Florida State University Southern Business History Center records, 1855-1956 (inclusive) (bulk 1940-1956).

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Florida State University Southern Business History Center records, 1855-1956 (inclusive) (bulk 1940-1956).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/646841075

The FSU Southern Business History Center Records include, correspondence to and from the center, including memos, form letters, responses, questionnaire, annual reports, photographs and publications; and oral interviews recorded in May and June 1954 and August 1956 on 1/4 inch audio tape reels. They also include a group of historical records of the Eberhard Faber Pencil Company at Cedar Key, Florida.

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Florida State University Southern Business History Center.

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The Southern Business History Center was formed at Florida State University in 1954 to stimulate graduate work and to promote the study of business history and of related social, economic, and political developments in this region. The Center grew out of an effort in Fall of 1953 by the History Department and Social Sciences Committee to collect Southern Business History records and form a center. The committee appointed by the President on February 8, 1954 to form the Center included Norman L. ...

Bear, Max.

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Sherrill Oil Company.

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Meek, Gertrude P., 1898-

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E.E. Saunders Co. (Pensacola, Fla.)

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Hyer, Albert M.

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Prothro, James W., 1922-1986

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Rovetta, Charles A., 1907-

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McKenzie Oerting & Company (Pensacola, Fla.)

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Kilpatrick, Norman L., 1905-

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Goulding, Robert Lee, 1892-

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Rosasco, Edwin M.

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Campbell, Doak S. (Doak Sheridan), 1888-1973

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President, Florida State University. Doak Sheridan Campbell, third president of the Florida State College for Women (1941-1957), was born near Waldron, Arkansas, on November 16, 1888. He attended public school in Arkansas, after which he obtained his teaching license. He taught for one year, then went to Ouachita College at Arkadelphia, Arkansas, where he graduated with a teaching degree in 1911, emphasizing music and speech. He then became superintendent of school at Co...

Faber, John Eberhard.

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Vance, Maurice M., 1916-

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Malloy, John W.

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Conner, Chester C.

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Rosasco, William Sebastian, 1895-1944

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Wells, Frank

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Pensacola Pilots' Association (Pensacola, Fla.)

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Taylor, Francis William, 1901-

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Merritt, John A.

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Eberhard Faber Pencil Company

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The Eberhard Faber Pencil Company began as a U.S. subsidiary branch of A.W. Faber Company in 1849. Eberhard Faber's great grandfather, Casper Faber, began to manufacture and market pencils in the village of Stein, located near Nuremberg, Bavaria (now Germany), in 1761. Casper Faber's son, Anton Wilhelm (A.W.), took over the management of the business in 1784 and grew the business. He eventually renamed it A.W. Faber Company. The company continued under several more generations of Fa...

Flory, Daisy Parker, 1915-2006

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Daisy Parker Flory was born February 8, 1915 in Charlotte, N.C. She attended Florida State College for Women (FSCW) in 1933, and earned her Bachelor's degree in history in 1937. After graduation she began her professional career as a teacher of government and history at Leon High School. Some of her students at FSU included former governor Reubin Askew, former Supreme Court Justice Alan Sundberg, and Attorney General Jim Smith. She attended the University of Virginia and received her M.A. in pol...

Colberg, Marshall Rudolph, 1913-....

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Lewis Bear Company (Pensacola, Fla.)

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Allen, Francis R.

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Zitmore, Irving.

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Howe, George William

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Florida Town Improvement Company

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Warren Fish Company (Pensacola, Fla.)

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The northern Gulf became a important in the commercial fishing industry just prior to the Civil War. A market for red snapper and grouper developed and this area of the Gulf proved to be the most fertile fishery for these species. Pensacola became the center of the fishery when the first company for handling and shipping red snapper was formed. Owned and operated by by S.C. Cobb under the name of the Pensacola Fish Company this company opened in 1872. A.F. Warren was bro...

Lovett, Robert W. (Robert William)

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Wright, Warren B.

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Campbell, Claude A. (Claude Arthur), 1903-

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