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The collection consists of various loose pages of manuscripts dating from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, some rubricated with ornate initials and borders. Eight items are on vellum, three contain musical notation, are in Latin and appear to be religious in nature. One document is a leaf from the 1479 Biblia Latina by Nicholas Jenson of Venice. Also included is a full-page metalcut of the Virgin Mary from a French book of hours and Seven illuminated initials by Giovanni da Cramariis.

This collection contains a single illuminated manuscript leaf on vellum from a Book of Hours in Latin from Flanders circa 1440. The leaf contains a grisaille initial depicting St. Peter.

This collections contains four illuminated manuscript leaves on vellum from the Cotterell-Throckmorton Book of Hours, three containing Prayers of St. Bridget, and one leaf with the Verses of St. Bernard.

The collection consists of Gone with the Wind illustrations from the 1960s and 1970s. John Groth was commissioned by the Heritage Press to illustrate a new edition of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind; prints of these drawings are included in this collection.

The collection consists imprints, collected by Works Progress Administration workers as part of the "Southeastern Imprints Plan." The bulk of the imprints reflect works produced between the years 1808-1875, and several imprints reflect twentieth century dates.

The Plans for Cooperative Home Demonstration work with farm families-Georgia books cover the years 1944-1946, 1948-1960. There were a number of well-known Cooperative Extension agents, including Leila Mize, who contributed to the books. These planning books where full of useful information that was designed to help improve the lives of farm families, particularly that of women and girls.

This collection contains five leaves of Dante's "Purgatorio," 1477; a single leaf from Florentius' "Confessionale volgare," circa 1480; a single leaf of Tortellius' "Commentariorum grammaticorum de Orthographia," 1477; a single leaf of Virgil's "L'Eniede in prosa volgare ridotta," 1476; a single leaf from an unknown German chronicle with miniatures of St. Bridget and the convent, and Popes Urban V and Gregory XI, 15th century; a single leaf from Jacobus de Voragine's "The Golden Legend" and a single leaf from "Perush ha-Tora" by Moses ben Nachman.

The collection consists of a land indenture between Robert Moon of Jackson County, Georgia, and his children, George M. D. Moon and Susan C. David, for a tract of land in Jackson County, Georgia.

Consists of one indenture between Robert Smalbroke, Richard Smalbroke, and Ambrose Stovall, made during the reign of Charles II. Pertains to the delivery of pepper plants in exchange for 5 shillings. Agreement was signed in the office of Thomas Smalbroke, John Jefson, and Edward "hoawood" although script is unclear.