Collections

This record group documents the history, culture, and legacy of the Nursing Department at Broward College from 1965 through 2012. Materials include commemorative plaques presented by early graduating classes, class photographs spanning almost two decades, brochures, invitations, and announcements related to graduation and candlelight ceremonies.

The Nyr Indictor Alphabet Collection records in detail the worldwide development of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century alphabets. It features ABC books in more than thirty languages and also non-book format alphabet materials. Books from this collection are searchable in the Broward County Library Catalog with the prefix "ABC".

The Nzingah Oniwosan Collection contains 4 pieces of artwork by Haitian-American artist Nzingah Oniwosan.

The Oakland Park Historical Society Collection contains photographs, reports, minutes from meetings, notes and ephemera documenting life in Oakland Park, Florida. Materials documented include photographs from the Oakland Park historical society pioneer house, police reports, and meeting minutes from the Oakland Park shuffleboard club.

Photostats of an Oath of Allegiance and of the Parole of Honor of two Confederate Veterans, Alabama and Tennessee (1862, 1865). The three Confederate documents are:

Five photostat copies of Oaths of Allegiance to the Confederate States of America. They were signed respectively by Converse P. Devereau (born Maine, document certified Putnam County, Florida), Iasich Bullock (born England, document certified Putname County, Florida), Oscar F.A. Blood (born New York, document certified Putnam County, Florida), Franklin Hadlock (born Vermont, document certified Putnam County, Florida), and Charles P. Haines (born New Hampshire, document certified Putnam County, Florida).

Photostats of oath taken by Confederate Veterans to be reinstated as citizens of the U.S. Alabama and Tennessee (1865). The two Confederate documents are:

Photocopies of typescript and manuscript correspondence, 1957-1964, of Mary Flannery O'Connor, Milledgeville, Georgia, with Maryat Lee, of New York City, dealing with life in Milledgeville, O'Connor's trips, writings, and work as an aothor, race relations in the South, and the events of the late 1950s and 1960s that affected the South.

This collection relates to Odas Rankin who served in the U.S. Army in the European Theater of Operations during World War II. This collection contains a newspaper clipping documenting Rankin's uniting with a deceased soldier's family.

One typed manuscript; believed to be an Odd demonstration play. A parody of royal court drama featuring the efforts of Prince Evenskey to prevent Prince Oddwin's ascension to the throne of Flastacovia.