This collection includes a photograph of the composing room of the Erie Daily Sentinel newspaper, circa 1908 to 1916, with a transciption of the photograph's caption outlining a brief history of the Erie Daily Sentinel and its staff. Lester Wooster is sitting at the type case in the photograph.

The papers of St. Paul, Kansas newspaper editor and historian William Whites Graves contain research files from which he authored books concerning the history of the Catholic Church in early Kansas, including the history of Osage Mission (which later became the community of St. Paul), the Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas, and the Greenbush Parish of Crawford County, Kansas. Included are Graves' correspondence files, which include family correspondence, memorabilia, and photographs.