Collections

Scrapbook containing photographs, pressed flowers, newspaper clippings, cards, from her time as a student in the mid-late 1960s

The Shaw Collection Brittle Books contains volumes from the John MacKay Shaw Collection of Childhood in Poetry that exhibit advanced preservation issues. The volumes have been disbound and are housed in archival sleeves.

This collection contains scripts. This includes but is not limited to, play descriptions, selected scenes, and notes and comments from works such as Grounds for Divorce, Robin Hood's Party, and the Broadway play The Last Warning. Additionally, this collection includes blueprints on how scenes were developed, corrected, and improved based on comments and concerns from various actors during his career from the early 1920s until his death in 2003.

This collection relates to Sheldon F. Berlow who served with the 352nd Fighter Group, 8th Air Force, as the chief public information officer. This collection contains letters, photographs, newspapers, and official documents from Sheldon F. Berlow's time in England and Belgium. Numerous photographs document the activities of the 352nd Fighter Group. Letters discuss the progress of the war in Europe and life on the homefront.

The Sheldon Nead collection focuses on Nead's service in the Persian Gulf Command from 1944-1945. He was assigned to help transfer supplies from the United States to Russia through Iran. His collection consists of photographs, a book on the Persian Gulf Command, a Russian commemorative medal, a letter accompanying the medal, and a contemporary map of the Middle East.

Sheldon Sayles served in the US Army during WWII. He was attending the Indianapolis College of Pharmacy when the Japanese attacked on 7 December 1941 and decided to join the Army instead of waiting to be drafted. On 23 Sep 1942 Sayles was formally inducted into the cavalry at Ft. Riley where he received his basic training in a non-segregated unit. In Jan 1943 he was accepted into the Edgewood Arsenal Chemical Warfare School as a student in its officer's candidate school. He graduated in 3 months with a rank of 2nd Lt. Sayles was transferred to the Army Transportation, serving in both the 343rd and 341st Harbor Craft Companies, before being shipped to England. Once in England, Sayles joined the airborne and helped in the preparations for Operation Market Garden. After V-E Day he was transferred to the 600th Port Company, a non-segregated unit tasked with unloading chemical munitions for the war against Japan. V-J Day occurred while Sayles was en route to his new assignment. The collection consists of a manuscript written by Sayles about his experiences during the War and his family.

These papers relate to Sheridan S. Winkelman, who served in the China Burma India (CBI) Theater during World War II in the U.S. Army Air Corps with the 12 Bombardment Group. The manuscript covers many topics, such as training and US activities in CA, Myrtle Beach, SC, and then in the CBI Theater, life in India, the economic crisis, prostitution, anti-Japanese sentiment, and gender concepts in China. He also discusses coming home and peace at the end of the war.

Historical records, photographs, scrapbooks and training materials from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

"Sheriff Gregory Tony" portrait by Dale Henry. Acrylic on canvas. 10x28 inches.