Collections

Oral history of Oscar Brock's participation and subsequent arrest for the Tallahassee sit in and related information.

This collection includes a United States Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas IntelligenceInformation Bulletin on Okinawa, dated 15 November 1944. It also includes a U.S. Naval Training School (Hollywood Beach Hotel, Hollywood, Florida) graduation class 4-44 yearbook entitled "The Quarterdeck," dated 21 July 1944.  Other content includes Thanksgiving and Christmas 1945 dinner menus for U.S. troops in Samar, Philippines. Class photographs included int he collection are from Landing Craft School, A.T.B. Coronado, CA, as well as, Naval training class photographs. The collection also contains photograph album pages of U.S. Navy Catalina PBY aircraft.

This collection relates to Oscar Olson who served with the United States Army with the 3rd Battalion, 28th Regiment, 8th Division in France and Germany from 1942 to 1945. This collection contains copies of photographs and letters, a veteran's questionnaire and Olson's answers, and an oral history transcript.

Football negatives, VHS tapes, Osceola magazines, photographs.

The Otto L. Bettmann Collection contains personal papers such as press releases, correspondence, and articles documenting his retirement years in Boca Raton, Florida (1976 – 1998). Otto L. Bettmann is most widely known as the founder of the Bettmann Archive. He also was an adjunct professor of History and Curator of Special Collections at Florida Atlantic University.

Owen D. Baker served in the Army Reserves before enlisting as a purser in the Merchant Marine aboard the S.S. William A. Libbey, serving in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Pacific (PTO). The manuscript, titled "Patchwork of Memories," is an autobiography dealing with Baker's entire life but focuses mainly on his WWII service in the Merchant Marine. Baker describes the inner workings of the ship and the conditions of war-torn ports in Marseilles, France, and the Philippines. Baker also describes conditions in postwar Mexico and the creation of the PEMEX oil refinery. The manuscript is 275 pages and includes numerous photographs throughout. Also included in this collection are copies of family and personal photographs.

This is an artificial collection consisting of material transferred from the University of South Florida's Contemporary Art Museum's Institute for Research in Art. There is additional material included as links materials in the USF University Archives. Included in this collection are one (1) architectural model of Paul Rudolph's planned ziggurat design of the USF arts complex, ca. 1970s featuring Picasso's "Bust of a Woman," one (1) model of Pablo Picasso's "Bust of a Woman," five (5) artistic [canvas] renderings of Paul Rudolph's planned ziggurat design, five (5) folders of photocopied documents, articles, etc., regarding the Picasso bust, and links to material in other archival collections held at the USF Libraries Tampa Special Collections. Where applicable, the material is arranged thematically by series and then chronologically.