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The Mary Julia Thompson Pomfrey Collection contains newspaper clippings, programs, and other items related to her years at Florida State College for Women.

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The Mary K. Gibson Gandy Spirogira Towel is a handcrafted towel created by Florida State College for Women faculty member Sarah Elizabeth Thomson for each of the 1937 members of Spirogira.

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Student grade reports, graduation announcement and personal photographs of Florida State College for Women student Mary Leora Singeltary, class of 1923 (BS, Human Sciences).

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Select materials from this collection have been digitized and are available through the FSU Digital Library as part of a larger photograph collection.

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The Mary Mendenhall Wood Collection contains photos, publications, resolutions, memorabilia, typescripts and correspondence documenting the activities of Mrs. Mary Mendenhall Wood, Mrs. Florence Williamson and Mr. John G. Kellum.

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Mary Simpson Yarbrough's 1928 class ring.

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This collection is significant to researchers studying the history of Leon County, the history of the Florida State College for Women, and women's colleges because it documents the academic activities of Mary Simpson Yarbrough, who attended Florida State College for Women during the 1920s.

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The May Ryburn Papers contain a variety of materials related to Ryburn's personal and professional life. Ryburn lived in both Chicago and Miami and worked as a journalist and English teacher. Included are her personal and travel journals, correspondence, materials used in her teaching career, photographs, published works, and genealogy information and records. The collection contains letters to Ryburn from Eleanor Roosevelt and Florida Governor Leroy Collins.

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1951 Westcott Building Artifact. Not photographed for 3D collection. [3D Object].

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The collection contains items related to the cost of attending Florida State College for Women.

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Evelyn L. Mudge was a Florida State College for Women student, class of 1925 (BS, Education).  This is the typescript memoir of her freshman year at FSCW.

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Items collected by Myrtle Bailey.

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The collection contains items and ephemera related to Florida State College for Women in the 1940s.

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The Olga Larson Collection contains items related to her years as a student and a mathematics professor at Florida State College for Women including correspondences, certificates, and personal documents.

Scope and Contents The collection features items relating to clubs and organizations that Peggy Barker Teague was involved with during her years at Florida State College for Women, especially the Spirogira honor society, Tarpon Club, and the College Government Association. This includes newspaper clippings, ephemeral documents, and two scrapbooks containing similar documents and items. The largest item is a pillow with the Spirogira skull and cross bones. Online Copies Available Select materials from this collection have been digitized and are available through the ...

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Programs, invitations and other items related to Florida Female College and Florida State College for Women, accumulated by Board of Control member, Philip Keyes Yonge during his tenure on the committee.

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Select materials from this collection have been digitized and are available through the FSU Digital Library as part of a larger photograph collection.

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This collection consists of a diploma and other items related to Florida State University student/alumnae Polly Marks Whitley (BS, Education, 1948).

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The Ramona Cruikshank Beard Scrapbook contains programs, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other items related to her years as a professor in the Music Department at Florida State University.

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The collection contains items related to Rubie Byrd Hardwick's years as a student at Florida State College for Women.

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The collection contains materials from student Rubie Plant's involvement in Pi Delta Phi (National French Honor Society) and Sigma Delta Pi (National Hispanic Honor Society) at Florida State College for Women. Rubie Plant was the vice-president of both honor societies during her senior year in 1946. Materials include meeting minutes, correspondence from members and national officers, and member information.

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A photograph of the 1947 Florida State College for Women Glee Club.

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The Sara Culbreth Cooper Collection consists of personal photographs and two programs that were loaned for digitization. The bulk of the collection pertains to her participation in the Flying High Circus at Florida State University from 1947-1950.

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Materials from this collection have been digitized and are available through the FSU Digital Library as part of a larger photograph collection.

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The Sara Yearty Hughes Photograph Collection contains 25 photographs from her years as a student at Florida State College for Women.

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Approximately 25 photographs from her years at FSCW (ca. 1935-1939).

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The collection contains photograph, commencement program and class ring of Sarah Henderson Wilder.

Scope and Contents Several booklets, pamphlets, and other catalogues pertaining to past history of Florida State University and its predecessor institutions. Especially interesting is a catalogue of the Seminary West of the Suwannee River, 1892-1893, and a Programme of the 42nd Annual Commencement of the Seminary held at Munro's Opera House, June 9, 1893. Many names familiar to Tallahassee appear on this program and in the catalogue. At this time the Board of Visitors was made up of four prominent citizens of north Florida: E.P. Dismukes of Quincy, William Miller of Port Washington, Samuel Pasco of Monticello, and E.J. Vann of Madison. Unique among Mr. Scarborough's gifts is one of Hazeltine's miniature...

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A scrapbook donated to the Alumni Association. The creator of the scrapbook is unknown, but was most likely an education major at Florida State College for Women.

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Publications, newsletters, correspondence and textile donated by Martha Tilden nee Taylor. Collection includes items belonging to and about her mother Elizabeth Taylor nee Byrd (FSCW 1926) and her daughter Evelyn Elizabeth Tilden (FSU 1994) as well as correspondence from several FSCW students to her father-in-law, Robert Tilden. The correspondences authored by Dottie or "DB" to Robert Tilden, could possibly be class of 1928 student, Doris Maye Bartlett from Winter Haven, Florida.

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Volume contains copies of college era letters and other correspondences written by Florida State College for Women student Mary-Ruth Weaver Crook (formerly Mary-Ruth Weaver), class of 1944 (BA, Arts & Sciences).

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This collection consists of materials collected by Verlie T. Robinson, a 1925 graduate of Florida State College for Women. Included are bills, certificates, notebooks, grade reports, field day materials, and a memory book.

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Scrapbook of Florida State College for Women student, Victoria J. Lewis, class of 1944 (BS, Education). Items include photographs of her friends, and memorabilia related to her participation in the F Club, Evens, Esteren, and other student organizations.

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Select materials from this collection have been digitized and are available through the FSU Digital Library.