Collections

The Ndebele Maputo Artifacts Collection contains two woven baskets, one traditional skirt, one hat and two other items worn in celebration events.

The 1,000 card collection from the Neidlinger family primarily consists of chromolithographic post cards for the Christmas, Easter, Valentine's Day, and New Year's holidays. It also contains Halloween cards, St. Patrick's Day cards, seasonal greeting cards, get-well cards, birthday cards, invitations, magazine ads, and portraits. All post cards are from the time period between 1905-1915.

Smoke Signals, Animals of Section B Songbook, monographs on FSU football history, diploma, class ring, pins, and football signed by 1993 national championship team and coaches

This collection was compiled by former Florida State University Department of History professor Neil Betten. It contains 41 copies of Congress Weekly: A Review of Jewish Interests from February 1942 to June 1944. This weekly newsletter was published by the American Jewish Congress, which was headed by Stephen Wise. The newsletter includes a column, "News of the Women's Division." The newsletter covered topics such as the Warsaw Ghetto, Jewish soldiers in the U.S. military, Palestine, Zionism, and current issues in the United States and overseas affecting Jews. The collection also contains a Ph.D. dissertation by Peggy G. Pelt, "Wainwright Shipyard: Impact of a World War II War Industry in Panama City, Florida." The dissertation contains oral histories that document work and Home Front conditions related to this shipping building company.

The Nell Carlile Collection was created by Nell Carlile while a student at Florida State College for Women in the early 1940s. It contains newspaper clippings and magazine articles about FSU and its history; campus maps; a freshman bulletin, student handbook, and physical education manual; issues of Distaff; postcards; correspondence and holiday cards; event programs; ephemera; a telephone directory; and other FSU publications. The collection also contains a stuffed dog from the Odds team, an Odds team beanie cap, and a home economics dress.

The collection contains items and ephemera related to Florida State College for Women in the 1940s.

The Alan Neulander Magazine Collection consists of weekly, monthly, quarterly, special edition, and one-off  magazine and newsprint publications. Mr. Neulander's magazines span over a century of time with the earliest publication bearing a copyright date of 1882. Of special note are publications issued in the decade, of the last century, often referred to as The Roaring Twenties (1920-1929). Most publications in this block of the collection are dedicated to presenting a forum for then-current literary and fine arts contributors. Some issues of Broom contain writings by several of the notable authors and poets of the day (e.g., John Dos Passos, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, E.E. Cummings, and Aldous Huxley). In addition, the collection is significant for the number of magazines (and some newspapers) that cover life in America during the mid-part of the 20th Century. These are of a more diverse nature and though many continue to focus on the arts, several are devoted to travel and tourism, while a large number of the magazines published during the 1960's are dedicated to remembering the centennial of the American Civil War.