Collections

Collection includes documents, photographs, and artifacts related to Isidoro and Aida Vega. Most of the materials focus on the Aida Marina Gonzalez Vega family in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic during 1930s and 1940s, as well as Isidoro Sanchez Vega's military service in the United States Air Force, and their marriage in 1943.

The collection includes materials from 1988-1996, when Jim Davis served in the Florida State House, and from 1997-2006, when he served in the U.S. House of Representatives. Materials include documents, correspondence, memoranda, constituent opinion forms, constituent mail, audio cassettes (including radio interviews), speeches, education and health care documents, legislative files, meeting files, strategic plans, bills, records, publications, personal papers, as well as photographs, press clippings, and videos. Areas of interest include the Clinton impeachment, the legal battle over Terri Schiavo, the invasion of Iraq, education, abortion, migration, economic embargoes, trade, welfare reform, appropriations, environmental law and policy, health care, land ownership and development, housing, the War on Terror, human rights, logging and timber, unemployment, off-shore drilling, drugs, and homeland security.

This collection contains the official orders and other documents related to the service John F. Dunn who served as a pilot with the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II and his postwar service with Strategic Air Command and in Vietnam. The collection contains little personal correspondence, but does include photographs of Dunn's career and aerial maps of Japan from 1945. A set of maps of Japan also make up the collection along with a number of medals awarded to Dunn.

This collection consists primarily of research conducted by Hawes for articles that were published in the Tampa Tribune. The collection also includes some correspondence, newspaper articles, and items relating to the history of Tampa.

Collection includes handmade, bound books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry written and illustrated by elementary school children (grades kindergarten to 5).