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NASA Ephemera collection, 1969-2006, bulk 1980-1994 3.25 Linear Feet 5 boxes and 1 flat file

Mahan, Cheryl

The NASA Ephemera collection contains NASA memorabilia and ephemera including photographs, patches, pins, and stickers. There are also mission charts, crew photographs, space news publications, and memorabilia and photographs, some signed, about the 1986 Challenger mission Space Transportation System (STS) 51L. These materials were primarily collected by Fred Mahan during his career with NASA. Researchers interested in NASA and space-related ephemera, memorabilia, and publications will find this collection useful. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the United States government's civilian agency responsible for space exploration, aeronautics research, and scientific discovery. Established on October 1, 1958, through the National Aeronautics and Space Act, NASA was created in response to growing national interest in space exploration during the Cold War. NASA has led numerous landmark programs, including the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Space Shuttle, and Artemis programs.

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NASA Information for the Press, 1981-2002 0.6 Linear Feet 1 box and 1 flat file

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

The NASA Information for the Press, 1990-2002 contains Mission Press Kits and Space Shuttle Mission Chronology reports produced by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the press to use in their coverage of space missions, and John F. Kennedy Space Center facility maps from 1996 and 1997. This collection provides insight into the information NASA produced for the press about missions and facilities. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the United States government's civilian agency responsible for space exploration, aeronautics research, and scientific discovery. Established on October 1, 1958, through the National Aeronautics and Space Act, NASA was created in response to growing national interest in space exploration during the Cold War. NASA has led numerous landmark programs, including the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Space Shuttle, and Artemis programs.

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NASA Photographs collection, 1962-2001 40.1 Linear Feet 91 boxes

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

The NASA Photograph collection, 1962-2001 contains over 10,000 color transparencies, color and black and white photographs documenting National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) activities in the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida from 1962 to 2001. The photographs chronicle the building of space shuttle programs such as Skylab, Apollo, Soyuz, and Space Transportation System (STS) missions. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the United States government's civilian agency responsible for space exploration, aeronautics research, and scientific discovery. Established on October 1, 1958, through the National Aeronautics and Space Act, was created in response to growing national interest in space exploration during the Cold War. NASA has led numerous landmark programs, including the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Space Shuttle, and Artemis programs.

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Natalia Grauer Rosenwald transcript, 1939-2004, Date acquired: 08/13/2004, bulk 1939-1945 1.00 folders

Natalia Grauer Rosenwald's oral history outlines her life growing up in Krakow, Poland and her experiences in the Krakow ghetto, Mauthausen, and Ravensbrück. She speaks about hiding, dog attacks, working in the crematorium sorting clothes, stealing food, the Death March, how the SS tried disguising themselves with the advance of the Allies, liberation, reprisal shootings, finding her family after the war, living in Cyprus, Israel, Australia, and Germany before settling in the United States. She concludes her oral history with her experiences talking at schools about the Holocaust, visiting Auschwitz, and her message to the world about the Holocaust.

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Nathaniel Glover, Jr. Papers, 1970-2009 5.00 Linear Feet

Glover, Nathaniel, Jr., 1943-

The collection contains correspondence, personal and subject files, and campaign and printed materials relating to Glover's career, chiefly his election and tenure as Jacksonville Sheriff from 1995 to 2003. The core of the collection are printed materials pertaining to his campaigns for Jacksonville Sheriff (1995; 1999) and Mayor (2003), and photographs showing highlights from his JSO years. The images provide visual documentation of his extensive involvement in the community, through neighborhood walks, speaking engagements at local schools, and attendance at numerous ceremonies, events and receptions. In totality, the Glover Papers are of interest to scholars researching race relations in Jacksonville and Florida in the late twentieth century, as well as providing information on Glover as a key figure in promoting change. His post-retirement work is also well-documented in the collection, and significant for its potentially far-reaching effects on Jacksonville's children and social welfare issues.

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