Collection contains correspondence, family history and biographies, certificates and identifications, school papers and events, legal and financial information within the immediate and extended family, yearbooks, and a large collection of photographs covering the period between 1830 and 1976.

Series contains membership cards, certificates and passports of the Carlisle family between 1854 and 1973.

Series contains newspaper clippings outlining activities of various family members and acquaintances of Emily M. Carlisle between 1884 and 1991.

Series contains youths' writings, school papers, and programs belonging to Emily M. Carlisle from 1907 to 1955.

Contains family correspondence from 1891 to 1976 detailing various activities and news.

Series contains biographies, genealogical records, obituaries, and diaries associated with Emily M. Carlisle and her family history from 1879 to 1984.

Series contains two folders of information on Holladay, Utah, from 1858 to circa 1950.

Series contains photographs of the Emily M. Carlisle family and friends, and various locations associated with the Carlisle family between 1830 and 1976.

Series contains government publications, constitutions, judgments and various papers relating to Utah's irrigation, various court arguments, and Carlisle financial information from 1892 to 1970.

Subseries contains photographs depicting various locations, gravestones of Emily M. Carlisle ancestors, and individuals associated with the Carlisle's between 1936 and 1971.