Collections

The Orlando Shakespeare Theater Collection contains playbills, programs, reviews, newspaper clippings, films, cassettes, reels, and schedules. It also includes items relating to the Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival Partnership (OSF) such as Simply Shakespeare, Central Florida's first Shakespearean troupe, and the UCF Shakespeare Summer Institute as well as the NEH grant funded faculty study project "Hamlet: Exploring the Renaissance Mind in Action" which was presented in the Summer 1991.

The collection includes audio recordings of Otis R. Anthony's poetry, as well as various essays recounting African American history in Tampa, FL. The collection also includes transcripts from the USF Department of Anthropology African Americans in Florida Project in Special Collections.

Collection that documents former Clearwater Mayor Gabriel Cazares's public service as a member of the Florida State Commission on Hispanic Affairs and his leadership on Hispanic issues.

Collection documents the national and local political involvement of Hazel A. Talley Evans in the 20th century.

Collection documents the career, writings, and broadcasts of entrepreneur Norman E. Jones in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Collection reflects USF St. Petersburg political science professor Regis A. Factor's career and his scholarship of international affairs.

Collection focuses on Peter Demens, the founder of St. Petersburg, Florida, and the relations between the two sister cities of St. Petersburg in Florida and Russia since 1966.

The Patrick Boland collection, 1937-1983, represents the writings and personal papers Patrick Boland collected throughout his life as a poet in Detroit, Michigan. It primarily features research and drafts of an unpublished manuscript Boland was writing about the British-American poet W.H. Auden. The collection also includes Boland's poetry drafts, including some of their inspirations in the form of newspaper clippings. Boland's personal papers in this collection consist of his saved assignments from school, postcards, letters, and some diary entries. Boland's personal notes and musings can be found throughout all of his documents in doodles, notes, financial calculations, and signatures. Native to Detroit, Patrick Boland was born on August 30, 1921. His father, Bernie, was once a pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. In 1949, Boland graduated from the University of Michigan, where he also won the Avery Hopwood award. He received $1,500 (equivalent to approx. $20,000 today) in the major poetry contest for his manuscript, "Twenty Poems." Boland was one of the first friends the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas made while visiting America in 1950. That same year, Boland's poem "Mandala" was published in Flair and later included in the 1952 anthology A Little Treasury of American Poetry. In 1953, Boland's poem "Trials of a Poet" was published in the anthology New World Writing, alongside work from acclaimed writers like Edith and Sacheverell Sitwell. In correspondence, Boland wrote of his debilitating and consuming struggle with asthma. In the few years leading up to his death on October 29, 1984, Boland was hospitalized numerous times due to cardiac arrest. He was 63 years old.