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The collection includes a variety of cartographic materials, antiquarian book and map dealer records, correspondence, published articles, bibliographic materials, newspaper clippings, and publications. Highlights of the collection include historical materials and correspondence related to early explorers in North America. Cartographic materials included in the collection consist of map facsimiles, slides, and photostatic reproductions.

The David Smiley Papers include correspondence, literary productions and other printed materials, magazine articles and newspaper clippings, photographs, and his academic robe and pin from the University of Tampa. The correspondence represents three-quarters of the documentation in the collection and is predominantly business-related. The collection material provides some insight into David Smiley's character and his activities as editor-in-chief for the Philadelphia Public Ledger.

This collection comprises supporting research material and manuscripts by the late horticulturalist Dr. David Sturrock. The collection contains a manuscript, research, maps and photos for his book, Trees for Southern Florida.  Also in the collection are first and second drafts of an unpublished manuscript entitled The Bahamas from the Viewpoint of a Horticulturalist, along with related research notes and correspondence.

This collection relates to David Westheimer who served as a 1st Lieutenant Navigator on a B-24 Bomber with the 457th Bomb Group during World War II and was shot down over Italy where he became a POW. This collection consists of an oral history transcript of David Westheimer.

School records, 1935-1975, of Davis School, Atmore, Alabama including registers of attendance, 1935-1960 which show students attending, addresses, parents' names and occupations; the principal's record and report forms, 1940-1975 giving annual reports of the school; and school bus driver's reports, 1937-1942. Includes some records for Ernest Ward School, Walnut Hill, Florida, and Nakomis School, Nakomis, Alabama.