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David Harold Oliver (1897-1972) was a White House correspondent and political reporter for the Associated Press. He began working at the AP at the age of 15 in 1913. Before becoming a reporter he worked as copy boy, in the AP library, and took diction from reporters over the phone. In 1920 he became a reporter. He traveled with and covered presidents from Warren G. Harding to Dwight Eisenhower. He was a well-respected journalist, and, this was especially true for his skills covering elections. He was one of the reporters in Warm Springs, Georgia with Roosevelt during the April 1945 visit when the President died. Oliver retired from the AP on December 1, 1962 when he reached the mandatory retirement age of 65. A Washington, D.C. native, upon his retirement he moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida where he continued to write and publish. He also voted for the first time as a Broward County resident. He passed away in Fort Lauderdale and was survived by his wife Myrtle. The collection is divided into five series; series one and two are the two scrapbooks, series three consists of 87 Franklin D. Roosevelt campaign buttons, buttons are both for and against Roosevelt, series 4 consists of political and campaign buttons not pertaining to Roosevelt, and series five consists of two framed photographs of Roosevelt. The scrapbook items consist of press passes, invitation, letters, newspaper clippings, and photographs. The predominate material from the scrapbooks covers his years with e Roosevelt.

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

This collection contains dime novels from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. These were cheap, mass-market fiction works sold in five, ten, and twenty cent formats that covered themes of adventure, crime, technology, the American Revolution, pirates, frontier life, the Wild West, and relations with Native Americans. This collection contains issues from popular dime novel publishers, including Frank Tousey, the Winner Library Co., Street and Smith, the George Marsh Company, Beadle and Adams, Norman L. Munro, the Arthur Westbrook Company, and R. M. de Witt. Because of their ephemeral nature, many dime novel publications have not survived. This collection offers a valuable look at American popular fiction from the turn of the twentieth century.

Mixed materials/ letters and documents.

The collection primarily consists of materials related to D.B. McKay and his immediate family, but also includes materials from the Gutierrez and Martin families as well. Collection content consists of manuscripts, biographical materials, newspaper clippings, estate papers, architectural plans, diaries, poetry, family papers, correspondence, certificates, awards, photographs, and articles from the Tampa Tribune's "Pioneer Florida," a column edited by McKay for ten years.

Newspaper articles and clippings, academic/professional journal articles, letters and correspondences, photographs, books, interview transcripts, author's personal research notes, plans, theses, screenplay, college transcripts, pamphlets, and brochures.

Contains both holograph and typescripts of Beck's work, Under the Bombs: The German Home Front, 1942-1945. The papers also include a couple of maps, a 1987 essay exam, articles and newsclippings, research notes on various subjects, and many publications by others. This last area is especially strong in works by German authors including a handful by Schonemann. Collection includes MSS 92-21.

The Elston Roady Collection documents Dr. Roady's studies of elections on the local (Leon County, Florida), state (Florida), and national levels and his research in political campaign finance. The materials include typescripts and reference materials used in creating his revised edition of Florida Votes (1972), background information and letters to Florida Secretary of State Firestone from Roady and Annie Mary Hartsfield about their proposal to update the 2nd edition through the 1980 elections (an updated version was not published); a speech Roady delivered when he was given the "Distinguished Alumni Award" by the Illinois State University Alumni Association; a Florida Supreme Court Petition for Rehearing involving Florida Governor Claude Kirk; election materials; a scrapbook compiled for the 1956 Florida gubernatorial campaign of Fuller Warren; reference materials pertaining to the Watergate issue, and memorabilia.

The collection consists of printed materials, artifacts, and memorabilia relating to the Drew Family and their businesses in the Jacksonville area. Many of the items in this collection belonged to Horace Rainsford Drew, Jr. The collection is divided into two series: personal papers and business records.