Collections

Photographs, correspondence, news clippings, and artifacts documenting the US Army service of Anthony Jimenez.

The Anthony Kozla Collection contains 469 photographs Anthony Kozla took during his professional life and personal activities. These photographs include portraits of groups, individuals, and national and local celebrities. They are also a good source for documenting Fort Lauderdale's local life from the 1930s to the mid-1950s through events, pictures of local communities, and recreational activities. The Anthony Kozla Collection also helps understand the evolution of Fort Lauderdale and Broward County's urban development with 101 aerial views and photographs of buildings and streets.

Publications, photographs, postcards, cigar labels, maps, realia, manuscripts, diaries, printed ephemera, artifacts, and other materials documenting the history of Tampa, Florida and its vicinity, with particular emphasis on the area's Cuban, Spanish, and Italian immigrant communities of Ybor City and West Tampa.

The Anthony Rotante Collection contains books on Blues and Jazz as well as vinyl record albums, CDs, audiocassette tapes, and clippings.

Collection of publications of anticommunist organizations in America, 1951-1965, including booklets, periodicals, and brochures dealing with communist conspiracies and threats to America. Key writers and organizations include the Christian Nationalist Crusade and its magazine, The Cross and the Flag, the Cinema Educational Guild, William L. Dickinson, Myron C. Fagan, George B. Fowler, Gerald L. K. Smith, and Robert H. Williams. Subjects include antisemitism, anticommunism, Cuba, flouridation of water, John F. Kennedy, Joseph L. McCarthy, racism, the Selma-Montgomery Rights March (1965), UNICEF, and the United World Federalists.

This collection relates to Private 1st Class Antonio Francis Morrow who served with the 82nd Airborne Division in North Africa and the European Theater of Operations during World War II. This collection contains an interview transcript of Morrow.

Consists of materials related to Antonio Pereira's activities as a professional wrestler and his work with the Boy Scouts of America and the West Tampa Boys Club.  Includes correspondence, reports, news clippings, awards, trophies, and photographs.  Also includes a key to the city of Tampa, presented by Mayor Nick Nuccio in 1967.