Collections

This collection includes sheet music, programs, biographical information, photographs, and news articles related to the MacDonalds' tenure at Florida Southern College.

The Sergeant Robert L. Wilson transcript describes his experiences as a truck driver in the 63rd Infantry Division in France and Germany during World War II.

This forty page oral history interview transcript relates to Robert Mckay who was a student and interned by the Japanese at Baguio in the Philippine Islands during World War II.  The interview was conducted with McKay at a Baguio Internee reunion. The transcript covers McKay's experiences before, during, and after internment.

These materials consist of first editions, first reissued editions, limited editions, a first trade edition, and uncorrected proof copies of Robert Olen Butler's novels and short stories, published from 1980-2004, and are signed or inscribed by Butler. The collection includes his Pulitzer Prize-winning short story anthology, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. There is also a letter from Simon and Schuster about his novel The Deuce, and a brochure from Cloud Books, which provides further information about these writings. The collection is particularly valuable to students of creative writing and to literary researchers.

This collection relates to Technician Fifth Grade Robert Otto Bauer who served with the 100th Infantry Division Band and subsequently Company C, 8th Armored Infantry Battalion, 20th Armored Division, in the European Theater during World War II. The collection includes artifacts, German World War II pilot flying helmets, photographs, veteran association newsletters, and ephemera. One unpublished photograph includes actress Ingrid Bergman posing with Bauer during the war. Photographs and memorabilia related to Bauer's wife, Joyce Ann Bauer, are also included in the collections.

This collection primarily consists of newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, and personal notes regarding Roberts City residents and culture.

The collection includes committee documents, reports, surveys, and other research from Robin Ronne on various economic developments in Tampa and Hillsborough County that occurred in the early 2000s, including developments such as Citigroup Center and Chase Fountain Square. It also highlights the involvement of Ronne in these initiatives through his service on the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce's Committee of 100.

The collection consists of papers and memorabilia related to civil rights history in Jacksonville and Hurst's experiences as a member of the NAACP Youth Council in the 1960's. The collection focuses on the NAACP sit-ins of stores in James Weldon Johnson Park, formerly known as Hemming Park or Plaza, and Hurst's book about Ax Handle Saturday.

This collection relates to Private First Class Roger Luther Peters who served with the 1143rd Engineer Combat Group in the European Theater during World War II. The collection contains three short memoirs.