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This series contains audio and visual items such as a vinyl record and comedy film movie. Materials range from letters and envelopes, official government documents, business documents, postcards, holiday cards, and invitations. There are military buttons, pins, and patches and a Civil War Veterans Metal. Photographs consisted in this series are African American men, women, and children and include group photos and places. There are many different newsclippings, articles, programs, and advertisements.

Consists of ephemera including magazines, sheet music, pamphlets, posters, and postcards. Not all of the items in this series pertain directly to the Civil Rights Movement per se; rather they are grouped together because they fall within a specific date range.

Consists of the oldest materials in the collection, both including and bookending the Civil War. Materials range from magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, and an array of visual ephemera. Of particular interest is an original Buffalo Soldier muster roll signed by Colonel Abner Doubleday, discharge papers from 1874, and an authentic slave bill of sale.

This series holds additional materials received from the Children's Home Society of Florida including organizational files, ephemera, photographs and audio/visual materials. Some audio and visual media may not be available for use without reformatting. Please see the Curator of Manuscripts for further information.

This series contains files for various founders and administrators of the Children's Home Society of Florida. Correspondence makes up a majority of the papers found in this collection. Several of the society's founders can be found here including D. W. Comstock who traveled to Florida for the National Children's Home Society. D. W. Comstock was the society's first state superintendent, but died the following year in 1903. His niece and assistant state superintendent Cora Seaton took Comstock's position until 1912 when Marcus C. Fagg was installed. Information on other administrators can be found here including society presidents and executive directors as well as an obituary for Elizabeth Harkins who helped found the society. The Orphan Train is briefly mentioned in this series as it holds a few pieces of correspondence by Cora Seaton for a child she is trying to remove from the train and bring into her care.

This series holds materials used to advertise and promote The Children's Home Society of Florida as well as loosely chronicle its history. Items here include film reels, audio reels, TV and video tapes, photographs, and photo blocks. The photo blocks are made up of wood and metal with a negative of an image imprinted on a metal sheet which is then wrapped and nailed to a block of wood. This photo block is then placed on a printing press and copiesof the image are printed onto media.

This series consists of seven boxes of card catalogs Walter and Dorothy Donnelly created to keep track of their inventory of the book collection. Various incoming and outgoing letters to the Donnellys, newspaper clippings, articles, poetry, and unpublished and published writings by the Donnellys can be found in the series. The personal books of Dorothy Donnelly, including her daily missal and reading and diary journals, are also featured.

This series holds additional materials received from the Bromeliad Society International (BSI) in 2015, 2016, and 2018.

Series V includes Bromeliad Society International pins and posters that were issued for the World Bromeliad Conferences. A number of posters are signed and numbered by the artists, such as John Barbie Jr. and Steve Littlefield.

Series IV divided in three sub-series; plants, people, and digital files. Most of the bromeliad cultivar photographs and registrar's files are stored in either floppy discs or CD-ROMs. Only one folder contains photographs of Bromeliad Society International members; such as Mulford B. Foster, Ella Kelly and Victoria Padilla.

Series V is arranged in three subseries; Wet'n Wild park files include materials from Brazil, Florida, Nevada, and Texas; Sea World park files mainly from California and a few photographs and publications from Ohio; and Seven Seas park files from Arlington, Texas. This series contains a variety of materials, including: newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, pamphlets, correspondence, Sea World annual reports, airport restaurant proposal, Walrus and Pilot Wale collections, and various ephemera related to the parks.

This series holds correspondence, awards, interviews, photographs and news clippings relating to smaller projects that interested George Millay, projects for which there are few records, recognition of his achievements during his life, memorials, correspondence on both personal and business matters and materials used in his biography.

Series II is arranged alphabetically. Most of the files in this series seem to have been collected by Anne Millay, but the distinction is less clear than in the Wet 'n Wild series so all the files have been arranged together.