Collection includes black and white photographs of Provo, Utah and some photographs of the Cluff Expedition to Mexico. Most of the photographs have a corresponding glass negative or nitrate negative. There are also acetate copy negatives for some photographs. Also includes two prints of paintings by John B. Fairbanks. Dated 1897-1902.

Collection includes 22 copy photographs of paintings by Roscoe A. Grover, originally painted in the 1960s and 1970s. Paintings feature persons and scenes from the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Letters, maps, advertisements, newspapers, postcards, photographs, pamphlets, paintings, and other papers concerning African American history. Also contains photographs, sketches, letters, pamphlets, memorial coins, and other items concerning prominent African American figures such as George W. Carver, Booker T. Washington, and Frederick Douglass. The materials were collected by white historians William J. Curtis and Annette Wegner Curtis. Dated 1833 to approximately 1998.