Collections

This collection relates to the wartime correspondence between Margarita King and her husband William H. King, who served in the Army Air Corps in the Philippines during World War II. The collection contains letters collected and sent between Margarita and William, personal photographs, newspaper clippings, postcards, and employment documents.

This collection contains materials related to Margery Ann Tully and her husband Horace L. Tully who served with the 31st Special Naval Construction Battalion during World War II on Saipan and Japan.  The collection contains newspapers; military newsletters/bulletins, including the "Sea Bee" and others; postcards, including a set from Seabee Training Camp at Camp Peary, VA; personal photographs at Saipan and various Japanese cities; photographs of the USS Saratoga (CV-3) and USS Lexington (CV-2) at the Panama Canal and crews; a large-scale group photograph and program from the USS Lexington Farewell Ball; Japanese currency and postage stamps; and ephemera.  Also included is a large scrapbook of pasted newspaper articles, newspaper photographs, and ephemera that document the expansion of the U.S. Navy battleships and aircraft carriers during the 1920's and early 1930's.

The Margot Cloister - David Peckham Collection containes a panorama of Fort Lauderdale from 1926. It also contains a photograph of a small hotel located at 425 S. Andrews Avenue.

This collection contains production orders and brochures from plays featured at the Coral Gables and Parker Playhouses. Such examples include renditions of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Agatha Christie's Go Back for Murder, and Shelden Epp's Blues in the Night. There are over 100 play accounts in this collection, and these plays are based on more than just books, but classic plays as well, such as Neil Simon's The Gingerbread Lady. Here, individuals can grasp the creative reactions and perspectives from great writers of the past as they brought their masterpieces to South Florida.

The Colman Papers document the history of Florida State College for Women (FSCW) and student activities prior to and during the World War I years. The collection consists mostly of letters Colman wrote as an FSCW student to her parents in Lake Alfred.

The collection of Marian Irons Gottschalk contains items from her job in a defense plant as a sheet metal helper for the Kaiser Company, Inc. at the Kaiser Shipyard in Vancouver, Washington from 27 October 1943 to 20 January 1945 where she worked primarily on baby flat tops (escort carriers). Her collection includes numerous newspaper clippings on the Vancouver Shipyard and the ships it built as well as a few clippings of the "Stubby Bilgebottom" comic. Also included are small books on the ships built by the Kaiser Company, Inc. and the Oregon Shipbuilding Company; a map of Vancouver, Washington's housing district; aerial photographs of the shipyard; and two letters of commendation for overproduction in 1944. There is also a scrapbook containing many more newspaper clippings on the yard, 'Stubby Bilgebottom" comic strips, and a list of carrier production.

This collection contains one annual Interlachen yearbook owned by Marianne Spears that includes messages from her fellow students.

Items belonging to Florida State College for Women graduate Marian Rawls Harrison.  Materials include two photographs, FSCW diploma, Palmer College (DeFuniak Springs) diploma, and FSCW diploma mailing tube.  Not photographed for 3D collection.  [3D Object].

Two scrapbooks that possibly belonged to Marian Trinkner, who was the Dean of Students at Escambia High School.

This collection contains a mix of business and personal papers from Marie Anderson, including memorandums, reports, correspondence, and handwritten notes related to her work in women's rights activism from 1966 to 1978. The papers in the collection primarily relate to Anderson's time on the Florida Governor's Commission on the Status of Women and the Metro-Dade County Commission on the Status of Women, as well as the attempted ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. The collection also contains newspaper clippings and ephemera related to the women's movement of the 1970s.