Collections

Booklet and album by Will McLean

Manuscripts, music CDs, and books by Mack McElderry.

The collection consists of citrus labels that were used as advertisements for various companies and citrus grower's associations.

This collection relates to Ensign Madison D. Farnum, a staff member for the commander of the Amphibious Forces, U.S. Pacific Fleet during World War II. Farnum participated in the campaigns for Iwo Jima, Saipan, and Okinawa. Farnum was assigned on the Flagship USS Eldorado under Admiral R.K.Turner in the South Pacific Theater 1944-1945. The collection includes photographs, documents, and letters.

Born in 1942, Madison Langley Bell was raised in Pensacola Florida. Upon graduating high school in 1940, he went to college at the Citadel where he was inducted into the Army in 1942. He trained for the infantry until the fall of 1942, when he joined the Army Air Corps to attend Aerial Gunnery and Navigation School. He flew as a part of a B-24 crew in the European theatre, specifically over Italy and Austria in 1945. He mentioned a bombing run on Ling Austria in February 1945. The collection also includes letters from Citadel classmates, but they are not covered by the copyright.

Skeleton keys from the former FSCW Dormitory Magnolia Hall.

In addition to Disney animation catalogs, illustrations, lithographs, cels, posters, calendars, newspapers, LPs and sheet music, the Mahan Collection of American Humor and Cartoon Art includes numerous non-Disney and political illustrations that depict American humor and cartoon art. While the earliest illustration in this collection is from 1838, its focus is the Golden Age of American Animation (1895-1945).

This collection contains VHS tapes pertaining to the Main Sail Video Productions Campany based out of Southwest Florida and includes tapes involving the Southwest Florida Water Management District in the Everglades, the Edison Home Collection, Travel and Tourism segments, Hurricanes, and Floridas Golf culture. Series involving the Southwest Florida International Airport, Florida wildlife, Farm Tours, and the Red Sox spring training.

The Maitland Hill Collection contains 13 photographs of Davie and Fort Lauderdale circa 1915-1947, newspaper clippings, and other epehmera. Images show early Davie baseball team, damage from the 1926 hurricane, the first Broward County school bus, and more.