Florida State University Libraries. Heritage & University Archives

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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Consists of drafts from the Seminary West of the Suwanne River. From 1899 to 1901. Includes a draft to the First National Bank of Tallahassee, Florida, an itemized disbursement schedule, and a report of Treasurer of Dormitories, Arthur Williams, to President A. A. Murphree.

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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Memoir, 'Tallahassee in Earlier Years, A Reminiscence,' by James R. Knott

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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.

Scope and Contents The Alumni Comment newsletters includes issues published from 1966-1967 and several published from 1969-1973. There are gaps in the collection between 1967 and 1969 and 1971 and 1973. Topics include administrative and faculty appointments; enrollment growth; FSU's 20th birthday in 1967; fund raising; grants received; Homecoming; the 1969 inauguration of President Stanley Marshall; the 1969 Westcott Building fire; new and renovated facilities; FSU's placement service; student activism; student services; university administrative changes. Related materials in this repository include the Alumni Bulletin, Alumni Focus, Alumnae News, Florida State Magazine, and Florida State...

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Topics covered include the creation of Florida's Office for Campus Volunteers, the "Let's get is together" State Conference 1990, student and intern profiles, and the Workship program at Palm Beach Atlantic College. Volume 1, issue 1 of The Campus Volunteer. The date is not given. Based on the content, this issue seems to be from December of 1990.

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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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Florida State University underground newspaper featuring articles related to student activism and published on 14 May 1968.  Some of the article titles include: “Student Demonstrators Continue Vigil at FSU,” “Black Form Council for ‘Inner City,’” “Censors’ Dirty Hands: Put Them Back In Your Own Pockets!!”  Published by “Seminole Press Inc.,” and Laurel Akers, Don Cave, Dave Smith, and Marge Vandervalk served on the editorial board.

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The collection contains photographs related to 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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These papers include analyses of educational and general expenditures and of instructional offerings, enrollment and expenditure reports, a handbook of statistical data about institutions of higher education, departmental salaries, a plant ledger, and questionnaires.

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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.

Scope and Contents The Wiley L. Housewright Faculty Professional Relations Committee Files primarily include correspondence and memoranda to and from the Committee during the period he served as chair. Topics include academic freedom; deliberations over 12-month contracts, faculty participation in civil rights activities, such as discussing the segregation-integration issue in the classroom; sabbaticals; Social Security benefits; tenure, and dismissal policies. Correspondents include FSU President Gordon W. Blackwell and Dean of the Faculties E. Laurence Chalmers. The collection is significant to researchers because it documents the issues facing Florida faculty during the 1960s and how they impacted the...

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This collection contains personal correspondence from 1922-1963, and research notes on Tallahassee education, the West Florida Seminary, the Florida State College for Women, and related topics. Also included are copies of a column in the Tallahassee Democrat entitled, "I remember ... in the Big Bend," and honorary awards. There are also notes on research for his book, Florida State College for Women: notes of the formative years. Additional subjects include Francis T. Dodd correspondence, Florida State University, Josephine White Dodd, Dorothy Dodd letters, William Faulkner, Tallahassee schools, and letters to Owen Rush.

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This collection consists of correspondence between May M. Jennings, Dr. Edward Conradi, Governor Doyle E. Carlton and others regarding the presentation of the tablet from the Battleship "Florida" to Bryan Hall of the Florida State College for Women, Tallahassee, Florida, on November 14, 1930. The tablet was placed in Bryan Hall to honor Senator Bryan.

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This collection includes personal correspondence, dated 1933 through 1935, from Virginia Catherine Thornton Marshall to her husband, William. Also included is Mr. Marshall's game license, a rental agreement for his Tallahassee residence, and Virginia Marshall's 1935 commencement announcement from Florida State College for Women.

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Personal photographs of William Smith, including photos taken for a Photo Journalism class assignment.

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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.