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The collection includes a sword and dagger from Nazi Germany. The sword is an officer's light dress sword, with scabbard. The dagger is a standard issue dress dagger with scabbard.

The collection consists of correspondence and papers from Herbert Muller, a soldier in the 354th Infantry Regiment, 89th Division, American Expeditionary Force during World War I. The letters are all addressed to Ada C. Braun in Chesterfield, Missouri.

The collection consists of mimeograph copies of information regarding the life of Sarah Gilliam Williamson during the Revolutionary War and letters from Col. F.C. Chandler concerning his service in World War I. There are letters from Fort Collins, France, Chattanooga (Tennessee), Bristol (Virginia), and from his active service with the American Expeditionary Force and the British Expeditionary Force.

In 1942 during the early stages of World War II, Walter S. Brown, Director of the Georgia Cooperative Extension at the University of Georgia, sent out a letter stating "we are anxious to keep in close touch with all Extension Workers in the armed forces... I am asking you to send me your present address... [and] I would apprreciate your writing us a few paragraphs telling us of your particular duties and anything you think the other Extension men in the service and at home would like to hear about you.. We plan to send a letter regularly to every man in the service telling him something of what we are trying to do back home and of what all of your are doing for Victory in the armed forces."

The Art Rosenbaum Oral History Series includes six interviews with Art Rosenbaum, interviewed by Craig Breaden in Athens, Georgia. Rosenbaum (born 1938) is an art professor emeritus at the University of Georgia, an artist, musician, and folklorist. In 2008, he won a Grammy award for Best Historical Album for his music collection Art of Field Recording Volume I: Fifty Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum (released in November 2007). In these interviews, Rosenbaum talks about collecting and recording songs, the history behind some of the tracks on his 2007 music collection, and the response after the collection was released.

This collection consists of materials prepared for the Richard B. Russell Special Collections Libraries Building's January 28, 2010 groundbreaking ceremony, January 2012 grand opening and the February 17, 2012 dedication ceremony. Items found in the collection include ribbons, invitations, programs, text of speeches, Columns and PR materials.

The collection consists of correspondence from the 1930s to the 1990s, clippings about Birchmore, photographs of Birchmore, and a bound volume of magazines which contain cartoon versions of Birchmore's trip around the world on a bike. The oversized folder includes signs from Birchmore's experience as an Olympic torch bearer and a proclamation from Governor Zill Miller about the Kiwanis Club's 75th anniversary.

The collection consists of letters, newspaper articles, photographs and examples of the poetry relating to the career of Judge Verner. Also included are research materials and writings from Esther and John, plus photographs, newspaper clippings, county records and related materials, about the families of Verner, Arrendall, Bond, and Bowers. Large black-and-white photographs of John Harris Bowers (1836-1909) and wife Elizabeth Rice Bowers (1840-1881), parents of Aaron Newton Bowers and grandparents of Esther Bowers Verner. Certificate of Esther Virginia Bowers graduation from Atlanta Conservatory of Music, 1919. Decatur Bar Association photographs, 1961-1962.