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This collection contains rare documents, letters, and ephemera that provide evidence of early settlements in Titusville and Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Collection focuses on Peter Demens, the founder of St. Petersburg, Florida, and the relations between the two sister cities of St. Petersburg in Florida and Russia since 1966.

The Paul A. M. Dirac Papers consists of the personal and family papers, photographs, manuscripts, galley proofs, and published papers, scientific calculations, lecture notes, and office files of Dr. Paul A. M. Dirac, winner of the Nobel Prize (Physics, 1933). Materials relating to his professorships at St. John's College at Cambridge University where he held the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics chair from his election in 1932 until his retirement in 1969 and then as Professor of Physics at Florida State University from 1972 until his death in 1984, comprise the bulk of the Collection. A small group of audio recordings, certificates, realia, and selected published items transferred from his office at the time of his death are also included.

The Paul Dosal Cuban Tourism collection houses materials from 1879-1961 and consists of photographs, brochures, and slides.