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"1785/87/90 - 2010" by Leonor Antunes, 2010 Drawer 26

 
"A book-sculpture whose pages, bound by a thin lace, unfold to form a large panel of photographs of a foundry of gold coins with the effigy of Queen Mary I of Portugal, next to a series of images of the Brazilian jungle (as part of a research Leonor Antunes has been carrying out in Brazil since 2008). Published as part of the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea, "Vitoria-Gasteiz," in 2010." -- Publisher's website
  1. Florida Gulf Coast University Special Collections
  2. Artists' Book Collection, 1980-2017

Joseph Jennings transcript, 1922-2008, Date acquired: 12/07/2001, bulk 1941-1945 1.00 folders

 
Jennings, Joseph

This collection consists of an oral history interview transcript of Joseph Jennings, who was enlisted in the U.S. Navy and worked as an aircraft radio operator during World War II and served in the South Atlantic guarding the Brazilian coastline near Rio do Janeiro. The interview covers his duties and anecdotes, like his training in Norfolk, VA, his emergency appendectomy, and his time in Dutch Guyana. The interview also describes his early years during the Great Depression in Oklahoma.

  1. FSU Special Collections & Archives