The collection contains MSU historical materials from unknown sources. The materials include an announcement for an alumni reunion, alumni reunion program held during the Semicentennial year, Feronian Society twenty-fifth anniversary event program, program for the junior banquet for the class of 1906, a page recording weekly hours for labor for the Mechanical Engineering department in 1895, postcards of the library (Linton Hall) and Wild Garden (Beal Garden), MIAA field meet ticket, Semicentennial program, and Ten Years of Progress 1899-1909 booklet about the university. Also included are photographs of President Theodore Roosevelt speaking on campus for the Semicentennial, and one photo of a band that marched that day. There is also a photograph from the first Wells Hall and a photo of the first agricultural laboratory (Cook Hall).