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Two copies of "The Story of Hurricane Cleo", by the Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel, August 1964.

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.

The Willard W. Burgess Collection contains a scrapbook of newspaper clippings documenting Burgess' career, the financial difficulties surrounding the Floranada development, and the damage from the 1926 hurricane. Later clippings detail the progression of the Frank Keaton trial. It also contains correspondence and sympathy cards from Burgess' death in 1947.

The William L. Barwick Collection contains photographs of Broward County documenting 1926 and 1947 hurricanes. Also, the collection includes portraits and pictures of buildings, streets, and boats in Fort Lauderdale and Broward County locations.

The William Snyder Collection contains contains the poem "Lauderdale" by William Snyder and 7 newspaper clippings dating from 1918 to 1954. The collection also contains 12 photographs of Fort Lauderdale from the 1920s that include images of buildings, the New River waterfront withi logging boats, damage from the 1926 hurricane, the beach, and the Snyder family.