Unidentified police photographers, mugshot photograph archive, Chicago, Illinois and Miami, Florida, 1960s to 1970s, documenting law enforcement identification practices applied to African American men in urban contexts during the postwar period. The material documents criminal identification systems through standardized booking photography, revealing how individuals were processed and recorded by police.....

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The Lynching of Claude Neal, 1934, documents one of the most widely publicized acts of racial violence in the Jim Crow South and provides direct investigative evidence used in national anti lynching advocacy campaigns. Issued in the immediate aftermath of the October.....

[Black male suffrage] Florida Legislature. The Acts and Resolutions Adopted by the Legislature of Florida, at its First Session (1868) under the Constitution of A.D. 1868. Tallahassee: Printed at the Office of the Tallahassee Sentinel, Hiram Powers, Jr., Proprietor, 1868. First edition. 231 pages. Original quarter leather over marbled boards.....

Caribbean photograph album, likely compiled by a person connected to the Panama Canal Zone and the Caribbean, documenting how steamship mobility, port circulation, and U.S. imperial presence linked Jamaica, Venezuela, Trinidad, Barbados, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Florida, and Panama in the years after the canal opened. The felt cover.....

[Cuban Refugees] [Caravan of Sorrow] Miami Herald press photograph archive, 1960 to 1966, documents Cuban exile political organizing, refugee displacement, and United States federal response in South Florida across the critical period between the Cuban Revolution and the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966. The archive follows a defined sequence of.....

Daytona International Speedway Corp. Second Annual Daytona International Speedway Stock Car Races Program. Daytona Beach, Florida, January 31 & February 12–14, 1960. 11 x 8.5 inches. NASCAR-sanctioned promotional program with seating diagrams and ticket order form. Original large-format promotional program issued for the Second Annual Daytona International Speedway stock car.....

Early Motorcycle Racing Photo Archive, 1930s-40s. Archive of seven silver gelatin photos of motorcycle racing from the 1930s and 40s. Measurements range from 2" x 3" to 5.5." x 3.5". These photographs show motorcycle races both on tracks and open road. Competitors have race numbers displayed on their bikes. Included.....

Florida antiwar protest press archive documenting demonstrations in Miami Beach during the 1972 Republican National Convention, when activists targeted President Richard Nixon’s renomination after years of bombing, troop deployments, and stalled peace negotiations in Vietnam. Protesters gathered outside convention sites, government buildings, and public streets to oppose the war, challenge.....

George Fulmer photographs of Clearwater residents, businesses, club spaces, and service interiors recording how the residential economy of postwar Clearwater, Florida functioned during early Sunbelt expansion in the 1950s. Fulmer, a WWII U.S. Navy enlisted photographer and Clearwater city photographer for more than six decades, worked from a studio beside.....

Postwar manufacturing expansion and Clearwater Florida's food industry photo archive by George Fulmer documenting the manufacturing, shipment, retail display, and commercial service of American food in 1953. Featured in this photo archive is Snow Crop’s industrial frozen food operation, and a mid-century supermarket and cafeteria economy that reshaped the American.....

Red Cross service photographs by notable Clearwater photographer George Fulmer recording volunteer nursing instruction, clinic intake, fundraising, and civic ceremony in Clearwater, Florida, 1951-1952, with primary source images of the care and volunteer infrastructure that accompanied postwar Sunbelt growth. Fulmer, a Clearwater native, served as a U.S. Navy photographer during.....

Archive of Four Honorary Certificates Recognizing the International Disability Advocacy and Literary Contributions of Helen Keller, Including a Certificate Awarded toher teacher Anne Sullivan. 1936–1948. Four printed certificates with manuscript entries and applied seals, each mounted to period cardboard supports. Subjects: Disability rights; Deaf and Blind advocacy; Women reformers; International.....

[African American] [Education] Now known as Florida Memorial University, Florida Normal & Industrial Institute is a product of two all Black Baptist institutes eventually becoming an accredited University offering 41 undergraduate degree programs. This set of two black and white photographs showcases the university during one of their renaissance periods.....