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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.

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.