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Allen Morris Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1966-187
Scope and Contents The Allen Morris Papers consist of personal and professional records and research materials accumulated by Mr. Morris over a period of about forty-one years. The papers consist of correspondence; biographical sketches of Florida officials and other famous Floridians; photographs, programs, and other materials related to the Allen Morris Legislative Awards; historical data concerning place names, historical houses, rivers and river boats. Also included is a complete file of "Cracker Politics," the column that Allen Morris was responsible for writing for so many years, as well as notes and materials compiled and used in the creation of the Florida Handbook. A large...
Dates: 1861-1970

Anna Forbes Liddell Papers

 Collection — Box: 1820
Identifier: MSS 2006-016
Abstract

The Anna Forbes Liddell Papers consists of personal and professional papers collected throughout her life and includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, research notes, articles, lecture notes, student papers, biographical information, photographs, and poetry.

Dates: Created: 1902-1961; Other: Majority of material found in 1930-1961

Annie Gertrude Gilliam Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: HP 2007-121
Scope and Contents

The Annie Gertrude Gilliam Scrapbook contains photographs, programs, and other items related to her years as a student at Florida State College for Women.



Online Content Available

Both the scrapbook in its entirety and select individual objects from the scrapbook have been digitized and are available through the FSU Digital Library.

Dates: Created: 1925-1931; Other: Majority of material found in 1925-1929

Beth Moor Papers

 Collection — Container: OS 1-4
Identifier: MSS 1986-023
Scope and Contents

The collection includes general correspondence of Beth Moor, newsclippings, photographs, and memorabilia of and about Beth Moor. A large part of this collection concerns former Florida Governor Spessard Holland as well as the Florida State College for Women (FSCW) and The Florida State University (FSU). Included in the papers are correspondence about Governor Holland, the FSU Alumni Association, and Alpha Delta Pi. Also includes photographs and memorabilia concerning Governor Holland, Beth Moor, and both FSCW and FSU.

Dates: Created: 1918-1986

Blue Ridge Institute for Southern Community Service Executives Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1976-019
Abstract

This collection includes the proceedings of the annual Blue Ridge Institute, presentations that were not part of the proceedings but were presented at the Institute, programs, invitations, invitation lists, correspondence, background material, photographs and various related materials, including audio tapes and video tapes.

Dates: Created: 1927-2006

Cinema Corporation of America Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2004-008
Abstract

The Cinema Corporation of America Collection documents the history of this film distribution company, and American producer and director Cecil B. DeMille's role in its founding.

Dates: Created: 1925-1981; Other: Majority of material found in 1925-1932

College of Business Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: HUA 2014-089
Dates: Other: Date acquired: 02/18/2010

Dorothy Ina Price Collection

 Collection
Identifier: HP 2007-034
Scope and Contents

Dorothy Ina Price was a Florida State College for Women student, class of 1925 (BA, Modern Language). The items in the collection include her scrapbook, class photo, academic transcripts, a draft of her master's thesis, programs for musical performances, correspondences and other assorted student and non-student related ephemera (See box list.).



Online Copies Available

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

Dates: Created: 1924-1948; Other: Majority of material found in 1924-1927

Elin Ingeborg Larson Collection

 Collection — Box: 1; Housed With Other Collections
Identifier: HP 2007-124
Scope and Contents

The Elin Ingeborg Larson Collection contains items related to her life and years as a student at Florida State College for Women including photographs, newspaper clippings, and personal documents.

Dates: Created: 1899-1969

Elizabeth Byrd Taylor Scrapbook

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: HP 2007-098
Scope and Contents

The Elizabeth Byrd Taylor Scrapbook consists of photographs and ephemeral items related to her years as a Florida State College for Women student from 1922 to 1926.



Online Copies Available

  • The entire scrapbook is digitized and viewable here: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_HUA2007098
  • Select individual objects from the scrapbook were digitized separately and viewable here: https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:fscwebtaylorscrap
  • Dates: Created: circa 1922-1926

    Ella Scoble Opperman Papers

     Collection — Multiple Containers
    Identifier: MSS 1969-196
    Abstract

    Correspondence, articles, speech material, notebooks, daybooks, music record books, photographs, memorabilia, and legal records documenting the personal and professional life of Ella Scoble Opperman, the first Dean of the Florida State College for Women School of Music. Includes Opperman family papers.

    Dates: Created: 1719-1963; Other: Majority of material found in 1900-1963

    Erasmus H. Tomlinson Papers

     Collection — Multiple Containers
    Identifier: MSS 2008-001
    Scope and Contents The collection consists of materials of the E.H. Tomlinson and Son Real Estate Company from 1893-1958. The series include client records, correspondence, day books, maps, blueprints, and scrapbooks. Contained in these series are family correspondence, financial records, legal documents, deeds, contracts, reports, photographs, newspaper clippings, postcards, and pamphlets. The collection documents the activities of the E.H. Tomlinson and Son Real Estate Company during the last decade of the Nineteenth Century and the first half of the Twentieth Century. The collection contains considerable business and family correspondence that gives a first hand account of Florida real estate...
    Dates: Created: 1893-1958; Other: Majority of material found in 1906-1944

    Evelyn Whitfield Henry Scrapbooks

     Collection — Container: Scrapbooks 1 and 2
    Identifier: MSS 1986-012
    Scope and Contents

    This collection consists of two scrapbooks covering Tallahassee and Florida history for over a century, 1861-1961. The first scrapbook, "Chronology of Tallahassee and Florida History," consists of newspaper clippings and original documents including an aerial photograph of the Florida Capitol, the by-laws of the United Confederate Veterans, photographs of St. Johns Episcopal Church, and a pen and ink drawing of Wakulla Springs. The second scrapbook contains newspaper clippings and original documents such as inaugural programs. This second scrapbook deals with Florida governors, U.S. Presidents, and local Tallahassee history.

    Dates: Created: 1861-1961

    Fallschase Development Reference Files

     Collection
    Identifier: MSS 2009-006
    Scope and Contents

    The Fallschase Development Reference Files includes newspaper articles which documented the Fallschase development process; agreements and other legal materials; minutes from public meetings held in 2005 and 2006; Fallschase development proposals, maps/surveys of the land of the proposed Fallschase community; memorandums to and from the Board of County Commissions; correspondence to and from Robert Rackleff and other Leon County commissioners.

    Dates: Created: 1974-2007; Other: Majority of material found in 2004-2007

    Dorotha Farrell collection

     Collection — Box: 08.0080-Box 1
    Identifier: 08.0080
    Scope and Contents

    This collection relates to Dorotha Farrell who served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in an orthopedic ward with the 98th General Hospital that served in England and Germany in World War II. This collection contains 72 photographs, oral history interview transcript, one newspaper article clipping, one Life magazine cover, nine letters, and one folder of official documents.

    Dates: Majority of material found within 1942-1945; Other: Date accessioned: 2019-10-07

    Florence Gregory Walker Collection

     Collection — Box: 1
    Identifier: HP 2009-030
    Scope and Contents

    Personal items of Florida State College for Women student Florence Gregory (B.A. Sociology, 1940) and Florida State University (M.S., Social Work, 1962). Items includes photographs, scrapbooks, and other ephemera related to her years as a student at FSCW/FSU.



    Online Copies Available

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

    Dates: Created: 1931-1962; Other: Majority of material found in 1931-1947; Other: Date acquired: 07/01/2009

    Florida State University Center for Participant Education Collection

     Collection — Multiple Containers
    Identifier: MSS 2001-013
    Abstract

    The Center for Participant Education Collection contains the activities files, administrative records, alternative viewpoint publications, broadsides, class catalogs, financial records, guest files, legal files, out-of-state free university catalogs, and photographs of one of the oldest student agencies at Florida State University. These materials document the history and operations of the organization, and the programs it has sponsored for the years 1970-2000.

    Dates: Created: 1970-2000; Other: Majority of material found in 1984-1986

    Florida State University Libraries

     Collection — Box: 1
    Identifier: HP 2010-008
    Scope and Contents

    This collection contains photographs, newspaper clippings and other items related to Florida State University Libraries.



    Online Copies Available

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

    Dates: Created: 1980-2009

    Florida State University Office of Multicultural Affairs Records

     Collection — Container: Items
    Identifier: MSS 2006-013
    Abstract

    Correspondence, memoranda, reports, photographs and photo album, slides, publicity, itineraries, programs, newsclippings, newsletters and other materials documenting the activities sponsored by the Florida State University (FSU) Office of Multicultural Affairs.

    Dates: Created: 1956-1964; 1968-2007; Other: Majority of material found in 1987-2005

    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: Created: 1949-2005; Other: Majority of material found in 1992-1995; Other: Date acquired: 07/00/2007

    Florida State University Senior Class Gift Files

     Collection — Box: 1817
    Identifier: MSS 2008-029
    Scope and Contents

    The FSU Senior Class Gift Files include articles, correspondence, lists, pamphlets, photographs, and press releases documenting the history of annual and 50th anniversary gifts given by its senior classes. There is much information about the 1994 Senior Class Gift of a clock for the University Center's Tower, the Westcott Brick Project, and the Louise Richardson Memorial Fountain Project, and a reproduction of a panoramic photo, with negatives, of the Class of 1912.

    Dates: Created: 1912-2003

    Florida State University Tarpon Club Collection

     Collection — Multiple Containers
    Identifier: MSS 2005-011
    Abstract

    The FSCW/FSU Tarpon Club Collection contains materials documenting the synchronized swimming team's activities and performances. Materials include club documents, photographs, choreography and scripts, newspaper clippings, video, alumni notes, as well as other ephemera documenting the organization's history.

    Dates: Created: 1931-1994; Other: Majority of material found in 1931-1994

    Gloria Jahoda Papers

     Collection
    Identifier: MSS 0-332
    Scope and Contents

    Includes background research, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, newspaper articles, and other publications documenting the personal life and professional career of author and Florida historian Gloria Jahoda. Significant topics include genealogy, ecology, northwest Florida, publishing rights, classical music, WFSU-FM radio programs, the Muscogee Creek Nation, and Jahoda’s book The Road to Samarkand, a biography of English composer Frederick Delius.

    Includes materials previously described as MSS 79-2, MSS 80-3, MSS 83-2, MSS 83-2, MSS 84-01, and MSS 2004-007.

    Dates: Created: 1864-1980; Created: Majority of material found in 1958-1980; Other: Date acquired: 03/01/1968

    Grace I. Fox and Mary Jane Martin-Vegue Collection

     Collection
    Identifier: HP 2008-025
    Scope and Contents The Grace I. Fox and Mary Jane Martin-Vegue Collection consists of a variety of materials relating to their involvement with Florida State University and their leadership in physical education in the state of Florida, as well as nationally. The Physical Education and Athletics Papers consist of documents relating to the physical education curriculum at Florida State University and materials concerning the involvement of Grace Fox, Mary Jane Martin-Vegue, and Katherine W. Montgomery in national and state-wide physical education and athletics organizations and associations.The collection includes official correspondence of Grace Imogene Fox, Mary Jane Martin-Vegue,...
    Dates: Other: Dummy Date

    Herman Kurz Collection

     Collection — Box: 1
    Identifier: HP 2007-087
    Scope and Contents

    The items in this collection include photographs from Dr. Herman Kurz botany field research. There are also photographs from the Florida State College for Women Faculty-Senior Baseball Game in the early 1920s.



    Online Copies Available

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

    Dates: Created: 1923-1948

    James Velma Keen Papers

     Collection — Multiple Containers
    Identifier: MSS 1970-150
    Abstract

    Correspondence, memorabilia, newspaper clippings, photographs, and speeches documenting the career of attorney, Florida legislator, educator, and businessman James Velma Keen, from 1926 when he began practicing law in Sarasota, Florida, until his death in Tallahassee, Florida, in March 1963.

    Dates: Created: 1922-1967; Other: Majority of material found in 1955-1967

    Janet MacGowan West Collection

     Collection
    Identifier: HP 2007-038
    Scope and Contents

    The items in the Janet MacGowan West Collection contain a scrapbook related to her years as a student at Florida State College for Women as well as miscellaneous items including correspondence, a luggage tag, and newspaper clippings.

    Dates: Created: 1917-1954

    Jewell Genevieve Cooper Scrapbook

     Collection
    Identifier: HP 2007-089
    Scope and Contents The Jewell Genevieve Cooper Scrapbook chronicles her years as a student at Florida State College for Women, from 1924 to 1930. The scrapbook contains many rare photographs offering a unique insight into student life during the 1930s. Photographs in the scrapbook are digitized and available in the FSU Digital Library. A complete version of the scrapbook is also digitized and available by following the link below. Online Copies Available The entire scrapbook is digitized and viewable here: ...
    Dates: Created: 1924-1930

    Jim and Betty Lou Joanos Collection

     Collection — Multiple Containers
    Identifier: HP 2010-016
    Scope and Contents The collection includes Betty Lou Whittle Joanos's personal items acquired during her studies at Florida State University. These items includes a scrap book and other miscellaneous items. The collection also includes FSU and FSCW items collected by Betty Lou and Jim Joanos. These items include postcards, graduation invitations, university publications, and artifacts such as FSCW silverware and dinnerware. Online Copies Available Select materials from this collection have been digitized and are available through the FSU Digital Library...
    Dates: Created: 1909-1957; Other: Majority of material found in 1952-1957

    John MacKay Shaw Collection

     Collection — Multiple Containers
    Identifier: MSS 2008-006
    Abstract

    The John MacKay Shaw Collection consists of the Childhood in Poetry Collection and other materials he collected that relate to the six themes that are evident throughout the Collection: bibliography, biography, children, collecting, publishing, and writing. These other materials include articles, audiovisual materials, biographical materials, catalogs, correspondence, literary materials, notes, photographs, programs, and publications documenting his personal, business, and collecting activities.

    Dates: Created: 1737-2007