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Primarily covers his years in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1962-1996.

The Sam Lamar Collection consists mainly of correspondence, photographs, and other documents from 1946-1951 related to his time as a student at the Tallahassee Branch of the University of Florida (TBUF) and later Florida State University.

The collection primarily consists of photocopies of manuscripts, scores, and printed music composed by Gardner. A photograph and biographical documents are also included.

This collection relates to Samuel L. Bray and his service in the U.S. Army. Samuel L. Bray served in the Army before, during, and after World War II. During World War II, then Lieutenant Samuel L. Bray served in Europe with the Signal Corps, fighting at the Battle of Metz in the United States Third Army. While in Europe, Samuel L. Bray served in France and Germany, then moving to Japan during the United States occupation post World War II. This collection contains photographs, post cards, documents, and artifacts relating to the life, service, and death of Samuel L. Bray.

This collection is comprised primarily of typescripts and carbon copies of correspondence, legal documents, and other papers from the files of Tampa lawyer Martin Caraballo, receiver of the Sanchez and Haya Real Estate Company and trustee for the Sanchez estate. The papers relate primarily to management of rental properties, real estate, and other assets belonging to the Company and the Sanchez estate. It includes a small number of documents relating to the Sanchez y Haya Cigar Company and its acquisition by Gradiaz-Annis Company in 1930. Also present are documents relating to several lawsuits involving the Sanchez estate. The bulk of the papers date from the period 1923 to 1942 and chronicle the declining fortunes of the Sanchez estate (due to the economic distress generated by the collapse of the Florida land boom in 1925-1926 and the subsequent  economic depression of the 1930s).