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Kathrine Park Scrapbook, circa 1920s

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The scrapbook contains photographs and memorabilia relating to Florida State College for Women.

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Marsha A. Chance Collection, 1965-1969, Date acquired: 11/05/2009, bulk 1968

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The Marsha A. Chance Collection contains Florida State University Flambeau publications and radical literature from the 1960s.

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Jack Wilson collection, 1864-1965, Date acquired: 00/00/1963, bulk 1921-1964

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Contains letters, invitations, greeting cards, telegrams, postcards, art exhibition catalogs, bulletins, school catalogs, certificates, news clippings, magazines, photographs, medical illustrations, and two manuscripts, "The Artist and the Audience," and "Emergency Treatment." Also includes a short letter dated 1864 which certified the release of Wilson's maternal grandfather, William Bonacker, a Union Army captain captured by Confederate forces.  Capt. Bonacker reportedly fell at the Battle of New Market, 1864, but the War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, v. 37, p. 87, confirms he mustered out of the Army on October 10, 1864.

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Felix Pinard Photograph collection, 1902

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The Felix Pinard Photograph collection consists of photographs taken by Florida photographer Pinard in or around 1902. Subjects include nature scenes and people in or around the Tamp Bay area. Locations of the photographs include Fraser's Beach, the Hillsborough River, Sulphur Springs, Six Mile Creek, and Bullfrog Creek.

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Rowland G. Bush collection, 1944-1948, Date acquired: 07/05/2009, Date accessioned: 2020-04-21, bulk 1944-1945

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This collection relates to Technician Fifth Grade Rowland G. Bush, who served as a medical corpsman with the 104th Infantry Division, and was killed in action on October 25, 1944. The collection contains his Purple Heart and Silver Star, as well as their accompanying certificates, a Western Union telegram notifying his mother of his death, condolence letters, correspondence requesting his body be moved from Belgium to California, photographs of Rowland and his family, and the 48-star flag from his burial service.

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Burke, Yolanda Pinney, Papers, Date acquired: 07/00/1981

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Personal papers consisting of photocopies of genealogical information and photographs of family members. Included are the Burke, Clifford, Fell, Mooney, and Pinney families, with additional materials on Thomas J. White, Joseph L. White, Carl Timothy Hoffman, and Robert Fell, a carpenter in the U.S. Navy from 1803 to 1820.

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Burnett Roth Collection, 1946-1999

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The Burnett Roth Collection contains books and pamphlets published between 1946 and 1999 related to the Civil Rights Movement and African American history. The collection also contains Jet magazines dated 1951 to 1973 and Ebony magazines dated 1964 to 1973. Also included are four VHS tapes on Jim Crow and Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Kent Spriggs Papers, 1963-1976, bulk 1971-1976

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Consists of Kent Spriggs' case files related to the 1973 retrial of Dave Keaton and Johnny Frederick of the Quincy Five and those related to Keaton et al. v. Townsend, a civil case brought by the Quincy Five against the State of Florida and Joe Townsend for the coerced testimony that implicated the men in the case. Included in these files are correspondence with Alfonse Figgers, Dave Keaton, David Charles Smith, Johnny Frederick, and Johnny Burns who were collectively known as the Quincy Five.

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Burton Van Deusen Circus Collection, 1954-1984, Date acquired: 03/21/2011

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Immigration and naturalization documents for circus performers, postcards, circus posters and broadsides, clothing, stilts, and related materials documenting circus performances.

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Bush, circa 1935-2012