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FSU. Florida State University Collections

 Record Group
Identifier: FSU
Includes collections related to people, organizations, events, and locations pertinent to Florida State University and its predecessor institutions. See also the FSU Classification Subgroups detailed to the right.

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Florida State University Faculty Mother's Club

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 1990-034
Scope and Contents

Includes a booklet describing the history of the club and the minutes of meetings, a letter from a club member, and an album of photographs taken by Professor Eva Mae Atwood.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1977-1987

Florida State University Seminole Symbol Files

 Collection — Box 1817
Identifier: MSS 2008-023
Scope and Contents This collection is comprised primarily of newspaper clippings and correspondence, and documents the controversy from 1991 through 2005 over FSU's use of Native American names and symbols representing Renegade and Osceola, the Seminoles, and their use in athletic merchandise. There is correspondence between representatives of the Seminole Tribe of Florida and the Florida Creek Indian Council with FSU reaffirming support for the Seminole name and Marching Chiefs over the use of the Seminole name, war chant, and "tomahawk chop" as well as letters between university officials about the President Dale Lick's Presidential Study Group on the Use of Seminole Symbolism and Tradition...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1949-2005; Other: Majority of material found in 1992-1995; Other: Date acquired: 07/00/2007

Mrs. S. L. Cawthon Letter

 Collection — Box 149: Series 1; Series 2; Series 3
Identifier: MSS 1964-051
Scope and Contents

The letter was written on genuine birch bark by Mrs. S. L. Cawthon, October 2, 1914, while on vacation at Springfield, Vermont, and was addressed to "My Dear Girls." The letter is quite legible and contains some excellent descriptions of the areas in Vermont where she was vacationing.

Also known as MSS 0-51.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: October 2, 1914

Ruby Diamond Family Papers

 Collection — Box Folder3
Identifier: MSS 2007-037
Abstract

Correspondence, genealogical materials, newspaper clippings, photographs, and memorabilia pertaining to Ruby Diamond and the related Hirschberg and Williams families.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1860-1994