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PSC DIGITAL ARCHIVES

The Pensacola State College (PSC) Digital Archive provides access to portions of the Special Collections materials housed at the Edward M. Chadbourne Library. The collection includes yearbooks, scrapbooks, student publications, and photographs documenting the college’s history.

As the oldest and largest college in the panhandle, PSC was founded as Pensacola Junior College (PJC) in 1948. It offers more than 100 programs that serve approximately 26,000 students in Northwest Florida and Southern Alabama. In 1966 Booker T. Washington Junior College, the first black junior college in Florida, merged with PJC, bringing 200 African American students to the college.

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: Title: Booker T. Washington Junior College; Abstract/Description: Booker T. Washington Junior College was the first junior college for African Americans established in the state of Florida. Opened in 1949, its first class of twenty-three graduated in 1951. The college was headed by Dr. Garrett T. Wiggins for its entire sixteen year existence. In 1966, Booker T. Wa...

: Title: Ephemera; Abstract/Description: Programs, pamphlets, brochures, flyers, and other small printed materials related to the history of Pensacola State College.

: Title: Lyceum; Abstract/Description: This collection documents Lyceum and other intellectual events at Pensacola State College, including concerts, comedy, drama, dance, exhibitions, and lectures, featuring nationally and internationally recognized speakers and performers as well as local talent. Initiated in 1958 by Performing Arts Ch...

: Title: Photographs; Abstract/Description: Photographs documenting events at Pensacola State College since its founding in 1949.

: Title: Scrapbooks; Abstract/Description: This collection contains scrapbooks documenting the early years of Pensacola State College, which was then known as Pensacola Junior College. It also includes the scrapbook of Booker T. Washington Junior College, which merged with Pensacola Junior College in 1966.

: Title: Student Newspapers; Abstract/Description: Student newspapers produced at Pensacola State College (and Pensacola Junior College) students from 1949-present. Issues of The Beachcomber (1949) and The Corsair are included.

: Title: Yearbooks; Abstract/Description: This collection includes yearbooks for Pensacola Junior College and its associated Adult High School beginning with the 1950 edition of The Tide