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The Photographs and Slides series contains images of Library-In-Action (LIA), the Sistrunk Historical Festival, and neighborhoods in Broward County. Photographs in color and black and white display Library-In-Action programs, libraries, Tyrone Bryant and LIA staff, Rock Island Library opening (1980), the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dedication on Sistrunk Boulevard (January 15, 1982), and the Sistrunk Historical Festival in Fort Lauderdale (1983-1984). 35mm slides depict LIA programs, LIA canvassing in neighborhoods, Collier City Library groundbreaking (February 1979), "Roots" with Alex Haley, library buildings, Collier City, Sistrunk and Plantation communities, Sistrunk Park, the Pan African Book Festival at Provident Park, and the Sistrunk Historical Festival (1980). The Slides sub-series includes 1,764 slides.

Photographs contain images of her artwork, professional portraiture of Leeper, as well as many personal photographs.

Photographs contain potraits of Michael Shaara, Michael Shaara at book signing events, lectures, and receiving the Coyle E. Moore Jr. Award at Florida State University. Oversize photographs are housed in oversize box 26. The series is organized chronologically by date.

Photographs series includes images of Alex Haley, Stevie Wonder, Johnny Carson, Joe Louis, Brooke Shields, Gambia, the cast of Hee-Haw, and the cast of "Roots" and "Roots: The Next Generations" television shows. Series also contains signed portraits by Alex Haley, negatives, slides, and photographic reproductions of drawings.