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FSU Special Collections & Archives

Everett Melvin O'Brien collection, 1940-1945, Date accessioned: 2000-01-04

1 Linear Feet flat box, photo album

This collection relates to Everett Melvin O'Brien who served as a 1st Lieutenant with the 603rd Quartermaster Graves Registration Company in the European Theater during World War II. The collection contains photographs from O'Brien's service in Graves Registration in the U.S., France, Belgium, and Germany which include killed in action U.S. soldiers and graves. Photographs of the concentration camp at Dachau are also included.

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Miscellaneous Ephemera, 1945, 2002 98.0011 - Box 1, Folder 018

 

Includes an undated marriage newspaper announcement for O'Brien , magazine article on the assassination attempt on Hitler, memorial day pamphlet at Margraten U.S. Military Cemetery ceremony, and a Christmas card from the 603rd Quartermaster Company signed by "Joe."

FSU Special Collections & Archives

Peter T. Suzuki collection, Date accessioned: 2006-09-22, bulk 1942- 2006

.25 Linear Feet 1 quarter box

This collection relates to Peter T. Suzuki, a Japanese American scholar who spent two years in internment camps during World War II. This collection contains a series of publications, newspapers, and articles relating to Suzuki and information on the effects of Japanese relocation and prejudice during World War II. The collection also includes information on Japanese Americans' post-war experience.

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Miscellaneous Newsletters and Articles, bulk 1981- November, 2006 Box 02.06.0170- Box 1, Folder 002

 

This folder contains a series of miscellaneous documents that focus on Japanese Americans during and after World War II.  There is a pamphlet from the Third International Symposium on Asian Studies, where Peter T. Suzuki analyzed Tanka and Sengryu forms of poetry written by Japanese Americans in the wartime camps. There is also a biographical manuscript written by Carroll Stewart on Ben Kuroki, a Nisei that served in World War II as an aerial gunner. This manuscript includes pictures and Kuroki' s experience in the war, including the prejudice he endured being a Japanese American. The folder also holds a program of the Veteran's Day tribute to Japanese American World War II Veterans in 2005, which contains historical photos of these veterans during and after the war. the program also has a DVD of these photographs and interviews with the veterans. Other documents include newsletters, reports, and  printed online articles relating to the Japanese American experience after the attack on Pearl Harbor, during the war, and post-war life.

Peter T. Suzuki collection, Date accessioned: 2006-09-22, bulk 1942- 2006 .25 Linear Feet 1 quarter box

 
Suzuki, Peter T., 1928-2016

This collection relates to Peter T. Suzuki, a Japanese American scholar who spent two years in internment camps during World War II. This collection contains a series of publications, newspapers, and articles relating to Suzuki and information on the effects of Japanese relocation and prejudice during World War II. The collection also includes information on Japanese Americans' post-war experience.

FSU Special Collections & Archives

William J. McCusker III collection, 1937-2004, Date acquired: 2017-07-07, bulk 1943-1945

1.5 Linear Feet 3 half boxes

This collection relates to William J. McCusker III who served as a C-47 pilot with the 18th Troop Carrier Squadron during World War II.  The collection includes letters, documents, photographs, flight records, certificates, pilot manuals, and pilot training class yearbooks. The collection also contains handwritten notebooks kept by William J. McCusker III during his service as a police officer with the New York Police Department.

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Personal Background Information Documents, 1972-2007 17.0013 - Box 1, Folder 002

 

Included are resume, commercial pilot license, photocopy of birth certificate, funeral memorial card, CBI veteran's name tag, prayer books, and a business card.

William J. McCusker III collection, 1937-2004, Date acquired: 2017-07-07, bulk 1943-1945 1.5 Linear Feet 3 half boxes

 
McCusker, William J. III, 1922-2007

This collection relates to William J. McCusker III who served as a C-47 pilot with the 18th Troop Carrier Squadron during World War II.  The collection includes letters, documents, photographs, flight records, certificates, pilot manuals, and pilot training class yearbooks. The collection also contains handwritten notebooks kept by William J. McCusker III during his service as a police officer with the New York Police Department.

FSU Special Collections & Archives

William Maurice Sproul collection, 1944-1946, Date accessioned: 2021-01-27

1.5 Linear Feet

This collection relates to William Maurice Sproul who served as a 1st Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Force with the 18th Photo Intelligence Detachment, 14th Air Force in China during World War II. The collection includes letters written by Sproul, photographs, artifacts, documents, and military ephemera.

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FSU Special Collections & Archives

John L. McQuigg collection, 1942-1945, Date acquired: 2019-08-06, Date accessioned: 2019-11-06

6.5 Linear Feet This collection contains six 1/2 boxes, one 1/4 box, and 3 binders (13.25"x12") 2 folders This collection includes one oversized folder and a folder of maps.

This collection relates to John L. McQuigg (Lieutenant Colonel with the US Army Air Force) who served with the 8th Air Force in Photographic Reconnaissance in the European and Mediterranean Theaters and participated in the North African and the Italian Allied Photo Reconnaissance Wing, including surveillance for the Anzio Landing. The collection contains military papers, ephemera, photographs, artifacts, and maps covering John L. McQuigg's communication with his wife and children, surveillance operations during the war, and documents from the Air Force reserves following the war.

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Miscellaneous Papers and Ephemera, 1941-2002 19.0018 - Box 2, Folder 008

 

Included in this folder are various military identification cards of John L. McQuigg. Additionally, there is a pamphlet for Regulations and the Officer's Club at Fort Leavenworth, as well as two stickers for the Fort are included. There are also envelopes that were included with the collection. There is a speech titled "Spies in the Sky" given to the Rotary Club by John L. McQuigg in 2002.

USF Libraries - Tampa Special Collections

Miscellaneous posters and illustrations, 1934-2007

3 folders
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Science fiction and fantasy posters, 1994-2007 1 folders Case 7

 

This collection consists of posters, both signed and unsigned, promoting lectures and panels given by science fiction authors.

Florida Atlantic University Libraries

Mona Greenberg Magazine Collection, 1968-2004, Date acquired: 03/00/2017

0.75 Cubic Feet

This collection contains a series of magazines published by LIFE, TIME, People, Newsweek, and George. Magazines typically include editorial articles and photographs focusing on politics, current events, pop culture, and international and national news. Many of the magazines focus on the deaths of John F. Kennedy, Princess Diana, and John F. Kennedy Jr. Other magazines focus on notable events and people throughout specific decades.

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Mona Greenberg Magazine Collection, 1968-2004, Date acquired: 03/00/2017 0.75 Cubic Feet

 

This collection contains a series of magazines published by LIFE, TIME, People, Newsweek, and George. Magazines typically include editorial articles and photographs focusing on politics, current events, pop culture, and international and national news. Many of the magazines focus on the deaths of John F. Kennedy, Princess Diana, and John F. Kennedy Jr. Other magazines focus on notable events and people throughout specific decades.

FSU Special Collections & Archives

Monte Allen U.S.S. Kwajalein collection, 1944-2009, Date acquired: 2016-08-03, Date accessioned: 2020-05-13, bulk 1945

1.5 Linear Feet 3 half boxes

The Monte Allen U.S.S. Kwajalein (CVE-98) collection contains comprehensive records pertaining to officially recorded, declassified daily life aboard the Casablanca Class Escort Carrier U.S.S. Kwajalein, an aircraft carrier, as well as various visual and auditory artifact materials relating to the work and lives of its crewmen.

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Monte Allen U.S.S. Kwajalein collection, 1944-2009, Date acquired: 2016-08-03, Date accessioned: 2020-05-13, bulk 1945 1.5 Linear Feet 3 half boxes

 
Allen, Monte

The Monte Allen U.S.S. Kwajalein (CVE-98) collection contains comprehensive records pertaining to officially recorded, declassified daily life aboard the Casablanca Class Escort Carrier U.S.S. Kwajalein, an aircraft carrier, as well as various visual and auditory artifact materials relating to the work and lives of its crewmen.

USF Libraries - Tampa Special Collections

Morison Buck Biographies of Hillsborough County Judges, 1997-2005, Date acquired: 00/00/2000

0.50 Linear Feet 2 boxes

This collection consists of short biographies of former Hillsborough County judges written by Judge Morison Buck and published in the "Chips off the Old Bench" column in the Hillsborough County Bar Association's publication, Lawyer. Included are photocopies of the biographies and the issue of Lawyer in which the biography was published.

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Morison Buck Biographies of Hillsborough County Judges, 1997-2005, Date acquired: 00/00/2000 0.50 Linear Feet 2 boxes

 
Morison Buck, 1924-2014

This collection consists of short biographies of former Hillsborough County judges written by Judge Morison Buck and published in the "Chips off the Old Bench" column in the Hillsborough County Bar Association's publication, Lawyer. Included are photocopies of the biographies and the issue of Lawyer in which the biography was published.

Florida Atlantic University Libraries

Morton Gold Collection, 1924-2012, Date acquired: 00/00/2009, bulk 1970-2012

17.00 Linear Feet

In 2009, Dr. Morton Gold (1933- ) donated his collection of music manuscripts, scrapbooks, publications, personal papers, and audio recordings to Florida Atlantic University Libraries. These materials relate to his professional life as a composer, writer, and teacher of music. Dr. Gold received a Bachelor of Music: Theory from Boston University in 1953, a Master of Arts in Teaching: Music Education from Harvard University in 1954, and a Doctor of Musical Arts: Composition from Boston University in 1960. He was a professor of Music at Nasson College in Springvale, Maine from 1964 until 1982. He has also taught at University of Southern Maine, the College of St. Joseph, Rutland High School, and Castleton State College, Vermont. While living in Vermont, Dr. Gold gave annual concerts of his own music at the Rutland Jewish Center and served as the organist and choir director at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church.  Dr. Gold guest-conducted the Boston Pops Orchestra in his Rhapsody for Orchestra in 1954 and his Dedication Overture in 1959. His composition, Haggadah, was televised nationally by PBS in 1976. His abilities as a music educator were recognized in 2006 by the Vermont Music Educators Association when he received a Special Achievement Award for Significant Contributions to Music Education in Vermont. In May of 2010 Dr. Gold was honored by the Cantors Assembly of the United States and Canada with their Kavod Award for Creativity and Achievement in the Field of Jewish Sacred Music. Dr. Gold has been active in virtually every area of music throughout his career as a conductor, concert pianist, journalist, and educator. He currently resides in Maine and is still composing.

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Morton Gold Collection, 1924-2012, Date acquired: 00/00/2009, bulk 1970-2012 17.00 Linear Feet

 

In 2009, Dr. Morton Gold (1933- ) donated his collection of music manuscripts, scrapbooks, publications, personal papers, and audio recordings to Florida Atlantic University Libraries. These materials relate to his professional life as a composer, writer, and teacher of music. Dr. Gold received a Bachelor of Music: Theory from Boston University in 1953, a Master of Arts in Teaching: Music Education from Harvard University in 1954, and a Doctor of Musical Arts: Composition from Boston University in 1960. He was a professor of Music at Nasson College in Springvale, Maine from 1964 until 1982. He has also taught at University of Southern Maine, the College of St. Joseph, Rutland High School, and Castleton State College, Vermont. While living in Vermont, Dr. Gold gave annual concerts of his own music at the Rutland Jewish Center and served as the organist and choir director at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church.  Dr. Gold guest-conducted the Boston Pops Orchestra in his Rhapsody for Orchestra in 1954 and his Dedication Overture in 1959. His composition, Haggadah, was televised nationally by PBS in 1976. His abilities as a music educator were recognized in 2006 by the Vermont Music Educators Association when he received a Special Achievement Award for Significant Contributions to Music Education in Vermont. In May of 2010 Dr. Gold was honored by the Cantors Assembly of the United States and Canada with their Kavod Award for Creativity and Achievement in the Field of Jewish Sacred Music. Dr. Gold has been active in virtually every area of music throughout his career as a conductor, concert pianist, journalist, and educator. He currently resides in Maine and is still composing.

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