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The Al Starts Collections documents the business enterprises of Captain Al Starts and the history of Jungle Queen River Cruises, Inc. in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It also has information about tourism in Seminole reservations and the later career of actor Johnny Weismuller. The collection includes musical instruments, patent models, a lawn mower, a washing machine, audio recordings (66 1/4 inch audio reel-to-reel tapes and 7 45rpm vinyl record albums), artwork, blueprints, Captain's hat, a smoking pipe, photographs, scrapbooks, pamphlets, fliers, postcards, correspondence, newspaper clippings, videos, and magazines. The materials date roughly from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Biographical sketch of William Hankins; current and historical materials relating to the economic development of Florida; holograph notes; 68-page holograph looseleaf book listing names and addresses and pertinent information about sawmills in Florida; group of 61 pictures of timberlands and sawmills in South Florida, some aerial topographic; holograph and photocopies of holograph maps of 23 Florida counties consisting of 403 sheets, some colored; Edison flat discs relating to timber and lumber industry in Florida; clippings from newspapers and 'The Southern Lumber Journal' relating to forests, sawmills and equipments for sawmills in Florida; description and history of river boats in Florida with names of their captains, and 12 books relating to forestry, timberlands and sawmills in Florida.