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The Lowell Showalter Collection contains photographs that document real estate development in South Florida. The photographs include aerial photographs of the development of the intracoastal waterway. Also included are images of houses and plots being developed in the 1930s. It also includes a photographs of local agriculture in the 1920s.

The Norman Johnson Collection documents the development of Sunrise Golf Village and the City of Sunrise from 1960 to 1964. It contains 3 large aerial photographs of Sunrise; 1 real estate promotion brochure titled "Better Living Begins in Sunrise"; 1 Sunrise Golf Village scrapbook; and 1 advertisement with text "Upside-Down House Moved to New Location".

This collection is comprised primarily of typescripts and carbon copies of correspondence, legal documents, and other papers from the files of Tampa lawyer Martin Caraballo, receiver of the Sanchez and Haya Real Estate Company and trustee for the Sanchez estate. The papers relate primarily to management of rental properties, real estate, and other assets belonging to the Company and the Sanchez estate. It includes a small number of documents relating to the Sanchez y Haya Cigar Company and its acquisition by Gradiaz-Annis Company in 1930. Also present are documents relating to several lawsuits involving the Sanchez estate. The bulk of the papers date from the period 1923 to 1942 and chronicle the declining fortunes of the Sanchez estate (due to the economic distress generated by the collapse of the Florida land boom in 1925-1926 and the subsequent  economic depression of the 1930s).

The South Bank Apartments Collection contains newspaper articles, photographs, and photographic negatives dating from 1963 to 1965 documenting the development and construction of the South Bank Apartments located at 601 North Rio Vista Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Materials consist of correspondence, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, and photographs. The collection relates primarily to Fuller's activities as a real estate developer during and after the Florida land boom. Subjects covered include farming, fish, Florida natural history, Florida population and economy, geology, hurricanes, the New Deal, and real estate in Cuba, Levy County, Melbourne, Ocala and Sarasota County.