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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).

Scope and Contents This collection consists mostly of pre-television radio scripts. The war programs are particularly significant in any study of propaganda and give an aspect in the study of broadcasting of this period. The majority of the scripts are from the Writer's War Board, but there are also others by Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, Broadcast Music Inc., R C A Victor Records, Thesarus Program Continuity Service, and an episode of Mr. Sycamore, a 30 minute radio comedy-drama produced during the 1940s. There are also program brochures prepared by the Educational Department of the Mutual Broadcasting System about programs for young people and public interest programs. Also included in the...

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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 was given by Reubin O'Donovan Askew in 2008. It contains materials related to his time serving in the Florida House of Representatives, Florida State Senate, and as Governor of Florida.  Included in the collection are campaign files, correspondence, newspaper articles, photographs, audiovisual materials, memorabilia, and copies of speeches. Additionally, there are records documenting his 1988 Presidential bid, as well as other materials relating to his life after his service as a Florida public official. Also included in the collection are the personal papers of his wife, Donna Lou Harper Askew.

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The Roscoe Ralph Oglesby Collection is comprised of personal correspondence and memorabilia. The correspondence, dated November 26, 1928 to May 17, 1934, includes letters from Harrel N. Tague and representatives of the YMCA as well as a letter from Governor George C. Perry of Virginia (18 items). The memorabilia, dated 1929 to 1945, includes programs from various stage productions and YMCA functions and a signed appointment from Governor Perry (44 items).

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

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The Sam Lamar Collection consists mainly of correspondence, photographs, and other documents from 1946-1951 related to his time as a student at the Tallahassee Branch of the University of Florida (TBUF) and later Florida State University.

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

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Articles, correspondence, memorabilia, newsclippings, and other materials related to Stetson Kennedy's professional career.

Scope and Contents Personal items of Florida State University student Sue Herndon McCollum's (BA, 1956; MA, 1957). The collection includes a large number of photographs, correspondences, newspaper clippings, and other ephemera, and an 8-mm home movie of the FSU Flying High Circus rehearsals, recorded in the mid 1950s. The movie is approximately 10 minutes long and has also been reformatted to DVD. Online Copies Available Select materials from this collection have been digitized and are available through the FSU Digital Library as part of a larger...

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This collection contains business records, publications, correspondence and manuscripts created and maintained by the Tallahassee Genealogical Society (TGS). The format of the records are in paper, book and digital format.

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Papers include programs of the Tallahassee Literary Club, a typed study of these programs, the constitution and by-laws of the club, minutes of meetings, book reviews, correspondence, and historical papers dealing with the founding and organization of the club.

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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.

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The Watkins Family Papers contain personal letters, business records, bible correspondence course materials, legal documents, memorabilia, and newsclippings.