This collection contains Bessie Grayson's reminiscences concerning African-American life in rural South Alabama during the 1930s to 1950s. Includes stories of picking and ginning cotton, canning, making syrup and molasses, quilting, school, and religious life, as well as segregation prior to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.

This collection contains D. B. Jones's diary which covers the years 1896-1909. Diary includes records of weather, livestock, crops, household hints, local events, and visits. Some store accounts included.

This collection contains newspaper and magazine clippings, manuals, and pamphlets largely from the 1950s and the 1960s pertaining to hog farming. Every aspect of hog farming is included; from Henry County, Alabama.