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The collection contains materials from student Rubie Plant's involvement in Pi Delta Phi (National French Honor Society) and Sigma Delta Pi (National Hispanic Honor Society) at Florida State College for Women. Rubie Plant was the vice-president of both honor societies during her senior year in 1946. Materials include meeting minutes, correspondence from members and national officers, and member information.

This collection relates to Tadako Knight, who was the wife of U.S. Navy veteran Willard Thomas Knight who served in the U.S. Navy from 1937 until 1958. This collection contains newspaper articles about Guadalcanal, personal letters in Japanese, newsletters, magazines, correspondence with Tallahassee resident and Guadalcanal veteran Harry Horsman, photocopies of photographs, and writings penned by Japanese and U.S. soldiers.

Collection contains letters, refugees' papers, post World War II refugee visas, timeline of wartime experience, and International Refugee forms.

This collection includes primarily the personal papers of U.S. Army Air Corps T/Sgt. Jack B. Newman, 717th Squadron, 449th Bombardment Group, from his time as a prisoner of war in Krems, Austria during World War II. A diary, provided by the American YMCA, contains artwork, poetry, and other writings from Newman's time in the camp. Letters received by family members and friends are also included, as well as miscellaneous loose pages found within the diary. The story of how the B-24 bomber, "Thunder Bay Babe," upon which he served as a radio operator, was hit by flak and shot down is located in multiple folders within the collection.

Wood-bound scrapbook of F-Club induction, year 1957-1958.

The Frost Family Collection contains materials documenting the Frost family, one of Dania's first and most prominent families. The collection materials date from the 1890s through 2009. The collection includes newspaper clippings collected by and about the Frost family. notes on Frost family and Frost family tree, a printout of email correspondence concerning Frost family history, and a small book on Port Everglades in Florida. Correspondence concerns the Frost family business. Financial papers includes deeds and ledgers of payroll dating from the 1890s to 1940s, an abstract of title, Certificate of Membership of M.C. Frost in the National Highway Charts Association, a tax sale certificate, a receipt, and checks. The photographs in the collection are of particular interest as they document the earliest history of Dania as well as the Frost family. Also included are photographs of the Seminole New Dania Reservation from 1927.

Eleanor Mary Parker was a Florida State College for Women student, Class of 1944 (BS, Education).  After her graduation she continued on as an instructor in the physical education department.  The items in the collection include newspaper articles and correspondence relating to her attendance at Florida State College for Women and her career at Florida State University.  (See box list.)

Personal items of Florida State University student Joyce Murriel Chick (BS, Psychology, 1951; MS, Psychology, 1952).  Items are mostly newspaper clippings. (See box list.)

The items in this collection include photographs from Dr. Herman Kurz botany field research. There are also photographs from the Florida State College for Women Faculty-Senior Baseball Game in the early 1920s.