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These Florida and Caribbean works were collected over a period of twenty years.","Bryant purchased some of the collection himself, through catalogues and an art dealer in New York, but a considerable amount of the purchasing was done by Eleanor Sleight. She was the director of the Central Florida Museum in the late 1960s and later became the representative of the William L. Bryant Foundation. A large part of the collection was gathered in the trips Sleight took to the islands from 1969-1972.","The Bryant West Indies Collection was moved in 1972 from the Central Florida Museum to the library of Florida Technological University, now the University of Central Florida. Bryant thought it was important to keep the collection in Florida where he felt it would be better valued due to the close proximity to the West Indies. 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Islands included in this series are Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica and Puerto Rico.","Series II: Lesser Antilles, 1682-1957, consists of materials related to the islands in the Eastern portion of the Caribbean. Islands included in this series are the Windward Islands, including Barbados, Saint Lucia and Trinadad and Tobago, as well as Dominica.","Series III: Maps, 1965-1980, includes oversize maps of the West Indies, South America, and North America. Some of the maps are reproductions of the originals."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eUnpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. 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Dania Beach Boulevard Bridge, Series II. Letson Family, and Series III. Photographs of Individuals.","Arthur Letson was born Sethuel Arthur Letson on October 4, 1921 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The central person in the photograph collection is Arthur Letson's mother, Eulalia Mahan Quick Letson Moore (1894-1957). Eulalia married a second time to Fred Moore (1884-), bridgetender of Dania Beach Boulevard Bridge, in 1935.","People who appear in the photographs in the collection are primarily family members, centered on Eulalia and Fred Moore. Eulalia and Fred Moore had two children, Wayne Moore (1911-) and daughter Emma Lee Moore. Fred's sister was Etta (Moore) Cappleman. Eulalia Moore's children include those from her first marriage: Cecil Quick (1911-1973) and his wife Nina, Monroe \"Wheeler\" Quick (1915-) and his wife Jerry (Goolsby) Quick. From her second marriage are Sethuel Arthur Letson (1921-1995), with Samuel Walter Letson (1867-1962); Arthur's sister Dorothy Mae (Letson) Link (1919-2005). Betty Lou Letson, Arthur Letson's first wife. Eulalia Moore's parents and her sister's family also appear: Samantha Jane and James Madison Mahan, and Alice (\"Allie\") Rosebud (Mahan) Wilson and her husband Murry A. Wilson. Historical family photographs include Arthur Letson's cousin Robert Joel Lunquist. ","People who are not identified as family include Grady Cale, Jerry Kinsey, Toogie Kinsey, John Mauthner, Hazel Morrice (a business associate of Fred Moore), William (\"Wimpy\") Snyder, \"Whiskey Joe\" Wendell (of Samuel Walter Letson's generation), and Howard Wendell (of Arthur Letson's generation).","Dania Beach Boulevard Bridge and Bridgehouse is located on the local section of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. The features of the modern bridge (rehabilitated 2015-2016) are: Dania Beach Boulevard (SR A1A) Bridge (Mile Marker: 1069.4; Latitude / Longitude: N 26° 03.188' / W 080° 06.889'. The bridge type is bascule with a vertical clearance (closed): 22 feet and horizontal clearance: 91 feet. The old bridge was a swing bridge, swinging open horizontally.","Other places in the photographs are Dania Beach Boulevard Bridge (Fred's Boat Livery \u0026 Bait \u0026 Tackle, fishing camp at the Dania Beach Blvd. Bridge, houseboat at the Dania Beach Blvd. Bridge, Bonita Springs, Dania Beach, Davie, Fort Lauderdale (Northside School; Fort Lauderdale Municipal Docks, New River, East side of Andrews Avenue Bridge; Arthur Letson's ranch between Wingate Road and 441 at N.W. 16th Street; 707 N.W. 2nd Avenue, childhood home of Arthur and Dorothy Letson; and Merle Fogg Airport); Hollywood Beach, and Marathon, Florida.","This collection received file level processing. 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