Materials relating to the the history of manuscripts, lithography, and printing include a lithographer's stone, pamphlets, and miscellaneous items illustrating early photography, lithography, and printing; pamphlets relating to various aspects of teaching languages; pamphlets relating to sports and recreation; seven sheets of late fifteenth century Italian vellum manuscript, postcards and trade cards, World War II German armbands, autographed photograph of Jefferson Davis, also four fragments of illuminated manuscripts; a wheat straw depiction of the Catedral de Mexico, and Mexican posters; 20th century miniature children's books (Little Golden Books, etc.).

Also, five Wanamaker's Diaries (1914, 1923, 1925, 1927, 1928), with occasional entries by her father.