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The materials in this collection have been organized into the following series: The Company Awards series contains awards and honors given to the Sullivan-Victory Groves company. The Company History series contains materials documenting both the history of Victory Groves and Sullivan-Victory Groves companies. Of note is a plaque containing a photograph of Frank Sullivan II alongside a copy of the first railroad manifest for the company. The Marketing Materials series contains materials used in marketing by both Sullivan- Victory Groves and its Competitors. In this series are materials such as catalogues, advertisements, and crate labels. The Sullivan Family series contains materials related to the Sullivan family or materials collected by members of the family.

The collection consists of holographic, photocopied, and typed correspondence, scrapbooks focusing on Mr. Dreier's career and accomplishments, assorted slides of Snell Isle and Florida fruits and flowers, clippings of Dreier's editorials published in the St. Petersburg Times between 1940 and 1951, and clippings of his column "Brickbats and Bouquets," published in 1939.  The collection also includes Dreier's "Vagabonds' Notebooks," which are personal journals that incorporate photographs of family members, their homes, guests, and vacations.

The collection has been divided into two main series: Photographs and Textual Materials. The Photographs series is divided into sub-series based on subject: Building and Structures, Davenport Locales, Landscapes, and People. The Textual Materials series contains Advertising and Marketing materials as well as Correspondence. All materials in this collection were organized alphabetically due to few dated materials.

The materials in this collection reflect the subject's affiliation with the Haines City Citrus Growers Association and the broader citrus industry in Florida. Correspondence, newspaper articles, reports, and ephemera make up the bulk of the collection. Photographs are also present. Of special interest is the information on the relationship with the Duncan Hines Company as well as Florida Gift Fruit.

This collection contains information regarding the Florida Citrus Exchange rules and packinghouses. It has various advertisements and historical reports. The bulk of this collection is made up of photographs, ranging from employees, Citrus Queens, and award ceremonies to groves, machinery and packinghouse exteriors and interiors. Many of these photographs are of individual counties' exchange offices. There are also several periodicals in this collection, such as the Seald-Sweet Scratch Pad. Overall, all the information contained in this collection focuses on Florida Citrus exchange history.