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The J. Dewey Hawkins Collection contains wallet cards, personal papers, photographs, a hat, ribbon, and a wallet documenting the career and personal life of Oakland Park's Mayor Joseph Dewey Hawkins (1899-1958). The materials date from 1920 to 1960.

The collection includes research materials collected by Jean Allen Battle and William P. Danenburg for a proposed biography of Raymond Robins, an unofficial ambassador of the United States to the Soviet government between 1917 and 1918. Also included are bibliographies, handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, and photocopies of articles by and about Robins and about American – Russian relations.

This collection relates to Jean Crosby Olsen who served as an American Red Cross worker during and after World War II. This collection consists mostly of photographs taken by Olsen, personal artifacts from her deployments in France, Japan, and Guam (mainly pamphlets and booklets), as well as two nurses' caps, various Red Cross pins, and official I.D. card. This collection, in particular, reveals much about immediate post-war life in France and Japan, as well as an insight into China in the last year of Nationalist rule.

Publications, translations, photographs, and correspondence created and collected by Katherine Allen Clarke, documenting her research on French author and poet Jean Giono, including: translations by Clarke of selected Giono works; a 120 page interview of Giono by Clarke; 3 letters by Giono to Clarke, in French; 1 telegram to "Mlle. Clarke"; a poem; 40 post cards with views of France; 67 Kodak pictures of Giono, his family, his friends and his home town of Manosque, and the wedding of Sylvie Giono and Gerard Durbet.

This oral history interview transcript relates to Jean Krauklin who served in the USO United Service Organization and the Office of Price Administration (OPA) during World War II.

This collection relates to Jean Simpson, who worked at a Barrett and Hilp Contractors shipyard during World War II. This collection contains an oral transcript of an interview with Simpson, in which she shares her experience being a female worker during the war. She recalls events in the shipyard including wages, going up a Jacob's ladder and working with other minorites such as African-Americans and Asian-Americans. She then went to Stanford law school and worked with a civil attorney. Simpson also shares her exerience applying for an Air Force commission in December of 1950 and entering the Air Force in May of 1951, where she served for twenty years.

The Jean Trebbi ABC Collection contains 345 alphabet books including first editions, signed and numbered copies, artists' books, and other rare and out of print titles published between 1852 and 2009. Books from this collection are searchable in the Broward County Library Catalog with the prefix "ABC TREBBI".