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UCF Special Collections

Bromeliad Society International (BSI) Archive, 1911-2018

13 Linear Feet 27 Boxes, 1 Flat File, 1 Flat Box
The Bromeliad Society International (BSI) Archive consists of historical materials, including photographs related to cultivation of bromeliads; field notes related to the collection of bromeliads in the wild; list of plant entries in judged bromeliad shows; incoming and outgoing correspondence from early bromeliad growers; biographies; administrative records of the BSI such as, copyright registrations, copies of meeting minutes, annual reports, and bylaws; BSI publications; and ephemera, including posters and pins. The purpose of the BSI is to promote and maintain public and scientific interest in the research, development, preservation, and distribution of bromeliads, both natural and hybrid, throughout the world.
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Accession no: CFM2015_08, 1945-1989, Undated

 

This series holds additional materials received from the Bromeliad Society International (BSI) in 2015. Some of these materials include a World Bromeliad Conference '72 schedule events and a letter sent out to BSI members from the chair, Patrick Mitchell; a manuscript called "Bromeliad Hybrids and Cultivars" compiled by Brian Smith in 1984; "A Preliminary Listing of All Known Cultivar and Grex Names for the Bromeliaceae" created by Bromeliad Society, Inc. and arranged by Don A. Beadle, includes named and unnamed grexes, names of collectors, hybridizers, developers, references, and dates; "First Tentative Listing of Bromeliad Cultivars" prepared by Brian Smith in 1989; four copper color separations for one print; and various publications from Australia, New Zealand, and the United States.

  1. Additional Materials, 1911-2018, Undated

Additional Materials, 1911-2018, Undated

 

This series holds additional materials received from the Bromeliad Society International (BSI) in 2015, 2016, and 2018.

FIU Special Collections

Bidegain Papers, 1917-1998

0.00 Linear Feet

This collection contains various documents from Central and South America, including Brazil, in relation to the church and how society around is changing, and what the views from the church are regarding those changes. Most of the collection is written documents pertaining to the churches view on these changes and how it is related to their personal values, including from the Vatican, such as Vaticano de Obispas (Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region, on: "New paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology").

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Bidegain Papers, 1917-1998 0.00 Linear Feet

 

This collection contains various documents from Central and South America, including Brazil, in relation to the church and how society around is changing, and what the views from the church are regarding those changes. Most of the collection is written documents pertaining to the churches view on these changes and how it is related to their personal values, including from the Vatican, such as Vaticano de Obispas (Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region, on: "New paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology").

AARLCC Special Collections

Dorothy Porter Wesley Collection, Circa 1788-2012

67 Hollinger Boxes 2800 Books
The Dorothy Porter Wesley Collection documents the professional and personal life of pioneering librarian, Dorothy Porter Wesley. It contains manuscript materials, artwork, research files, and correspondence dating from 1905 to 2012 as well as Wesley's personal library of more than 2,800 books and pamphlets.
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UCF University Archives

University of Central Florida Office of Graduate Studies records, 1969-2015, bulk 1969-1991

8 Linear Feet 20 boxes
The Office of Graduate Studies records, 1969-2015, documents the creation and maintenance of several graduate programs across six colleges at the University of Central Florida. The collection chiefly consists of program initiation proposals, program requests, reports, reviews, committee papers and correspondence relating to the formation of and proposed alterations to the given programs. The Office of Graduate Studies was founded in the late 1960s and was associated with the Office of Research. In 2003, they changed their name to the Division of Graduate Studies, and in the fall of 2008, they became the College of Graduate Studies. The College supports graduate students through their degree program, from the application period to graduation and beyond.
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USF Libraries - Tampa Special Collections

Hampton Dunn collection, 1916-2002, Date acquired: 00/00/1981, bulk 1960-2002

227.01 Linear Feet 452 boxes

The collection consists of syndicated newspaper clippings, ephemera, correspondence, brochures, photographs, and articles written about the various places and people of Florida.

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African Americans/Black History, 1972-1996 Box 1, Folder 5

 

Topics include: Dedication to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Room, Members of the Joseph E. Lee Memorial Library and Museum Advisory Committee, history of the St. Paul A.M.E. Church, news releases concerning Fort Gadsen State Historic Site, James Weldon Johnson Day, Bethune-Cookman College, Bicentennial Trail, Virgil Hawkins v. Board of Control of Florida, Citrus Park Colored/Negro Elementary School, Eatonville, the Glover School, and Black Floridians.

  1. General Subject Files
  2. Adamo - African Americans
UCF Special Collections

African American Legacy: The Carol Mundy collection, 1791-2003

26 Linear Feet 36 boxes and 73 flat files
Collector, Ms. Carol Mundy amassed this collection of monographs, manuscripts, sheet music, pamphlets, journals, newspapers, broadsides, posters, photographs, and rare ephemera focusing on the African American history. While the collection is comprehensive both nationally and internationally, it also contains materials that pertain to the African American experience in central Florida.
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Additional Materials, 1791-1990, Undated

 

This series contains audio and visual items such as a vinyl record and comedy film movie. Materials range from letters and envelopes, official government documents, business documents, postcards, holiday cards, and invitations. There are military buttons, pins, and patches and a Civil War Veterans Metal. Photographs consisted in this series are African American men, women, and children and include group photos and places. There are many different newsclippings, articles, programs, and advertisements.

African American Legacy: The Carol Mundy collection, 1791-2003 26 Linear Feet 36 boxes and 73 flat files

 
Mundy, Carol
Collector, Ms. Carol Mundy amassed this collection of monographs, manuscripts, sheet music, pamphlets, journals, newspapers, broadsides, posters, photographs, and rare ephemera focusing on the African American history. While the collection is comprehensive both nationally and internationally, it also contains materials that pertain to the African American experience in central Florida.

Civil Rights-era, 1940s-1997, Undated

 

Consists of ephemera including magazines, sheet music, pamphlets, posters, and postcards. Not all of the items in this series pertain directly to the Civil Rights Movement per se; rather they are grouped together because they fall within a specific date range.

UCF Special Collections

Children's Home Society of Florida collection, 1862-2019, bulk 1902-1997

102.75 Linear Feet 117 boxes, 5 scrapbooks, 13 flat files
The Children's Home Society of Florida Collection contains organizational papers and ephemera that document the creation and operations of Florida's oldest non-profit adoption agency. The collection includes organizational papers from its state and local divisions, photographs, news clippings, audio and visual media, scrapbooks, and blueprints of the many receiving homes in the state, but does not contain adoption records. Adoption records remain at the CHSFL Adoption Archive and are available by contacting the society directly.
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Additional Materials, 1862-2019

 

This series holds additional materials received from the Children's Home Society of Florida including organizational files, ephemera, photographs and audio/visual materials. Some audio and visual media may not be available for use without reformatting. Please see the Curator of Manuscripts for further information.

UCF Special Collections

Beatrice B. Ettinger papers, 1962-2015

10.2 Linear Feet 17 boxes, 5 flat files
The Beatrice B. Ettinger papers contain correspondence, leaflets, posters, minutes and reports that show women's position in society in the 1970s and 1980s. Continuing Education is the focus of these papers since Ettinger accumulated many of the materials between 1970 and 1992 when she was President of the Council for Continuing Education for Women. This organization established a Center that was based first at Valencia Community College and later at the University of Central Florida. Ettinger also collected documents concerning other organizations in which she was interested that fostered women's intellectual and political growth, such as, the Central Florida Women's Resource Center Inc. and the League of Women Voters. Additional materials provide some personal information about Mrs. Ettinger.
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UCF Special Collections

George and Anne Millay Collection, 1959-2006

21.25 Linear Feet 22 Boxes, 8 Flat Files, 5 Framed Items
George Millay founded both Sea World and Wet 'n Wild for which he was named Father of the Waterpark Industry. This collection of correspondence, photographs, memorabilia, news clippings, reports and audio visual materials documents the complicated and not always successful process of building a new waterpark. In addition to materials concerning Sea World and Wet 'n Wild, the collection contains information on George Millay's other projects and his personal achievements.
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Additional Materials, 1965-1999

 

Series V is arranged in three subseries; Wet'n Wild park files include materials from Brazil, Florida, Nevada, and Texas; Sea World park files mainly from California and a few photographs and publications from Ohio; and Seven Seas park files from Arlington, Texas. This series contains a variety of materials, including: newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, pamphlets, correspondence, Sea World annual reports, airport restaurant proposal, Walrus and Pilot Wale collections, and various ephemera related to the parks.

FSU Special Collections & Archives

Margaret Brockett collection, 1917-2010, Date accessioned: 2019-11-08

.25 Linear Feet 1 quarter box

This collection relates to Margaret Brockett, who remained on the homefront in a domestic role as a mother of twin boys, Ronald and Donald Brockett, during World War II. The collection contains a variety of memorabilia that Margaret kept during her time of the war, such as cookbooks, children's drawings, and more. The collection provides insight into the ways that the United States functioned during the war.

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Additional Records Page, 1939-2010 10.0018 - Box 1, Folder 001

 

This folder contains a printed screenshot from the Rainbo Records company website. It shares a piece of information that is relative to the three records that are included as artifacts with the collection. The circled portion of the website reads, "1942: With the outbreak of WWII, personally recorded messages takes on a new significance. The U.S. Treasury Department and a commercial firm institute a program to record messages to and from the service men with the purchase of war bonds. Rainbo was their exclusive supplier." The paper was "not original to the collection." It was "added to provide information to researchers about the recordable albums sent to service men."

Margaret Brockett collection, 1917-2010, Date accessioned: 2019-11-08 .25 Linear Feet 1 quarter box

 
Brockett, Margaret, 1907-2007

This collection relates to Margaret Brockett, who remained on the homefront in a domestic role as a mother of twin boys, Ronald and Donald Brockett, during World War II. The collection contains a variety of memorabilia that Margaret kept during her time of the war, such as cookbooks, children's drawings, and more. The collection provides insight into the ways that the United States functioned during the war.

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