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3 published sources ↗RESEARCH COLLECTIONA collection for primary sources, editions, correspondence and literary research.
30 published sources ↗RESEARCH COLLECTIONPublished memoranda, identification material and certificates; associations retain the source-specific scope.
4 published sources ↗RESEARCH COLLECTIONA collection for regional history beyond a single town or publication.
41 published sources ↗RESEARCH COLLECTIONA collection for technical references, documentation and independent research.
1 published source ↗Louie Wainwright discusses the July 16, 1967 prison-camp fire that killed 38 men. This later interview was uploaded to YouTube by FDC History Museum.
LED-2026-ea0d07fbfdbd42049f7e673b3256bd91 · Source identity checkedOpen source ↗The detailed caption printed on the front describes state fire officials burning a wooden road-prison barracks at Live Oak to recreate conditions of the fatal Jay-area prison fire. It says the test fire was extinguish...
LED-2026-f61427830a0f4765b861e46fc840a841 · Source identity checkedOpen source ↗The reverse caption describes blanket-covered prisoners’ bodies outside the barracks awaiting transfer to a morgue after the July 16 fire. It reports 37 deaths, 14 escapes and six severely burned prisoners. It attribu...
LED-2026-c1b45da62f2b45cfab19ca85280dec08 · Source identity checkedOpen source ↗Original complete institutional library survey by Laura Snyder Smith. Includes adult corrections and road-prison data. Names of places must not be confused with prisoner names; not an individual roster.
LED-2026-994cc32568474518bf68b17726c00b7e · Source identity checkedOpen source ↗Original complete report. Road-prison section is PDF pages 41–44. Title page identifies L. L. Wainwright as Director. This describes the prison system; it does not establish individual involvement in the fire.
LED-2026-f696782801994a75ab885995cf7f2a04 · Source identity checkedOpen source ↗Complete 43-image repository sequence of handwritten prisoner transfers to road prisons, with transfer and discharge information. Predates the 1967 fire and is not its inmate or staff roster.
LED-2026-2f9b40217fb44ecc8e10e17296224973 · Source identity checkedOpen source ↗Complete 14-image repository sequence. Fire-related entries are on scan pages 5 and 12. Page 3 concerns escapees. The manuscript labels the fire deaths RP 32; the relationship to the camp described in newspapers as Ro...
LED-2026-50b6fb367bea4a4bb572832eda9affed · Source identity checkedOpen source ↗Contemporary fire reporting preserved as a complete article clipping.
LED-2026-9708b074636549bba2b80d729a8cc379 · Source identity checkedOpen source ↗Contemporary fire reporting preserved as a complete article clipping.
LED-2026-2b2c46cbb20e4ff1ac9076ad7b597a54 · Source identity checkedOpen source ↗Contemporary newspaper photograph and caption preserved with source views and a reading transcription.
LED-2026-b0e4b575c6a04ceba285b635868334b4 · Source identity checkedOpen source ↗Contemporary newspaper photograph and caption preserved with source views and a reading transcription.
LED-2026-4470e45a00484903aee5c8cc40d59656 · Source identity checkedOpen source ↗Contemporary newspaper report preserved with source views and a reading transcription.
LED-2026-070dc17b8d844bad9048718a21112dcd · Source identity checkedOpen source ↗Contemporary newspaper report preserved with source views and a reading transcription.
LED-2026-41e32453ebc54ebe8d6dad7641a41ba6 · Source identity checkedOpen source ↗Contemporary newspaper report preserved with source views and a reading transcription.
LED-2026-3dea6a493f934fc2bead33db2e7c7f8b · Source identity checkedOpen source ↗Contemporary newspaper report preserved with source views and a reading transcription.
LED-2026-d404743493cd4ad0aa47c91490aaef8d · Source identity checkedOpen source ↗Source register and all 25 unchanged photographs from the Fort Walton Beach library microfilm batch.
LED-2026-5cdc437f10a74b64aa3f00d4e0f866b7 · Source identity checkedOpen source ↗Previously saved watermarked video showing the burned prison-camp remains and recovery activity, cataloged by eFootage as Deadly Prison Fire in Florida.
LED-2026-419018d50c824cdea50f4cb141f3efc8 · Source identity checkedOpen source ↗Contemporary Associated Press reporting on testimony at the Road Camp 12 fire inquest, preserved as the complete newspaper page.
LED-2026-b29e9d9971894d71a909a46225515a93 · Source identity checkedOpen source ↗A federal correctional fire-safety training manual contains a retrospective account of the Berrydale fire and a photograph credited to The Press Gazette.
LED-2026-2853f5b1b80845709bd0729c888f32a5 · Source identity checkedOpen source ↗The Florida Senate journal records the unanimous adoption of HCR 1954, commending Milton firefighter Captain Calvin E. Ellison for emergency aid at the July 16, 1967 Road Camp 12 fire.
LED-2026-004445d89cc9484992248b4c2f7beed1 · Source identity checkedOpen source ↗