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This collection contains materials that were used by WGTV during the 1970s and 1980s. It also contains administrative files pertaining to the television station.

The collection consists of the papers of Joseph Henry Lumpkin and the Lumpkin family of Athens, Georgia from 1780-1903. Includes correspondence, bills, a diary, indentures, lands grants, legal documents, and maps. The bulk of the correspondence is to Joseph Henry Lumpkin (1820-1856) discussing politics, the 1840 presidential election, the Wilmont Proviso (dealing with slavery), legal cases, law practice, and Lumpkin's appointments. Major correspondents include John MacPherson Berrien, Howell Cobb, Ebenezer Staines, and Hiram Warner. The diary was written by Mary B. Thomas, a school girl in Forsyth, Georgia, who later married Edwin King Lumpkin. Written from June - August 1873, Thomas describes her friends, school, social and family life.

This collection contains family history and photographs, scrapbooks and photo albums, land records, and ephemera collected by William H. Foy III. Included are letters from William H. Foy Jr. during his time serving in the U.S. Army during World War II.

The collection consists of correspondence, guest books, annual district reports, photographs, minutes, scrapbooks, receipts and bills, programs, and booklets produced by the Garden Club. The materials document the activities of the Garden Club of Georgia as well as local garden clubs throughout Georgia and on the national level. Some topics include landscape design schools, flower shows, blue star memorial highway markers, and garden therapy.

This unprocessed collection consists of hundreds of pieces of sheet music collected by Guido Adler.

This photograph collection consists of family albums from the early 1880s to the 1890s, containing mostly gelatin type prints. There are also a few ferrotypes. Most of the albums contains pictures of women, men, and children. Two of the albums contain reprints of National Archives negatives taken during the Civil War, including pictures of battle fields and of destruction in Georgia, and one album is a collection of pictures of Civil War generals, including an index for reference.

The Edd Winfield Parks collection consists mainly of Parks' manuscripts, research notes, and correspondence with publishers and universities. While five of his published books are included in the collection, most of the manuscripts are in typescript and range from the 1930s through the 1960s. Some manuscripts are hand-written and show his revisions. Parks' research notes are almost entirely on notecards, though they remain unsorted in the majority of boxes. The final six boxes are processed and organized by magazine. Correspondence with publishers and universities about his work and career exist throughout the collection. The only personal materials in the collection are Parks' World War II service materials and his passport collection. Otherwise, the collection centers around his literary work and the research done for his books.

The collection consists of papers of Adrienne Battey from 1915-1942. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence to Battey from writers, public figures, and friends. Letters discuss Battey's or other authors' works, news of friends, European travels, and life in New York City. Correspondents include Sidney Blackmer, Edith Ellis, Lenore Ulric, Malcolm Vauphain, Grace Seely, Michael Strange, and Mary Brent Whiteside.

The collection consists of news clippings and correspondence to Adrienne Battey regarding the death of Frances Newman. One letter from Battey to her aunt (October 23, 1929) discusses in detail the events surrounding Newman's death.