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This collection relates to Lloyd Donald Haynes who served as a Staff Sergeant stenographer with Headquarters, Third Air Force, and then a Chief Warrant Officer as administrative assistant to the Executive, The Air Inspector, U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. Hicks also continued to serve on active duty during the postwar period until 1949. The collection includes military personnel documents, photographs, diplomas, certificates, and newspaper articles. Several photographs include U.S. Air Force Secretary W. Stuart Symington in 1949. Included are numerous photographs of London, England, and Germany in 1949.

The Lloyd M. Hicks Jr. Collection includes personal artifacts such as medals, ribbons, and various pins. The collection also contains scrapbooks containing news clippings and photographs detailing the actions of the 2nd Armored Division and 41st Armored Infantry Regiment in their overseas campaigns, as well as Lloyd Hicks Jr.'s own personal photographs from his time overseas and those taken during periods of leave spent in Florida.

The Deicke Collection of Books on Rare Tropical Fruits and Vegetables contains more than 150 titles by leading horticulturalists on gardening, fruits and vegetables, and plants common to Florida and the tropics. Books from this collection are searchable in the Broward County Library Catalog with the prefix "DEICKE".

The collection consists of recordings, memorabilia, manuscripts, drawings, cards, writings, speeches, interviews, and correspondence of Lois Lenski, author and illustrator of children's literature. The collection is primarily in English, but there is a German translation of the manuscript for Judy's Journey, entitled, Judy's Wanderschaft.

Collection of photographs, newspaper clippings, and other papers of the architectural firm of Look & Morrison, including materials of the firm of Yonge & Hart, 1926-1967. Photographs and drawings of projects designed or built include schools, government buildings, private residences, and related structures in Pensacola, Milton, Bonifay, DeFuniak Springs, Fort Walton Beach, Gulf Breeze, Panama City, Marianna, Tallahassee, and Warrington, Florida. See collection inventory for complete list of structures.