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This collection primarily consists of organizational documents and publications. Also includes photographs, club histories, contracts, circulars, and the society's ledgers which record the names of members and dues records.

The George W. Young Collection documents the activities of Fort Lauderdale contractor and engineer George W. Young. It includes building permits dating from 1912-1926 for buildings in Idlewyld, Navarro Isle, Croissant Park, Fort Lauderdale, Rio Vista Isles, Colee Hammock, Lauderdale Shores and Nurmi Isles. It also contains blueprints of alterations to the Fort Lauderdale Woman's Club building designed by Robert G. Jahelka, and 1924 plaque from the Sunset building.

Correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, and other materials pertaining to the development, history, and planning of the Panama City Center of the University of West Florida, 1965-1983. Includes planning of the master campus, land acquisition, statistics, and records of the lobbying efforts of citizens and groups both for and against the transfer of the branch campus to Florida State University in 1982.

The materials in this collection reflect the subject's employment with the Florida Agricultural Weather Service. The collection contains correspondence, reports, and reference material created or used by the subject in his work. The collection also contains some ephemeral material and a few photos.

Contains letters, invitations, greeting cards, telegrams, postcards, art exhibition catalogs, bulletins, school catalogs, certificates, news clippings, magazines, photographs, medical illustrations, and two manuscripts, "The Artist and the Audience," and "Emergency Treatment." Also includes a short letter dated 1864 which certified the release of Wilson's maternal grandfather, William Bonacker, a Union Army captain captured by Confederate forces.  Capt. Bonacker reportedly fell at the Battle of New Market, 1864, but the War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, v. 37, p. 87, confirms he mustered out of the Army on October 10, 1864.

Photocopies of research files including his translations of the Carl Philipp Steuernagel diary, 1773-1783, and the diary of Philipp Waldeck, both of whom were German mercenaries who saw service in the British Army in West Florida during the American Revolution. Also includes Burgoyne's typescript transcripts in German of the original manuscripts.

Personal papers consisting of photocopies of genealogical information and photographs of family members. Included are the Burke, Clifford, Fell, Mooney, and Pinney families, with additional materials on Thomas J. White, Joseph L. White, Carl Timothy Hoffman, and Robert Fell, a carpenter in the U.S. Navy from 1803 to 1820.

Consists of Kent Spriggs' case files related to the 1973 retrial of Dave Keaton and Johnny Frederick of the Quincy Five and those related to Keaton et al. v. Townsend, a civil case brought by the Quincy Five against the State of Florida and Joe Townsend for the coerced testimony that implicated the men in the case. Included in these files are correspondence with Alfonse Figgers, Dave Keaton, David Charles Smith, Johnny Frederick, and Johnny Burns who were collectively known as the Quincy Five.