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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.
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1 published 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 ↗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 ↗A report attributed to Bill Dingwall, an early death list and two aftermath photographs preserved from four original downloaded image files on Mercury.
LED-2026-f11e497db3b44f6c8565f5ece4301eb1 · Not independently verifiedOpen source ↗Florida legislative report with a later Berrydale Forestry Camp closure entry.
LED-2026-4cf534af02664e4d9b0c601fc0b3be3d · Source identity checkedOpen source ↗NFPA’s May 1968 annual review records 38 deaths in the July 16, 1967 Berrydale barracks fire.
LED-2026-34153039bccf40dfa9f76e31a3033efe · Source identity checkedOpen source ↗