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This collection contains lead sheets, parts, and assorted jazz arrangements created by 200 arrangers, including some of unknown origin. The dates for this collection range from 1920-present. Many of these items are handwritten and unpublished. This collection was donated by Robert "Bob" Stone and Pamela S. Carey.

William Rosenblatt Collection contains black and white photographs taken by the United States Army Signal Corps during World War II. Most of the photographs depict various members of the United States Army and relief organization workers in France and Belgium. The collection also contains some personal photographs of William Rosenblatt in Paris during that time and some postcards from Laval and Verdun France.

The collection contains 25 photographs and 3 maps of Paradise Isles, also known as the Cockroach Bay Preserve area in Tampa, Florida. The photographs feature waterborne views of several islands, including Goat Island, Snake Island, Whiskey Key, and Big Pass Key.

The Love-Thornell Collection of Black American Photographs contains over 1300 photographs including cabinet cards, tintypes, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, stereotypes, cartes de visite and postcards documenting Black American life from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Jaquelyn Love-Thornell collected the photographs over a 15-year period.

The records of the Vagabonds organization contain playbills and other promotional materials; photographs; scripts; newspaper articles; and sketches. While there are materials dating back to the begninnings of the organization in 1926, the bulk of the material is from the 1940s through the prsent day.

The Degen Resource Room has an extensive historic playbill collection. The collection consists of playbills of productions from all over the world beginning in 1873. The Degen Resource Room is continuing to catalog this massive collection, so the entire scope of this collection cannot yet be assessed. However, it is estimated that we hold one of the premiere playbill collections in the nation. As cataloging continues to take place, we will be able to ascertain the extent of this very special and unique collection.

"Batch 1 received 3/24/16: Blueprints of FSU buildings: Westcott, Turnbull Conference Center, Union, Bus Stop, Tully Gym, Dodd Hall, Salley Hall, Johnston, Central Utilities, Stults Aquatic Center, Turkey Point, Smith Hall, Kellum, Dorman, Degraff, Broward, Reynolds Jennie Murphree Gilchrist, Cawthon, Degraff, Deviney, Landis, Magnolia, Strozier, McCollum, Doak Campbell Stadium, Dick Howser Stadium, Williams, Stone, Rovetta, Sandels