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The Jack Egan Collection includes 103 photographs, an audiocassette tape, photocopies of Egan's military documents, a photocopy of a handwritten account by Egan of some of his experiences during World War II, and scrapbook pages and clippings. The photographs are primarily from the 1930s showcasing life in and around Fort Lauderdale. Featuring buildings and beaches, swimmers and sunbathers, a president, an Olympian, and much more, these photographs capture small pockets of the vibrancy of Fort Lauderdale. Highlights include photos of Fort Lauderdale High School, Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale Beach, and local businesses such as the 700 Club Bar and Thomas Scott Cobb's Mattress Company. The scrapbook pages and clippings mostly focus on Fort Lauderdale High School activities, residents in military service, Fort Lauderdale history, and Olympian Katherine Rawls and the audiocassette tape (OH1100) contains a US Treasury salute to Jack Egan.

The collection contains materials documenting the career of Florida landscape architect Jack O. Holmes and consists of business records, landscape planting plans, photographs and slides of Holmes' work, schematic designs and specifications. The collection primarily consists of photographs divided into businesses and residences. Some of the photographs are mounted. Many of the photographs include hand written notes.

This collection relates to Sergeant Jack Rifkin who served with the 324th Infantry Regiment, 44th Infantry Division, in the European Theater of Operations during World War II. Rifkin received the Bronze Star Medal and Combat Infantry Badge. The collection includes an oral history interview transcript, military documents, newspaper, photograph of Rifkin in uniform, artifacts, and a digital compact disc recording of the award ceremony for the posthumous presentation of the Bronze Star Medal to Rifkin's family.

This collection contains boxes that hold paperwork corresponding to specific meetings and the outcomes of the meetings in relation to unions and textile workers.

Correspondence files, 1895-1950, including letters pertaining to recording of mortgages, receipts of businesses, occasional court business, newspaper clippings, and related items. Much of the correspondence is on decorative business letterheads from various towns and cities in Jackson County. [1,132 pieces]

The collection contains selective print newspapers, sections and clippings of The Florida Times-Union and the Jacksonville Journal which detail and document Northeast Florida history from 1890 to date. Anniversary and commemorative editions, and selective daily newspapers describe historical developments, the achievements of notable figures, and provide valuable insights into daily life in Northeast Florida. A preponderance of articles feature commentary and analysis on Jacksonville's growth and development through the twentieth century. The earliest newspapers are souvenir trade editions dated 1890; the vast majority of the selective papers date from the late twentieth century to the current decade. The additional selective newspapers in the collection mark significant local subjects, events, people, and places. Topics include: Race relations, mayoral elections, deaths of area leaders, St. John's River, September 11, 2001 attacks on New York City, hurricanes and tropical storms, notable local authors, architecture and building developments, and urban issues. Of note is the continuity of certain subjects, such as race relations, downtown development, and pollution in the St. Johns River, which are recurring themes in articles over many years.

Contains letters, invitations, greeting cards, telegrams, postcards, art exhibition catalogs, bulletins, school catalogs, certificates, news clippings, magazines, photographs, medical illustrations, and two manuscripts, "The Artist and the Audience," and "Emergency Treatment." Also includes a short letter dated 1864 which certified the release of Wilson's maternal grandfather, William Bonacker, a Union Army captain captured by Confederate forces.  Capt. Bonacker reportedly fell at the Battle of New Market, 1864, but the War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, v. 37, p. 87, confirms he mustered out of the Army on October 10, 1864.