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The Centro Asturiano de Tampa Collection consists of club and hospital records, meeting minutes, photographs, ephemera, zarzuelas, playbills, financial records, memorias, and cemetery records. Artifacts include flags, trophies, printing plates, and various other items related to the club.

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

Includes materials related to the organizational structure and functionality of the club, club building, and affiliated organizations. Primarily consists of committee reports, yearbooks, member records, and scrapbooks detailing approximately 30 years of the organization's civic interests.

Materials include correspondence, publications, reports, legislative proposals, campaign materials, maps, photographs, newspaper clippings, bills, and charters. The range of subjects covered includes busing, education, transportation, state universities, the Hillsborough County Charter, housing, taxes, reapportionment, the revision of the State Constitution, school desegregation in Hillsborough County, the Equal Rights Amendment, and the Johns Committee.

The collection includes annual and semi-annual reports, memos, property holding records, inventories, histories, correspondence, memoranda, and publications (1903 to the 1920s).  Photographs (1904 to c. 1972) depict company structures and mining and dredging operations in Florida.  Also includes records of the segregated public schools for White and African American children in the "company town" of Pierce (1936-1943).

The collection consists one photograph album, four scrapbooks, one box of loose items, and three boxes containing primarily press clipping, programs, and concert announcements along with a small amount of correspondence. The collection also includes 38 1/2 inch tape reels, 8 cassettes, 4 oversized ampex reels, and10 LPs.