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The Phillip Weidling Collection contains 91 photographs, negatives, and papers that belonged to the Weilding family of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The photographs document the early airfields and aviators of Broward County, the early history of Port Everglades, the development of the city of Sunrise in the 1950s, boats, and golfing during the 1910s-1920s.

This collection relates to U.S. Navy Signalman 1st Class Phillip King Zimmerman who served aboard the U.S.S. Boston as a part of the first crew and the U.S.S. Baltimore heavy cruisers during World War II in the Pacific Theater. This collection includes two logbooks that Phillip Zimmerman maintained during his tour aboard the Boston , information relating to Zimmerman's oral history, photographs from service, two of his hats, and ephemera.

This collection includes photographs of the Watrous family, especially Louise and her sisters Mary and Margaret, photos of Claibourne and Louise Phipps, correspondence, copies of news clippings about the Phipps family, a journal (1854), a character book (1913), and an autograph book (1881-1883).