Collections

The collection contains items related to Annie Mary Hartsfield's education at Florida State College for Women as well as her employment by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.  (See box list.)

The materials in this collection reflect the invention and marketing of the Orange Scream snack product. Additional materials are related to Charles Julian Fussell's work as a citrus industry sales and marketing executive.

Sweatt's papers are arranged in five series – Canning and Processing, Companies (he worked at), Foreign Trade, Marketing, and Personal. The materials reflect his professional life, with some photographs and documents of his personal life. Sweatt worked at several Citrus focused companies as well as volunteered at several Citrus canning associations. He was influential in taking the Florida orange juice trade overseas, especially to Japan, and this is reflected in the Foreign Trade series. The files contain correspondence, reports, brochures, and studies. The Canning and Processing series includes, reports, correspondence, research files, and information about the soft serve industry at the time. Marketing files are about marketing various aspects of the citrus industry. Within the Company series, for Golden Gem, there are membership newsletters dating from 1967 to 1984, and stockholder meeting files from the 1960's and 1970's.

The Edward Conradi Papers includes articles and clippings, bills and receipts, class notebooks from Indiana University and Clark University, correspondence, legal papers, lists, manuscripts, memorabilia, minutes of meetings, news clippings, publications by Conradi and others, photographs, reports, speeches and speech notes, rules and regulations, and statistical data documenting Conradi's Florida State College for Women (FSCW) presidency from 1909-1941, including his fight with the Florida Purity League in the late 1920s. The collection includes the typed, uncorrected notes on the history of FSCW as dictated to a student typist. It was from these notes that the material for the Memoirs of Edward Conradi was written and the collection also includes the first drafts of this work with corrections as well as the final printed item itself.

Scrapbook containing ephemera and memorabilia concerning Florida State College for Women and Florida State University from 1930-1980.

This small collection documents the history of the Florida extension service program from its beginnings at the Florida State College for Women (FSCW) / Florida State University (FSU) School of Home Economics. The collection includes reference materials about other statewide agricultural extension service agencies and home economics, articles about Florida 4-H Clubs and the history of Florida home demonstration work, and publicity brochures about Florida home demonstration work published by the Florida State Home Demonstration Office at FSU. It is historically significant to researchers studying the cooperative extension movement in Florida and the United States and its relationship to higher education programs.

The College of Social Work files primarily comprise a fairly complete collection of undergraduate student handbooks (some with revised editions) prepared by the Department of Social Work from 1971-1992. The handbooks describe requirements for the B.S. and B.A Degree, list undergraduate courses, and offer information on social work certification, post graduate education, and other student related topics. Several pamphlets describe the Doctoral Program in Social Work, but they only cover scattered years from 1975-1984. In addition, the collection includes other materials published by the Department of Social Work and FSU's Institute of Governmental Research that relate to field instruction, improving the research aspects of the social work curriculum, student research projects, and public welfare programs and administration in Florida's 67 counties.