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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.

The W. L. Thompson collection contains textual and photographic documentation of his personal and professional life from 1916 to 1969. The bulk of the collection contains information on the citrus industry in regard to entomology and specifically, on Thompson's interaction with associations and colleagues. Some research and reference materials are included along with personal writings, professional publications, reports, correspondence, and photographs. The papers are arranged alphabetically by series, and then title of folder.

The collection of Rabbi Abraham J. Rose consists of manuscript music, print music, and personal papers relating to his professional life as a cantor. Music books have been cataloged and relocated to Rare Books. Rabbi Rose (1901-1987) was born in Berezhany in what is modern-day Ukraine. He came to the United States with his family in 1910. He was trained as a cantor before becoming rabbi of Congregation Kneseth Israel in Elgin, Illinois. He served as their rabbi for 25 years before moving to South Florida. Rabbi Rose also served as the first president of the Cantors Assembly and the Department of Music of the United Synagogue of America. Both of his sons Emanuel Rose and David Hillel Rose, followed in their father's footsteps and became rabbis.

The four items presented to the FSU Library by the Honorable R.A. Gray, Secretary of State, Tallahassee, Florida, consist of the following:

This collection relates to Ralph J. Valente, who served as a Private in Company A, 318th Infantry Regiment, 80th Infantry Division, in the U.S. Army during the Second World War. Valente served in France, where he was severly wounded in action during an engagement in Phlin, France on November 9, 1944. He died from his wounds fifteen days later on November 24. The collection contains correspondence between Valente and his family and relatives, as well as typed and written documents pertaining to the retrieval and reinternment of Valente's remains, cased engraved Purple Heart Medal, and photographs from before Valente's enlistment and from Valente's training.