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This record group contains extensive documentation relating to the foundation, operation, and growth of Broward College (formerly Junior College of Broward County) from earliest local advocacy and planning through organizational and administrative development. Key contents include:

The Marjean Phillips Packard Collection contains 6 photographs of the 1947 hurricane and flooding around buildings such as Walgreens, Sinclair, and the Broward Fruit Company, and a picture of people floating in a raft down the street. The collection also contains three textile items. The first is Charles E. Packard's Boy Scouts unform, 1940 (Mr. L. G. Knapp Leader) and Boy Scouts garrison cap. The second is Marjean Packard's 1940s Girl Scouts Leader's uniform a two-piece uniform of a shirt and skirt, both are made of a green and white woven fabric, left shoulder has a patch embroidered with the Girls Scouts of USA) with a photograph of Marjean Packard in the uniform. The third is Nancy Ann Johnson-Phillips' November 3, 1901 wedding dress bodice, which is black with cream piping, "My Mother's Wedding dress".

The Centro Asturiano de Tampa Collection consists of club and hospital records, meeting minutes, photographs, ephemera, zarzuelas, playbills, financial records, memorias, and cemetery records. Artifacts include flags, trophies, printing plates, and various other items related to the club.

Records, 1968-2017, of the University of West Florida, University Commons and Student Activities, consisting of files on student organizations including honor societies, religious, fraternal, professional, special interest, and academic student groups. Records include charters, bylaws, membership and officer lists, organization activities, and annual filings.

Program for the "75th Anniversary Celebration Rotary Club of Fort Lauderdale, Florida." Saturday, April 26, 1997. 1 spiral-bound booklet (8.5 x 11 inches) 42 pages.

The collection consists of photos, a typed history, and other information regarding the Alpha Delta Chapter of the society and its 75th anniversary celebration.

This collection contains the official orders and other documents related to the service John F. Dunn who served as a pilot with the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II and his postwar service with Strategic Air Command and in Vietnam. The collection contains little personal correspondence, but does include photographs of Dunn's career and aerial maps of Japan from 1945. A set of maps of Japan also make up the collection along with a number of medals awarded to Dunn.

This collection contains information relating to Bert E. Roper's personal life, work life, and social work. It contains his many memberships in various citrus organizations as well as some of the projects he worked on for the Citrus Foundation, such as an advanced irrigation system. It also contains both records of his research and external studies he referenced. The bulk of the collection is focused on the welfare and faith life of the low-level citrus workers, specifically, those living in migrant communities. His correspondance details the work he and his network did in legal and professional fields to help the "citrus worker." He also supported ministry initiatives to improve the faith life of migrant communities. Even his personal correspondance and photos demonstrate to his willingness to restructure the base of the citrus industry as a whole, for the betterment of all employees.