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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.

This series holds additional materials received from the Children's Home Society of Florida including organizational files, ephemera, photographs and audio/visual materials. Some audio and visual media may not be available for use without reformatting. Please see the Curator of Manuscripts for further information.

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

Notes and Correspondence from the National Archives Record Group 105 (Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedman, and Abandoned Lands, 1861-1879), including copies of letters written by Union Officers stationed in Florida during Reconstruction, reproduced from originals at the National Archives and the Florida State Archives.

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 consists of a 19th century bible and eleven photographs taken by several different photographers, including well-known African American Photographer, James Presley (J.P.) Ball (1825-1904). It is unclear who the original owner of the bible was, but it was purchased at the Duck Creek Antique mall in Cincinnati, Ohio by John Smith, a long-time friend of Ms. Mundy. Mr. Smith sent the bible to her as a gift shortly before his death in 2011. The bible is extremely worn and is currently housed in a cloth-covered clamshell storage box. The photographs, originally stored within the bible, have been separated and stored within a pocket in the clamshell box. Of particular interest in this series are the portraits by James Presley (J.P.) Ball, who studied daguerreotype photography with Boston-based photographer, John B. Bailey. After leaving Boston, Ball opened a daguerreotype studio in Cincinnati in 1845. The studio, however, was not successful and Ball was forced to leave Ohio to become a traveling photographer. He traveled frequently and is known to have opened studios in St. Louis, Minneapolis; Helena, Montana; Seattle, Washington; Portland, Oregon; and finally Honolulu, Hawaii where he died in 1904.