This collection consists of correspondence, photographs, military documents, certificates, financial documents, rosters, and miscellaneous items from Lane's military and civilian activities, memoirs as well as the lives of various family members. The collection also includes drawings from Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama civil engineering students from the 1870s.

Contains the constitution, minutes, programs, notes, membership lists, and miscellaneous items. of the Nathaniel T. Lupton Conversation Club from 1887 to 1899. Includes a speech presented on the 25th anniversary of the Conversation Club pointing out the club's accomplishments along with reminiscences by Taccoa Cozart of club meetings in 1897.