Collections

VHS tapes of FSU football games, ticket stub, and newspaper.

Janet and Alicia wooden Tarpon Club tokens, photographs of Mary Lou Norwood, Dick Puckett oral history transcript and administrative documents, Denora Ecker Ramsey correspondence which includes Tarpon Club Charm, two Tarpon Club patches, Tarpon Club newspaper clippings, sketches and cutouts of Tarpon Club patch illustrations, large wooden Tarpon Club sign

Tarpon Club painting by George Milton. Acrylic on mulberry paper with matching frame, "When Tarpon silver turns to gold" Fifty year certificate from 1987 (framed), "Grad Made Good" award presented to Jane Stoner for homecoming 1999

This collection contains a proclamation for International Aquatic Art Days from 1973 and a proclamation appointing the Tarpon Club as emissaries of Goodwill while in Amherst in 1963.

This collection is centered around a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot in the 35th Squadron of the 64th Troop Carrier Group. He was involved in the European- African- Middle Eastern campaign in Rome, Italy and Operation Dragoon in Southern France. This collection contains special orders, yearbooks, certifications of flight training, letters between the pilot and his family and friends, photos from Italy, France, and Puerto Rico, portraits in uniform, pamphlet for soldiers describing the famous monuments and history of Rome, Italian theatre programs, flight logs, checks, manuals, and charts, an original personnel file, various pins and medals, and maps of the Mediterranean theatre.

Publications, newsletters, correspondence and textile donated by Martha Tilden nee Taylor. Collection includes items belonging to and about her mother Elizabeth Taylor nee Byrd (FSCW 1926) and her daughter Evelyn Elizabeth Tilden (FSU 1994) as well as correspondence from several FSCW students to her father-in-law, Robert Tilden. The correspondences authored by Dottie or "DB" to Robert Tilden, could possibly be class of 1928 student, Doris Maye Bartlett from Winter Haven, Florida.

Ted Fletcher served in the Navy in the southern Pacific Theater on PT-124. This collection includes a manuscript entitled "The Fletcher Family--The War Years : containing copies of Photos, Letters, and Memories from the Big War, Vols. 1- 3," which is composed of letters, images, and articles from Ted Fletcher's time in the Navy. There is V-mail with the letters. The letters run from Fletcher's training for a torpedo boat up through the end of the war. There are numerous images of family, New Guinea, Guadalcanal, and Tulagi. WWII Manuscripts boxes 2 includes articles with pictures on the development and use of PT boats. The articles provide information on the locations of PT boat squadrons and individual boats during WWII, including both the Pacific and European Theaters. There are a very large number of letters to his wife. The letters discuss life in the Pacific, bombing, casualties, Bob Hope, disease, Dengue fever, weather, and numerous other topics. A number of letters, including one dated December 29, 1943, has a forerunner of the �smiley face.� He discusses getting comfort from letters. Ted Fletcher was stationed at Tulagi, near the �Iron Bottom Sound." He was also at Bougainville and New Guinea. boxes 2 has Volumes II and III of the manuscript. Volume II contains Fletcher�s letters to his wife, �Bea', from December 4, 1944 until March 5, 1945. It also contains letters from Bea to him from January 31, 1943 until March 15, 1944. Bea numbered the letters starting when he went overseas in September. After that time, there are 108 letters in this boxes. There are letters from the husband to his wife that discuss Home Front life. Volume III contains letters from his wife dating from March 17, 1944 to May 16, 1945, numbered 109 to 347. There are also a large number of letters from his father and mother. The letters contain a wide variety of information about the Home Front from family information to politics, war bonds, and sports, as well as a number of other topics.