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The Candace P. Crim Barr Collection includes 6 photographs that depict Fort Lauderdale sports teams in 1915 and 1921, a photograph of H. Crim's grocery store on South Andrews Avenue, and a photograph of an event involving the Broward County War Bond Drive during World War II. It also includes a program for the Fort Lauderdale High School Classes of 1916-1938 Reunion on March 26, 1988 and a 1965 newspaper clipping about the first graduating class of 1915 from Fort Lauderdale High School.

Papers and 12 original photographs from Lt. Col. Eldrige F. Williams' time in the United States Army and Air Force. The materials date from 1941 to 1992 and document Williams' experience as a Tuskegee Airman as well as his life after World War II. The photographs include a portrait of Captain Charles "Buster" Hall, the first Black pilot to down a German fighter, official Air Force photographs of Black military basketball, football, baseball, and tennis players and teams (including the Tuskeegee War Hawks), and photographs of Tuskegee airmen with their planes.