Zines covering a wide range of topics including Punk Rock music, coming of age stories, the everyday struggles of young Hispanic American women, poetry, Little Haiti, and architecture, as well as urban and landscape perspectives.

The bulk of the collection consists of colored slides organized topically. A set of black and white negatives with some contact prints show views of the county and County Managers and officials. A folder of color photographs showing some County Commissioners and Managers is housed with the slides in box 1. Images include: Cuban businesses, Sunny Isles, Goombay Festival, the nuclear power plant at Turkey Point, Christo's Surrounded Islands, Little Haiti, Miami Free Trade Zone, the Miccosukee Indian Festival and rodeos.

Photographs by Barbara G. Schindler of people and places in Miami-Dade County. The bulk of the images are of Miami's ethnic neighborhoods, including Little Haiti, Little Havana and the Jewish enclave on South Beach. Views show advertising signs, exteriors and interiors of houses and hotels, lawn ornaments, objects associated with Santeria and Voudou, store fronts, street scenes and restaurants. Other views show the Coconut Grove Cemetery, farm laborers in South Dade, and personalities including Eli Weisel, Senator Bob Graham and Janet Reno.