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The collection consists of a handwritten military communication dated December 7, 1862, originating with Captain T. E. Armstrong, certifying that three men reported as having been paid are not members of Armstrong's Company, nor have they been since it was organized. The communication is successively endorsed in autograph by Brigadier General George Dales, Major General D. H. Hill, and General T. J. Jackson.

The collection consists of pins, medals, v-mail, photographs, and photocopies of newspaper clippings from World War II. V-mail contains notes and drawings, and is from Lt. Savo Vukomanovkh to Mrs. Vira Wise of Huntsville, Alabama, and Paul Gentile to Mary Alice Wise of New York. Captioned photographs depict military personnel and aircrafts, at work and at ease. Newspaper clippings (photocopies) concern West Point graduates, the Citizen Army 'Core and West Point, and West Point graduates entering the Army on D-Day. Some miscellaneous items include a war ration book of Mary Alyce Wise, four twenty-five cent War Savings Stamps belonging to Diana Lynn Matthews, a printed prayer by Pvt. Michael S. Morton, and a Presentation of Wings program held at Battle Monument, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.

The collection consists of two items: partial letter dated Augusta, August 20, 1873, "Miss. Milledge," concerning a Milledge scholarship at the University of Georgia; five scrapbook pages containing poems, obituaries, and various articles cut out from newspapers, some articles written about or by Milledge family members.

The collection consists of nine photographs (prints made in 1991) of the family of Melanie Garrish of Gainesville, Georgia. Included are photographs of her grandmother (Ruth Gertrude Butler Milligan), grandfather (Archie Lee Milligan), great-grandmother (Mary Magdalene Smith Butler), and great-grandparents (John Henry Milligan, Lucy Elvira Williams Milligan).

The collection consists of a violin and piano score titled Vintimi Chvili.

The collection consists of one typescript titled Meadow Garden is One of Georgia's Most Historic Shrines, by Milton B. Smith. The typescript is inscribed by the author (1963), and concerns George Walton and his home, Meadow Garden, in Augusta, Georgia.

The collection consists of a minute book of the official board of the St. Paul A.M.E Church (Madison, Ga.) from 1886-1909 (with notations dated 1973). Minutes document activities of the Board and include names of members present, financial reports, lists of church members, class rolls, and conference rolls.

The collection consists of minutes documenting the meetings of the Board of Managers of the railroad and cover actions and decisions of the railroad managers. The minutes also record votes, resolutions, and the adoption of bylaws.

This collection consists of the Senatus Academicus' bound handwritten minutes from 1799 to 1842. Inside the back cover of the Senatus Academicus volume are two documents that illustrate the precarious nature of the historical record. The oldest, a note from 1857, specifies that President Alonzo Church is to be given custody of the minutes of both the Trustees and the Senatus, with the exception of the current volume of Senatus minutes that will be kept in the Executive Offices of the state capitol, then in Milledgeville. Pasted over the 1857 note is an 1893 letter from Governor W. J. Northern to Augustus Longstreet Hull, the Secretary and Treasurer of the Board of Trustees, regretting that those later Senatus minutes cannot be found "amid the debris of books, pamphlets, etc., etc., that was brought over to the new state building."

The collection consists of minutes of the Yellow River Baptist Association from 1824-1965. The organizing minutes of 1824 include by-laws, purpose of the organization, and a list of original members. Subsequent minutes document topics discussed and decisions made by Association members, and include a list of member churches and their respective ministers; and for each church the number of members baptized, received by letter, excommunicated, dismissed, or deceased within each year. The volumes also include circular letters of spiritual guidance.