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This collection is comprised of materials about summer institutes, workshops and programs, for teachers, students and their families at Florida State University. Programs for students include Arts and Crafts camp, Boy's State, Girl's State, cheerleaders clinic, 4-H club, mathematics camp, music camp, the Press Institute for High School Students, science camp, state science fair, summer school, scholarships, and twirling camp. Programs for teachers and parents include the Association for Childhood Education, coaches clinic, programs in school administration and supervision, counseling and guidance training, crafts workshops for teachers, an industrial nurses workshop, programs about mental health and the gifted child, the National Science Foundation Institute, PTA workshops, personnel appraisal and development, Psychiatric Nursing Conference, school lunch personnel training, Southern College and Research Library workshop, Southern School Press Institute, Speech Institute, summer institues for teachers of biology, science and math, workshops on teaching migrant children, vocational and adult education programs, and workshops on cancer education and office machines. The collection also contains a variety of photographs of these programs and workshops.

Personal papers, 1955-1991, of Roger G. Weeks, architect, of Pensacola, Florida consisting of artworks and architectural drawings for residences, churches, hotels, shopping centers, schools, businesses, and restaurants, primarily in Pensacola, Florida but also Bradenton, Brooksville, Cantonment, Crestview, Cross City, Destin, Fort Walton Beach, Gulf Breeze, Jay, Milton, Navarre, Pace, Pensacola Beach, Perdido Bay, Santa Rosa Shores, Tampa, and Warrington, Florida; as well as Brewton and Flomaton, Alabama; Camde, Maine; Fitchburg and Pittsfield, Massachusetts; and Columbus, Mississippi.

This collection contains boxes that hold paperwork corresponding to specific meetings and the outcomes of the meetings in relation to unions and textile workers.

Personal items of Florida State College for Women student Florence Gregory (B.A. Sociology, 1940) and Florida State University (M.S., Social Work, 1962). Items includes photographs, scrapbooks, and other ephemera related to her years as a student at FSCW/FSU.

Materials related to Stephen Graham, including a large collection of photographs, biographical materials, diaries and journals about his travels and experiences, articles and writings, samples of his poetry, art prints, and original artwork. Artifacts of interest are a Kodak box camera in a leather case, a vintage Cuban cigar box, Spanish lesson tapes and a tape recording of Persephone by Igor Stravinski. Subjects and persons of significance to the collection include: Marion Hay, Susil Gupta, John F. Ward, Orthodox Churches, air raid diaries and wartime radio show transcripts from World War II, Black people in Chicago, students, Joseph Epstein, the Balkans, Florida State University, Russia, Mikhail Nesterov, Michael Zoschenko's "The Tsar's boots and other stories," United States history, United States Constitution, Moscow, Tolstoy, Greek gods, the Bible, black slang, Egypt, Coptic Church, London, Vera Mitrinovic, Tallahassee, Pensacola, New Orleans, Southern States, slavery, Mormons, New York, Russia, Berlin, Vladimir Solovyof, Europe, Central America, Mexico, Estonia, Paris, England, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, School Board in London, anti-smoking, Scotts Guard, Little Sparta, camping in Scotland, Robert the Bruce, Peter the Great, Rome, Genghis Khan, Alexander Nevski, Miami, Southern speech and Texas. Also labeled as MSS 80-01 and MSS 82-7.