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Contains papers produced or gathered by R. H. Gore for his professional activities such as serving as the governor of Puerto Rico, and his real estate and hotel businesses, newspaper publishing, life insurance business, and orchid business. The professional papers are arranged chronologically. Oversized materials have been separated.

Contains R. H. Gore's correspondence with politicians, businessmen, and other individuals. Oversized materials have been separated.

Contains magazines, newspapers, or articles about R. H. Gore's life and career or samples of newspapers that belonged to him. The publications are arranged chronologically. Oversized materials have been separated.

The subseries contains documents regarding former library directors. Lynn Walker served as the first director from 1966-1982. Anne Marie Allison took the role as Library Director from 1983-1996. Barry Barker was the director from 1997-2019. In 2021, the Library Director position was elevated to a Dean of Libraries position. Beau Case was the inaugural Dean of Libraries. From former director Walker there are photographs in box 8 that show (left to right) Arthur L. Ketchersid (Chief of Technical Services), L.W. Walker (Director of Instructional Resources), and Geraldine Snellings (Acquisitions Librarian) in 1967 at the FTU Library. Other materials included are budgeting, blueprints, cataloging, monthly reports, and other departmental activities. Under the Allison subseries, the LaBrake Project was to gather statistics from every state and their universities. This project was coordinated by the Statistics for College and University Libraries Committee, a division of the American Library Association.

This series contains postcards, brochures, flyers, presskits, visitor's guides, maps, and other tourist papers related to theme parks and attractions in the state of Florida. Subseries 1 chiefly contains postcards organized alphabetically by city location, then by subject. Subseries 2 contains postcards from established tourist attractions, arranged alphabetically in boxes and binder sleeves as they were originally received. Subseries 3 contains vertical files of various Florida attractions in original order. Subseries 4 contains brochures and presskits, arranged alphabetically. This series does not contain material for the Walt Disney World resort, which can be found in Series II.

This box contains documents from 1, and 1A

Series III records the activities that fell under the purview of the V.P. of Business Affairs, J. P. Goree. The series begins with documents and maps about zoning laws and general planning documentation, which includes decisions about the type of brick to be used in construction, and photographs of the site, aerials of the construction and other early construction images. Many other photographs may be found in this series including images of a Boeing building and the initial administration building in downtown Orlando. Portraits of J. P. Goree and several images showing Dr. Millican presenting plans to students and presenting to the Orange County Commissioners may also be found here. The photographs of the Administration building include an image of a memorial at the main entrance and Executive Assistant Mildred Kennedy with receptionist Mary Henn. A subseries holds materials covering arrangements for the Groundbreaking Ceremony. Dignitaries who attended the event and appear in photographs include politicians Claude R. Kirk, Broward Williams, Doyle Connor, Tom Adams, Beth Johnson, Ed Gurney, Tom McDonald, Haydon Burns, Robert H. Elrod, Wayne Reitz, Henry W. Land, John L. Ducker, Bill Fulford, Claude Pepper, Ralph Turlington and William Shands. Academic dignitaries include Louis C. Murray, Wayne McCall, J. B. Culpepper, Chester H. Ferguson, John C. Champion, Kenneth R. Williams, Harold B. Crosby, Lynn W. Walker and William Warden. Local leaders also supported the new University, and Grover Bryan, President of the Orlando Chamber of Commerce, Henry Cragg, President of Minute Maid, Leon Van Wert of the Citizens Advisory Committee, Sheriff Dave Starr and Rev. Henry Parker all appear in these photographs.

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This box contains documents from 2, and 2A

Series II contains Annual Reports produced by the State University System, minutes of Board of Regents monthly meetings and the Council of Presidents monthly meetings. Meeting arrangements for Board of Regents meetings held in Orlando may be found in this series. These files include brochures for the hotels where the Regents stayed as well as details of arrangements of the meetings, travel and entertainment. Of particular interest in this series are Dr. Millican's annual and biennial reports to the Board of Regents and the evaluation that he received from them. A proposed plan to economize by eliminating freshman and sophomore classes in 1975 caused local outrage and extensive correspondence on the subject may be found in this series especially letters collected by the Orlando Area Chamber of Commerce and submitted to the Board of Regents and a petition signed by students at Winter Park High School. Finally, photographs of the Regents and Presidents may be found in this series including a portrait of Chester Ferguson, a snapshot of E. T. York with Dr. Millican, and group photographs of the Board of Regents from 1972 and the Council of Presidents circa 1973.