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

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.

The Lowell Showalter Collection contains photographs that document real estate development in South Florida. The photographs include aerial photographs of the development of the intracoastal waterway. Also included are images of houses and plots being developed in the 1930s. It also includes a photographs of local agriculture in the 1920s.