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17th-20th Century Correspondence and Documents
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 01-MSS 1948-003
Dates:
Created: 1664-1976
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
19th c. Florida Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS 1952-006
Scope and Contents
Correspondence. This collection is comprised of various groups of letters about Florida, dating between 1837 and 1891 most of which deal primarily with land issues.
Dates:
Created: 1835-1891
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
27th Troop Carrier Squadron Foundation papers
Collection — Container: Newsletters/Documents
Identifier: 02-00.0241
Scope and Contents
This collection related to the 27th Troop Carrier Squadron includes a manuscript that consists of memoirs entitled "Freedom Rings," which were gathered from members of the Army's 27th Troop Carrier Squadron about their time in the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater. The squadron was in the CBI Theater from 1942-1945. The squadron was involved in many Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and SACO (Sino-American-Cooperative-Organization) operations, including rescues and liberations of P.O.W.'s. The collection includes their veteran's association magazine/newsletters as well.
Dates:
Created: 1942-2002; Other: Majority of material found in 1948-1982; Other: Date acquired: 05/18/2002
385th Bomb Group Association collection
Collection — Container: Publication
Identifier: 02-18.0012
Scope and Contents
This collection relates to the 385th Bombardment Group, Heavy, that was stationed at Station 155, Great Ashfield, Suffolk, England during World War II. The collection includes a publication which documents the group's history during the war.
Dates:
Created: 1942-2015; Other: Majority of material found in 1943-1945; Other: Date acquired: 04/23/2018
460th Heavy Bombardment Group Society papers
Collection — Container: Documents/Letters/ Official Reports
Identifier: 02-01.0046
Scope and Contents
The collection of the 460th Heavy Bombardment Group Society contains a unit history of this B-24 U.S. Army Air Corps Group, 55th Wing, 760th, 761st, 762nd, 763rd Squadrons and Group Headquarters, which served in the Italian Campaign. This collection primarily focuses on the memory of the war and those who served in the 460th. Included is a listing of the airmen who were held as prisoners of war, including their squadrons, positions on the plane (e.g. pilot, gunner), the date, mission, and what country or stalag in which they were held. Also included is a booklet, "Remembering the 460th Bomb Group (H)," which contains photographs, personnel lists, and maps, and was prepared as a...
Dates:
Created: 1943-2015; Other: Date acquired: 02/07/2015
484th Bombardment Group Association papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 02-02.0047
Scope and Contents
This collection relates to the 484th Bombardment Group (Heavy) that was assigned to the 5th Air Force and based in Torretta, Italy as a component of the Foggia Airfield Complex during World War II and assigned B-24 Liberator heavy bombers. The materials contained in this collection were subsequently assembled during the post-war period by the 484th Bombardment Group Association. The collection contains official reports, data sheets, statistics, newspapers, Missing Air Crew Reports, personal histories, photographs, and unit histories.
Dates:
Created: 1939-1998; Other: Majority of material found in 1942-1945
97th Bomb Group Reunion Association collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 02-01.0601
Scope and Contents
This collection relates to the 97th Bombardment Group which was based in England, Africa and Italy during World War II and the first operational bomb group in England in 1942. The collection contains documents (mostly photocopies) on missions, statements and statistics, three diaries, and newspaper articles. Their daily operations reports, narrative reports, and casualty reports detail their accomplishments and their losses. Included are a collection of videos, audio tapes, and microfilm. Included are copies of three personal diaries by Alex Blair, Jr., LeRoy Teschendorf, and Herman F. Lykins.
Also included is an extensive photograph collection of flight crews, air fields, and...
Dates:
1942-2000; Majority of material found within approximately 1942-1945
A Century of Tallahassee Girls, 1824-1924
Collection — Container: HP Miscellaneous Documents box 1
Identifier: 00-HP-2007-056
Scope and Contents
"A Century of Tallahassee Girls: As Viewed from the Leaves of their Diaries," collected and compiled by Clara R. Hayden.
Dates:
Created: undated
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
A Long Time Since Morning Manuscript and Galley Proofs
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 0-328
Scope and Contents
Original typewritten manuscript and galley proofs of Leon Odell Griffith's A Long Time Since Morning. The typewritten manuscript included handwritten edits, is unbound, and has some documentation from the publisher, Random House. The galley proofs are also unbound with handwritten edits and are stored folded. They are dated March 18, 1954.
Dates:
1954
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
AAUW Florida Records
Collection
Identifier: 01-MSS 2017-007
Scope and Contents
Records of the American Association of University Women, Florida Division, including publications, reports, press clippings, directories, convention records, and Board of Directors records.
Dates:
Created: 1982-2012; Other: Date acquired: 11/08/2017
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Zelma D. Abarbanel collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 02-07.0119
Content Description
This collection refers to Zelma D. Abarbanel, who served as a Technician Fourth Grade with the WAC Second Detachment during World War II. Abarbanel worked as a stenographer and assistant for the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia, in the Office of Weapons. The collection includes a transcript of an oral history interview, one letter, the military records of both Abarbanel and her husband, Milton Goldman Abarbanel, and several photographs depicting Abarbanel’s life as a WAC.
Dates:
1943-1945
Abraham Kurkindolle Allison Estate Testamentary
Collection — Box: 137
Identifier: MSS 1978-033
Scope and Contents
A testamentary dated July 17, 1893, signed by Paul Thompson, County Judge, Gadsden County. The document appoints C.E.L. Allison and Elizabeth S. Allison as Executor and Executrix of Abraham Kurkindolle Allison's estate.
Dates:
Majority of material found in July 17, 1893
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Abraham Lifschitz collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 02-10.0016
Scope and Contents
Abraham Lifschitz, a Polish native, served in the US Army from 1942-1945. He served in Europe with the 100th Infantry Division until the end of the war. Collection is 1/2 box of 7 folders containing military service records, wartime publications, a few religious articles, and brief correspondence with his neice, Roberta, who donated this collection. Additionally, Lifschitz's artifacts are housed in the Artifact Collections. They consist of a veteran hat and handkerchief from an unknown relative who served in WWI, as well as Lifschitz's unit patch, cigarette case, marksmanship badge, a bracelet of French francs, his dog tags, and a banner commemorating his unit's history.
Dates:
Created: 1942-1946; Other: Date acquired: 02/08/2012
A.C. Lyles Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 01-MSS 2014-007
Scope and Contents
Print documents and photographs documenting the career of A.C. Lyles at Paramount Pictures Corporation and as an advisor to the Ronald Reagan presidential administration. The collection includes scripts, production records, financial records, books, awards, personal documents, political correspondence, celebrity correspondence, and newspaper clippings.
Note to researchers: This collection is in process, and portions remain unavailable to researchers at this time. Please contact FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives for more information.
Note to researchers: This collection is in process, and portions remain unavailable to researchers at this time. Please contact FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives for more information.
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 05/22/2014
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Academic Mace Sketch
Collection — Container: HP Miscellaneous Documents box 3
Identifier: 00-HP-2007-106
Scope and Contents
The Academic Mace Sketch is a revised drawing of the Florida State University academic mace used during formal academic related processions.
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 00/00/2007
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Account Book
Collection — Container: 1 item
Identifier: MSS 85-01
Scope and Contents
Account Book (possibly a store account book) Feb. to Nov. 1872.
Dates:
Created: 1872
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Donald and Portia Ackerman collection
Collection — Container: 03.0177 Box 1
Identifier: 02-03.0177
Content Description
This collection relates to Donald and Portia Ackerman. Donald Ackerman served as a pilot on B-24 bombers with the 44th Bomb Squadron, 506th Bombardment Group, in the European Theater of Operations during World War II. He continued to serve in the U.S. Air Force for 20 years and served during the Korean War.This collection contains an oral history transcript, artifacts, audio tapes, documents, letters, maps, pamphlets, and photographs relating to Donald and Portia Ackerman.
Dates:
1941-1990
Adams Brothers Store Ledger
Collection — Container: Oversize
Identifier: MSS 2006-015
Scope and Contents
While the Adams Brothers Store Ledger covers only a brief period of the existence of this business (1898-1899), it documents the operations of a late 19th and early 20th Century mercantile store in north Florida. It is significant to researchers studying North Florida's economic history during this period.
Dates:
Created: 1898-1899
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Adeline Wilkes Collection of Dr. Doris Clack Research Materials
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 01-MSS 2014-002
Abstract
Research materials and correspondence used by FSU faculty member Adeline W. WIlkes in writing biographical materials about Dr. Doris Clack.
Dates:
Created: 1975-1997; Other: Majority of material found in 1995-1997; Other: Date acquired: 02/14/2014
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Admiral Richard H. Leigh Papers
Collection
Identifier: 01-MSS 0-165
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the papers of United States Navy Admiral Richard H. Leigh. They include a 17-volume holograph diary, dating 1917-1944, containing official orders, holograph and typed letters, newspaper clippings, printed programs, maps, pictures, and other related items. Also included is a four volume set of personal papers, and a book which Leigh entitled, Whereas, which consists of newspaper clippings, family pictures, programs, doctor bills, and other materials. Many of these documents relate to the history and development of the United States Navy, World War I, and events leading to the conflict with Japan and World War II.
Other...
Dates:
1870-1944; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1958
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Adolph Westheimer Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 02-98.0165
Scope and Contents
Adolph Joseph Westheimer served in the US Army Air Corps during World War II in the Pacific Theater. The collection includes personal letters, government documents pertaining to his service, some postcards, tickets, papers with Japanese scripts, and Japanese artifacts. It also includes the oral history transcript of the Westheimer interview and manuscripts giving detailed descriptions and information on living conditions of Air Force members during the war in Japan. In addition, it includes the certificates of his physical conditions.
Dates:
Created: 1932-1999; Other: Majority of material found in 1944-1945; Other: Date acquired: 08/01/1999
Advertisements for Walt Whitman works
Collection — Box: 158
Identifier: 01-MSS 0-262
Scope and Contents
Two prints of Walt Whitman advertisements from 1889 and 1855.
Dates:
Created: 1855-1889; Other: Date acquired: 03/31/1956
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Alachua, Gadsden and Leon Counties Civil War papers
Collection — Box: 140
Identifier: MSS 1967-060
Scope and Contents
These photocopies of Civil War papers include a letter from Bird B. Wright of Shepherdstown in Jefferson County, Virginia to his wife Amy R. Wright of Quincy Florida in Gadsden County. The letter dated September 21, 1862, informs her that he has been badly wounded while in combat near Sharpsburg, Maryland and gives instructions how to get to the place where he is and tells her that she or his brother should come to see him. Among other things, he tells her that his Captain was killed the same day he was wounded. Also included is a Certificate of Parole, Waldo, Alachua County, Florida, dated May 20, 1865 to J. A. Tompkins...Private of Co. B. 2nd Regiment, Florida Calvary, and a transmittal...
Dates:
Created: 1862-1865; Other: Date acquired: 05/10/1967
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Alan May papers
Collection — Container: Personal Papers
Identifier: 02-01.0130
Scope and Contents
Alan May served as a gunner on a B-24 Bomber with the 451st Bomb Group during World War II in Italy and was shot down during a mission to Ploesti, Romania, and became a POW. May was awarded the Purple Heart, Air Medals, 2 Presidential Unit Citations, and the Distinguished Flying Cross. Included in this collection is a footnoted manuscript diary of missions.
Dates:
Created: 1944-1944; Other: Majority of material found in 1944; Other: Date acquired: 02/04/2001
Albert A. Murphree Genealogical Papers
Collection — Container: HP Miscellaneous Documents box 1
Identifier: 00-HP-2008-008
Scope and Contents
Assorted genealogical papers related to former Seminary West of the Suwannee, Florida State College and Florida Female College President (1897-1909), Albert A. Murphree. Includes some copies of photographs.
Dates:
Created: undated; Other: Date acquired: 05/19/2008
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Albert L. Haggerty papers
Collection — Container: Oral History Transcript/ Documents
Identifier: 02-00.0224
Scope and Contents
This collection consists on a series of papers focused on Albert "Al" Haggerty and the "Three Feathers" B-24 Liberator Bomber he was assigned as crew chief during World War II. The "Three Feathers" bomber belonging to the 726th Bomber Squadron, 451st Bombardment Group. Documents in the collection include Haggerty's memories of his time with the plane, photocopies of pictures of the plane and the crew as well as an excerpt from a book were Sidney Winski, the first pilot of this aircraft, recounts the "Three Feathers" incident, and finally the transcript of an interview where Haggerty provides a detailed account of his life, his time in training, the "Three Feathers incident," his...
Dates:
Created: 1942-1945; Other: Majority of material found in 1943-1945; Other: Date acquired: 06/15/2000
Albert Waller Gilchrist Papers
Collection — Box: 148
Identifier: 01-MSS 1964-125
Scope and Contents
The Gilchrist Papers are comprised of the official papers of Albert Waller Gilchrist, 20th Governor of Florida, as well as newspaper articles, military and state official documents, items pertaining to the naming of Gilchrist County, materials regarding educational institutions including Carolina Military Institute and West Point, personal correspondence, genealogical research, and papers pertaining to Gilchrist's estate and will.
Also known as MSS 0-125.
Also known as MSS 0-125.
Dates:
Created: 1876-1929
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Alberte Spratt Sea of Cortez Illustrations
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 0-348
Scope and Contents
46 original drawings used as illustrations for Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck and Edward Ricketts, 1941.
Dates:
Created: circa 1940; Other: Date acquired: 05/01/1968
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Aldo Busot papers
Collection — Container: Interview Transcript
Identifier: 02-11.0028
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of an oral history interview transcript of Aldo Busot, who lived in Cuba during World War II.
Dates:
Created: 2011-2011; Other: Date acquired: 04/14/2011
Alec Rackowe Manuscripts
Collection — Box: 321
Identifier: MSS 71-103
Scope and Contents
Alec Rackowe manuscripts for "The Slope of Love," "Summertime," and "Take Me to Hollywood." Also included in the collection are several letters from Rackowe's editor at The American Magazine.
Dates:
November 21, 1953; Other: Date acquired: 03/01/1971
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
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