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This series contains audio and visual items such as a vinyl record and comedy film movie. Materials range from letters and envelopes, official government documents, business documents, postcards, holiday cards, and invitations. There are military buttons, pins, and patches and a Civil War Veterans Metal. Photographs consisted in this series are African American men, women, and children and include group photos and places. There are many different newsclippings, articles, programs, and advertisements.

Consists of the oldest materials in the collection, both including and bookending the Civil War. Materials range from magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, and an array of visual ephemera. Of particular interest is an original Buffalo Soldier muster roll signed by Colonel Abner Doubleday, discharge papers from 1874, and an authentic slave bill of sale.

This series of photographs ranges from the late 1800s through the 1960s which has been broken into four subseries that include Assorted Photographs, Bishop College, South Dakota, and the William T. Vernon collection.

Series I consists of documents from three major areas Apopka, Eatonville, and Ocoee. The documents include articles, historic preservation manuals, land plans, census data, draft registration, and plot summaries.

The series holds an array of "visual" material ranging from the early 1800s to the mid-1900's. Included in this series is the bulk of the more controversial racist items in the collection. Examples include derogatory postcards, advertisements, product packaging, magazine and newspaper illustrations, and other assorted ephemera. Flat file materials that consists of newspapers, and sheet music, are also included.