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This is a collection of personal letters written by Thomas Burns (76th Air Base Squadron) during World War II. Burns wrote from Hendricks Field, Sebring, Florida to Mary Donnelly in Massachusetts. He mostly wrote of his experiences and activities on the base. While the letters do not deal with Florida or World War II, they do offer a glimpse into courtship during that era and life on an air base.

Thomas C. Cartwright served as the pilot of the B-24 bomber, Lonesome Lady, in the 494th Bombardment Group, 7th Air Force. His plane was shot down over Japan at the end of July 1945. Cartwright and one other member of the bomber crew were transported elsewhere, while the majority of the crew was interred in prison in Hiroshima, Japan. All those crewmen were killed when the US dropped the atomic bomb on that city.

This collection contains detailed information about Florida schools during the administration of Thomas D. Bailey as State Superintendent of Public Instructions.

This collection contains photocopied materials related to Thomas D. Bailey's time as Florida Superintendent of Public Instruction. It contains correspondence from 1955-1971, personal and biographical data about Bailey, as well as a large number of speeches and statements made while in office.

The collection consists of holographic, photocopied, and typed correspondence, scrapbooks focusing on Mr. Dreier's career and accomplishments, assorted slides of Snell Isle and Florida fruits and flowers, clippings of Dreier's editorials published in the St. Petersburg Times between 1940 and 1951, and clippings of his column "Brickbats and Bouquets," published in 1939.  The collection also includes Dreier's "Vagabonds' Notebooks," which are personal journals that incorporate photographs of family members, their homes, guests, and vacations.

This oral history interview transcript relates to Thomas H. Moorer who attended the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD from 1928 to 1933. In 1935, Moorer completed flight school and was stationed in Hawaii. He was present on December 7, 1941, when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Moorer continued to serve in the Pacific Theater during World War II and remained in the U.S. Navy after the war.  In 1964, he had become an Admiral and by 1970, the Chairman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, serving until 1974.

The Thomas LeRoy Collins Papers, 1903-1991, largely document this Florida statesman's post-Gubernatorial career (1961-1991). While these materials are predominantly from this period, there are also files from his earlier years as Florida Representative, Florida Senator, and Florida Governor.

This collection contains information ranging from citrus pest biology to citrus products and byproducts. It has business data on the industry, including individual groves' records, and photographical and historical accounts of citrus varieties and storage techniques. It contains information on both pests and various pesticides, as well as soil health. Other, non-citrus plants are included in this horticultural collection. Lastly, this collection has a record of its own existence in Florida Southern's Archives.