Collections

1 photograph of Andrew J. Dains, Agnes Dains, and Mattie Candall in front of "Old Depot".

Includes materials on the American Civil War, the Bradford-Eppes family including Susan Bradford Eppes and Dr. Edward Bradford, plantation life, land and mortgages, banking, tomb inscriptions from the cemetery in Pine Hill, Florida, sheet music for "Twenty Years Ago" by J. E. McCullune, pamphlets from Orlando and Jacksonville, Florida, as well as genealogical data on the Eppes-Bradford family. Photographs include members of the Bradford-Eppes family, John Wilkes Booth, Louise Covington, and a United States Coast Guard Signal Service Station in Palm Beach, Florida. Includes manuscripts for the books Negro of the Old South and Through Some Eventful Years, both by Susan Bradford Eppes.

The Porecki Collection is named after Daniel and Mary Alice Porecki, whose love for live plants inspired a passion for collecting orchid-related treasures.

This collection contains materials related to the establishing and naming of Port St. Joe, the Port St. Joe Centennial Medal (1838-1938) and Florida Centennial Envelope and Stamps (1845-1945).

Personal papers and photographs concerning the Boyett, Goldsby, Helton, McNair, and Adams families of Myrtle Grove, Florida (now Pensacola). Includes Pensacola High School memorabilia of 1933, and a photograph of a water baptism by the Union Hill Baptist Church of myrtle Grove.

The bulk of this collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and photographs. A wide variety of materials related to Gagarin's family and his ballet performances are included, as well as items regarding Russian nobility, perfume advertising and the perfume industry, deportation, immigration, World War II, the Tampa Municipal Hospital, the Florida State Hospital, the Pan-American Federation, and letters to the United States President regarding the death of John F. Kennedy. The bulk of this collection consists of business and personal correspondence. Miscellaneous materials include photographs, employment applications, Gagarin's birth certificate and marriage license, receipts, perfume advertisements, and newspaper clippings.

This record group contains materials produced and used by the Florida Southern College Public Relations Department and its predecessors. Materials include photographs, many of which were also used to illustrate The Interlachen yearbook and other college publications. Photographs include buildings, students, faculty and staff, and dignitaries and visitors to the campus. In addition to photographs, the collection includes news releases produced by the college and news articles relevant to the college. Several large, bound albums are present, and these contain news articles dating back to 1922 and the college's arrival in Lakeland.