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Art Department, 1939-2013

Art Department Theses and Dissertations, 1951-2008

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See list in G:\Heritage\Collections\Art Department Theses and Dissertations - to be cataloged

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Arthur B. Steinman Collection, Circa 1900-2000

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The Arthur B. Steinman Collection contains twentieth century African sculptures and masks from the central and western regions of Africa. It also contains one lithograph print of "Planting" signed by Thomas Hart Benton.

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Arthur G. Johnson papers, 1942-2001, Date acquired: 10/02/2002, bulk 1942-1945

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Arthur G. Johnson served in a U.S. Navy Construction Battalion (Seabee) from December 1942 through the end of World War II. This collection consists of an oral history interview transcript.

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Identity and Home as Interpreted by Central Florida Asian-American Women, 1998-2000

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Collected by Linda T. Carpenter, this collection includes many sources of information on the impact and increase of Asian American immigration to Central Florida. This collection contains photographs, interviews, digital files, and research that display how the lives of ten Asian American women changed since they immigrated to Central Florida. These women had mixed experiences since they left their respective countries, and the clash between their family values and the American lifestyle persisted.

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The Marie Stiefel Laura Riding Jackson collection, 1925-2024

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The Marie Stiefel Laura Riding Jackson collection 1925-2024 contains materials created by and relating to poet and author, Laura Riding Jackson and Seizin Press including books, articles, manuscripts, and correspondence. This collection also includes materials created by Robert Graves, Shuyler Jackson, and Susan Morris, Riding Jackson's secretary. These materials are useful to historical, biographical, and literary research into the life and work of Laura Riding Jackson and Seizin Press. The collection is divided into five series as follows: Works about Laura Riding Jackson, 1963–2017 Works by Laura Riding Jackson, 1935–1984 Correspondence, 1941–1993 Materials from Laura's Kitchen, undated Books 1925-2024 Laura Riding Jackson, best known as Laura Riding, an American poet and author was born on January 16, 1901 in New York City, NY and died on September 2, 1991 in Wabasso, Florida. She was born Laura Reichenthal and began publishing under her married name, Gottschalk. Riding Jackson graduated Cornell University in 1921 and published her first poem in 1923 in the literary magazine The Fugitive and her first collection of poetry, The Close Chaplet in 1926. After her divorce in 1925, she assumed the surname Riding and moved to England to live with Robert Graves and his wife, Nancy Nicholson. She remained in Europe for 14 years, mainly England and Majorca, Spain, where Riding Jackson and Graves founded Seizin Press in 1927. In 1939, Riding and Graves left Europe for New Hope, Pennsylvania. In 1941, Riding Jackson married Schuyler B. Jackson and they moved to Wabasso, Florida, where she lived until her death in 1991. The Jackson's posthumously published a dictionary titled Rational Meaning: A New Foundation for the Definition of World and Supplementary Essays in 1997. Laura Riding's Florida house has been preserved by the Laura Riding Jackson Foundation and now sits at the Vero Beach campus of Indian River State College. The Foundation supports the legacy of Riding by offering educational events and workshops for writers of all ages, as well as preserving her home.

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Ralph E. Herold collection, Date accessioned: 2020-01-21, bulk July 28, 1943-April 2009

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This collection relates to Ralph E. Herold who served in the United States Army as a Lieutenant Colonel and assigned to Headquarters in Kobe, Japan Base during the post war occupation. This collection contains news articles about Ralph E. Herold, training films, and various battles in World War II. There are photographs of Kobe, Japan and different radio equipment. There are also several booklets containing data about War time training films.

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Donna Stoddard Papers, 1924-2016

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Newspaper articles and clippings, academic/professional journal articles, letters and correspondences, photographs, books, interview transcripts, author's personal research notes, plans, theses, screenplay, college transcripts, pamphlets, and brochures.

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Florida Southern College Buildings & Grounds, 1922-2024

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The files in this collection were generated by the college and include built structures as well as some physical features (gardens and monuments) on property related to the Lakeland campus after 1922. Additionally, there are some files about property owned or formerly owned by FSC that is not part of the main campus in Lakeland.

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Janice Josephine Carney collection, 1999-2013

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The Janice Josephine Carney collection includes professional and person papers related to the life career, and LGBTQ+ activism of Carney. Material relates to Carney's service during the Vietnam War as well as her work in supporting other transgender veterans. Also included is material realted to Carney's writing career as a memoirist, poet, and playwright.

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