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Material from FSU Flying High Circus, including photographs, administrative files, garments, tent blueprints, vinyl records, scrapbooks etc.

The collection consists of minutes from General Faculty meetings, recommendations of candidates for graduation, related memoranda, and faculty members' obituaries. The collection will be of interest to those researching issues of broad concern to the University in the time period covered, which includes the transition period of Florida State College for Women to the Florida State University.

The Florida State University Library School Home Reading Courses Collection contains a sample of seven monographic publications that were part of this collection that circulated to women's clubs throughout Florida during the mid 20th Century. Covering such topics as biography, historical "best seller" books, early colonial settlement in the South, librarianship, poetry, reading, and tropical plants and trees, these books comprise a cross-section of reading materials that were popular with these clubs at that time.

This collection consists of various items documenting the activities of the Florida State University (FSU) Torchbearer Chapter of Mortar Board. It consists of a scrapbook with profiles of initiated members from 1925 to 1935, a scrapbook with various clippings from 1967 to 1974, plaques showing member lists from 1975-1976 and 1977-1978, and a folder with "chapter of distinction" awards given in 1991-1992 and 2002-2003. Also contained in the folder is a press release for a distinguished alumna award to be presented to Janice Platt.

This collection includes subject files from Doak Campbell's tenure as President of Florida State College for Women and Florida State University. The files include correspondnce and files on FSU faculty, buildings, University budgets, academic programs, and campus committees.

The collection includes Dr. Edward Conradi's papers from 1897-1981 and consist of correspondence, legal papers, bills, articles, clippings, publications, speeches, photographs, memorabilia, as well as notes on the history of Florida State College for Women from which his "Memoirs of Edward Conradi," was written.