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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.

Documents collected and created by Jones in writing his monograph A Year in the Life of Napoleon I, 1814-1815.

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.

Geographic Files contain tourism brochures, information on local historical societies, local business advertisements and newspaper clippings related to the different geographic areas of Florida, divided into Central, North and South. The subseries on Central Florida is the largest of the Geographic subseries, and contains information on nine Florida counties. Cities with a large amount of information are divided out, and there are separate files for Orlando, Winter Park, Daytona and Deland. The Orlando subseries contains a two files related to Heather Paul, a Florida college student. Although most of her materials are related to Rollins College other school materials included are from Jacksonville University, Orlando Junior College, the Stenotype Institute of Jacksonville, and Landon Junior-Senior High School. The Orlando files include copies of Orlando Leisure Magazine from August 2003 until October 2006 and the Winter Park files contain information on Rollins College. The subseries on North Florida consists of materials related to the counties north of Central Florida. This includes the cities of Jacksonville and Palatka, as well as Columbia County. Areas with a large amount of material are divided out, including Alachua County, Pensacola, Tallahassee and St. Augustine. Alachua County files contain information about the University of Florida, and Tallahassee includes information about Florida State University as well as state capitol building ephemera. The subseries on South Florida contains materials concerning counties that lie south of Central Florida. This includes information on LaBelle, Clewiston, Sebring, Arcadia and the Peace River, Sanibel Island and Vero Beach. Areas with an abundance of information were also separated out, and there are files on the Everglades, Hillsborough County (Tampa), Key West and Miami-Dade County, which includes the cities of West Palm Beach, Boca Raton and Coral Gables.

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.