Collections

The Anthony Kozla Collection contains 469 photographs Anthony Kozla took during his professional life and personal activities. These photographs include portraits of groups, individuals, and national and local celebrities. They are also a good source for documenting Fort Lauderdale's local life from the 1930s to the mid-1950s through events, pictures of local communities, and recreational activities. The Anthony Kozla Collection also helps understand the evolution of Fort Lauderdale and Broward County's urban development with 101 aerial views and photographs of buildings and streets.

The Clyde Brown Collection contains 55 photographs of Fort Lauderdale, Hallandale, and Hollywood, Florida from 1915 to the 1940s.

The David Paulo Collection contains 70 digital photographs of Broward County landmarks taken by local photographer, David Paulo. The focus of Paulo's work is documenting buildings and landscapes in South Florida that are significant to culture and life of minority communities. Neighborhoods and cities that he documents include Sistrunk, Lauderhill, and Dania Beach. Since beginning the project in 2023, many of the sites that Paulo photographed have disappeared.

The Floyd Pyles Collection contains personal papers, photographs, scrapbooks, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and awards belonging to Floyd Pyles, who worked for the Sun Sentinel and the Fort Lauderdale Daily News, eventually becoming Vice President of Gore Newspaper Company. Photographs depict the Pyles family, Fort Lauderdale, the 1926 hurricane, and Park Temple Methodist Church. The collection also includes the "Pyles Prattle" newsletter produced by Floyd Pyles.

The George W. Young Collection documents the activities of Fort Lauderdale contractor and engineer George W. Young. It includes building permits dating from 1912-1926 for buildings in Idlewyld, Navarro Isle, Croissant Park, Fort Lauderdale, Rio Vista Isles, Colee Hammock, Lauderdale Shores and Nurmi Isles. It also contains blueprints of alterations to the Fort Lauderdale Woman's Club building designed by Robert G. Jahelka, and 1924 plaque from the Sunset building.

The Herbert C. Davis Collection consists of documents related to the career of Herbert C. Davis, including Davis' engineering activities, and photographs of the N. Andrews Avenue Bridge construction, between 1947 and 1949.

The Joseph Mackay Collection contains 76 photographs of Dania, Hollywood, and Fort Lauderdale in Broward County during the Florida Land Boom of the 1920s before the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926.

The Joseph R. Nutt Illustration Collection contains 11 prints of Joseph R. Nutt's 1974 illustrations of historic buildings in Florida such as the New River Inn, the King-Cromartie House, the Colee Hammock, the Oldest Spanish House, the Cape Florida Lighthouse, the Key West Light House, the Jupiter Lighthouse, Gilbertt's Bar Station, and the Pioneer House.