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Correspondence, imprints, greeting cards, photographs and other papers relating to Mrs. Verlie Robinson Thomas, 1901-1978, of Pace and Milton, Florida, a teacher and librarian at Milton High School. Included also are papers relating to Jesse Thomas, Ruby Robinson, I.A. Allen, Felix Robinson and other relatives of Mrs. Thomas, as well as imprints of educational interest in Santa Rosa and Escambia counties, 1920-1970.

The collection contains miscellaneous printed materials relating to the life of the major American novelist Thomas Wolfe. Many of the items depict and feature his childhood home in Asheville, North Carolina. Types of items include art prints and illustrations, postcards, brochures, posters, and keepsakes and publications issued by the Thomas Wolfe Society as a part of the Society's annual meeting.

This collection relates to Thornton M. Embrey who served with Company D, 3118th Signal Service Group, during World War II. This collection contains transcripts of radio messages related to the announcement of the surrender of Germany in May 1945 and Japan in August 1945. There are a few additional documents and photographs related to Embrey's postwar service in the U.S. Army.

The Tibbals Collection of Buster Bailey Films capture Bailey's insider's view of circus. The general circus community embraced Bailey's familiar presence on the circus lot, granting him extraordinary access to the lots and venues of a variety of circuses including the Al G. Barnes Circus, Clyde Beatty Cole Circus, Amsterdam Circus, Moscow Circus, Russian Ice Show and Circus Benneweis. Bailey's footage of these circuses feature several performances and circus set-ups in venues across America, including scenes of winter quarters, trains loading and unloading, the backyard, animal acts, spec productions, tumbling acts, rolla bolla acts, clown gags, trapeze and web numbers, and much more. Also captured in this collection are Bailey's tours of European circus parks, the circus parade in Baraboo, Wisconsin, and Chicago, Illinois, and the Circus Hall of Fame in Sarasota, Florida.