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Viking Spacecraft "Mission To Mars" Collection Of Lula Agee : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Lula R. Agee 1913-2001 Sep 2006

Viking Spacecraft "Mission To Mars" Collection Of Lula Agee : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Lula R. Agee 1913-2001

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During the summer of 2006, the Poynter Library received a small donation of materials related to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Viking space missions of the mid-1970s. Lula R. Agee, a NASA employee of more than twenty years based at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, collected these materials during her tenure as a conference coordinator at that location.


J.M. "Sudsy" Tschiderer Student Activities Archives : Photographic Collection : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, J. M. (Sudsy) Tschiderer Sep 2006

J.M. "Sudsy" Tschiderer Student Activities Archives : Photographic Collection : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, J. M. (Sudsy) Tschiderer

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The photographs and slides in this collection document campus activities and student life at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. J. M. “Sudsy” Tschiderer donated three scrapbooks in summer 2005 to the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library for use in the Fortieth Anniversary Exhibit of the campus. She gave the library additional slides, photographs, and photographic negatives in August 2006. These images illustrate the period from the mid-1960s through 1989 and capture notable events, members of the campus community, and general scenes that document the university experience at USF St. Petersburg.


Papers Of Hazel A. Talley Evans : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Laura Woodruff, Susan Hickok 1947-2008, Hazel Talley Evans 1931-1997. Apr 2006

Papers Of Hazel A. Talley Evans : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Laura Woodruff, Susan Hickok 1947-2008, Hazel Talley Evans 1931-1997.

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A local activist in the Democratic Party, Evans did a lot of the “behind-the-scenes” work for political campaigns in Pinellas County and statewide during the 1960s and 1970s. Evans was a dynamic leader both in local and national politics from the late 1950s through the 1990s. This collection includes correspondence, campaign literature, and political ephemera. A small monographic collection (including autographed titles) accompanies the manuscript materials. A native of Georgia, Hazel Atkinson was born on 16 August 1931 into a family that owned a textile machinery company in Atlanta. Her contributions to the Democratic Party and Florida politics and government …


“The Complete Register, Clear Water Circuit, Tampa District, Florida Conference, For The Methodist Episcopal Church, South” : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur Mar 2006

“The Complete Register, Clear Water Circuit, Tampa District, Florida Conference, For The Methodist Episcopal Church, South” : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur

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On 6 March 2006, the Poynter Library acquired by purchase a single bound volume containing directories of many congregations served by the circuit riding Methodist ministers who traveled along the Pinellas Peninsula from the late 1870s through the 1890s. This volume is one of the earliest existing sources of written records from the lower Pinellas Peninsula. The book includes records of members, baptisms, and other information about pioneer families since 1873, a time when the sparsely populated Pinellas Peninsula fell under the administration of Hillsborough County. A handful of isolated farming communities and small settlements dotted the rural peninsula often …


Robert M. Thrush Audio/Visual Services Administrative Files, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Laura Woodruff Mar 2006

Robert M. Thrush Audio/Visual Services Administrative Files, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Laura Woodruff

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Robert McIntyre Thrush received an appointment as a halftime clerk at the Extension Library on the Bay Campus (now USF St. Petersburg) in April 1968. Working under the supervision of Extension Librarian Osborne Gomez, Thrush coordinated audio/visual services for the young campus. By the late 1980s, “Bob” Thrush oversaw a very active area of campus. Under the supervision of Gerald Notaro, Media Services Librarian, he became a senior audio/visual equipment operator. He and wife Dorothy “Dot” Thrush—a longtime employee in the campus bookstore—retired from the University in 1991. These materials offer a portrait of instructional media activities at USF St. …


The League Of Women Voters Of The St. Petersburg Area Pamphlet Collection [Finding Aid], Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Laura Woodruff Mar 2006

The League Of Women Voters Of The St. Petersburg Area Pamphlet Collection [Finding Aid], Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Laura Woodruff

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Jean Herzig, former president of the League of Women Voters of the St. Petersburg Area, donated these materials to the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library in July 2004. A subsequent accession of materials came to the library in 2005. This collection includes booklets, government documents, subject files, and pamphlets. Some items reside in folders, while most booklets and government documents possess full bibliographic records searchable through the library catalog.


Rural Protective Association, Inc., Papers (1970-1973) : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur Feb 2006

Rural Protective Association, Inc., Papers (1970-1973) : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur

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Margaret Horst, a resident of Tarpon Springs, gave this collection to James A. Schnur in 1997. Horst had served as secretary of the Rural Protective Association at the time of its creation in 1970. Schnur, then assistant director at the Tarpon Springs Public Library, donated the materials to the Poynter Library This collection documents how residents of a sparsely developed area fought a last ditch—and ultimately unsuccessful—battle to preserve their rural lifestyle in the frontier range of northeastern Pinellas County. Many of them gathered at Al Boyd’s Boot Ranch, a large agricultural ranch once noted for its prize cattle and …


The Mushroom Coffeehouse Collection Of J.M. "Sudsy" Tschiderer : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, J. M. (Sudsy) Tschiderer Feb 2006

The Mushroom Coffeehouse Collection Of J.M. "Sudsy" Tschiderer : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, J. M. (Sudsy) Tschiderer

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The materials in this collection document campus activities and student life at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. Compiled by J. M. “Sudsy” Tschiderer—a longtime director of Student Activities—this collection includes organizational and operational records of a popular campus gathering place, the Mushroom Coffeehouse. Also known as Pot-Pourri, this student-initiated facility provided a venue for music, movies, and entertainment during the early and mid- 1970s. Sudsy Tschiderer and Patricia J. “Pat” Sciarappa played an instrumental role in establishing this venue in a former U. S. Maritime Service building that sat along Asbury Street South, next to the pool (at …