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Material from FSU Flying High Circus, including photographs, administrative files, garments, tent blueprints, vinyl records, scrapbooks etc.

The collection consists of minutes from General Faculty meetings, recommendations of candidates for graduation, related memoranda, and faculty members' obituaries. The collection will be of interest to those researching issues of broad concern to the University in the time period covered, which includes the transition period of Florida State College for Women to the Florida State University.

Administrative records, correspondence, ephemera, newspaper articles, photographs, and publications documenting the creation and operation of the international program at the university, including the inaugural program in Florence, Italy in 1966 and in Valencia, Spain. Major subjects include the preparation for and events during the Florence study program with a focus on the Arno River Flood of 1966.

These records contain correspondence, memoranda, minutes of library building committees, and planning documents for the Dirac Science Library, Library Science Library, Library Technical Services Building (Building 444), Music Library, and Robert Manning Strozier Library. The collection documents the history and growth of Florida State University (FSU) Library facilities over the last half of the 20th Century, and would be useful to researchers studying the development of academic libraries during this period.

The Florida State University Library School Home Reading Courses Collection contains a sample of seven monographic publications that were part of this collection that circulated to women's clubs throughout Florida during the mid 20th Century. Covering such topics as biography, historical "best seller" books, early colonial settlement in the South, librarianship, poetry, reading, and tropical plants and trees, these books comprise a cross-section of reading materials that were popular with these clubs at that time.

The Florida State University (FSU) Media Relations files contain press releases, photos, programs, brochures, newspapers, newsletters and letters documenting the activities of the Appleton Museum of Art, Asolo Theatre, the College of Business, the FSU Circus, Graduation, Homecoming, and the School of Theatre.

This collection consists of various items documenting the activities of the Florida State University (FSU) Torchbearer Chapter of Mortar Board. It consists of a scrapbook with profiles of initiated members from 1925 to 1935, a scrapbook with various clippings from 1967 to 1974, plaques showing member lists from 1975-1976 and 1977-1978, and a folder with "chapter of distinction" awards given in 1991-1992 and 2002-2003. Also contained in the folder is a press release for a distinguished alumna award to be presented to Janice Platt.