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The Wilson and Toomer Fertilizer Company Records contains materials related to the company presumably collected by donor Vaughn Woods. This collection contains 6 series: Correspondence, Financial, Holly Hill Groves & Fruit Company, Personnel, Projects, Publications by Wilson and Toomer. The Correspondence series contains letters from Vaughn Woods in regards to publications received by the company as well as a company produced memorandum in regards to a cold wave in 1948. This series was organized chronologically. The Financial series contains pricing schedules for fertilizer for Wilson and Toomer as well as financial statements. This series was organized chronologically. The Holly Hill Grove & Fruit Company series contains materials from this subsidiary of the Wilson and Toomer Fertilizer Company. Included are materials such as a crate label used by the company, histories of the company, as well as information about the foreclosure of the company in 1936. This series was organized alphabetically based on subject. The Personnel series includes a personnel list from the 1980s that included members from the past and present as well as photographs of some personnel. This series was organized alphabetically based on subject. The Projects series contains notes, reports, procedures, and photographs of experiments conducted by the company from primarily in the 1930s and 1950s. Two main projects were in fertilizer testing and soil testing. The primary researcher was soil chemist W.L. Tait with some later experiments performed by soil chemist Vaughn Woods. This series was organized alphabetically based on subject. The Publications by Wilson and Toomer series contains booklets and brochures produced by the company from the 1920s to 1950s. The bulk of the publications were written by Col. Bayard F. Floyd, a horticulturalist and Vice President of the company. This series was organized alphabetically based on subject.

The Easter Lily Gates Collection contains correspondence, photographs, printed materials, maps, prayer books, awards, political and election materials documenting the professional and personal life of Easter Lily Gates.

Publications, photographs, postcards, cigar labels, maps, realia, manuscripts, diaries, printed ephemera, artifacts, and other materials documenting the history of Tampa, Florida and its vicinity, with particular emphasis on the area's Cuban, Spanish, and Italian immigrant communities of Ybor City and West Tampa.

This collection includes a wide array of cameras spanning centuries, accessories to go with cameras, magazines, and annual reports from Kodak.

Consists of publications, advertisements, photographs, administration and research on the east coast railroads of the United States collected by history scholar Gregg M. Turner. Consists of four series, including but not limited to documents and photographs of railroad history (1830-1890), the Plant System Co. Inc.(1860-1902), the three primary railroads on the eastern seaboard of the United States (1830-present), and independent railroads. A portion of the collection has been digitized by Florida Gulf Coast University's Library Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives and is available on D[url=https://fgcu.digital.flvc.org/islandora/search/?type=edismax&collection=fgcu:0216]igitalFGCU[/url].