Painting.

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Personal items of Florida State College for Women student Alice Nicholson (BS, Education, 1927). Items include photographs and a painting from her years at FSCW, as well as later Florida and LeRoy Collins related memorabilia. (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.

Abstract The Eleanor Merritt Collection holds printed materials, lectures, records, news clippings, audio-visual materials, and correspondence related to Eleanor Merritt’s life-long career as an artist, teacher, and advocate for community arts organizations. Materials focus on Merritt’s life in Long Island, New York and Sarasota, Florida. Her formative years are captured in essays while a college student, planning notebooks as an art history teacher, and printed materials documenting her early artistic career.Her involvement with the arts community primarily pertains to her work with the Women’s Caucus of Art (WCA), Women of Color (WOCA), the Petticoat Painters, Community Art in...

Scope and Contents Framed items include: 1. Mezzotint by William Sartain, 1891. "After Couder(?) for Sons of the Revolution." 2. Flags of the Confederate States of America. 3. The Wilton Diptych. 4. The Battle of Bunker Hill. 5. C. C. Pinckney. [loose frame] 6. George Washington. 7. Crosses of Military Service (medals). 8. Battle of Buena Vista. 9. St. Johns College from the Garden. 10. The Honorable Robert Monckton. 11. La Novia de Belen. 12. Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra. 13. General Marion in his Swamp. 14. Dana's Musical Institute. 15. Wild Turkeys, by Wallace Hughes. 16. Flower collection slides (in small...

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The collection contains correspondence between Rabindranath Tagore and Dr. Arthur and Mayce Seymour, as well as other friends and family. Also included in the collection are biographical materials related to Tagore's life in both India and the United States. Tagore's writings are included in the collection with works of literary criticism and analysis of his writing. The collection also contains artwork by the Tagores and photographs.

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