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The materials in the Andy Ireland Congressional papers primarily relate to the subject's career in the U.S. House of Representatives. State of Florida and National Issues, 1977-1993 series provides information on issues that faced the United States as well as the state of Florida during this time period. Contained within are documents such as bills, reports, news articles, and correspondence. The correspondence is limited to communication between Congressman Ireland and other government officials. Very little correspondence exists between Congressman Ireland and hisconstituents, with the exception of letter standards that he used to respond to various inquiries. The arrangement of the collection, wherever possible, reflects the arrangement set up by Ireland's staff. Of special note is the information in the Defense section dealing with the A-12 Avenger project and defense spending. The district section contains documents, correspondence, newsletters, and news articles relating to specific counties within the subject's congressional district. The legislation Box Folder File Name section contains bill summaries, the congressman's individual voting records, and legislative activity guides. Videos are arranged alphabetically by subject and relate to specific issues (i.e. defense), general interest, and politics. The press section contains newspaper articles denoted as either media reports or press clippings. Photographs document the subject's career in the congress. Other sections contain information about the Congressional Classroom program, Andy Ireland's I-Team, and personal invitations.

The David Smiley Papers include correspondence, literary productions and other printed materials, magazine articles and newspaper clippings, photographs, and his academic robe and pin from the University of Tampa. The correspondence represents three-quarters of the documentation in the collection and is predominantly business-related. The collection material provides some insight into David Smiley's character and his activities as editor-in-chief for the Philadelphia Public Ledger.

The materials in this collection reflect the subject's work in citrus fruit research. Of special note are the bound logs used by the research stations. Also present are articles published by the subject as well as correspondence. A small number of slides and lecture materials are also available.

This collection contains ephemera from Eunice Pipkin Barnes's time at Southern College as well as her work with the Florida Southern College Alumni Association. The collection has been arranged in three series: Biographical, Articles and Clippings and Photographs. The Biographical series, arranged chronologically, includes a scrapbook created by Eunice Pipkin about her time at Southern College that includes photographs from that time period. The Articles and Clippings series contains information on Eunice and her family as well history about Florida Southern College. This series was arranged chronologically. The Photographs Series, also arranged chronologically, includes photographs of Eunice, FSC Alumni Groups, and her sisters.

This collection of documents is an artifical collection of historic materials collected by Special Collections. Included is correspondence, land deeds, finanicals, and assorted documents.