The Thomas D’Amico Papers contain materials collected by D’Amico before, during, and after his time aboard the U.S.S. Bear of Oakland for Richard Byrd's second Antarctic expedition. The collection contains one coat, four pairs of googles, one pocket knife, one knife in a sheath, one pair of gloves, a three piece set of Fraunfelter commemorative china (a mug, small bowl, and a soup bowl), one United States Navy medal, one American Guernsey Cattle Club medal, one Havalite pencil and lighter combination, and several documents pertaining to D’Amico’s time before, during and after the expedition. Documents include correspondence, a scrapbook, clippings and photographs. Materials are dated circa 1926 to 1957, with the bulk of material being dated circa 1933 to 1935.

The Patrick Tiberi Papers consist of materials from Tiberi’s political career in the United States House of Representatives (2001-2018), as well as from his time in the Ohio House of Representatives (1993-2000), and limited personal correspondence. Materials primarily date to his time in Congress, and include information used by his staff to run his district and federal offices, including yearly Member’s Representational Allowance information, staff handbooks, schedules, and policies. Also included in the collection are materials related to the legislative work done by Tiberi in Congress, such as a selection of correspondence, Dear Colleague letters received, subject files, financial disclosures, and materials related to bills sponsored or cosponsored by Tiberi. His constituent services while in Congress are shown local case files, as well as associated planning materials and correspondence, local subject files, and comment cards and planning information for his district office hours. Also included are audiovisual materials on VHS videocassette, DVD, and compact disc that show Tiberi’s media appearances on the local news and other public appearances. The collection contains ephemera from Tiberi’s political campaigns for the United States House of Representatives, as well as a selection of awards and memorabilia awarded to Tiberi throughout his whole political career. Also included are clippings files for the entirety of Tiberi’s time in federal office. Folder and item titles were taken from descriptions written on original folders used by Tiberi's staff, or text of the items themselves. The collection is dated 1993-2018, with the bulk of material dating 2000-2017.

The Paul R. Carmack Collection and Papers includes a folder of letters from notable people, clippings of his editorial cartoons published in The Christian Science Monitor, a copy of his book The Adentures of Slim and Spud. The majority of this collection are topical subject files of newspapers clippings that Carmack collected. These clippings are from the 1930s and 1940s and focus on the issues of the day. It assumed Carmack collected this information to assist in the creation of his political cartoons for this time period.

The materials in the International Museum of Cartoon Art Collection and Records have been grouped into six series: 1) Proofs, prints and posters 2) Merchandise 3) Organizational records 4) Audio, video, film and floppy media 5) Photographs 6) materials created by animator and artist Wes Herschensohn.

The Proofs, prints and posters include newspaper tear sheets, clippings, comic strip pages aswell as adverts and prints. There are numerous Hal Foster Prince Valiant proofs and tearsheets. Many tearsheets in the collection were taken from the Chicago Tribune, New York Herald, Philadelphia Enquirer, South Bend Tribune, and Sun Sentinel. A number of the posters are for Disney movies.

The Merchandise in the collection is an eclectic mix of cartoon and comics themed collectibles. It includes plastic and ceramic figures, plushes, dolls, bobbleheads, mugs, plates, clothing, banners, board games, and various other realia relating to newspaper comic strip and TV/movie cartoon characters. They have been grouped where there was a significant number of items related to a particular character or strip. These include titles and characters such as Peanuts, Popeye, Garfield, Beetle Bailey, Kilban, Betty Boop, Little Orphan Annie, Nancy, Dick Tracy, Disney and various Superheroes. The merchancise also contains some IMCA related realia.

The bulk of the collection consists of the Organizational Records of the museum and includes correspondence, board of trustees records, financial files including bills and fiscal year reports, human resource records, curatorial and exhibition files, loan information, accession records, biographical files and newspaper clippings. There are files from the early 1990s concerning the constrution and building of the Boca Raton, IMCA building and correspondence relating to the closing of the museum including the Guernsey's catalog of materials sold from the collection in 2001.

The Audio, video, film and floppy media in the collection include over thirty reel to reel audio recordings from the 1950s and 1960s of 'The cartoonist's art' a WRVR syndicated radio show hosted by Vernon Greene. Also included from a similiar time period are twenty recordings of Bill Crawford interviewing contemporary cartoonists. Films include over 600 16mm reels of King Features TV cartoon shows from the 1950s, including; Krazy Kat, Cool McCool, Harry McCool, Popeye, Beetle Bailey & Barney Google.

The collection contains many photographs of the museum, mostly of IMCA at the Boca Raton, Florida location but there are also some of the museum at its Greenwich and Ward's castle locations.

Finally the collection contains hundreds of animation cels and drawings created by Wes Herschensohn for the 1969 movie 'The Picasso Summer' aswell as sketchbooks he created for 'Mikromythos' a proposed project on the life of Beethoven'.

This collection contains clippings and original manuscripts of Liberty magazine articles by Bert Green, as well as comic strip syndicate proofs, research materials, photographs, and sketches. Correspondence from the White House and notable people such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Charlie Chaplin, and J. Edgar Hoover are also housed in Green's business correspondence file.

The collection consists of original art, in a variety of media, and includes tearsheets, proofs, posters, mechanicals and photographs of Eisner's works; general papers; business correspondence; fan mail; educational materials developed by Eisner, such as the series Grammarfun; comic books; examples of his commercial products; books illustrated by Eisner; scrapbooks; magazine articles by or about Will Eisner; merchandise, mostly from The Spirit; memorabilia. Also included are works by artists who worked for Eisner, such as Jules Feiffer, Andre LeBlanc, Klaus Nordling and Fred Schwab. Numerous works by Eisner, including PS, are cataloged separately in the library catalog.

The Daniel Talpas Papers contains materials collected by Talpas before, during, and after his time aboard the U.S.S. Philippine Sea, including a numbered photograph set of the Operation Highjump expedition, and nearly complete runs of the newsletters produced by the ship's crew, including the "Philippine Sea Line" and "Penguin Special." The collection contains general commemorative items available to the crew (stationary, matchbooks, publications), as well as items specific to Talpas, including his Ancient Order of the Deep summons and certificate, and photographs he personally took. The collection also includes Talpas' Plank Owner certificate for the U.S.S. Philippine Sea, as well as a few articles from magazines about the ship and Operation Highjump. Materials date primarily from the time immediately before, during, and after the expedition in 1946-1947, and one article about Admiral Byrd and Operation Highjump dates from 1954.