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Verna Slaton-Wade and Bob White Collection, Circa 1926

 

Summary

Extent:
1 Folder 35 black-and-white photographs
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

The Verna Slaton-Wade and Bob White Collection, Broward County Historical Archives, Broward County Library.

Background

Scope and content:

The Verna Slaton Wade and Bob White Collection comprises 35 black and white photographs, including the Van Auken House, showing extensive hurricane damage to commercial buildings, residences, and coastal areas in Fort Lauderdale after the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926.

Biographical / historical:

Verna Slaton-Wade (1910–2008) was born Verna White and moved from Kansas to Fort Lauderdale with her family when she was only three years old. Her parents, Frank and Christina White, stepped off Henry Flagler's train in downtown Fort Lauderdale in 1913. Her sister was Edna White Van Auken (d. 1987), and married Howard Van Auken. Verna graduated from Fort Lauderdale High School in 1921 and married J. C. Slaton in 1924. They had no children. Her husband passed away in 1982. In 1986, she married W. C. Wade, a long-time friend of the couple, but he died four years later. Verna retired as a bookkeeper at Stranahan High School and remained in her home on Miami Road, which was built in 1938. She was a member of the First Christian Church of Fort Lauderdale, where she sang in the choir for many years. She died on December 10, 2008.

Processing information:

Collection-lelvel finding aid created by Kevin Daniel Prats, July 2021. Collection processed at the item level and finding aid updated by Frederic Santerre, March 2026.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Preferred citation:

The Verna Slaton-Wade and Bob White Collection, Broward County Historical Archives, Broward County Library.

Location of this collection:
Broward County Historical Archives, Broward County Library
100 S. Andrews Avenue
Fort Lauderdale
FL
33301
USA