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The World War II Collection consists of material from throughout the war, as well as the two decades preceeding and the immediate postwar period of the 1940s. Materials include oral histories, correspondences, diaries, ephemera, memoirs, and photographs.

Lantern slides have their origins in optical projection devices dating to the seventeenth century, yet their widespread use did not begin until after the advent of the wet collodion photographic process by Frederick Scott Archer in the late 1840s. As the nineteenth century progressed, lantern slides with photographic images quickly became popular forms of public and private education and entertainment.

1 photograph of Andrew J. Dains, Agnes Dains, and Mattie Candall in front of "Old Depot".

The Springer Collection contains photographs of various sites in Broward County and Miami, Florida during the 1920s. Sites include the Parrot Jungle Miami, Haines City, and Marathon, Florida.

The Tom Hasis Collection contains photographs of the waterways between Lighthouse Point and Hillsboro Beach in 1925. The photographs include images of the AIA Bridge, Captain Knight's store on Wahoo Bay, and Cap's Place Island Restaurant.Thomas Hasis donated the photographs to the Broward Historical Commision on April 10, 1990.

The Mary Leonard Phelps collection contains photographs of individuals in Southern FLorida, primarily in Deerfield, Hollywood and Davie. The collection also contains 3 newspaper clippings and a program from the David Orange Fesitval Rodeo And Horse Show.

Includes materials on the American Civil War, the Bradford-Eppes family including Susan Bradford Eppes and Dr. Edward Bradford, plantation life, land and mortgages, banking, tomb inscriptions from the cemetery in Pine Hill, Florida, sheet music for "Twenty Years Ago" by J. E. McCullune, pamphlets from Orlando and Jacksonville, Florida, as well as genealogical data on the Eppes-Bradford family. Photographs include members of the Bradford-Eppes family, John Wilkes Booth, Louise Covington, and a United States Coast Guard Signal Service Station in Palm Beach, Florida. Includes manuscripts for the books Negro of the Old South and Through Some Eventful Years, both by Susan Bradford Eppes.

The Map Collection contains over 1200 maps, atlases, aerial survey photographs, and cadastral maps (such as plat books and property maps) of Broward County, Palm Beach County, Miami-Dade County, and Florida from the holdings of the Broward County Historical Archvies at the Broward County Library. The maps date from the 1600s to the present, with a majority of the maps dating between 1920 and 1980.