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The Eastside Elementary School collection consists of documents related to the history of Eastside Elementary School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The collection contains scrapbooks (also called the "Historian Year Book"), updated by the Parents and Teachers Association historian, classroom photographs albums and other photographs taken during events documenting the school life throughout the academic years.

This oral history interview transcript relates to Eddie Barrington who served with C Company in the 823rd Air Aviation Engineers. Barrington was assigned to work on the Ledo Road under General Joseph Stilwell in December 1942 in the China Burma India campaign. The collection includes a transcript of an interview, recorded May 20, 2004 and audio recording. The recording includes portions of the interview that are not transcribed.

This collection relates to storekeeper first class Edith Houghton who served in the Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) and was a baseball player. This collection contains an interview transcript of Houghton and newspaper clippings related to her baseball tour in Japan in the 1920s.