The collection consists of diaries, correspondence, photos, and other assorted memorabilia belonging to Berenice Boyd Wallace, a long time resident of Paola, Kansas. The collection spans most of Berenice Wallace's life and includes a great deal of information from her 1930 European trip as well as about life in Paola and Wallace's family.

The collection contains correspondence from Theodore Roosevelt, Kansas Senator Arthur Capper, William Allen White, Kansas Attorney General William Smith, and Herbert Hoover, as well as clippings and radio broadcasts concerning Mr. McLaughlin. Collection also contains a delegate medal owned by McLaughlin from the Republican National Convetion held in Kansas City in 1928.

Collection of mostly black and white photographic prints of Vera (Reese) Hanlon and her husband Max and of their home and poultry store in Kansas City, Missouri. The collection also includes photographs of the extended Reese family, Vera's Studebaker ancestors, and the Reese home in Wellsville, Kansas.