Collections

The papers of the National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality consist of documents, photographs, and other materials detailing the formation and work of the Commission, established and chaired by U.S. Senator Lawton Chiles (D-FL, 1971-1988). The Commission was developed to find ways to reduce the high infant mortality rates of U.S. infants in the early 1980s, especially in southern states. The bulk of the collection concerns national hearings and meetings in which various high-profile organizations and individuals met to address governmental and private roles regarding the delivery of services associated with preventing infant mortality, as well as to recommend actions designed to change and improve the nation's comprehensive approach to this problem.

The New Republic/Jorge Mas Canosa Collection in Special Collections in the Green Library at Florida International University consists of materials gathered by legal counsel retained by the New Republic magazine as part of trial preparation in a libel suit filed against the magazine by Mr. Mas Canosa, Chairman of the Cuban American National Foundation. The suit stemmed from an article that ran in the October 3, 1994 edition of the New Republic written by Anne Louise Bardach (pp. 20-25).

Historic photos paired with modern photos taken by Peggy Munroe and Phillip Teagarden of specific FSU buildings.

This is a collection of engravings done by Theodor de Bry and his sons, Johann Theodore and Johann Israel, for the German version of the Grand Voyages: America series. The collection has been divided into two series.

The Theodore A. Vanos collection consists mostly of photographs from his career as an engineer. Some of the photographs are labeled NASA. During World War II, he served with the Office of Scientific Research and Development while at Calfornia Institute on Technology. Included in his collection are military letters from the Navy department, two certificates, and a medallion.

The Theodore Harrington Collection contains items gathered by Theodore Harrington's mother and pertain to his time as an airman on the home front during World War II. The majority of the collection centers around his years of service in the Army Air Corps, from 1944-1945. Contained in the collection are folders with material created by Harrington or those around him, including letters, journal and memoir entries, and photographs. The letters are primarily from Harrington to either friends or his parents. The photographs feature servicemen posing with women or are of Harrington's family.

The collection is composed of materials used by former Florida State University graduate student, the late Kathleen Ciambella, for an uncompleted thesis. Her topic was a study of Theodore Newman's life and selected works. In addition to drafts and a prospectus for the thesis, there are several folders of notes, including correspondence with Bergsma, Persichetti, and others, and recordings (in reel-to-reel and tape format) of Newman's works.

This collection consists of correspondence and official records related to the service of Theodore Oxman in the Army Air Force in World War II. As part of the collection there is a sixty-fifth anniversary booklet of the Cornell University's Class of 1948 where alumni recount their World War II experiences in the different branches of the armed services. The collection also contains two photographs of Oxman and a book documenting the personnel and mission of the Grenada Army Air Field in Grenada, Mississippi.