Florida State College For Women Art's Department's

As previously mentioned, this exhibit will provide viewers with first hand accounts of Elizabeth's life at Florida State College for Women. One big part of Elizabeth's life was her love for the arts. Unfortunetly for Byrd there was not a whole Theatre Department at Florida State until the 1970's ("History"). However in the year in 1901, prior to Byrd's enrollement in Florida State College for Women, the university had becometurned a four year all women's institution offering the four majors: the College, the School for Teachers, the School of Music, and the College Academy (History).

In the first playbill to the far left contains one of several Elizabeth Byrd's playbills. We believe Elizabeth kept the playbill due to the fame of the violinist mentioned. This playbill here is for the Florida States College for Women's 1923 artist series course, and it feature famous violinist: Francis Macmillen and Edna Gussen. Macmillen was a famous male violinist from Chicago where he studied music, and Edna would go on to write the state song for Alabama.

In the middle file is a playbill from the Dramatic Club around as early as 1922. Although we do not have an exact date on when the Dramatic Club was founded, we do know it was around during Elizabeth Byrd's four years at Florida States College for Women. Additionally, this playbill here has no confirmed date either, but we also know it to be from the years 1922 up until 1926. This playbill here shows the cast the production in "Come out of the Kitchen" written by A.E. Thomas.

Lastly, the playbill furthest to the right was a playbill given during Elizabeth's years in college. The concert took place on the 18th of May, 1923 at 8:15pm. The lead singer was Kathryn Reece, a Florida State College For Women Alumna along with the Cincinnati Conservatory and The Chapel Choir directed by Cleona Quiett. Furthermore, it is also rumored that Reece and Byrd were said to be friends; Byrd and Reece are only about two years apart, so they could of been friends in college together at the same time. Thus, we suspect that is why she kept the brochure.