Collections

In 1987, the Warren D. Allen Music Library acquired a large collection of Confederate sheet music imprints. The collection includes nearly 400 items which comprise approximately 40% of all sheet music titles known to have been published in the Confederacy. Most of the items were acquired as a lot from the antiquarian catalog of Goodspeed's Book Shop.

Item is a Confederate States Tax Collector's Receipt dated December 7, 1864 for the amount of $13,746.20 in Montgomery, North Carolina.

The materials in the Andy Ireland Congressional papers primarily relate to the subject's career in the U.S. House of Representatives. State of Florida and National Issues, 1977-1993 series provides information on issues that faced the United States as well as the state of Florida during this time period. Contained within are documents such as bills, reports, news articles, and correspondence. The correspondence is limited to communication between Congressman Ireland and other government officials. Very little correspondence exists between Congressman Ireland and hisconstituents, with the exception of letter standards that he used to respond to various inquiries. The arrangement of the collection, wherever possible, reflects the arrangement set up by Ireland's staff. Of special note is the information in the Defense section dealing with the A-12 Avenger project and defense spending. The district section contains documents, correspondence, newsletters, and news articles relating to specific counties within the subject's congressional district. The legislation Box Folder File Name section contains bill summaries, the congressman's individual voting records, and legislative activity guides. Videos are arranged alphabetically by subject and relate to specific issues (i.e. defense), general interest, and politics. The press section contains newspaper articles denoted as either media reports or press clippings. Photographs document the subject's career in the congress. Other sections contain information about the Congressional Classroom program, Andy Ireland's I-Team, and personal invitations.

The James A. Haley Papers consist of his personal and political papers. Correspondence, clippings, newsletters, photographs, congressional reports, and awards from various civic and political organizations give insight into Haley's public interests. Photographs of his wife, the Circus and political affiliates uncover the many facets of Haley's life. A limited amount of biographical information, including news articles about his death, reflect on how this public figure kept his private life private. Of note is the series about the Hartford Circus fire.

Small group of materials, 1889-1945, primarily newspapers and agazines. Includes information on President William McKinley's death in

The Connie Bassett Amos Collection contains her F Club Goat diary scrapbook entitled, "The Life and Times of Goat Bassett."

The Connie May Fowler Collection documents the career of Florida novelist Connie May Fowler from 1990 to 1998. The collection is comprised of manuscripts, prepress proofs, galleys, newspapers articles, correspondence, interviews, speeches, a VHS cassette, and a teleplay script. The materials highlight some of Fowler's work such as "Sugar Cage", "Ave Erzulie", "Before Women had Wings", "Sparrow Hunter", "River of Hidden Dreams", "Onedia Looney", and "Listening For Light". The collection also contains a manuscript of "Charms For Easy Life" by the author Kaye Gibbons.

One 12" aluminum core De Luxe Recording Disc titled "Recorded by Dr. Edward Conradi Fla. State College May 16th, 1941"

These photographs document the construction of the buildings and the Breezeway of the Boca Raton Campus from 1962 to 1969. In 2010 Algonquin was renamed to Nations North Residence Hall, Modoc is gone, Humanities Building was renamed to the Arts and Letters Building, Biological Science was renamed to Behavioral Sciences Building.