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Bell, brass, has white braided rope tied to ringer. The bell was on the boat Sally Bell, which traveled on the New River Canal in Davie. Written on side: "Sally Bell Griffin Co." Bell is 5 7/8" diameter and appx 5" tall. The boat was named after Sally Griffin. The business was started in 1910.

The Frost Family Collection contains materials documenting the Frost family, one of Dania's first and most prominent families. The collection materials date from the 1890s through 2009. The collection includes newspaper clippings collected by and about the Frost family. notes on Frost family and Frost family tree, a printout of email correspondence concerning Frost family history, and a small book on Port Everglades in Florida. Correspondence concerns the Frost family business. Financial papers includes deeds and ledgers of payroll dating from the 1890s to 1940s, an abstract of title, Certificate of Membership of M.C. Frost in the National Highway Charts Association, a tax sale certificate, a receipt, and checks. The photographs in the collection are of particular interest as they document the earliest history of Dania as well as the Frost family. Also included are photographs of the Seminole New Dania Reservation from 1927.

The Oleta (Williams) Dunworth Collection documents the produce shipping industry in Fort Lauderdale during the 1910s and 1920s, as well as various places in Fort Lauderdale and Broward County. The collection contains the donor's detailed descriptions of some of the materials, which include her memories and stories told by her father of the produce industry during the 1910s through the 1930s. The collection also contains images and ephemera related to the Gilbert Hotel, where produce buyers often stayed.