Collections

The Daniel and Joan Barlow Menu Collection consists of an estimated 500 menus from restaurants, hotels, and bars, mainly located in South Florida, such as Mai-Kai, the Floridian, Jaxson's Ice Cream, and many more. The menus date from 1948 to about 2002, and are from a range of establishments from causal diners to fine dining restaurants.

This collection relates to Daniel Dean Becker who served in the 110th Signal Company, 10th Mountain Division in Italy during World War II. This collection contains a veterans questionnaire and memoir entitled "Memoirs of a Signalman: 110 Signal Company, 10th Mountain Division, Italy World War II."

This collection relates to Daniel Duffy who served as a U.S. Navy executive officer in the Pacific Theater during World War II. This collection contains an oral history transcript where Duffy details his experience with the U.S. Navy, the V-12 program, descriptions of his time in the Pacific theater, and the GI Bill.

Records of the Daniel and Pollard families of Butler and Crenshaw Counties, Alabama, 1830-1927 including bills of sale for goods purchased in Montgomery and Greenville, Alabama; receipts for sale of cotton and payment of taxes, court summonses, church records, and related materials.

Memoir entitled "The Life History of a Minister's Son, Who Also Became a Minister, Chaplain, and Teacher," by Daniel Henry Fredrick, 106 pages, about Frederick's time with the AAC/AAF in the Pacific and the US Mainland. Fredrick served as an Army Chaplain in Hawaii, New Guinea, the Philippines, and Japan. His duties included, but were not limited to, burying soldiers and writing letters to their families. After the war, he became a pastor at a church in Ohio before serving in the Korean War. Following the Korean War, Fredrick served in France and Germany before returning to the United States and making a home in Georgia. Fredrick also worked in Ethiopia. He retired in Phoenix, Arizona.

Photographic study of the Florida Everglades circa 1950-1980, commissioned to study modern organic sediments as a means to understanding the origin of coal. Geographic regions covered include the following: Little Banana River, Shark River Headquarters, Tamiami Trail, Bay Head, Paurotis Pond, Harvey River, Cape Sable. Photographs cover the following subjects: mangrove peat, pyrite content, distribution of rhizophora pollen, benzo-alcohol extractive, ether extractives, sulfur in stream loads.

The Daniel M. Johnson Collection consists of approximately 5,200 books published between the 1780s to 2002 that are by and about Africans and people of African descent. The collection includes many first edition and signed copies as well as pamphlets, articles, letters and photographs. The major categories that Daniel M. Johnson delineated for his collection are: African-American literature and children's literature; African and Caribbean literature; African-American history and critical thought; African, Egyptian, and Middle-Eastern history; and African-American art, music, dance, and sports. The catalog includes 4164 nonfiction books and 907 fiction books.

The Dan Mellinger Collection contains photographs of downtown Fort Lauderdale and one tourist brochure printed by the Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce titled "Fort Lauderdale, FL: The Gateway to the Everglades."