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The Osterweil collection was amassed by John Osterweil, beginning in 1979, and his search for cigar box lithographs, pertinent to Tampa, took him across the country. Osterweil's donation to  USF was made with the hope that it would be a useful resource to those interested in the Tampa cigar industry.

John W. Senders Working Collection contains materials on human factors engineering. Senders is one of the pioneers of the field of Engineering Psychology, with a long and influential career spanning six decades as a psychologist and human factors engineer. He was one of the first scientists to apply mathematical models on human behavior in applied settings. Senders collection includes selected reprints representatives of the scientific literature on various topics in Engineering Psychology and Human Factors mainly from circa 1945 to 2013.

John Young Gooch was a lawyer, state senator, and district judge of Palestine, Texas. This collection is comprised of correspondence and other documents that belonged to Gooch, primarily letters exchanged with his wife, Belle Gooch, née Collins, and his two brothers, Gideon and Lucious Gooch.

The collection is filled with Cuban history and researched materials on society's past was created by Cuban and American journalist José Guerra Alemán. The materials range from photographs of his travels to cultural sites and countries to personal notes on literature of other scholars' works and his published books. He is most notable of his published four-volume encyclopedia on Cuban history called Cuba Infinita.

John P. Hartman collection includes his research materials relating to canals, bridges, railways, transportation systems and historical engineering in Florida. Entire collection range from 1605 to 2006, but are concentrated in the era when population in Florida exploded between 1905 and 1993. The collection includes clippings, correspondence, maps, pamphlets, papers and over 1,200 slides related to Florida.

Created by Judith and Warren Kaplan, the collection contains a wide variety of materials related to Women's History, with special emphasis on stamps, suffrage, and women of achievement in United States history.

The collection comprises a small body of material, mostly letters and cards of sympathy to Julia Grillon and her sister on the death of their mother, Ameila, in 1923.  The Grillion Family were early residents of Tampa.

The Julia Linebaugh King Papers have materials pertaining to her life including photo albums with pictures and genealogy information about the Linebaugh, Henry, King, and Willeaus families.