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The collection consists of seven volumes of picture postcards, most of them from European trips made by Miss Mary Strahan.

The collection consists of a certificate of ownership of 14 shares of stock in the Bank of the State of Georgia, to Mrs. D. C. Jones, dated August 13, 1890, signed by F. M. Coker, President; certificate of deposit for $1,400 in Bank of the State of Georgia, dated April 11, 1895; and a handwritten poem on Rome, written on back of a notice regarding the organization of the Bank of Monroe, dated 1891.

The collection consists of printed copies of digital photographs of papers from Governor James Wright's Evidences file held at The National Archives in Kew, Surrey, England. Papers support Wright's loyalist claim; and concern plantations loyal to the Crown, and charges against the rebellious government of Georgia. Also included are (photographs of) correspondence and documents regarding land and property holdings. Papers are dated approximately 1762-1789, and the digital photographs of the papers were taken by Mary Warren in 2010.

The collection consists of a selection of transcripts from the Manila war crimes tribunals, paginated 3029-3087, documenting the questioning and testimony of the accused, General Masaharu Homma. While his trial lasted about five weeks, this portion of transcripted material appears to cover the proceedings of February 5, 1946. Also included is a large fold-out map of the Phillipines with charts and notes showing deployment of troops and combat strategies.

The collection consists of a requisition for salt, dated 20 October 1774 and signed by John Newdigate, Stephen Maddox, and Mordecai Sheftall (in frame); three issues of Georgia continental paper money ($4 and $5 Spanish milled and $5 Continental) for 1776 and 1777; late eighteenth century Masonic apron with hand-drawn illustrated cover belonging to Levi Sheftall, member of Solomon's Lodge, Savannah; newspaper account (Beaumont, Texas Journal, 3 March 1942) of three items and other Sheftall memorabilia and a Xerox of a biographical sketch of Cooper Sheftall.

This collection includes two hand made wooden what-not shelves, possibly made of Mahogany. One shelf has carved Masonic symbol decorations, the other is smaller with leaf decorations. Their date and maker are unknown.

The collection consists of correspondence between John Bonner, Head of Special Collections at the University of Georgia, and Maury Bromsen. Bonner and Bromsen discuss manuscripts University of Georgia purchased (and received) from Bromsen (including Lanman's Congressional manuscripts and the Alfred Burton Greenwood manuscript). The collection also consists of clippings regarding the annual Bromsen Lectures in Humanistic Bibliography at the Boston Public Library.

The collection consists of Maxwell Taylor Courson's 1976 article "Remembering when the Men's Glee Club was on that 'rilly big shew'"(published in Georgia Alumni Record), and information Courson used to write the article (a couple letters from former Glee Club members addressed to Maxwell). The collection also includes a copy of "Bessie could not help it" by Byron H. Warner and a program from a performance of the UGA Men's Glee Club.

The collection consists of information regarding patients treated at Mays Confederate Hospital from 1864-1865. The volume contains four sections: a brief history of Mays Confederate Hospital; a chronological log including patient's name, rank, company, regiment, brigade, post office, state, number of days in the hospital, disease, where reported, remarks, and a hospital number; a registry for the Medical Examining Board of the hospital that lists patients with more serious wounds or illnesses; and information on Madison residents treated at the hospital.