Collections

This collection relates to Staff Sergeant Johnson Wood's experiences during World War II as a machine gunner in the 100th Infantry Division, 398th Regiment, Company K. His papers include a lengthy and detailed oral history transcript, poems, and a short manuscript. These materials focus on his actions and thoughts during the war, as well as World War II in public memory and his personal relationships with friends and family.

The collection consists of Dr. Dizer's correspondence and research files relating to nineteenth- and twentieth-century American popular children's literature, with particular emphasis on series books, story papers, and dime novels.  Notable are extensive files dealing with Edward Stratemeyer, the Stratemeyer Syndicate, and the Boy Scouts of America.

Photographs of John Thrasher and programs from a Celebration of Life held on August 19, 2025.

John Smith was a photographer in the U.S. Marine Corps and served in the Pacific Theater (PTO). The collection includes newspaper clippings (some are reproductions), which contain photos taken by Smith. There is a photograph of an African American Navy boxeser who held the Pacific Heavyweight Title. Also included are shots of African American Marines on a Pacific beach. There is a newspaper article that quotes PFC Smith and a photo of Smith in the Pacific (this is not an original).

The John U. Lloyd Collection contains photographs and ephemera collected by Broward County attorney John Umstead Lloyd. Photographs include a portrait of John U. Lloyd, Broward County Board of Commissioners, U.S. highway tunnel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and an aerial view of Wilton Manors.

This collection consists of materials relating to the 1962-1964 Johns Committee investigation of the University of South Florida.  The collection includes correspondence, press statements, statements to the Florida legislature, editorials, various newsletters and newspaper clippings, as well as the typescript of "The Controversity," John Egerton's unpublished 300-page study of the Johns Committee.

John William McClane was a U. S. Army navigator in Europe during World War II. These memoirs by McClane, "The War Years: World War II as experienced by an Army Air Force navigator," describe in great detail his arrival in Europe in 1941, his missions with the 44th Bomb Group, and his return from Europe in 1945 and discharge from the military. The manuscript was issued in four parts from 1985-1989. The text was printed from a Word Processor file, with illustrative material photocopied.