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Joe Merman was a composer, pianist, orchestrator, and arranger of popular Jewish and American music. The Joe Merman Music Collection includes 1000 pieces of sheet music; all scores are unpublished, single-copy manuscripts and represent his diverse talent in writing different combinations of big band charts and pieces for theatre and radio orchestras. The collections also includes two scrap books that contain numerous images, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and correspondence spanning across Joe Merman

Florida State University Building Appraisals as of April 1955. A few have material from 1956.

Materials included in the Vintage Florida Postcard collection include postcards from regions spanning the State of Florida.

This collection contains annual membership and meeting records, photographs, newspapers, magazines, newspaper clippings, audio/visual materials, and photographs of PRVCGA members, events, businesses, and workshops. Any newspaper or magazine articles that mentioned PRVCGA or Barbara Carlton (formerly Barbara Oxford) are included in this collection as either loose clippings or part of the scrapbook. Most of the photographs are candids of events and meetings, however there are several official portraits as well.

The Cuban Human Right Collection date from 1961 to 2004, primarily covering issues of human rights on Cuba. In addition to Cuban newspaper clippings from the 1980s to the early 2000s, published in The Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, and other periodicals, the collection also includes audio interviews with Cuban dissidents, which include key members of the dissident movement in Cuba. Radio programs from Cuba en vivo y en directo, the first U.S. radio program to feature the perspectives of dissidents, created by Ariel Hidalgo in 1989. Documents written by jailed dissidents in Cuba. Photographs of Cuban dissidents. Television programs from Cuba, recorded from government-run TV stations on the island during the 1980s and 90s.

The Ramiro Casanas Collection provides a look into the Casanas Family's longtime passion for collecting. The collection's primary focus is on pieces that document Cuban history during the nineteenth and twentieth century. It features Cuban artwork, handwritten poetry, cigar boxes, periodicals, and sports paraphernalia. Also included are artifacts from around the world, such as international banknotes, political ephemera, maps, and photographs.

In 2012, Cantor Murray Yavneh donated his collection of nearly 200 pieces of print music, music manuscripts, song books, and periodicals to Florida Atlantic University. The collection dates from 1863 to 1976 and includes: cantorial music Hebrew and Yiddish songs, American popular standards, and instrumental works.