Collections

A Broward County voting machine used in that resulted in the contested presidential election of 2000; included with the machine is a Bush v. Gore ballot and a bag of chads.

This collection contains as scrapbook of the Broward Hotel, also known as the Hotel Broward, located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The scrapbooks contains clippings and other ephemera dating from 1940 to 1951. The scrapbook was compiled by Fort Lauderdale Publicity Bureau, a local advertising agency for the Broward Hotel (which opened in 1919 as Fort Lauderdale's "first tourist hotel."). It also contains fragments of wood from the lobby of the Broward Hotel.

Personal papers, 1919-1972, including letters, newspaper clippings, financial and income tax records, and other papers concerning his interests in the Bayside Tourist Park, Bay View Trailer Park, Dead Lakes Fishing Camp, the Santa Villa subdivision, and the Browder Fixture Company in St. Louis, Missouri.

Parent-Teachers Association records, 1938-1975, including scrapbooks, photographs, minutes of meetings, publications, yearbooks, correspondence and financial records.

Notes for a tour of Temple Beth-El cemetery, Pensacola, Florida, with information on the families, their history, roles in Pensacola, and genealogy; includes Forcheimer, Bear, Friedman, Greenhut, and other prominent Jewish members of Pensacola.

This collection contains three World War II newspapers which include the Daily Standard, Celina, Ohio, the Dayton Daily News, and Dayton, Ohio, and School Sidelights printed by the Daily Standard for Immaculate Conception High School.

This collection includes a manuscript of Bruce D. Epperson's book about the finance and technology of the first modern highways in the South including: Ingraham Highway, Tamiami Trail, and Conners Highway. It includes news articles and magazine clippings, ranging from 1899 to 1953, that detail the advancement of the road systems through Florida due to the 1920s Florida land boom and the creation of a highway funding system based on fuel taxes. The collection also details maps that show highways as they were before and after their development.

Course materials subject files, and publications documenting the scholarship and research of Dr. Bruce Grindal, professor of anthropology. Subjects include cultural anthropology, human conflict, religion, and the Sisala people of Ghana, Africa.