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This series holds materials used to advertise and promote The Children's Home Society of Florida as well as loosely chronicle its history. Items here include film reels, audio reels, TV and video tapes, photographs, and photo blocks. The photo blocks are made up of wood and metal with a negative of an image imprinted on a metal sheet which is then wrapped and nailed to a block of wood. This photo block is then placed on a printing press and copiesof the image are printed onto media.

This series contains various photographs having to do with The Von D. Mizell Library and related activities, including photographs of Joyce D. Brown, Assistant to the Director, and Abbie Willingham, Youth Services Librarian.

Series V is a variety of photographs and prints related to the space program and the U.S. Military. This series includes three volumes of bound official NASA black and white photographs, which range in date from 1960 to 1974. In the volumes are photographs taken by NASA related to the space program, including the landing on the moon. Each photo has a corresponding data sheet with explanation of the print from NASA. The series also contains prints from the U.S. Army and Air Force, some of which are oversize and the majority of which are in color. This subseries contains prints of the Pershing Weapon System, as well as various missile launchings, including the Snark missile. The final set of photographs in the series are unbound official NASA photographs of the Apollo 10 and 15 missions and the orbiter Discovery launch. Of particular interest is a photograph of the Challenger explosion. The remainder of the series contains a variety of oil and watercolor pr! ints from various artists. The prints come from NASA, the Leach Corporation Heritage of the Air Collection, North American Avaiation and the Air Force, and contain images of events such as guided missile launches, including Snark and Titan.

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.