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Books, survey, correspondence, papers, and related materials. This collection concerns the library career of Louise Richardson, Florida State College for Women Library Director and later Special Collections Director when it became Florida State University. There is a cost accounting survey of the catalog department at FSCW, a file on the Florida Library Association, and correspondence between Louise Richardson  and President Doak S. Campbell, dated August 11, 1953, regarding inventory of the library collection. Also included are various papers about the history of the library at FSCW, and rare book materials at the University of California. Of note in the collection is a book entitled, "Louise Richardson and the Florida State University Library." This is a typescript of a biography of Miss Richardson. It is accompanied by drafts and research materials.

This collection consists of correspondence and documents related to the Louise Richardson Loan Fund Scholarship at Florida State University.

The collections consists of fraternity memorabilia, Furen's yearbooks and Commencement ceremony program, and his obituary. Of special note is the Orange Peel a newsletter of the local fraternity chapter.

The materials in this collection primarily consist of playbills, showbills, and programs that range from the mid-to-late 20th century and are primarily from the personal collection of Louis Miano. However, the contents are compiled from multiple collections of the same scope. There is a large collection of playbills, showbills, and programs from theater and opera in Miami and South Florida, as well as from across the United States and Europe. The collection also contains magazines, ephemera, and other materials related to musical theater in the United States and Europe.

Correspondence, subject files, speeches, and manuscripts documenting the careers of Louis Shore, including as dean of the Florida State University School of Library Science, editor of journals and reference works, author, and library consultant, as well as documentation of professional service to the American Library Association and other organizations.

The Love-Thornell Collection of Black American Photographs contains over 1300 photographs including cabinet cards, tintypes, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, stereotypes, cartes de visite and postcards documenting Black American life from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Jaquelyn Love-Thornell collected the photographs over a 15-year period.