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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 III contains prints of various subjects but mainly comics hand-drawn by Charles Crumb, portraits, illustrations and museum pieces. Photos of very small writing give the impression of Charles Crumb practicing to write the dialog in the comics he created. Photos of various museum art by artists such as Edward W. Kemble and Winslow Homer. Portraits of Edward W. Kemble and his family are also here.

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.

Subject Files consist of booklets and brochures, newspaper and journal articles, business cards and advertisements, and periodicals related to Florida, arranged alphabetically. Folders include materials on agriculture, conservation, gardening, state parks and wildlife. Arts and Humanities contains information on the arts in Florida. This includes information about the Florida Symphony. Information about local symphonies and artistic associations can be found by looking in the corresponding Geographic File. History folders consist of journal articles, essays and booklets written about an aspect of Florida's history, including the periodical Florida 100 Years Ago. The sub-series Historical Figures includes materials related to specific individuals in Florida's history. Examples of individuals included in the sub-series are Thomas Edison, Stephen Foster, De Soto and Osceola. Images holds a variety of images related to Florida that were published in newspapers and magazines; however, the sub-series also includes souvenir booklets of Florida images. The folder of Letters and Memoirs includes personal letters and memoirs from individuals who lived in Florida during its early days as a state. The memoirs include copies of journal accounts, as well as oral histories. Literature folders contain a variety of types of literature related to Florida. While a large portion of the literature in the sub-series are fictional accounts of Florida life, there are also non-fiction publications. These publications include Florida Fact Books, the serial publication Ford Times and encyclopedia entries on Florida. Organizations, Societies and Associations consists of information related to various Florida organizations, such as gardening clubs, religious organizations and charitable organizations. The Politics and Government folders contain information about political life in Florida. Materials in these folders includes Florida Governmental Guides, Florida bills and laws and a list of the members of the Florida Legislature from 1931-1985. Real Estate and Development includes information about real estate in Florida, both for the businessman and the consumer. The folders contain statewide development statistics and projections, as well as booklets and pamphlets about moving to Florida. Tourism holds all the information related to tourism in Florida that does not correspond with a particular geographic location. This includes numerous vacation guides and advertisements in national publications. Information about specific locations can be found in the corresponding geographic folder.