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The Florida Maps Collection contains various types of maps from throughout the state of Florida. Included are tourist, informational, historical, agricural, and commercial maps.

Views of Winter Haven, Florida photographs, circa 1920s contains fourteen 8x10 photographs of Winter Haven, Florida in the 1920s taken by photographer Robert E. Dahlgren. Images depict landscapes, homes, and roads during the "Florida boom." The photographs in this collection are useful to research on the landscape and real estate of Winter Haven, Florida as it existed in the 1920s. Robert E. Dahlgren born in Sweden in 1882 and died in 1961 in Winter Haven, Florida. He arrived in Florida in 1911 and married Queena Adams in 1917. Dahlgren photographed agricultural and rural landscapes, bodies of water, and real estate in central Florida. In 1912, he opened a shop on Fifth Street and in 1930, relocated to a custom studio on Third Street SW. He worked with Dick and Julie Pope to photograph and market Cypress Gardens.

This collection documents both business and personal transactions of the Washington family, with particular emphasis on items created or used by Sam Washington, Mary Washington, and Mary Louise Washington Delaney/Delancy.

The Winter Haven Tourist Camp entrance photograph, circa 1920s is a photograph of the entrance to a tourist camp and an office building in the Eastwood neighborhood of Winter Haven, Florida. The entrance sign says "Tourist Camp Haven, Approved by the State Board of Health" Businesses using this building include the Florida Housing Corp, Jones Construction Co. Inc, Ridge and Transporation Co. The photograph also features a Ridge Transporation bus and a for sale sign for Eastwood lots. This photograph provides insight into the developing community of Winter Haven in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom. This photo was taken in the 1920s in Winter Haven, Florida and the photographer is unknown. Winter Haven became an incoporated city in 1923 in Polk County. From 1924 to 1926, Florida experienced a land boom, where tens of thousands of people moved to Florida from out of state. Land development occured rabidly during this time.