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The Frank Stirling Collection contains correspondence including telegrams and letters, book logs, bills, pamphlets, journals and receipt books related to Frank Stirling. Frank Stirling was the first mayor of Davie, Florida, a state representative and a horticulturist. The collection documents his time in the state legislature from 1945 to 1948. It also extensively documents his involvement in horticulture and agriculture, including the daily business matters such as the effectiveness of various fertilizers, hiring Bahamian farm workers, and payroll. The correspondence contains detailed information about different types of crops grown in Broward County, as well as experiemental crops being grown in the area. It also contains information about the creation of Hugh Taylor Birch State Park.

The collection has been divided into the following two series: Crystal River Land Acquisition Records and Pool Construction. The collection contains deeds, blueprints, a scrapbook of correspondences and newspaper clippings.

Papers include official and personal correspondence, speeches and remarks, news clippings, memorabilia, photographs, audiograph discs, maps and background material. Many of the photographs and battle maps in the collection reflect his military activities in World War I. Topics include McCarthyism, the House of Un-American Activities Committee, Alger Hiss, and the Dresden bombing in World War II.

This collection consists of business records, correspondence, pictures, a scrapbook and other items of Fred C. Elliot. Subjects covered by this collection include: J. O. Wright, engineers, Everglades Drainage Project, Everglades Drainage District, Florida population, Cyril Baldwin, C. V. Scott, Florida Everglades, Florida Coast Line Canal, St. Lucie Canal, Gulf to Atlantic Waterway, A. W. Cilchrist, Lake Okeechobee, Broward County, Dade County, DeSoto County, Lee County, Monroe County, Okeechobee County, Palm Beach County, St. Lucie County, Cary A. Hardee, Okeechobee Fruit Lands Company, rainfall, E. B. Lewis & Company, Palm Beach and Everglades Railroad, drainage districts, beach conservation, American Shore and Beach Preservation Association, traffic signals, American Engineering Council, construction in navigable waters, Key Biscayne, Key Largo, Moore Have n Drainage District, Little Manatee River Project, Robert O. Vernon, Fort San Marco, Florida Engineering Society, National Society of Professional Engineers, Seaboard Air Line Railway System, theater, Hippodrome State Theater, Thomas Aquinas, Civil War in Florida, George P. Raney, Florida plantations, Florida maps, Louisiana maps, Castillo de San Marcos, Fort Matanzas, oil, Federation of Garden Clubs, Florida wildlife, Taylor County, Jefferson County, the Florida diocese and St. Johns Parish.

The Frederic Gomes Cassidy Book Collection consists of 57 books published between 1888 and 1999. The books include fiction and nonfiction books on subjects such as Atlantic history, African American history, Caribbean history, and African history. They also include biographies.

The Frederick DeCoste Collection contains papers produced or gathered by Frederick DeCoste concerning his career and activities such as writings, correspondence, photographs, publications, and research files on Florida and Saint Augustine history.