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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
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
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
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Historic Homes Preservation Committee of Leon County Records
Collection — Box: 149
Identifier: MSS 1991-005
Scope and Contents
The Leon County Commissioners passed a resolution in 1958 to see what could be done to restore historic homes and buildings in Tallahassee, Florida. Governor Millard Caldwell served as Chairman of the Historic Homes Preservation Committee.
Dates:
Created: 1958
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Kent Spriggs Papers
Collection — Container: unprocessed
Identifier: MSS 2004-04
Scope and Contents
Consists of Kent Spriggs' case files related to the 1973 retrial of Dave Keaton and Johnny Frederick of the Quincy Five and those related to Keaton et al. v. Townsend, a civil case brought by the Quincy Five against the State of Florida and Joe Townsend for the coerced testimony that implicated the men in the case. Included in these files are correspondence with Alfonse Figgers, Dave Keaton, David Charles Smith, Johnny Frederick, and Johnny Burns who were collectively known as the Quincy Five.
Also contains files related to Clifford N. Steele, et al. v. Board of Public Instruction of Leon County, Florida, et al., including correspondence, newspaper clippings and trial notes and...
Dates:
Created: 1963-1976; Other: Majority of material found in 1971-1976
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Malcolm Johnson Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2003-24
Abstract
The bulk of the Malcolm Johnson Collection documents Johnson's journalistic career from his time with the Associated Press from 1940-1954 to his editorship of the Tallahassee Democrat from 1954-1970. The collection includes correspondence, subject and personality files, clippings of Johnson's columns and editorials, photographs, speeches written by Johnson, memorabilia, and various published materials collected by Johnson over his career. In addition, there are materials related to the writing and publication of Johnson's books I Declare and Red, White and Bluebloods in Frontier Florida,...
Dates:
Created: 1824-1984, n.d.; Other: Majority of material found in 1940-1978
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
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