Collections

This collection consists of 174 photographs which were taken towards the end of World War II in France and Germany. All of the photos were retrieved by American solders from a house in France.

The WPA Collection includes books, publications, posters, objects, artwork, and other materials created by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a New Deal Agency in the United States that President Franklin D. Roosevelt created through executive order 7034 on May 6, 1935. The administration was known as the Works Progress Administration from 1935 to 1939, and then known as the Work Projects Administration from 1939 to 1943. The majority of the materials in the collection were created by the five agencies under the WPA's Federal Project Number One: the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), the Historical Records Survey (HRS), the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), the Federal Music Project (FMP), and the Federal Art Project (FAP).

The WPA Museum Extension Project Collection contains more than 750 children's books, handbooks, posters, and three-dimensional objects such as dioramas, puppets, and models. Works Progress Administration (WPA) visual education programs made these materials, The WPA programs included the Pennslvania Museum Extension Project (MEP) between 1935 and 1943, New York City's Objective Teaching Materials Project, the Kansas Museum Project, and the Wisconsin Visual-Aids Project. These visual education materials were used by public schools, libraries, and museums. As a result, many of the images and texts promote the history and culture of specific states and regions.

The W. R. Carrier Collection contains 7 photographic duplicates. The images include photographs of the Broward County Guards (home guard militia) in 1917 during World War I drilling in front of Fort Lauderdale High School. It also contains images of people in Broward County during the 1920s.

This collection pertains to Corporal Wrightson Ely Clinton Sr., who served in the 116th Field Artillery Battalion of the United States Army National Guard's 31st Infantry Division. He served in the Netherland East Indies and the Philippines from 1944 to 1945 as a clerk of the Battery.

WTRR Radio Cassestte

Newspaper clipping obituary for W.W. Hollingsworth, Orange Bowl Ticket 1948, Intramural Handbook for Men 1949-1950, FSU vs. Stetson football ticket 1949, Announcement about W.W. Hollingsworth