Collections

Oral history of U.S. Army Air Corps B-17 Co-Pilot Colonel Jack H. Heinzel, an American prisoner of war who survived the Bataan death march and subsequent "Hell Ships" starting in April of 1942. The collection contains one folder with fifteen pages detailing this airman's experience of these atrocities.

The Jackie Frohock Biggame Collection contains 2 programs, clippings, and 8 photographs of members of the Mask and Wig Club in the 1950s. Several of the photographs show the group's performance of "Luck of the Irish" at the City of Hollywood Irish Fair, 17 March 1954. The two programs are for the March 1954 Irish Fair during the Fifth Annual Series of Winter-Spring Concerts and Entertainment by the City of Hollywood Recreation Department, and for "Three Live Ghosts" performed at the Hollywood Central School Auditorium. The collection also includes photocopies of newspaper clippings with articles about the Mask and Wig Club.

The Jackie Voelkl manuscript contains one folder with a 44-page typed transcript of an oral history interview.  Jackie Voelkl served as a First Sergeant in the Women's Army Corps from 1942 to 1946. She worked as personal secretary to General Robert A. McClure, head of the Army Psychological Warfare Division at General Eisenhower's headquarters in Paris.

Noted American author Jack London (1876-1916) wrote a 31-page hand-written, manuscript-letter to Orlando Smith, offering a critique of his book, Eternalism. Topics discussed in this manuscript include evolution, eternal justice, morality, reason, social justice, survival of the fittest, determinism, and free will. Throughout the manuscript, London argues that justice is not innate but that it is in fact something developed by man through evolution. London explains that man imposes justice to achieve social control. In response to Smith's notion that the soul is eternal, London attests that if that is so, then man cannot be blamed for their actions, or sins, as goodness and badness is inherent in their souls. London asks such philosophical questions, like why bad things happen to innocent people, among other questions and comments he interjects in his meticulous response to Smith.

Personal photographs of Florida State University student Jack Miles, class of 1955, loaned to Heritage & University Archives for digitization.

The collection contains materials documenting the career of Florida landscape architect Jack O. Holmes and consists of business records, landscape planting plans, photographs and slides of Holmes' work, schematic designs and specifications. The collection primarily consists of photographs divided into businesses and residences. Some of the photographs are mounted. Many of the photographs include hand written notes.

This collection relates to Sergeant Jack Rifkin who served with the 324th Infantry Regiment, 44th Infantry Division, in the European Theater of Operations during World War II. Rifkin received the Bronze Star Medal and Combat Infantry Badge. The collection includes an oral history interview transcript, military documents, newspaper, photograph of Rifkin in uniform, artifacts, and a digital compact disc recording of the award ceremony for the posthumous presentation of the Bronze Star Medal to Rifkin's family.

This collection contains boxes that hold paperwork corresponding to specific meetings and the outcomes of the meetings in relation to unions and textile workers.

Correspondence files, 1895-1950, including letters pertaining to recording of mortgages, receipts of businesses, occasional court business, newspaper clippings, and related items. Much of the correspondence is on decorative business letterheads from various towns and cities in Jackson County. [1,132 pieces]