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The Visual Representation of Women Collection is a postcard collection that focuses on representational images of women from around the globe. Covering the gamut of postcard types, images portray the many social constructions of womanhood and their attendant meanings. Containing a variety of mass produced postcards to unique artist renditions, the collection is an ongoing project of FAU University Libraries' Special Collections that will build over time.

This collection relates to Vivian Hess who as a youth lived at Camp Gordon Johnston, Carabelle, FL during World War II. Her father served as the postmaster for the base, and she recollects many important details about growing up on a military base. This collection includes an oral history interview transcript and audio taped interview of Vivian Hess.

The Vojtěch Kubašta Collection includes more than 315 advertisements, calendars, flat books, maps, models, pop-up books and greeting cards, portfolios, postcards, posters, prints and stationery. Vojtěch Kubašta (1914-1992) was a Czech paper engineer, children's book illustrator, and graphic designer. The Bienes Museum acquired the materials from various sources, and the collection also includes books and other research materials related to Kubašta's career. Books and items from this collection are searchable in the Broward County Library Catalog with the prefix "POPUP KUBASTA".