Donated by Michael Dobbs, the collection consists of 35 processed 8mm reels. The collection depicts a family interacting with other family members and friends, celebrating Christmas, witnessing a graduation ceremony, attend the 1961 Orange Bowl, attend a funeral, and hunt Easter eggs. Most notably, the family visited the John & Mable Ringling Cad' d'Zan mansion, the Floridaland theme park, Petticoat Junction Amusement Park, the "Big Bend Farm" in Tallahassee, "Jungle Land" in Panama City Beach, attended the "Winter Park Art Festival," watched dolphins in Marineland, swimming at St. Augustine, spending time at Fort Walton Beach and New Smyrna Beach, and letting the children play near St. George Bridge.
Subseries includes business cards, receipts, deeds, contracts, and official documents. Most of these documents are from Clay County, Kentucky. Some documents are discharge papers and official documents for veterans.
This folder contains a "Souvenier from Coney Island" and a photocopy of a photograph of two sailors, one is identified as Alfred Gan of Brooklyn, New York. The folder contains a letter of admission for Editha Anderson Shaw to the School of Nursing at Riverside Hospital, Newport News, Virginia along with a card issued by the U.S. Public Health service verifying her status as a cadet nurse. A diploma of graduation from School of Nursing at Newport News and a certification completion of training at Children's Hospital School of Nursing in Washington, DC can be found in the folder. The folder includes certifications to practice nursing from the states of Virginia, New York, and Texas.
The series contains personal files to Washington and files related to the John T. Washington Service Awards and Scholarship. These personal files include church sermons, programs, letters to his wife Alma, military identification cards, and other personal information. Files related to the John T. Washington Service Awards and Scholarship include programs, flyers, brochures, newspaper clippings, meeting minutes and agendas, and photographs. The Scholarship and award luncheon program, flyers, and brochure folder has remarks by Ambassador Elam-Thomas attached with the 2004 program. Photographs of Washington, Shameka Ayana Siplin, N.Y. Nathiri, Floyd Flake, former Mayor Anthony Grant of Eatonville, Gladstone L. Yearwood, and former Congresswomen Corrine Brown are in folder Photographs 1979, 1996, 1998, Undated. Also, in Photographs 2004, Undated there are pictures of JoAnne Stephens, Erne Stone Masely, Ambassador Harriet Elain Thomas, N.Y. Nathiri, Glenda Hood, the University of Central Florida Flute Choir, Officer Tia McGriff-Sears Sears (Adult Community Service Award Recipient), Melissa Williams, Pamela Youmans (Scholarship Recipient), Valerie King, Karen Bedeau, John C. Murphy Jr. (Adult Community Service Award Recipient), members of the John T. Washington Honor Society, and members of the New Covenant Church of Jesus Christ, Inc. In the Scholarship award applications, flyer, booklets, remarks & newspaper clipping folder there are written remarks of 1992 John T. Washington Award Luncheon as well as the 2000 application of Ericka Dunlap, an award recipient that year.