Collections

Materials included in the Floridiana collection include maps, correspondence, photographs, and publications (1730-1970) pertaining to the development of Florida, government ordinances, and government reports relating to Florida.

The Floyd Pyles Collection contains personal papers, photographs, scrapbooks, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and awards belonging to Floyd Pyles, who worked for the Sun Sentinel and the Fort Lauderdale Daily News, eventually becoming Vice President of Gore Newspaper Company. Photographs depict the Pyles family, Fort Lauderdale, the 1926 hurricane, and Park Temple Methodist Church. The collection also includes the "Pyles Prattle" newsletter produced by Floyd Pyles.

Seven photographs from the 1995 Flying Circus of Physics, promotional item from 1997 Flying Circus of Physics.

Photographs of Johnny Fortune, FSU Circus in the 1950s, photograph from 1989 captioned "Jim, Buck, Coach Haskins, Fred", photocopied article and Flying High Program Cover

Fabric Noles football helmet "toy" filled with poly and bean crystals. Tag reads "Silly Slammers #75 FSU"

Three football photos: 1952 team freshmen; 1953 team; 1992 candid shot of coaches Don Veller, Bill Peterson, Tom Nugent, and Bobby Bowden

Size Large, black FSU football tshirt featuring Deion Sanders.

The collection ranges from some early documents of the late 1980s although the majority are from the mid-1990s. It is primarily made up of legal documents and transcriptions used in court during the appeals process. Included are court filings (notices, responses, pleadings, exhibits) and transcripts of depositions and interviews. A small portion of the collection consists of in house administrative paperwork consisting of correspondence, trial notebooks, witness notes, and case research.

This collection relates to Forest Duane Hunsley who served in the U.S. Navy as an Aviation Mechanic 2nd Class on the aircraft carrier U.S.S Lexington during World War II. The collection includes work notes and manuals while involved in aviation metal smithing aboard the U.S.S Lexington and Hawaii. The collection contains short letters and brief accounts of the Battle of Coral Sea, and the journalism that followed him in his hometown in Illinois. Informational booklet about New Caledonia is also included.