Collections

Coleridge Augustus Jemmott was an African American soldier in the United States Army, "I" company, 22nd Quartermaster Regiment. He served in Italy and North Africa as a sergeant, transporting the "Anizio Annie" cannon, from 1942 to 1945. The collection contains photographs and ephemera from Jemmott's war years. There are sixty black-and-white photographs of Jemmott with his unit in North Africa and Italy. There is also a menu from a Casablanca restaurant, Port of Leghorn entry card, newspaper clippings, and a North African Theater uniform patch.

The collection consists of 26 handwritten Yiddish journals that were created by an unknown author.  Throughout all of the journals the name Ya'akov Me'ir b.R. Tsevi ha-Levi Bleiberg is stamped. The paginated journals have a range of topics from essays and reports to biographies and poetry.  Also, there are some tipped in newspapers clippings.

This collection contains Justice of the Peace appointments from Tallahassee, Florida. It has been arranged chronologically.

This collection consists of 14 Photochrom Prints of Cuba taken by William Henry Jackson and published by Detroit Photographic Company. They are part of the 50000 Series produced in the years of 1900 and 1904. These original prints were sold as souvenirs and depicted places in Havana, Cuba, which is reflected in their titles that appear in each item.

This program contains documents, such as inspection division statistics, personal contracts, conflict resolutions, and Attorney General reports regarding the general rights of fire fighters in Tampa. While fire fighters are paid by the state, they have a right to be part of a union and agree upon their own contracts to bargain for health benefits, salary, pension, and the constitutional right to strike if the need arises. Additionally, this collection contains manuals on how collective bargaining works and the manuals that were used by the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) for collective bargaining.

Digital images of Mississippi public records related to the 1955 trial of J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant for the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till. Photographs were taken by Kevin Murphy and Colleen Fitzpatrick during June 2025 and August 2025 visits to the Tallahatchie County Courthouse, Sumner, Mississippi.

Framed black and white photo of ladies tending to a garden. The sign in the garden says "College Defense Garden". The label on the frame reads "Florida State College 1942".