Collections

The materials in this collection primarily consist of playbills, showbills, and programs that range from the mid-to-late 20th century and are primarily from the personal collection of Louis Miano. However, the contents are compiled from multiple collections of the same scope. There is a large collection of playbills, showbills, and programs from theater and opera in Miami and South Florida, as well as from across the United States and Europe. The collection also contains magazines, ephemera, and other materials related to musical theater in the United States and Europe.

Correspondence, subject files, speeches, and manuscripts documenting the careers of Louis Shore, including as dean of the Florida State University School of Library Science, editor of journals and reference works, author, and library consultant, as well as documentation of professional service to the American Library Association and other organizations.

Correspondence Ledger. Index volume, 1916, to the letter-books and correspondence of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Pensacola; entries arranged alphabetically by sender, with date of letter, subject, and file number. Extensive listing for E. O. Saltmarsh, Superintendent. [1 item]

Captain, U.S. Army.

The papers consist of certificates of purchases of land, a certificate commissioning Scarborough as Captain of a volunteer infantry company, land deeds, Territorial Florida manuscripts, a picture of Mrs. M.L. Scarborough, newspapers and clippings, personal letters, reports of blankets, provisions, and clothing required by Floridians in prison at Fort Delaware, promissory notes, receipts, invoices, and a typed copy of "Express-Supplement", a letter to an unknown newspaper editor by William T. Gregory in 1860, pertaining to the proposed secession from the Union by Florida and other states.

The Love-Thornell Collection of Black American Photographs contains over 1300 photographs including cabinet cards, tintypes, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, stereotypes, cartes de visite and postcards documenting Black American life from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Jaquelyn Love-Thornell collected the photographs over a 15-year period.

The Lowell Showalter Collection contains photographs that document real estate development in South Florida. The photographs include aerial photographs of the development of the intracoastal waterway. Also included are images of houses and plots being developed in the 1930s. It also includes a photographs of local agriculture in the 1920s.

This collection consists of a scrapbook created by Loyal Frisbie when he was a student at Florida Southern College from 1933-1937. The scrapbook includes student handbooks, a history of the Pi Kappa Fraternity, news clippings, correspondence, graded exams, and his diploma.

Laurence P. Robertson served in the Army's 2nd Armored Division as an ambulance driver in the European (ETO) and North African Theaters. The collection includes "War is Hell and a Barrel of Laughs," Robertson's memoir. He writes extensively about his time at training camps in the US, including Officer Candidate School (OCS). After his training was complete, Robertson was sent to the European Theater, and he describes his time in Ireland in great detail, followed by his time spent in England, before his unit was sent to North Africa and eventually faced off against Rommel's African corps. The memoir ends while he is still in North Africa, and it is unfinished as Robertson died in 1999.