Found in 01/MSS 0-128
FSU Special Collections & Archives collects historical materials in support of all of the University’s academic programs and for the benefit of local, national, and international scholars. The collections include handwritten documents, published and unpublished textual works, printed posters and flyers, sound recordings, motion pictures, and more, covering a wide range of content including Florida history, the American Civil War, the American civil rights movement, University faculty papers, French history, and literary manuscripts.
Found in 01/MSS 1965-072
For more details on our extensive archival holdings, consult the online Archon database or contact Special Collections staff. Highlights of the manuscript collections include:
- Paul A.M. Dirac Papers (01/MSS 1989-009)
Personal papers, photographs, manuscripts, galley proofs, and published papers, lecture notes, and office records of Dr. Paul A. M. Dirac, winner of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University (1932-1969), and Professor of Physics at Florida State University from 1972 until his death in 1984. - Donald D. Horward Papers (01/MSS 2011-0415)
Operational and financial records of the FSU Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution, as well as the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, each founded by Horward. Includes addresses, awards, correspondence, research materials, speeches, writings, and publications related to Dr. Horward’s scholarship on the Napoleonic Era. - Tallahassee Civil Rights Oral History Collection (01/MSS 1990-001)
Sound recordings and and transcripts of nineteen oral history interviews related to the civil rights movement in Tallahassee during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Topics include the Tallahassee Bus Boycott of 1956, lunch counter sit-ins, theatre demonstrations, school desegregation, voter registration, and race relations. - Robert M. Ervin, Jr. Collection (01/MSS 1980-09)
Publications by and about Marvel Comics, DC Comics, underground comix publishers, foreign language titles, pulp magazines, and Big Little Books. Over 1200 serial titles are represented, predominantly from the 1950s through the 1970s. - Cinema Corporation of America Collection (01/MSS 2004-008)
Production materials for “The King of Kings” and other motion pictures; correspondence, business records, legal materials; educational filmstrips; religious film catalogs, and the “Cap Stubbs and Tippie” newspaper cartoon strips created and drawn by Edwina Dumm, which first appeared in 1918.
All of the manuscript collections are available for use in the Special Collections Research Center, 110 Strozier Library, during normal operating hours. Visit us today!
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