Lauderdale Beach Hotel

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The Lauderdale Beach Hotel series contains newspaper clippings, pencils, photographs and printed materials documenting the hotel from 1939 to 2005. The article "They called her the 'Queen of the beach'" by Connie Knight (1968) provides a history of Lauderdale Beach Hotel and newspaper clippings document the hotel's business, preservation, and demolition. "The Rangefinder" and "Souvenir" document the period Lauderdale Beach Hotel served as a United States Navy Training Center during World War II. Photographs display Hermann Riediger, other hotel staff, hotel dining room, events, and the hotel building from 1939 to 1964. The series is organized alphabetically.

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