Files, 1974-1981.

The series contains the administrative files of the Commission in Florida concerning its operations and projects from 1974-1981. Types of records include correspondence, reports, and subject files.

Series/Collection Number: .S 520
Creator: Florida. Environmental Land Management Study Committee
Title: Records, 1968-1977.

This series contains the administrative files of the Environmental Land Management Study Committee from 1968 to 1977. The records include correspondence, reports, minutes, and cassette recordings of Committee hearings.

Series/Collection Number: .S 1270
Creator: Florida. Bureau of Historic Preservation.
Title: Florida State Parks project files, 1933-1942, 1988-1989

This collection contains materials gathered by the Bureau of Historic Preservation for the production of a survey entitled "Cultural Resource Survey: New Deal Era Resources in Nine Florida State Parks." The survey deals with the following State Parks, all constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps: Florida Caverns; Fort Clinch; Gold Head Branch; Highlands Hammock; Hillsborough River; Myakka River; O'Leno; Ravine Gardens; and Torreya. The collection contains materials relating to the construction of the State Parks (1933-1942) and to the completion of the survey (1988-1989). Included are blueprints, building plans and drawings, correspondence, oral histories, photo inventories, reports, site maps, and unpublished manuscripts. In addition, there are two cassette tapes of an interview with Allen Altvater about the Highlands Hammock State Park and a copy of the "Cultural Resource Survey."

Series/Collection Number: .S 1025
Creator: Florida Public Service Commission
Title: Energy conservation public awareness program files, 1981-1982.

The series contains the subject of the Energy Conservation Public Awareness Program sponsored by the Public Service Commission from 1981 to 1982. Records include teaching aids, brochures, audiotapes, and videotapes.

Series/Collection Number: .S 1620
Creator: Florida. Division of State Lands
Title: Environmentally Endangered Lands (E.E.L.) project proposal and land acquisition files, 1968-1983.

This series comprises the central file documenting the land acquisition projects and activities connected with the Environmentally Endangered Lands Acquisition Program (EEL), in which the state sought to purchase endangered or environmentally damaged areas for use as natural resource preserves and/or recreation areas. EEL was the predecessor program to CARL (Conservation and Recreation Lands), and the transition from EEL to CARL in the late 1970s and early 1980s is evident in the records. The files include correspondence and memoranda of the Department of Natural Resources, including its Division of State Lands, Bureau of Land Acquisition, and its Division of Recreation and Parks, Bureau of Park Lands and Development, as well as other department offices and other state agencies. Also included in the series are land acquisition project proposals and summaries; project evaluations; reports, minutes of meetings, agenda, and meeting background materials of the Interagency Advisory Committee (IAC), which made recommendations to the Department of Natural Resources regarding proposed land acquisition projects, and the Interagency Planning Committee (IPC), which voted on whether or not proposed projects qualified for the E.E.L. program; land surveys and deeds; leases; maps; and photographs of endangered or damaged lands under consideration for acquisition. The bulk of the files are project case files arranged by county and then by project. Information on multi-county projects might be found under more than one county. In addition, information on any given project might be found in other portions of the series as well. Researchers should check the entire container list for references to any specific projects.

Series/Collection Number: .S 236
Creator: Florida. Division of Recreation and Parks
Title: Photographic Collection, 1948-1970

This series consists of over 4,000 photographs depicting state parks and scenic views of Florida, as well as some of the personnel and activities of the Division and the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Some of the images date back to the origins of the Florida Park Service, including images of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Board of Parks and Historic Memorials. The majority of these images were created by and maintained by former Florida Park Service director and Chief of Education and Information C. H. Schaeffer. Most images from 1947 to 1950 were taken by Florida Park Service photographer William Z. Harmon.

Series/Collection Number: .S 1352
Creator: Florida Park Service
Title: State park project files, 1936-1948

This series contains the project files maintained by the Park Service Director from 1936 to 1948. The files document projects completed at the following parks: Florida Caverns State Park, Fort Clinch State Park, Gold Head Branch State Park, and Highlands Hammock State Park. The records include work orders and relating correspondence concerning the projects, which were being carried out by the Civilian Conservation Corps. The series also includes a file on park attendance and receipts and some federal and state publications concerning parks.

Series/Collection Number: .S 1392
Creator: Florida. Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission.
Title: Rules, 1944-1962.

This series is a collection of the rules of the Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission as adopted, amended, or repealed from 1944 to 1962. The rules relate to the management of Florida's wildlife resources.

Series/Collection Number: N2005- 1
Creator: Alvarez, Ken
Title: Florida Panther Recovery Program Research Files, 1887-1997

This collection consists of research and reference files related to the Florida Panther Recovery Program compiled by Ken Alvarez in researching his book Twilight of the Panther (Myakka River Publishing, Sarasota, 1993). Alvarez served as chairman of the Florida Panther Technical Advisory Council from 1983-1989. The collection includes organizational reports and newsletters, maps, memoranda, correspondence, handwritten notes, funding proposals, technical bulletins, senate and house bills, newspaper articles, journal articles, land surveys and periodicals related to the Florida Panther. The files document the work conducted by various governmental and private agencies, such as U.S. Corp of Engineers, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Audubon Society, U.S. Department of the Interior, Florida Audubon Society, Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Florida Department of Natural Resources, and the Friends of the Everglades in protecting the Florida panther; conducting environmentally endangered land inspections; preserving and maintaining the Florida Everglades and the Big Cypress National Preserve, and other endangered species (both plant and animal); captive breeding programs; deer, bear and hog studies; and water conservation areas. The collection also documents challenges encountered in other states such as in California (California Condor), Wyoming (black-footed ferret), Texas, Utah, etc., and with similar programs in Florida (dusky seaside sparrow).

Series/Collection Number: .S 1187
Creator: Florida. Dept. of Natural Resources
Title: Motion pictures and photographs, 1960-1972.

This series contains motion pictures and photographs, 1960-1972, produced by the Dept. of Natural Resources and the State Board of Conservation. The motion pictures relate to the following topics: water hyacinths, manatees, fishing, oceanography, coastal engineering, the Big Cypress Swamp, the Cross Florida Barge Canal, John Penekamp State Park, and the PX-15 submarine. The photographs, which include some negative and slides, document beach erosion in Florida.

TALL TIMBERS ARCHIVES AND HISTORICAL RESOURCES

Archivist & Historian: Juanita Whiddon
Location: The Mellon Building, Tall Timbers Research Station
Telephone: (850) 893-4153, ext. 236
Fax: (850) 893-6470

Hours of Service:By appointment only.

Access: Restricted. The institution?s archives are primarily for the use of its staff. External use is limited. Requests for access should be submitted in writing and will be reviewed by the archivist and the executive director.

Holdings: Institutional records from 1958 to the present. Private papers including diaries from 1891-1963 of Henry Ludlow Beadel and his wife Genevieve Dillon Beadel, as well as their extensive film collection; correspondence and field notes of Herbert L. Stoddard (1925-1966); correspondence, field notes and photographs of Edward V. Komarek and Roy Komarek (1930s-1980s); correspondence and field notes of Henry Stevenson for The Birdlife of Florida.

Total Volume: Approximately 480 cubic feet.