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	Record Group Number:	900000
	Series/Collection Number:	M82- 35
	Creator:	Demilly, Kate Graham, 1868-1941.
	Title, Dates:	Florida State College for Women's Theta Upsilon sorority photographs, 1935-1936.
	Amount:	2 photographs
	Medium Included:	photographs 8x10 inches
	Organization/Arrangement:	Unarranged
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	Biographical/Historical:	Kate Graham Demilly, known affectionately as "Aunt Kate" was born in Alabama in 1868. She later moved to Florida and married Harry Demilly. She served as the House Mother for Theta Upsilon, a Florida State College for Women sorority, during the 1930s. She later moved to Jefferson County and died in 1941. The Florida State University is one of the largest and oldest of the nine institutions of higher learning in the State University System of Florida, beginning in 1851 when the Florida Legislature established two seminaries. In February 1857, the institution began offering postsecondary instruction to male students at the Seminar West of the Suwannee River. The following year it became coeducational when it merged with the Tallahassee Female Academy. By 1897 the institution had evolved into the first liberal arts college in the state, and in 1901 it became Florida State College, a four-year institution. In 1905 the University of Florida was established and designated as a men's school, and the Florida State College became a women's school called the Florida Female College, which changed to Florida State College for Women in 1909. In 1947, the Florida State College for Women was returned to coeducational status and renamed The Florida State University. By the 1980s, the University was recognized as a major research institute with over 370 buildings on nearly 1200 acres including the main campus of 346 acres in Tallahassee.
	Summary:	This collection contains two black and white photographs, taken by an unknown photographer, of the Florida State College for Women's Theta Upsilon Sorority with House Mother Kate Graham Demilly. The names of the sorority sisters are listed on the back of each photograph.
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	General Note:	Florida Photographic Collection Number P1982-35
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	Subject Access Fields:	Demilly, Kate Graham, 1868-1941. Florida State College for Women. Students Florida Universities and colleges--Students Photographs. aat Tallahassee (Fla.)
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