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Ledgers of the minutes for the Fort Lauderdale Women's Club Executive Board and membership

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The Frost Family Collection contains ephemera, blueprints, ledgers, payroll documents and photographs documenting the Frost family, Seminole Native Americans, Dania Beach and Port Everglades. Materials were donated by Judy Frost Clark and Jenette Frost Eby

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The George W. Leaird Collection contains original photographs, newspaper and photograph copies as well as personal materials documenting the life of George Leaird.

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Photographs, correspondence, and documents pertaining to the life of Herbert Charles Davis

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Materials related to the lives of Dr. Thomas Simpson Kennedy, Judge Willaim T. Kennedy, and John D. Kennedy

Scope and Contents The Kitty Oliver Collection consists of correspondence, personal and professional papers, photographs, newspaper clippings, printed materials, and awards of Sotuh Florida journalist and educator Kitty Oliver. The collection also contains the Race and Change Project, a group of multiple oral history interviews with African-Americans, European-Americans, and immigrants regarding their memories growing up in Broward County, the United States, and other countries. Subjects include...

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The Lighthouse Point Photograph Collection contains ten 4" x 6" color photographic prints of interiors and exteriors of an historic house. One photograph is of a "Champion Lofty Fig" tree as indicated on verso.

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The Love-Thornell Collection of Black American Photographs contains over 1300 photographs including cabinet cards, tintypes, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, stereotypes, carte de visites and postcards documenting Black American life from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. The collection was collected over a 15 year period by Jaquelyn Love-Thornell.

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The Lowell Showalter Collection contains 1 photograph of the Pompano Casino Cafe, 1 photograph of Sandy Hobart Beach Rentals, 1 photograph general store, 11 photographs of agriculture, and 1 photograph of South Federal Highway.

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The Mary Sue Tary Collection contains tourist brochures featuring "The Tropical Wonderland-Fort Lauderdale, Florida, scrapbook clippings such as photographs, programs, correspondence and ephemera. The materials document Fort Lauderdale, Florida including Fort Lauderdale High School and social organizations during the 1940s.

Scope and Contents The Sixto Campano Collection contains nearly 1,000 pieces of original sheet music from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The bulk of the collection contains pre and post Civil War minstel pieces, commomnly known as "plantation melodies", as well as ragtime, blues, and jazz pieces. Noted composers and songwriters include W.C. Handy, Scott Joplin, John Rosamond Johnson, Bob Cole and Bert Williams. Images, illustrations and photographs demonstrate 19th and early 20th century attitudes...

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Ledgers, Books, and Magazines from Trade Winds Farms from Pompano Beach Florida.

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The Vivian D. and John H. Hewitt Collection contains materials focusing on black art, particulaly those representing the history and culture of Haiti.

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The collection is comprised of photographs, photo slides, negatives, printed negatives, forms with monthly statistics, financial documents, social outreach documents, brochures for events, newspaper articles, and a printed history of the Mizell Library.

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The Williams Collection contains a booklet about the Jacksonville Fire of 1901.

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The Tom Hasis Collection contains photographs of the waterways between Lighthouse Point and Hillsboro Beach in 1925. The photographs include images of the AIA Bridge, Captain Knight's store on Wahoo Bay, and Cap's Place Island Restaurant.Thomas Hasis donated the photographs to the Broward Historical Commision on April 10, 1990.

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The Tom Kobayashi Collection contains black and white photographs 35 mm negatives circa 1907-1939 related to the life and family of Tamotsu "Tom" Kobayashi in the Yamato Japanese farming community of Boca Raton, Florida.

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The Turner Family Collection contains photographs of former Broward County Sheriff Aden Waterman Turner along with members of his family such as Ben Turner, Larry Turner, Ed Turner, and others.

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The Verna Slaton-Wade and Bob White Collection contains 35 photographs of Fort Lauderdale and the 1926 Hurricane, including the Van Auken house.

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The Walter Birdwell Collection contains financial documents, recipes, printed materials and correspondence.

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The Walter R. Clark collection contains correspondence, photographs, and ephemera related to the professional and personal life of Walter Reed Clark.

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The W.H. Meeks Jr. Collection contains tax documents, contracts and other papers related to Broward County tax Collector William H. Meeks Jr.

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The Wilder Collection contains photographs of the Fort Lauderdale Port Everglades during World War II. The event taking place is a dedication of a US Navy Section Base.

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The William Snyder Collection contains contains a poem by William Snyder, newspaper clippings on Jesse Snyder. The collection also contains 29 black and white photographs of Fort Lauderdale during the 1920s.

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The William T. Piper Collection contains photographs documenting Piper's family and personal life in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The collection includes photograph of Katherine Rawls, pilot, Olympic swimmer and diver.

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The Zada Hunter Collection contains 1 airplane ride voucher, 3 photographs of 1926 hurricane damage, and 9 photographs of the entrance of Croissant Park.