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This series holds materials used to advertise and promote The Children's Home Society of Florida as well as loosely chronicle its history. Items here include film reels, audio reels, TV and video tapes, photographs, and photo blocks. The photo blocks are made up of wood and metal with a negative of an image imprinted on a metal sheet which is then wrapped and nailed to a block of wood. This photo block is then placed on a printing press and copiesof the image are printed onto media.

Photographs and slides documenting the Frost family, Seminole Native Americans, and Dania history.

The series contains twenty-three photographs such as individual and family portraits, and pictures related to Walter Scott Holloway's dredging activities. The photographs are arranged in general categories: Dredging activities; Boat and boating; Family photographs and portraits; Other.

The photographs series contains images depicting South Florida landmarks, streets, life and hurricane damage in 1926. Landmarks and structures include Andrews Avenue Bridge, Fort Lauderdale Garage, Maxwell Arcade, Osceola Inn and Theater, State Bank, and Tarpon Hotel. Other photographs display the Fort Lauderdale High School football team, a new ball park, shipping tomatoes, and landscapes such as New River. The 1926 hurricane photographs show wreckage from the storm, tent city in Miami, and images for a booklet entitled "23 Views Florida Hurricane District". The series is arranged into two sub-series: South Florida Landmarks and Life, and 1926 Hurricane. Items in each sub-series are organized alphabetically by title.