The Florida Ephemera Collection is a collection of brochures, advertisements and news clippings documenting the history of Florida. Although the collection includes information about Florida as a whole, it focuses on the Central Florida area, and Orlando in particular. The collection contains information about most aspects of life in Florida including business and industry, real estate and development, tourism and wildlife.
This collection contains assorted over-sized illustrations and graphics for a number of topics of Florida's history. Materials in this collection were curated by Special Collections staff.
Correspondence, financial records, membership records, meeting minutes, publications, and reports kept by Florida State College for Women faculty active in the Florida Home Economics Association.
The images document all aspects of Central Florida history including people, such as prominent people and families, places around Florida, Florida wildlife and plantlife, as well as, images from the Kennedy Space Center and Disney. The majority of the collection dates from about 1900-1960.
The collection contains land titles from various areas in the Hillsborough County, Florida region for subdivisions such as the Corona subdivision, Elizabeth Court, Beach Park and others.