Fonds consists of material compiled and used by Anne Pearson during research for her book Sea-Lake: Recollections and History of Cordova Bay and Elk Lake.

Fonds consists of business and personal records relating to the McMorran family and includes administrative records, correspondence, certificates, postcards and ephemera, sketchbook, maps and plans, publications, newspaper clippings, notes and reference material, photographs and artifacts. The fonds is arranged into 12 series: Financial & Household Records, Correspondence, Certificates, Ephemera, Sketchbooks, Maps & Plans, Publications, News Clippings, Notes, Reference Material, Photographs, and Artifacts.

Fonds consists of ephemera relating to the Money family and their businesses. Fonds includes business licenses, receipt from Colquitz Dairy, and a petition relating to Whiteside Avenue.

Fonds consists primarily of photographs relating to the Underwood family, 1920-1970. In addition to images documenting family activities and homes, fonds includes photographs taken both locally and overseas relating to the WWII service of brothers Leslie, Ernest, and Ghazi Underwood; letters written by Ernest Underwood from a POW camp; ephemera dating from the end of the war and relating to returning soldiers; and WWII news clippings. Fonds includes school year books, 1955-1985, from Royal Oak High School, Royal Oak Middle School, Claremont High School, and Mount Newton Junior High. Fonds includes scrapbook of items collected by Emily Underwood during WW2 while her husband Leslie, Sr. was overseas, newspapers and periodical issues.