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The photographs document the lives, work habits, environment and customs of cowboys in Florida's cattle country.

Photographic prints and ephemera relating to Miami area professional baseball teams and players.

Photographs include the Miami Marlins, Miami Orioles, Baltimore Orioles, Miami Beach Flamingo, and the Baltimore Orioles minor league baseball teams; Miami Marlins coaches, managers, fans and the Miami Stadium.

Also included are game rosters, scorebooks, and advertising pieces featuring the 1957 Miami Marlins Team with Satchel Paige

Views include U.S. troops, Cubans, Havana fortresses, Colon Cemetery, countryside, and towns. Some unidentified views are probably of Chicago, Illinois.

Materials pertaining to Jimmy Ellenburg and his activities. Chiefly photographs of Jimmy's Hurricane restaurant, a memoir of Stiltsville (Biscayne Bay), the photographs show interior and exterior views of the restaurant. An oversized scrapbook contains photographs of Stiltsville and Mr. Ellenburg's guests (including Florida Governor, LeRoy Collins) relaxing and fishing.

Also included are letters of Miami Senior High School and letters of appreciation from various dignitaries.

The “Sheriff’s Papers” are miscellaneous county records, most of which did not originate with the Sheriff’s Department. The “Sheriff’s Papers” were obtained from the Dade County (now Miami-Dade County) Sheriff’s Department around 1953.

The collection includes letters, telegrams, bank statements, budgets, warrants, payrolls, requisitions, purchase orders, invoices, receipts, minutes, resolutions, bills of law, court decisions, legal opinions, affidavits, petitions, charters, licenses, tax returns, tax sale certificate, titles, bids, lists (jurors, registered voters, county employees, landowners, Home Guards), applications for employment, reports, statistics, publications, etc.

A major portion of the collection consists of the correspondence of various members of the Board of the County Commissioners, particularly Chairmen W. Cecil Watson and Charles H. Crandon, and Deputy Clerk W. E. Norton. Some of the correspondence is personal, dealing mainly with job recommendations, political campaigns, and matters of courtesy. The bulk of the correspondence covers a wide range of county business. From the turn of the century to the time of the Bust, bond issues, real estate, right-of-way negotiations, roads, canals, bridges, causeways, beautifications – the economics and politics of rapid growth – predominate. During the 1930s, economy, reduction, consolidation of county administration, charity cases, relief work, tax sales and adjustments, illustrate the difficult economic and social conditions of the period and the county government’s response to it.

Throughout the entire correspondence, there is a large number of letters written to the County Commissioners by local residents and visitors on a great variety of subjects, many of them accompanied by a copy of the reply. There are letters from county scholarship students requesting permission to join fraternities, from black citizens protesting some humiliating regulations, from irate owners of orchards and other property damaged by county road crews, from a man demanding the reward for delivering the dead body of an escaped criminal, from an attorney requesting that a young black female county prisoner, convicted of manslaughter in a drunken driving accident, be allowed to serve the rest of her sentence as a maid in his household, from a mother seeking reimbursement or reduction of a fine imposed on her by a justice of the peace for choking a teacher who choked her child, from a northern investor who can’t sell  his Dade County bonds without a loss castigating the Commissioner for spending over four million dollars building that “awful tombstone” of a new court house, from Alligator Joe applying for a permit to kill  a manatee “for scientific and educational purposes,” from destitute widows eternally  grateful for a mother’s pension, etc., etc. There is wealth of material here on the quality of life at the time of an average citizen, on a day-to-day level. In order to make use of this source, however, the original arrangement of the material, which has been retained with minor changes, makes it necessary to peruse numerous “miscellaneous” folders, arranged only according to the initials of the correspondents and dates (Boxes 4,5, and 6).

Part of the correspondence is filed in folders numbered 1 to 106 (Box 7). This series is topically arranged, if somewhat arbitrarily. Some folders contain extensive exchanges of letters on a given subject, others but a single item of dubious importance. The container list gives a brief description of the contents of each numbered folder.

Articles and advertising pieces illustrated with photographs shot by Romer. Most are newspaper clippings, tear sheets and advertisments from local, state and national publications. Depicts scenic and social images of Miami and South Florida, dwellings and communities for real estate pieces, and images for product advertising and feature stories. Clients include Burdine's (department store), and Bay Point (subdivision development) on Biscayne Boulevard.

Scrapbook and binder compiled by Dwaine Simpson. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, ephemera and some photographs chronicling the lives of the Dundee brothers, boxers, trainers, and other personalities associated with the Fifth Street Gym. While the bulk of the items pertain to Muhammad Ali, the careers of boxers such as Cuban American Kid Gavilan are also recorded. Also includes newspaper clippings from national newsapers celebrating the life of Muhammad Ali after his death in June 2016

Binder containing mostly photographs of the boxers, including Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Robinson, Willie Pastrano, Kid Gavilan and Roberto Duran. Others in the boxing fraternity include the Dundee brothers, Don King, Dr. Ferdie Pacheo and other gym personnel. Images of celebrities who attended "fight nights" include Art Carney, Don Johnson, Sean Connery & Ernest Borgnine, who appeared as Angelo Dundee in the Muhammad Ali biopic "The Greatest".

The records document Hannelore Hill's involvement in planning, coordinating, directing, and hosting Burdines fashion events. The collection includes correspondence, memorandums, fashion market trend books and reports, public relations pieces, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, press releases, in-house fashion merchandising and market reports, agendas and programs for Fete de Soleil and other fashion events, photographs and slides

Records include the minutes of the association; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets and ephemera pertaining to the events the association organized:  the Coconut Grove Arts Festival, the Coconut Grove Centennial and the Coconut Grove Pioneers Chowder Luncheon.

Minutes, which include a synopsis of the paper presented, attendance rosters, histories of the club through 1997 and personal accounts of members.

Clippings of Nixon Smileys' articles and columns on Florida for the Miami Herald. Topics include: gardening and farming; social life and customs; history; environmental conditions such as beach erosion and hurricanes; insurance executive John D. McArthur and the Davis Brothers of  Winn-Dixie Stores. Some correspondence, drafts of articles, photographs and negatives.

Research materials, newspaper clippings, typescripts, notes and brochures and material on topics of South Florida interest.

Placards call for equal treatment for Haitians and an end to discrimination.

The records consist of meeting minutes, correspondence, conference and program reports, newsletters, newspaper clipping, photographs and scrapbooks of clippings. Materials pertaining to the Florida Region of the National Conference of Christians and Jews are housed in boxes 1-3 and those of the Greater Miami Region of National Conference of Community and Justice are in box 4. Newspaper clippings, scrapbooks and VHS recordings for both groups are in boxes 5-6.

Two programs from the Humanitarian awards dinner in 2007 and 2008 are the only items from the Miami Coalition of Christians and Jews era. Records from 2005 when the name change was effected have been retained by the organization.

The collection consists of scrapbooks, journals, newsletters, photographs, membership applications and other club records.

Also included is a set of mostly color images of events (1971-1980). The images are in their original and dated envelopes with some hand written notes. They were collected by Helen M. Pardee during her tenure as secretary to the Committee of One Hundred.

Photographic prints of South Florida, including images from miniature sets sold to tourists. Topics include agriculture, World War II in South Florida, Florida attractions, Seminole Indians, Cuba, children, dwellings, solar heating water panels, sports, industry, occupations, leisure activities, Miami and Miami Beach.