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The Moe Katz Collection includes bills, financial deeds related to Temple Emanu-el and the Jewish section of Fort Lauderdale's Evergreen cemetery, newspapers clippings, personal papers and photographs.

Correspondence, dissertation, manuscripts, and research notes related to the research and writing of Nita K. Pyburn. Correspondence subjects include Florida, public education, Florida State University, Leighton K. Johnson, Edgar W. Knight, New Orleans, North Carolina, South Carolina education, and Tennessee. The dissertation in the collection is entitled "Antecedents of the North Carolina School Law of 1839." The manuscripts cover subjects such as high schools in Monticello, Florida, public schools in Escambia County, Florida education, public schools in Mississippi, Robert Grosstest, the Bishop of Lincoln, M. R. Hinson, and Tallahassee schools. Her research notes discuss Alabama, Arkansas, common schools, comparative education, Texas, and David S. Walker. Other subjects of note include: Edwin B. Browning, Concord Missionary Baptist Church, Mary Shad Button, reading difficulties, Jacksonville, and education in Walton County.

The materials in this collection reflect the creator's role of Director of Public Relations at Florida Southern College and Coordinator of Frank Lloyd Wright activities. The collection primarily consists of news artcicles related to Mr. Wright's projects at FSC and around the country. Correspondence with architects and others interested in FLLW are included. Additionally, the collection includes materials related to tours of the Wright-designed buildings of the FSC campus, including correspondence with visitors.

The Florida State University Southern Business History Center Records include, correspondence to and from the center, including memos, form letters, responses, questionnaire, annual reports, photographs and publications; and oral interviews recorded in May and June, 1954 and August 1956 on 1/4 inch audio tape reels. They also include a group of historical records of the Eberhard Faber Pencil Company at Cedar Key, Florida.

Program from the Alabama VS. Florida State football game on September 23rd, 1967

The collection consists of 95 lithographs, 1 Black And White photograph, a typed list of lithographs by Marion Rinhart, and three other items; The collection dates from 1799 to roughly 1865 but some of the lithographs may be earlier than 1799 and some may be later than 1865. The date given, 1879, for the maps of the states is wrong based on the fact that New Mexico did not become a state until 1912. The collection is small but it is surprising distributed across the global and includes a varity of engravings.