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Collection of letters, telegraphs, and family photographs exchanged between 1st Lieutenant  Herman G. Ramsey and his family in Columbus, Ohio. Twenty-four letters lead up to Ramsey's death in 1944 while being transported on a Japanese POW ship en route to mainland Japan. Also included is a letter from Dick Clark, a fellow POW who survived the war, offering his condolences to Herman's family. The collection also contains an album of family photographs along with condolence letters from General Douglas MacArthur and Army Major General James L. Collins.

These papers include a letter from Clement Acton Griscom to his son Lloyd, who served as a foreign diplomat to Japan in the early 1900s. Also included is a small Christmas gift card signed "From Bronson Winthrop," and a small envelope addressed to Col. Lloyd Griscom, care of Miss Griscom, Water Oak Plantation, Tallahassee, Florida. The fourth item in the collection is a letter from G. Leslie Isaac to "Col. Griscom" at Luna Plantation, Tallahassee, concerning a trip to a fair and a car purchase. Includes MSS 0-304.

This collection includes photographs of mountains ranges, camps, U.S.O. shows and fellow soldiers in Europe during World War II. The photographs mainly relate to the 124th General Hospital and locations surrounding it. The majority of the photographs were taken in Longway, England and Salzburg, Austria with some other cities in Europe appearing occasionally. The 124th General Hospital was located in England. According to the included photographs, Hoover spent time in Battle Creek, MI and Camp Ellis, IL as well. The collection also contains a handwritten medical journal.

This collection refers to Zelma D. Abarbanel, who served as a Technician Fourth Grade with the WAC Second Detachment during World War II. Abarbanel worked as a stenographer and assistant for the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia, in the Office of Weapons. The collection includes a transcript of an oral history interview, one letter, the military records of both Abarbanel and her husband, Milton Goldman Abarbanel, and several photographs depicting Abarbanel's life as a WAC.

This Oral History transcript recounts the war experiences of Christopher Georgiades, who served in Europe with the U.S. Army, 10th Armored Division, during the the Battle of the Bulge. He was sent as a replacement after the events of Bastogne and was a part of the closing the Saar-Moselle Triangle. He participated in the invasion of Germany and was in Bavaria in May of 1945 when the war ended in Europe.

This collection contains assorted over-sized illustrations and graphics for a number of topics of Florida's history.

This collection consists primarily of correspondence, but also includes greeting cards and postcards, writings, and miscellaneous materials.

Program for the inaugural "Chuck Flanagan Memorial Golf Tournament", Pembroke Lakes Country Club, January 12, 1996. The program contains advertisements, information about the Broward Chapter of the Children's Cancer Caring Center, Inc., and biographical information about Mayor Chuck Flanagan.