Collections

The Wiley L. Housewright Faculty Professional Relations Committee Files primarily include correspondence and memoranda to and from the Committee during the period he served as chair. Topics include academic freedom; deliberations over 12-month contracts, faculty participation in civil rights activities, such as discussing the segregation-integration issue in the classroom; sabbaticals; Social Security benefits; tenure, and dismissal policies. Correspondents include FSU President Gordon W. Blackwell and Dean of the Faculties E. Laurence Chalmers. The collection is significant to researchers because it documents the issues facing Florida faculty during the 1960s and how they impacted the higher education teaching profession.

Oral History transcript about part of ASTP program under Secretary of War Simpson; Battle of the Bulge; Patton's Third Army; Bastogne. Wilfred V Daly was an infantryman serving in the 819th Tank Destroyer Battalion. He trained at Camp Roborts(?), CA, Camp Chaffee, AK, Camps Hood and Bowie, TX, and Camp Ibis, CA. He served as a guard(?) unit at Hawaii, and then at Peleliu. The collection consists of photos and photo descriptions, handwritten letters from Daly to his mother (c. 1942-1945), H�, annotated and bound versions of these letters assembled into manuscripts with extensive details of everyday Army life, the transcript from a Reichelt Oral History interview, several newspaper clippings, notes from Daly describing items in the collection, and several pamphlets from Army chapels. Also included is the Unit Insignia patch for a Tank Destroyer Unit.

This collection relates to Wilhelmina C. "Billie" Weezenaar who served as a U.S. Army Nurse during World War II in the United States, Oran, Algeria, and England.  The collection contains a  photograph album with pictures and captions, a letter of commendation and other war documents, foreign currency, unit patches, rank insignia, and newspaper articles. Also included in the collection are documents related to war service and nursing, a personell list of the 151st Station Hospital, an autograph book, personal letters, primarily from patients and colleagues, photographs, and a portrait.

Includes correspondence, course materials, and FSU publications documenting personal and educational activities of Thomas Hoffer, as well as activities of the FSU College of Communications.

This collection relates to Samuel Rhea, M.D., Willard Carr, and Anna (Groover) Carr. Dr. Rhea served as a physician with the 377th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion attached to the 4th Infantry Division in the U.S. Army in the European Theater (ETO). Willard Carr served as an officer in the 377th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion and served in the European Theater of Operations. Anna (Groover) Carr served in the Red Cross as Director of the Enlisted Men's Club, Luchbal Barracks in Antwerp, Belgium.

The Willard W. Burgess Collection contains a scrapbook of newspaper clippings documenting Burgess' career, the financial difficulties surrounding the Floranada development, and the damage from the 1926 hurricane. Later clippings detail the progression of the Frank Keaton trial. It also contains correspondence and sympathy cards from Burgess' death in 1947.

This collection relates to Staff Sergeant William A. Kummerer who served with the 463rd Field Artillery Battalion, 101st Airborne Division during World War II.  The majority of this collection concerns the reunions of the 101st Airborne, 463rd Field Artillery Battalion, on the creation of the division shoulder patch.

This collection relates to Private First Class William Alfred Mansuy who served with Company F, 126th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division in World War II and was killed in action on April 22, 1945, in Luzon, Philippine Islands. The collection includes documents, letters, greeting cards, photographs, and a dress uniform jacket.

Holograph letter dated 1876, from William Archer Cooke to Hon. S. Pasco, Hon. G.P. Roney and W.D. Bloxham. The letter relates to counting votes cast in Florida for state electors of President and Vice President. Also known as MSS 0-79.