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Consists of materials mostly from the 1950s-1970s pertaining to the life of E. Raymond Smith, businessman from Macon, Georgia. The "E. Raymond Smith scrapbook" includes photographs, newspapers clippings, and other documents chronicling his business career. This scrapbook also notably includes a letter from Mrs. Clifford H. Hicks, critcizing Smith's dealership employees for continuing to "use the old style policy" of referring to black customers by "given name." The "James Brown scrapbook" chronicles his friendship and business partnership with musician, James Brown, including letters, checks, and signed photographs of the two men together.

The collection consists of photographic prints collected by Arnold and Alvin Gilbert during the 1900s. Prints are 8x10, some signed by the photographer, and photographers include Ansel Adams, Paul Caponigro, Manuel Carrillo, Barbara Crane, Joseph Jachna, Kenneth Josephson, Claire Trotter, and Brett Weston.

The collection consists of two letters between J. R. and Gilly Ansley, written from Garden Valley, Texas and O. and Elizabeth Walls of Thomaston, Georgia. The letters discuss family illness, the growing of crops, and the heat of mid-day.

The collection consists of a twenty-nine page folio containing Georgia Colonial Governor Sir James Wright's answers to questions posed by the Lords of the Committee for Trade of Great Britain's Privy Council dated Savannah, Georgia, February 15, 1762. Divided into 17 sections, the document contains information on Georgia's geography, boundaries, location of rivers and towns, as well as French or Spanish settlements; trade with Great Britain; imported goods of British manufacture; trade with foreign countries; produce of Georgia; population and growth in the colony; the militia; forts and defenses; trade, treaties, population, and location of the Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaws, and Cherokee Indians; duties; civil officers including name, title of office, pay, and when appointed; and the court system.

The scrapbook (1942-1946) contains Army memos, letters, clippings and photographs of Thomas Whitehead and other officers. His handwritten commentary on each page gives more details about his Army career. A folder of loose items documents his return to military service (1950-1952) during the Korean War and his promotion to Colonel at the Army Chemical Center at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland. Whitehead was head of the Chemical Division, Chemical Corps Chemical and Radiological Laboratories and made several trips to Canada for chemical warfare research. The collection also includes military orders, forms, and correspondence from the 1940s through 1962. The remaining items relate to Thomas Whitehead's professional career in the Chemistry Department at the University of Georgia as well as his time as Dean of the Graduate School from 1968 to 1972.

This collection contains laboratory notes of Dr. R. Bruce King. Most are from his time as a Fellow at the Mellon Institute. Also included are laboratory notes of Anthony Fronzaglia and Milton Bisnette, both of whom published research with Dr. King.

A letter dated "Savannah 3d January 1841" addressed to C. Durand, a merchant of New York and New Orleans. Generally social in tone and thanking Durand for his kindnesses during a stay in Baltimore, Porter also discourses on the scene in Savannah and particularly the difficulties with the cotton crop: "The cotton crop (Sea Island and upland in Georgia) will not exceed more than a half crop." The letter is two pages long entirely in Porter's bold hand.

This collection contains manuscript materials for five of Horace Montgomery's works. They document his scholarly contributions as author of Howell Cobb's Confederate Career, Johnny Cobb: Confederate Aristocrat, and Cracker Parties; co-author of Civilzation Through the Centuries; and editor of Georgians in Profile: Historical Essays in Honor of Ellis Merton Coulter, published by the University of Georgia Press in 1959. The authors of the latter festschrift were former students of Dr. Coulter.

The collection consists of a 2,138 piece antique postcard collection dating mainly from the 1880s to the 1930s. The collection includes World War I period postcards from famous ocean liners, French landmarks and French royalty, many signed and hand-colored. There are extensive collections from Central amd South America, circa 1925, and several postcards from Europe, including several depicting Adolph Hitler from 1935.