Collections

Diploma, pin, and two photographs belonging to FSCW student, Edna Aldine Griffin.

Collection also includes galley proofs for the same title.

This collection relates to Edna Garboski, a woman who stayed on the homefront in Stockholm, New Jersey during World War II. The collection primarily contains a series of letters from servicemen in the Army, Army Air Force, and Navy from 1941 to 1944. It also includes photographs of her brother-in-law, Stephen Garboski, while he was in service, as well as miscellaneous materials such as newspaper clippings, drawings, and photographs she received during this time.

This collection includes a manuscript description of the 161st Station Hospital, personal photographs, and other small paper ephemera related to Edna Upham who served as a U.S. Army nurse during World War II in the US American Theater with the 161st station hospital.

A program for "Band Concerts by Jennison's Band, Stranahan Park" Season 1925 - 1926 and a brochure: "The Tropical Wonderland Fort Lauderdale Florida", 1930.

Included in the Basdekian collection is a memoir, written by Navy medic William Silliphant. The memoir starts with his capture at Manila, by Japanese soldiers. He is sent to Bilibid as one of the medical officers. He tells of the hardships, not only involving the physical aspect of war (starvation, beri-beri, malayria), but also of the mental aspect too. Silliphant kept a journal for most of his stay at Bilibid, but writes these memoirs after liberation. The chapters are dedicated to certain events or situations. The chapters tell of his farewell to Canacao, capture at Santu Scholastka, arriving in Bilibid, practicing medicine without medicine, medical treatment of Japanese, Tenko, the food situation, daily routine, outside work camps, prisoner drafts for Japan, the moment the camp realized liberation was coming, and the return to the Navy. He also tells of an American POW camp where he sees the U.S. honoring the Geneva Convention and has mixed feelings.

Diary of European Tour of Edward and Marion Aitchison, St. Petersburg, FL. Sailing Sept. 22, 1938 from New York City, aboard Hamburg-American Express for Hamburg, Germany. Returning Oct. 15, 1938 from Southampton, England aboard Nord Lloyd Liner Europa for New York City. Diary includes photographs of scenes in Berlin, Munich, London, and Paris.

Box 1: Note card showing Westcott Building Christmas card from President and Mrs. (Mary) John Champion A dean of Men' s Handbook, 1964-65 Invatation from the Friends of the FSULibrary to a ceremony commemorating the addition of the one millionth volume in Strozier Library Editoral from the Pensacola News, July 28,1966 Three photos of Napoleon's death mask