The papers of Philena Smith consist of personal artwork and a scrapbook containing programs, invitations, tickets, greeting cards, letters, report cards, menus, postcards, and news clippings related to student life at Michigan Agricultural College. Photographs are of friends and campus events. Some items pertain to her student athletic participation in Lansing High School. The photographs include the Lansing High School Girls Basketball team of 1906, Wolverine staff circa 1911 and portraits of people mostly unidentified.