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The Anna C. and John L. Goins Collection 8 pieces of sheet music, 13 Harper's Weekly prints, 5 postcards, 3 publications, and Black Americana objects. The publications in the collection consist of Little Black Sambo illustrated by Ethel Hayes (Saalfield Publishing Co, Akron, Ohio, 1942); The Gold Dust Twins at Work and Play illustrated by E. W. Kemble (Fairbank Company, Chicago, 1902); A Tale of the Rising Sun Stove Polish (Donaldson Brothers, New York). The sheet music titles consist of Mammy's Little Black Coal Rose, Riverside Rag, When the Major Plays those Miner Melodies, Lovin' Time: a Coon Conceit, A Coontown Celebration March and Two-Step, Happy Hours in Coontown, Everybody Two Step Rag, and Dusty Rag. The Black Americana objects include dolls, jars, toys, household items, a plate, and other materials.

Newspaper clippings, sheet music, poems, lyrics.

The Emridge "E.J." Jones, Jr. Collection contains photographs, plaques, awards, newspaper clippings, sheet music, correspondence to and from Emridge "E.J." Jones Jr., a card, certificates, contracts, a yearbook, a membership card, proclamations, resume, adjudication forms, printed ephemera, one CD, a saxophone mouthpiece, coffee mug, license plate, oval shaped plate and sweater belonging to Emridge "E.J." Jones Jr. of Pompano Beach, Florida.

The Sixto Campano Collection contains 1,076 pieces of original American sheet music dating from 1848 to 1974, with almost 900 titles published before 1924. The bulk of the collection contains pre- and post-Civil War minstrel pieces, commomnly known as "plantation melodies", as well as ragtime, vaudeville, blues, and jazz pieces. Noted composers and songwriters include W.C. Handy, Scott Joplin, John Rosamond Johnson, Bob Cole and Bert Williams. Images, illustrations and photographs demonstrate 19th and early 20th century attitudes towards African Americans and include Gene Buck, Walter Dittmar and the Starmer Brothers.