Photographs

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The African American Success Foundation (AASF) collection contains administrative files, photographs, awards and printed materials documenting the operation and history of the organization. The collection also includes Board of Directors agendas and minutes, by-laws, articles of incorporation, Lydia Donaldson Tutts Jones Memorial research papers, photographs of the AASF summits, journals, newsletters, newspaper clippings, audio-visual materials, awards, and ephemera.

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The Alcee Hastings Collection contains former Congressman Alcee L. Hastings' plaques and certificates, photographs, printed materials and objects such as a gavel.

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The Charles E. Barnes Collection contains personal papers, certificates, photographic reproductions, and a fireman’s helmet belonging to Charles E. Barnes of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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The Dorothy Porter Wesley Collection contains manuscript materials, artwork, newspaper clippings, research files, correspondence and books documenting Afro-Brazilian, African American, and Afro-Caribbean history and culture. The collection also contains manuscript material including photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and awards documenting the professional and personal life of librarian and bibliophile, Dorothy Porter Wesley.

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The Easter Lily Gates Collection contains correspondence, photographs, printed materials, maps, prayer books, awards, political and election materials documenting the professional and personal life of Easter Lily Gates.

Scope and Contents The Eric Jon Rawlins Collection consists of personal and professional papers of Librarian Eric Jon Rawlins. Materials include correspondence to and from Eric Jon Rawlins, certificates, his funeral program, newspaper clippings, personal and professional photographs of Eric Jon Rawlins, Broward County Library brochures, and bookmarks. Additionally, Rawlins' 6,000 vinyl record album collection is also included and inventoried separately. Please contact African American Research Library and...

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The Ethel Mizell Pappy family papers contains personal letters, newspaper clippings, photographs, plaques and certificates of the Mizell family of Broward County, Florida.

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The George Allen collection contains correspondence, plaques, awards, photographs, printed materials and oversized posters documenting the professional and personal life of Florida attorney W. George Allen.

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The Herman Riediger and Fort Lauderdale Beach Hotel Collection contains correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, advertisements, magazines, printed materials, certificates, programs, 1 cookbook written by Hermann Riediger, Pompano High School yearbooks, and objects. Materials document Hermann Riediger as the Food and Beverage Control Manager at the Lauderdale Beach Hotel and his daughter, Kathryn Riediger Heinley.

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The collection contains personal and professional papers of Julie Hunter. Materials include correspondence to and from Julie Hunter, professional papers documenting her career at the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library, African American Research Library and Cultural Center, and Broward County Library, photographs, notes, certificates, plaques, newspaper clippings, audio-visual materials, and one framed poster.

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The Margaret Cato Roach Collection includes directories, awards, books,correspondence, memorandums, and newspaper clippings that document the personal and professional lives of Margaret Lattimore Blake Roach and Cato Roach.

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The Samuel F. Morrison Collection contains correspondence, books, professional and personal papers, photographs, scrapbooks, plaques, ephemera, vinyl records, VHS tapes documenting the professional and personal life of Librarian Samuel F. Morrison. Books and vinyl records donated by Samuel Morrison can be accessed through the Broward County Library catalog.

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 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.