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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.

Two prints of Walt Whitman advertisements from 1889 and 1855.

The collection contains maps of the shipyard buildings, circa 1945, invitations to ship launches, contract listings, newspaper clippings, and newspaper article reproductions.

This collection contains the personal materials of Paul C. Wimbish, a notable South Florida realtor based in Miami. Paul was very active in bringing Spanish language courses to Dade County Schools. He was a graduate of the University of Miami and the Univeristy of North Carolina, and worked for both PanAmerican and NBC before going into real estate.

Programs, pamphlets, booklets, and other documents and ephemera reflecting Caroline Louise Battle's time at Florida State College for Women.

The Norman Johnson Collection documents the development of Sunrise Golf Village and the City of Sunrise from 1960 to 1964. It contains 3 large aerial photographs of Sunrise; 1 real estate promotion brochure titled "Better Living Begins in Sunrise"; 1 Sunrise Golf Village scrapbook; and 1 advertisement with text "Upside-Down House Moved to New Location".