Collections

The collection includes personal correspondence, classroom notes, and handouts, newspaper clippings and information about the travel agency Hay and her husband owned and operated in the 1930s.

One drawing of Marion Jerome Kerr by his daughter, Ida Kerr. Black and white sketch on canvas.

The Marion Laura Stine Collection consists of one photograph album, and one scrapbook.

The collection contains two black and white photographs from the 1940s. One depicts a World War II military turret gunnery range with machine guns on a beach in Florida that was used to train aerial gunners. The other is of Henry and Rose Obenauf on Hollywood Beach with out-of-town friends.

The collection consists of 95 lithographs, 1 Black And White photograph, a typed list of lithographs by Marion Rinhart, and three other items; The collection dates from 1799 to roughly 1865 but some of the lithographs may be earlier than 1799 and some may be later than 1865. The date given, 1879, for the maps of the states is wrong based on the fact that New Mexico did not become a state until 1912. The collection is small but it is surprising distributed across the global and includes a varity of engravings.

This collection consists of both original and reproduced photographs from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Subjects include Florida, New Jersey resorts, New York, children, the work of Jesse Wooley, and the photograph album of Aubrey Howell. Also included are more than eighty stereo cards from the 1800s which appear three-dimensional through the use of a stereoscope.  The original Rinhart collection of photos, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes was donated to the University of Miami, Otto Richter Library in Coral Gables, Florida.

The collection consists of 109 stereoscopic photographs and one stereoscope. A few of the stereoscopic photographs are hand painted. Some of photographs are from series that were published by photographic studios but the collection only has a few photographs from each of the published series. The photographs are from different areas in United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Most of the photographs are staged scenes.

The Marjean Phillips Packard Collection contains 6 photographs of the 1947 hurricane and flooding around buildings such as Walgreens, Sinclair, and the Broward Fruit Company, and a picture of people floating in a raft down the street. The collection also contains three textile items. The first is Charles E. Packard's Boy Scouts unform, 1940 (Mr. L. G. Knapp Leader) and Boy Scouts garrison cap. The second is Marjean Packard's 1940s Girl Scouts Leader's uniform a two-piece uniform of a shirt and skirt, both are made of a green and white woven fabric, left shoulder has a patch embroidered with the Girls Scouts of USA) with a photograph of Marjean Packard in the uniform. The third is Nancy Ann Johnson-Phillips' November 3, 1901 wedding dress bodice, which is black with cream piping, "My Mother's Wedding dress".

Personal items of Florida State University student Marjorie Fogarty Lee (formerly Marjorie Nelle Fogarty), (AB, Library Science, 1952). Items include her papers related to her participation in the Flying High Circus Band and the Marching Chiefs, her FSU identification cards, and assorted ephemera and memorabilia. She is the sister of Beverly Jean Fogarty Smith (Accession No. HP-2008-001). (See box list.)