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Barrington Irving Collection, Circa 2007-2008 1 Paige Box

 

The Barrington Irving Collection includes materials documenting the career of Jamaican-American pilot Barrington Irving. It contains one of his khaki flight suits, a copy of "Caribbean Today" (January 2008) newspaper issue featuring Irving on the cover, a copy of the "Broward Times" (June 2007) featuring the cover story "Pilot gets hero's welcome after round-the-world trip", materials related to the 2007 "National Salute to America's Heroes" honoring Barrington Irving and Elijah H. Williams, and a City of Lauderdale Lakes proclamation declaring October 27, 2007 as "Barrington Irving Day."

  1. AARLCC Special Collections

Eleanor Merritt [Darlington] Collection, 1950-2019, bulk 1990-2019 5.3 Linear Feet 17 Boxes

 
The Eleanor Merritt Collection holds printed materials, lectures, records, news clippings, audio-visual materials, and correspondence related to Eleanor Merritt's life-long career as an artist, teacher, and advocate for community arts organizations. Materials focus on Merritt's life in Long Island, New York and Sarasota, Florida. Her formative years are captured in essays while a college student, planning notebooks as an art history teacher, and printed materials documenting her early artistic career. Her involvement with the arts community primarily pertains to her work with the Women's Caucus of Art (WCA), Women of Color (WOCA), the Petticoat Painters, Community Art in Public Paces (CAPP), Florida Artists Group, Pierian Spring Academy, and as a docent and board member of The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. There are a significant number of art history lecture outlines and source materials on African American, Feminist, and minority artists.
  1. The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Archives