The collection consists of black and white or sepia-toned real photo postcards and silver gelatin prints of the Pace and Mendenhall families in southwestern Kansas. The families lived in or between Hartland, a community originally established in Hamilton County that became part of Kearny County, its post office discontinued in 1933; and Kendall, a community in Hamilton County.

Most of the images include at least one person, sometimes a baby or child. Individuals are often posed in front of sod houses or other residences, with horses, or on farmland with farming equipment such as tractors or combines. There is a set of photographs of young men in military uniforms. A couple photographs show Imogene Mendenhall in school and a family member, Ethel Pace, as teacher at a Lone Star School in Kansas in 1909. A small number of photographs are identified on the back. There are some photographs of friends or extended family, including Gladys Louise Blair and Mr. and Mrs. Tucker.

The photographs arrived from the dealer arranged in a modern photographic album; it is unclear if this is how the photographs arrived at the dealer, but they have been kept in this order. There are 4-6 photographs per folder, most folders containing 4 photos.