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Records, 1946-1983, including minutes, reports, correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and files concerning the history and activities of the organization. Subjects and correspondents include carrier cruises, the foreign flight student program, golf tournaments, the Naval Sea Cadet Corps, Navy Day, NJROTC Field Days, Ellyson Field, Saufley Field, Whiting Field, the Pensacola Naval Air Station, and the U.S.S. Monterey, Antietan, Independence, and tweedy; a larg biographical file contains information on prominent Naval personnel on the national and local levels, and correspondents include Spessard L. Holland, George Smather, Bob Sikes, Raymond C. Dyson, Dave Johnson, Hugh J. Leitch, Stockton B. Colt, James M. Sheffer, John B. Connaly, and Eddie Rickenbacker.

In the Southwest Florida Oral Histories, residents from LaBelle and other communities in the Southwestern Florida area tell their stories of growing up.

The Ashley Bryan Art Series Collection contains original pieces of artwork donated by artists who have been honored as the featured illustrator during the Ashley Bryan Art Series at the African American Research Library and Cultural Center.

This collection primarily consists of newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, and personal notes regarding Roberts City residents and culture.

These materials consist of first editions, first reissued editions, limited editions, a first trade edition, and uncorrected proof copies of Robert Olen Butler's novels and short stories, published from 1980-2004, and are signed or inscribed by Butler. The collection includes his Pulitzer Prize-winning short story anthology, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. There is also a letter from Simon and Schuster about his novel The Deuce, and a brochure from Cloud Books, which provides further information about these writings. The collection is particularly valuable to students of creative writing and to literary researchers.

This collection contains the personal papers, journals, documents, ephemera, and correspondence of the Weiner-Hartzog families in the years before during, and just after World War II. Correspondents include both imediate and extended family members, friends, and coworkers of both families.

The Pettis Family Collection contains correspondence, personal papers, photographs, newspaper clippings, and awards regarding the Pettis family's Great American Family Award honor and community service in Broward County.

This collection contains various labor and personal lawsuits and contracts against corporations such as American Airlines, Coca-Cola Company Foods, and Lee County Electric Cooperative. These lawsuits mostly deal with violations of worker rights as well as complaints against the parent companies for better wages, benefits, and work conditions under the right for all workers to form unions. Additionally, these documents include the agreements achieved, the alleged violations, and memorandums of understanding without the courts.