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The collection consists of documents relating to the Georgia lottery from 1858-1859 including advertisements, receipts, and certificates issued by S. Swan & Company (Augusta, Georgia) and Wood, Eddy & Company (Augusta, Georgia).

The collection consists of one record book. Handwritten entries (1870-1833) concern sales and prices; and list names of men in Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama towns who owned stores, owed money, and had paid accounts. Items sold included cotton, corn, wheat, rice, oats, potatoes, chickens, eggs, and butter; dried and uncured animal hides.

The collection consists of various bills, receipts and notes, poem To a Lady by a Female Maniac, and a copy of First Consolidated Mortgage of the Savannah & Western Railroad Co. to the Central Trust Co. of New York (1889).

The collection consists of photographs depicting various scenes in Georgia. Photographs portraying World War I training camps and several University of Georgia sites (including College of Agriculture, dance/drama scenes, and Sanford Field). Four letters at the end of the collection are signed "J.M. Sheppard," Athens, Georgia, July 14, 1917. Letters are addressed to "Levy," Dickingson," "Comer," and "Hill"; and regard photographs and seeing the addressed persons in the fall.

The collection consists of typed minutes of meetings of incorporators, stockholders, and directors of the Georgia Pulp Wood Company, held in 1911.

The collection consists of documents pertaining to the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company. Mostly shares of stock and powers of attorney. Shares are signed by James Camak, John P. King, William Dearing, J. W. Wilde, and others.

The collection consists of an extensive survey of railway passenger service in Georgia dating from the early 1800s. The survey was compiled by Hugh M. Comer of Macon, Georgia and the materials relate to rails into and out of Macon. Also included is a scrapbook of railroad abandonments in Georgia which were compiled by Mr. Comer.

The collection consists of valuations reports by William A. Baehr relating to plants and properties of the Georgia Railway & Electric Company and Atlanta Gas Light Company for the years of 1919 and 1921. The collection also includes Report of the Gainesville Railway & Power Company (January 6, 1916), and six photographs (undated) of the Tallulah Falls plant.

The collection consists of pamphlets, newsletters, and campaign flyers of the Republican National Committee and The Georgia Republican, the newsletter of the Georgia Republican Party Central Committee focusing on the 1948 presidential campaign of Republicans Thomas E. Dewey and Earl Warren. The Georgia Republican newsletter also offers other Republican Party information during that time in Georgia.