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Janet Price Collection, 1917-1919

 

Summary

Extent:
6.00 items 2 Folders
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Janet Price Collection, Heritage & Univeersity Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-1996-024

Background

Scope and content:

This collection includes memorabilia and photographs from the Florida State College for Women (FSCW) dated 1917 to 1919. Many items are attached to sheets of black construction paper including a Liberty Day Program, a Grade Report for Lois A. Turner, a supper menu from the Leon Hotel, and a FSCW Christmas Vespers church program. The collection also contains many photos including a few that were probably taken at a sea-side excursion and some that portray Lois Turner Burke.

Biographical / historical:

In 1905, through the Buckman Act, the State Legislature reorganized higher education in Florida, establishing a school for male students in Gainesville, and a school for female students in Tallahassee. Florida State College in Tallahassee became the female school and was named the Florida Female College. This name was objectionable to friends and supporters of the college, thus in 1909 it was renamed the Florida State College for Women (FSCW). In 1946, a flood of applicants seeking admission to the University of Florida created a crisis situation as the number desiring admission was one-third more than could be accommodated. As a result, a branch accommodating 500 men was opened in Tallahassee at Dale Mabry Field, a deactivated army installation. In 1947, the Legislature took further action and designated both the University of Florida and the Florida State College for Women as coeducational, at the same time changing the name of FSCW to The Florida State University.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This 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.

Terms of access:

To request permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from the archives, please contact Heritage & University Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. Researchers must obtain separate permission from the copyright holders of material held within University Archives collections for which the institution does not hold copyright.

Preferred citation:

Janet Price Collection, Heritage & Univeersity Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-1996-024

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA