Collections

The collection consists primarily of correspondence and documents relating to Ken van Assenderp's involvement with Florida State University in the years since his time as a student.

62 black and white photographic prints, detailing ceramic works in the style of Ogata Kenzan.  Also includes biographical information on Kenzan.

Stanley Kerner (b. 1926), a native of Brooklyn, New York served in the United States Army during the latter-end of World War II in the Signal Corps attaining the rank of Sergeant. His posting was at Signal Corps Headquarters in Caserta, Italy at the Royal King's Palace from 1945 to 1947.

The Kevin Dennis Jones Collection contains photographs of Black Americans and one print of "Blackbirds" by W. F. Bell, 1909. The photographs include 4 separate photographs and a set of 85 photographs from an album dating from the late 1920s to the 1940s.

This important collection includes letters and memoirs written by Frank Korf during his wartime assignment as Officer-in-Charge of a Military Combat Intelligence Team for the 97th Infantry Division of General George S. Patton's 3rd U.S. Army in Europe. Korf, who fought in the Battle of the Bulge and was a liberator of Flossenburg concentration camp, offers a unique view of the meaning and conduct of war. Additional materials in the Korf Collection include correspondence, photographs and military documents from his post-war tenure as Attorney for the Overseas Branch of the U.S. Department of Justice in Munich and Berlin. It was during this period that Korf was chosen to investigate the authenticity of the Joseph Goebbels' diaries. "Korf's story is unique, as he was not a typical soldier. He was inducted into the army at age 32, older than 95% of the draftees. Korf was at once a victim of Nazism, an immigrant to the U.S. and a man who turned his back on his mother country in order to fight Nazism," states Dr. Patricia Kollander, Florida Atlantic University professor of history and co-author of "I Must Be a Part of This War": a German American's Fight Against Hitler and Nazism (Fordham University Press, 2005).

The collection includes such materials as business transactions, including sale of cattle and real estate, and correspondence regarding the family's involvement with state agricultural legislation.

Papers, 1840-1981, primarily of the Joyner Family of Cahaba, Alabama, and Pensacola and Bagdad, Florida, including correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other materials of related families including Andrews, Grayson, King, Moyer, Parker, Shaddock, and Stearns. Includes records of the Bagdad Presbyterian Church, 1908-1936, by trustees C. H. Simpson and Mary Joyner, and materials on the Bagdad Post Office, 1896-1940 of which Mary was a Postmaster. Of special note is a manuscript journal, initially a store ledger of possibly a tanner, 1840-1841, and then kept by J. B. Joyner of Cahaba, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida, and continued by his wife, Emma Joyner of life in Pensacola and her move to Bagdad in 1869 to teach school.

A panoramic postcard of King Motor Company located at 700-1000 Sunrise Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Back of postcard has correspondence describing a trip through the Blue Ridge Mountains to Fort Lauderdale.

Papers, 1928-1937, including financial records, insurance registers, and underwriter agent contracts. Client files include Levey Brothers, a glass company with descriptions and drawings of all store fronts and their glass on Palafox Street (1936); John H. Myrick Automobile fleet at Gonzalez; and Semmes Coal and Ice Company. Other subjests include Frank W. Pearson and Hardware Mutual Insurance Company, underwriters.

Business papers, correspondence, and advertising matter, 1894-1901, of John A. Kirkpatrick, proprietor of Kirkland LeConte Pear Orchards, and of Nickelsen and Kirkpatrick.