Collections

Bombing on Abril 30, 1976

This collections contains the transcript of an interview with Emil Speith.

The Emily Jackson Swanson scrapbook was created by Emily Jackson Swanson, from Apopka, Florida. She was a student at the Florida State College for Women from 1929-1932. The scrapbook contains booklets, photographs, letters, and newspaper clippings.

Two scapbooks and other loose photographs, newspaper clippings and other ephemera related to Emily Porter's years as a undergraduate and graduate student as well as materials documenting her work as a Florida historian.

The Emmanuel George Collection contains correspondence, photographs, printed materials, certificates, short videos and artwork related to African Americans in Broward County, Florida. Correspondence contains cards written to Emmanuel George about his internships with Encore and the Lake Wales Public Library African American Archives Project. Crispus Attucks High School materials include a yearbook, student report cards, commencement programs, and class reunions. Photographs display African American individual and group portraits in Broward County. Printed materials include newspaper articles about African American neighborhoods in Broward County, specifically Hollywood, an African American Research Library and Cultural Center brochure, signed Legacy of Broward trading cards, funeral programs, and a magazine article featuring Emmanuel George at Sistrunk-A-Fair. Awards includes a certificate from the City of Miami awarded to Emmanuel George for his participation as a featured artist in the "Reimagine the Neighborhood" campaign in April 2022. Paintings of African Americans include the following: Tamara James, Attucks High School alumni (30 x 30), Kitty Oliver (36 x 36), Cannonball Adderley, Dr. James Sistrunk, and Esther Rolle.

The Williams Collection contains a booklet about the Jacksonville Fire of 1901.

Virtual photograph. Part of the FSU Public History project.

The eighteen papers in this collection are in manuscript with notations, "Composition" or "Essay," and are dated Emory & Henry College, Emory, Virginia. Sixteen are signed B. E. Atkins, one is signed Sarah S. Thompson, and one is signed W. G. Bryan. The essays are on a wide variety of topics such as government, slavery and industrial progress at the time.