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This collection encompasses various materials produced by or written on the Florida Citrus Mutual organization. It has a wide date range, with files beginning in the 1930s, and ending in the early 2000s. It includes records of legal issues, including tariffs and regulatory laws. It also includes several business files, from meeting accounts to associate records to statistics reports to marketing materials. It has the 1987-2002 Market News Bulletin for the organization. It also contains three boxes of photographs, which largely feature members of the organization.

The Waverly records include Office Files about day-to-day business mostly between 1930 and 1950's. Of special note are the files from the WWII years discussing rationed items. James C. Morton (JCM) was an operations director, and his files date mostly in the 1950's and are about fruit. Operations and Supply files include documents about running and supplying the Waverly complex. The Membership newsletters are dated 1937 and 1938, then jump to 1957 and run until 1977. Files from Audio-Visual materials include scrapbooks, photographs, and negatives. The first scrapbook includes images for a retirement party for W.C. "Bill" Pedersen. Bill Pedersen created the Waverly Welcome House (photographs), a rest area and spot for tourists to learn about citrus growing, while purchasing fruit. The Welcome House was located between Cypress Gardens and Bok Singing Tower, along Route No. 540 in central Florida. The second scrapbook, includes, clippings, documents and photographs of people and places around the compound