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Correspondence, subject files, publications, course materials, sound recordings, videocassettes, and digital media documenting the scholarship, instruction, and faculty service of Rev. Dr. William R. Jones. Major subjects include racism and oppression in the United States, Black liberation theology, and Florida State University units including the Department of Religion and the African American Studies program.

Personal photographs of William Smith, including photos taken for a Photo Journalism class assignment.

The William Snyder Collection contains contains the poem "Lauderdale" by William Snyder and 7 newspaper clippings dating from 1918 to 1954. The collection also contains 12 photographs of Fort Lauderdale from the 1920s that include images of buildings, the New River waterfront withi logging boats, damage from the 1926 hurricane, the beach, and the Snyder family.

The Dr. William Straight Collection held in the Special Collections and University Archives Department at Florida International University is an extremely fascinating and well researched collection that contains an extensive history of the first and founding doctors in Miami beginning in the late 1800's. This collection was the personal research of his collection is the result of years of comprehensive research about individuals, organizations, and topics such as James M. Jackson, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Victoria Hospital, various medical societies throughout the state of Florida, epidemics, military medicine, South Florida memoirs, and other unique and interesting memorabilia and ephemera relating to Florida doctors, history and medicine. This collection contains personal research and papers, photographs, antique medical cases, and index cards with historic and biographical information on each topic that Dr. Straight researched.

Collection includes correspondence, manuscripts of articles, research notes, periodical issues containing articles, awards and certificates, news clippings, and photographs. Series 1-8 were intially processed by format, however, for ease of access Series 9, the Author's Integrated Files, are in original order.

This collection was assembled by William Timmes which contains an original copy of the World War II published history of the 30th Infantry Division Artillery and 11th Airborne Division Association magazines.