Collections

This collection is comprised primarily of newspaper clippings and correspondence, and documents the controversy from 1991 through 2005 over FSU's use of Native American names and symbols representing Renegade and Osceola, the Seminoles, and their use in athletic merchandise. There is correspondence between representatives of the Seminole Tribe of Florida and the Florida Creek Indian Council with FSU reaffirming support for the Seminole name and Marching Chiefs over the use of the Seminole name, war chant, and "tomahawk chop" as well as letters between university officials about the President Dale Lick's Presidential Study Group on the Use of Seminole Symbolism and Tradition during the early 1990s. In addition, there are prints of early FSU Seminole football players, cheerleaders, and an FSU Homecoming Princess.

Photographs, ephemera and other personal items of Tallahassee Branch of the University of Florida/Florida State University student Giles O. Lofton (BS, Business, 1950) and his wife, Florida State College for Women/Florida State University student Anicia Aleman Lofton (BS, Commerce, 1949). This is a virtual collection. These photographs and other items are in the possession of Mr. B.J. Develle, Tallahassee, Florida.

Heritage Protocol Miscellaneous Documents, Publications, & Ephemera Collection. Collection of documents pertaining to Florida State University and its predecessor institutions.

The collection contains multimedia related to the history of Florida State University and its predecessor institutions.

The collection, donated by Jack Crothers to Heritage Protocol, consists primarily of ephemera relating to Florida State sports teams, especially football. The collection includes pennants, a variety of ticket stubs spanning much of the history of Florida State football, and pompons for every ACC team as of 2004. Other items include a jacket acquired from a Seminole Indian reservation and a program for the 1964 commencement ceremony at Florida State University.

The Lyle Lazear Collection contains programs, newspapers, magazines, and other ephemera related to his years as a student at Florida State University during the 1950s.

The Mary Alice Hunt Collection includes materials related to her years as a student and alumnae at Florida State College for Women / Florida State University, and later items related to her professional career as a librarian and library science professor. The collection includes a student notebooks, photographs, and ephemeral items.

The Mary Cobb Nelson Scrapbook consists of photographs and ephemeral items related to her years as a Florida State College for Women student from 1923 to 1928.

The Sam Lamar Collection consists mainly of correspondence, photographs, and other documents from 1946-1951 related to his time as a student at the Tallahassee Branch of the University of Florida (TBUF) and later Florida State University.