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Materials included in the Floridiana collection include maps, correspondence, photographs, and publications (1730-1970) pertaining to the development of Florida, government ordinances, and government reports relating to Florida.

The Floyd Pyles Collection contains personal papers, photographs, scrapbooks, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and awards belonging to Floyd Pyles, who worked for the Sun Sentinel and the Fort Lauderdale Daily News, eventually becoming Vice President of Gore Newspaper Company. Photographs depict the Pyles family, Fort Lauderdale, the 1926 hurricane, and Park Temple Methodist Church. The collection also includes the "Pyles Prattle" newsletter produced by Floyd Pyles.

Deeds, wills, land surveys, newspaper clippings, research materials. This collection contains manuscripts and research files concerning the Krebs family of Pascagoula, Mississippi, as well as materials, some photocopied, of historical research concerning Pensacola, Florida. Other subjects and persons relevant to this collection include Justin Flood, Lewis Gabriel, cotton gins, inventions, the Panton Leslie Company, Fort Barrancas, Florida, Fort George, Florida, sasquatch, Bernardo de Galvez, the Pensacola Opera House, and Pensacola folklore.