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This collection contains the oral history interview of Lieutenant Colonel Everett Walker conducted by the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience. Walker was forced to bail out very near the target on his eighteenth mission as a bombardier and gunner on a B-24. He discusses his rescue from the water, his interrogation experience and the conditions of his internment. He also talks about the many different escape attempts made by the American POWs at Stalag Luft III.

This collection contains framed plaques, certificates, and commemorative materials recognizing the accomplishments of the Mu Mu Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa at Broward College. Items include correspondence, award plaques for state and national achievements, recognition for service, and framed documents highlighting chapter honors. Together, they trace the progression of student-led excellence and academic honors initiatives spanning four decades.

This collection consists of three ledgers with information on insurance policies issued by Paul S. Thomson of Quincy, Florida. The ledgers contain both home and business policies including many tobacco policies. The policies bear the signature of Paul S. Thomson, but no company is listed other than one of the three underwriters listed. The ledgers date from 1899 to 1913. One ledger dates 1901-1906, and contains materials about the Traders Insurance Company of Chicago, Illinois. Another ledger dates 1899-1909, and contains information on Home Insurance Company of New York, from the agency in Quincy, Florida. The final ledger dates 1911-1913, and contains information on the Exchange Underwriters Agency of the Royal Exchange Assurance of London.

In Spring 2008, a University of North Florida (UNF) Common Boundary class, Art 3930 - Medieval Manuscript Workshop, collaborated on designing and creating an illuminated manuscript featuring UNF, in the tradition of medieval illuminated manuscripts. Under the direction of UNF Dept. of Art and Design professors Raymond Gaddy and Peter Scott Brown, the students explored the art and techniques of medieval painting, using medieval materials and techniques to depict contemporary stories and narratives in a medieval pictorial idiom. The class worked together in a workshop fashion, each making their own ink, paint and conceiving of and executing their assigned pages of the manuscript. A list of participating students is provided on p. 92: Jonathan Atkins, Mary Brady, Nancy Bruno, Gina Fogle, Kei Horiuchi, Katelin Hughes, Lauren McLuckie, Matthew Mendillo. The UNF manuscript is a largely pictorial history "in celebration of the twenty fifth anniversary of the University of North Florida." It primarily depicts themes and symbols relating to the founding and history of the University. Subjects featured include the University's groundbreaking and names of founding faculty; animals, birds, mammals, and reptiles seen on campus, including alligators, armadillos, black bears, deer, egrets, geese, rabbits, gopher tortoise; flora and fauna indigenous to the area; monthly calendar; and the school's logo and alma mater. The pages are bovine parchment (produced by U.S. parchmentor Jesse Meyer) and the binding was made by professor Gaddy from oak boards and covered in hand-stitched leather. Materials also include five mounted photographs of students working on the manuscript and the design materials used to create the volume, as well as fourteen mounted photocopies of selected manuscript pages. These items were displayed in a Special Collections exhibit, The Art of Medieval Manuscript Painting: a UNF Manuscript, in December 2008 - January 2009.

This collection is comprised of papers concerning an investigation into the feasibility of an Experimental College without grades or formal structure at The Florida State University during the early 1960s. The papers are dated from 1962 to 1964, with a large majority of the collection from 1964, and the papers are in no discernible order.

Contains photographs from the 1930s to 2013 covering the JL Reed and Son Funeral Home in Tampa. Photographs show scenes of the interior and exterior of the JR Reed and Son's Funeral Home along with the Marion Reed Funeral Home. Many of the photographs are reproductions of Burgert Brothers photographs while others are originals. Depending on the source, some of the photographs are in black and white while the others are in color.

Abolitionist pamphlet containing selections from the most egregious state laws regarding enslavement. Published by the The Anti-Slavery Bugle in Salem, Ohio.