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Michael A. Spencer assembled this collection of publications, photographs, drawings, correspondence programs and other materials focusing on the discovery, taxonomy and cultivation of bromeliads. Mulford B. Foster, Racine Foster and Lyman B. Smith are among the significant bromeliad collectors whose work is documented here.

Henry Nehrling was a horticulturist famous for his gardens in Gotha and Naples, Florida. These materials were collected by Michael Spencer because of his interest in botany and his links with Central Florida. Of particular interest are Nehrling's notebooks, correspondence, photographs and plant labels. The collection also contains a few materials, which belonged to Mr. Spencer concerning the attempts to save Nehrling's Palm Cottage Gardens.

Theodore Mead was a horticulturist who owned an orange grove in Eustis, Florida and developed a property in Oviedo, Florida to research and hybridize plants. The collection contains Mead's notebook and family correspondence, together with a brochure and news clipping about the founding of Mead Gardens in Winter Park, Florida.

The Michael E. Krauss Collection consists of personal papers, correspondence, writings, newsletters, newspapers, sound recordings, and ephemera related to the learning, study, and preservation of Celtic languages and cultures. Foreign language documents in the collection include those written in Cornish, French, Breton, Welsh, Japanese, German, Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx Gaelic. Research materials primarily focus on linguistics and philology in relation to Celtic languages. Also included are documents related to Irish and British publishing houses specializing in Celtic language materials, as well as cultural and linguistic preservation societies, including the International Committee for the Defense of the Breton language. In addition to this manuscript collection, Micheal Krauss donated several hundred volumes to the Anglo-Irish Collection, which is accessible through USF Special Collections. Additional monographs donated by Krauss are currently being cataloged.