Collections

The Arthur Letson Collection contains sixty photographs and one newspaper clipping collected by the Letson family of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Photographs include individual and group portraits from the Letson, Quick, Mahan, and Moore families, friends and associates of Fred Moore, Dania Beach Boulevard Bridge and Bridgehouse, and geographic areas such as the Altanitc Coastal Waterway, Fort Lauderdale, and Dania Beach.

The Boyd family collection contains correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks and awards from the Boyd family. Family papers include those from Gertrude A. Boyd, Catherine Boyd Fahrion and Alice Boyd Stevens.

The Chapman Collection contains 25 photographs dating from circa 1900 to 1959 of the Thomas Henry Chapman family and of Pompano Beach, Florida. It includes images of early Broward County railroads, damage from the 1926 hurricane, and various agricultural crops and locations, including the Chapman's tomato-packing plant and the pepper field. It also includes photographs of early residents of Pompano taken in the 1950s.

The Charles Rodes Collection contains photographs of Charles G. Rodes, his friends and family. The collection also comprises postcards collected by the family and feature Charles Rodes, Jr., Rodes Hotel, and the Rodes residence.

The Clyde Brown Collection contains 55 photographs of Fort Lauderdale, Hallandale, and Hollywood, Florida from 1915 to the 1940s.

The Denis Lomax collection consists of photographs, photograph negatives, scrapbooks, printed materials, correspondence and writings that document the lives of filmmakers Leila Roosevelt and Armand Denis as well as their families. The collection contains materials related to Leila Roosevelt's parents, filmmaker, entrepreneur and sportsman Cornelius Louis André Roosevelt (Andre Roosevelt), as well as architect and artist Adelheid Lange Roosevelt. The collection highlights Leila Roosevelt and Armand Denis's travels and film productions such as the documentary film based on the Democratic Republic of the Congo entitled Dark Rapture (Magie Africaine) (1938) and a film based in Bali, Indonesia entitled Goona Goona (Love Powder) (1932). Materials documenting the Anthropoid Ape Research foundation in Dania Beach, Florida, founded by Leila Roosevelt and Armand Denis, along with personal papers of their families are also included in this collection.

The Dianne Richardson Thompson Collection contains 20 photographic duplicates of Fort Lauderdale, Florida during the 1930s.

Mixed materials/ letters and documents.