Includes journals, biographical sketches, correspondence, articles, lesson manuals, published and unpublished manuscripts, photographs, and ephemera. The bulk of the material was created by Joseph B. Keeler's descendants, who used his papers as they compiled their published family history, "Build Thee More Stately" (1989). The collection focuses on family history, religion, education, and professional organizations.

Photocopy of notes taken for a theology class taught by Joseph B. Keeler beginning in September 1893; and undated notes for a class on social etiquette. Also includes a print, negative, and photocopy, of a group photograph of Academy students, originally taken by A. D. Anderson of Provo, Utah, presumably in 1893. The theology class notes are mostly typewritten and were placed on pages so as to obscure earlier handwritten notes.