Collections

Scrapbooks, photo albums, documents, certificates, awards, and plaques documenting the lives of Betty Lou and Jim Joanos and their involvement with FSU. Also included are FSU and FSCW items collected by Betty Lou and Jim, including postcards, graduation invitations, university publications, and artifacts such as FSCW silverware and dinnerware.

The collection includes materials from 1988-1996, when Jim Davis served in the Florida State House, and from 1997-2006, when he served in the U.S. House of Representatives. Materials include documents, correspondence, memoranda, constituent opinion forms, constituent mail, audio cassettes (including radio interviews), speeches, education and health care documents, legislative files, meeting files, strategic plans, bills, records, publications, personal papers, as well as photographs, press clippings, and videos. Areas of interest include the Clinton impeachment, the legal battle over Terri Schiavo, the invasion of Iraq, education, abortion, migration, economic embargoes, trade, welfare reform, appropriations, environmental law and policy, health care, land ownership and development, housing, the War on Terror, human rights, logging and timber, unemployment, off-shore drilling, drugs, and homeland security.

The contents of this collection are made up of various citrus crate labels from different companies.

This collection contains various artifacts relating to citrus history. The bulk of the collection is made of citrus labeling, ranging from collected crate labels to can labels, correspondence on label collecting, and even a crate label stamp. It also contains information on inspections on citrus and vegetable groves, including inspector manuals and records. Finiancial and business records are also contained in this collection.

2 boxes of athletic film on VHS, 2 yearbooks, 1 record

Photographs taken from from the African American Achievers Awards and 100 Black Men National Convention

Jim Perkins' manuscript, "1/Zuni: Fleet Tug of the US Navy, Tamarora: US Coast Guard Cutter," is a history of the tugboat, the USS Zuni, in the US Navy. The ship later became the Tamarora, a US Coast Guard cutter. His typed account describes the experience of the Zuni in the Pacific Theater during WWII. The Zuni sailed from Alaska to the South Pacific from its christening in 1943 to its renaming and move to the Coast Guard in 1946. In the Navy, the Zuni towed barges and dry docks and assisted damaged ships. Perkins focuses this assistance on the help the Zuni offered the USS Reno after the Reno was damaged by a torpedo in San Bernardino Strait in the Philippines. The manuscript includes copies of the wartime deck log of this event, copies of photographs of the Zuni's 1943 crew, descriptions of daily experience on the ship throughout the ship's history, copies of naval citations from the Reno event, and a copy of the official operational reports from the commander of the Reno. The book is based on his own research on the Zuni/Tamarora and tugboats throughout WWII.

Part of Southern Business History Center

Contains photographs from the 1930s to 2013 covering the JL Reed and Son Funeral Home in Tampa. Photographs show scenes of the interior and exterior of the JR Reed and Son's Funeral Home along with the Marion Reed Funeral Home. Many of the photographs are reproductions of Burgert Brothers photographs while others are originals. Depending on the source, some of the photographs are in black and white while the others are in color.