Collections

The Slides Collection contains 3,624 slides from various sources. The slides are in 35mm format. The slides depict buildings, places, events, and people in Broward County, Florida.

Presley Smith served in the Army's Headquarters Battery, 116th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion in the European Theater (ETO). The collection consists of letters, which have been edited, from Smith to his wife, Irene, detailing his experiences in Europe, including the Battle of the Bulge. Some of the letters were included in the original handwriting, as are some V-Mail and postcards.

The Smith Families of Virginia Collection contains approximately 100 letters and documents relating to two Smith families of Virginia. Series 1 of the collection contains letters and documents relating to the legal practice of prominent Williamsburg attorney Sydney Smith (1821-84). Sydney Smith was born and raised in York County, Virginia. After graduating from William and Mary College with a Bachelor of Laws in 1846, he married Virginia Constance Bucktrout and they had seven children. In the years leading up to the Civil War, Smith practiced law in Williamsburg and throughout York and Warrick counties. He served in "W" Co. Va., 3rd Cavalry during the Civil War and served as a member of the House of Delegates from York County. A few of the letters to Sydney Smith reveal the economic realities for Virginians during Reconstruction. Series 2 of the collection contains letters from the Smith Family of Mathews County, Va., a historic maritime community located 23 miles southwest of Williamsburg. Though the two families are not related, it is possible that Sydney Smith acted as attorney for a member of this large family. Most of these letters are addressed to Miss Elizabeth Susan Smith (1836-1917), affectionately known as "Lizzie." Lizzie Smith lived her entire life in Virginia and seems to have been a favorite correspondent of her many siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles. A few of the letters to Lizzie give descriptive accounts of life for Virginians during and after the Civil War.

This collection consists of ten Smith family letters, thirty-three receipted invoices, one bill for tuition, and one diary, all dating between 1782-1864. The letters were chiefly among members of the Smith family and confined to family subjects, but several have educational value in that they represent the thinking of that period, the closeness of family, their religious nature, and in one case a letter by a young lady who moved from Rhode Island to Savannah, Georgia, writes back to her family in Rhode Island and tells of her impressions of the South. One very religious letter by James W. Smith of Thomasville, Georgia, dated 1864, to his uncle, Mr. Remington Smith of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, acknowledges a letter to his father which arrived a week before "his demise."

Smoke Signal Issues, Mickey MoFSU coloring book

One issue.

Five Smoke Signals magazines, circa 1955-1959

1 Scrapbook leather cover "Snaps and Scraps"