Photographs - Family, ca. 1860-1994
- Scope and content:
The family photographs constitute the largest series in the collection. They include primarily black and white photographs of Ruby Diamond as a young child, a college student at Florida State College, and in her later years; the Diamond family home in Tallahassee; the Julius Diamond family; Henry, Robert, and Siegmund Diamond (Julius's brothers); Henrietta Williams Diamond; Robert S. Williams; Sydney Diamond; Ruby's aunt "Sippie" and her husband Charles S. Apte and family; her aunt Rachelle and husband Jacob Cohen; her aunt Mena Hirschberg and the Hirschberg family (her cousins); and cousins Alice and Daniel Rosenbaum and Jerome R. Wolfe and family. Other individuals who posed with Diamond include former FSU President Dr. Bernie Sliger; former U.S. Senator and Congressman Claude Pepper; Hurley Rudd, former Tallahassee Mayor; and N. Orwin Rush, former Director of the FSU Library. The pictures were taken at events such as the dedication of Ruby Diamond Auditorium at FSU in 1970 and the 1980 FSU Alumni Banquet.
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Access and use
- Parent restrictions:
Collection is open to all researchers.
This collection is in an offsite storage location. Please contact lib-specialcollections@fsu.edu with requests for access or for more information.
- Parent terms of access:
Copyright has not been transferred to the Florida State University Libraries.
All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
- Location of this collection:
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116 Honors WayTallahasseeFL32306-2047USA
