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The Edith Lewis Collection contains 128 glass-plate negatives and print copies of the negatives taken by professional photographer William V. B. Mullikin who was active in Fort Lauderdale from 1914 to 1940. The collection also contains materials documenting the Fort Lauderdale William C. Morris American Legion Post 36 and American Legion Auxiliary, such as scrapbooks dating from 1926 to 1971 and a shirt. The photographs in the collection mostly are portraits of local men, women, children, and families, and also include a few images of graves and local buildings such as the Central School (built 1915) which later became Fort Lauderdale High School. Also included are six pictures of fishermen with fish from the Vreeland charter boat company.

The collection Von D. Mizell Library Collection contains materials documenting the activities and history of the Von D. Mizell Library, one of the original branches in 1974 of the Broward County Library system, as well as the Fort Lauderdale city library system that preceeded it. The materials are comprised of photographs, photo slides, negatives, printed negatives, forms with monthly statistics, financial documents, social outreach documents, brochures for events, newspaper articles, and a printed history of the Mizell Library. It also includes a small part of the original book collection from the Von D. Mizell Library, as well as artwork that hung in the library building.