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 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 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.

The Easter Lily Gates Collection contains correspondence, photographs, printed materials, maps, prayer books, awards, political and election materials documenting the professional and personal life of Easter Lily Gates.

The Eastside Elementary School collection consists of documents related to the history of Eastside Elementary School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The collection contains scrapbooks (also called the "Historian Year Book"), updated by the Parents and Teachers Association historian, classroom photographs albums and other photographs taken during events documenting the school life throughout the academic years.