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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.

This series consists of seven boxes of card catalogs Walter and Dorothy Donnelly created to keep track of their inventory of the book collection. Various incoming and outgoing letters to the Donnellys, newspaper clippings, articles, poetry, and unpublished and published writings by the Donnellys can be found in the series. The personal books of Dorothy Donnelly, including her daily missal and reading and diary journals, are also featured.

Contains material related to George Oden who owned four businesses and five parcels of land in Apopka, on which he maintained citrus groves. Mr. Oden was also a recipient of the City of Apopka's 50 years in business award. Michael Gladden, executor of the Oden estates, is a prominent figure on these documents as well, especially the legal documents after Oden's death in 1939. In 1933 George Oden donated the land for Pleasant View Baptist church, the church still sits on that land. Many of the documents in this portion of the collection are property deeds, receipts, tax documents and other legal materials relating to these groves. Also significant is a collection of documents from Ella Wall, an Apopka resident who was the inspiration for a character in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men. Ella Wall was born 1874 in Washington County, Pennsylvania and died in 1938 in Apopka, Florida. She came to Apopka as a widow and became a property owner and in four years she owned 4 parcels of land. As an entrepreneur and businesswoman, Mrs. Wall ran an Orange Grove and built small wooden structures that she rented to migrant workers. Mrs. Wall was a close friend and confidant of Michael Gladden, Jr. until her death.

Series I contains various drawings, illustrations, paintings, and posters from many artists, but primarily from Edward W. Kemble. Art from other contributors such as Pataky, Joan Cromwell and Richard Caton Woodville are also present. Subjects of the drawings mostly include canaries, depictions of Black Americans and various Mexican landscape. An illustration of particular note is the portrait of Alexander Hamilton by William Sartain.