Collections : [Broward County Historical Archives]

The Alta Mae Clark Collection contains 7 postcards, 1 photograph, and 3 matchbooks documenting various businesses, buildings, and locations in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The ephemera dates from the 1930s through the 1960s.

2 Programs for the Andrews Avenue Bridge Dedication Ceremony. 1 Photograph of Samuel Walter Letson, Commodore Brook's Brother with eight fish. 1 Photograph of the Andrews Avenue Bridge.

The Arthur Letson Collection contains sixty photographs and one newspaper clipping collected by the Letson family of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Photographs include individual and group portraits from the Letson, Quick, Mahan, and Moore families, friends and associates of Fred Moore, Dania Beach Boulevard Bridge and Bridgehouse, and geographic areas such as the Altanitc Coastal Waterway, Fort Lauderdale, and Dania Beach.

The Arthur "Red" Sweeny Collection contains photographs, awards, certificates, and correspondence documenting Coach Arthur "Red" Sweeney.

The Benjamin H. Nahabedian Collection consists of nine photographs and six postcards. Several photographs depict hotels in Fort Lauderdale and East Las Olas following a hurricane. The collection also includes images of the Pan American Airport in Miami and canal scenes from Fort Lauderdale.

The Boyd family collection contains correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks and awards from the Boyd family. Family papers include those from Gertrude A. Boyd, Catherine Boyd Fahrion and Alice Boyd Stevens.

Newspaper clippings, sheet music, poems, lyrics.

The Charles Rodes Collection contains photographs of Charles G. Rodes, his friends and family. The collection also comprises postcards collected by the family and feature Charles Rodes, Jr., Rodes Hotel, and the Rodes residence.

The Denis Lomax collection consists of photographs, photograph negatives, scrapbooks, printed materials, correspondence and writings that document the lives of filmmakers Leila Roosevelt and Armand Denis as well as their families. The collection contains materials related to Leila Roosevelt's parents, filmmaker, entrepreneur and sportsman Cornelius Louis André Roosevelt (Andre Roosevelt), as well as architect and artist Adelheid Lange Roosevelt. The collection highlights Leila Roosevelt and Armand Denis's travels and film productions such as the documentary film based on the Democratic Republic of the Congo entitled Dark Rapture (Magie Africaine) (1938) and a film based in Bali, Indonesia entitled Goona Goona (Love Powder) (1932). Materials documenting the Anthropoid Ape Research foundation in Dania Beach, Florida, founded by Leila Roosevelt and Armand Denis, along with personal papers of their families are also included in this collection.

The Dyer-Christensen Collection contains correspondence, newspapers clippings, and textiles documenting Helen Ferris and Stranahan High School.