Collections

The Allen Lastinger Collection of Ephemera contains a broad array of ephemera from the late nineteenth through the twentieth century, collected by Allen Lastinger, most of which is about Florida. It has been divided into three series.

News clippings, FSU Chemistry Building dedication program, faculty parking permit, 12 MeV tandem accelerator booklet, ENC conference materials, City of Tallahassee annual report, issue of Florida Flambeau, Seminoles bumper sticker

The Allen Morris Papers consist of personal and professional records and research materials accumulated by Mr. Morris over a period of about forty-one years. The papers consist of correspondence; biographical sketches of Florida officials and other famous Floridians; photographs, programs, and other materials related to the Allen Morris Legislative Awards; historical data concerning place names, historical houses, rivers and river boats.

Scrapbooks and other papers, 1937-1969, of the Allie Yniestra School Parent Teacher Association, Pensacola, Florida. Scrapbooks include programs, reports of officers, treasurer reports, bylaws, publicity and newspaper clippings, photographs, and other materials concerning the history of the organization and the school.

Predominantly correspondence, including greeting cards, letters, postcards and telegrams; also contains photographs of Alma Sarett. The correspondence discusses the annual poetry festival and current trends within the field as well as personal correspondence.

Original typewritten manuscript and galley proofs of Leon Odell Griffith's A Long Time Since Morning. The typewritten manuscript included handwritten edits, is unbound, and has some documentation from the publisher, Random House. The galley proofs are also unbound with handwritten edits and are stored folded. They are dated March 18, 1954.

Records, 1953- , of the Alpha Chapter, Pensacola, Florida, of Alpha Delta Kappa, an international honorary sorority for women educators. Records consist of chapter scrapbooks which contain minutes, newspaper clippings, officer installations and banquets, reports of meetings, photographs, state and national convention materials, and other records documenting the history of the organization and its activities with schools and school programs in Escambia County, Florida.

1x Birthday plaque, 1x biographical book, sunshine newsleter unknown date, newspaper clippings, photographs, Roster ('57-'58), Scrapbooks: '58, '54, '57 (scrapboox and bios x2), 2x best pledge award paddles, '54, '48, '36-'37, '37-'38, '47, '62, incomplete "family scrapbook", national convention books x2 ('55 and '57, '59-'61, '58, '56-'57, '66, '59. Photos: '66-'67, '62-'63, '58-'59, '64-'65, '69-'70, '71.