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The USF Library's David P. Wollowick Currency Collection contains items dating from the 1760s to the 1950s, with the bulk from the1850s through the 1860s. During this period there was no centralized American banking system so states, townships, and individual banks issued their own currency. The "Free Banking" movement of the period proclaimed citizens' right to set up banks rather than the states, leading many businesses to print their own currency as well. Bank Notes of America, 1859 listed 9,916 notes issued by 1,365 banks, with roughly another 200 banknotes omitted from their listing.

Documents and artifacts related to student life at FSCW and FSU, as well as service during World War II. The collection includes a photo album covering the years of 1943-1947, a graduation program from 1947, WWII Marine memoirs and pamphlets, and a WWII veteran diary in CD and book format.

This collection consists of portrait paintings, books, and a variety of papers by and about the Bloomsbury Group and individuals associated with Bloomsbury.

Papers of William P. Slusser including receipts, payment orders, store accounts, a newspaper advertisement of public sale, and sales at auction on account.

This collection relates to Libby Werbner who served as a teacher with the Manzanar, California Japanese American Internment Camp during World War II. The collection includes an oral history interview transcripts and original photographs. Werbner describes her experience as a third grade teacher, Japanese culture, life in the camp, Army recruitment and the difference between her experiences at an internment camp and what she heard about concentration camps.

The bulk of this collection consists of printed materials, such as newspaper clippings and various publications documenting Leavengood's professional career with the University of South Florida Institute on Aging.  Also accompanying the papers are numerous publications edited by Lee Leavengood.

This collection contains original manuscripts with editorial notes notes (including those pertaining to chapters), drafts, research, promotions of her works,photographs and personal comments to several of her novels, including Suspicion of Guilt, Criminal Justice, Blood Relations, Suspicion of Deceit, Suspicion of Innocence, and Suspicion of Betrayal. Additionally, this collection contains select unabridged audiobooks to Suspicion of Guilt and Suspicion of Betrayal.