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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.