Collection consists of glass lantern slides, likely compiled as a teaching collection for Cornell's Civil Engineering classes. Many images are from central/upstate New York locations. Topics include: water filtration systems, diagrams and graphs, maps, septic tanks, imhoff tanks, sewage filtration beds, sewer construction, chlorine, and photographs of prominent civil engineers. Some of these topics include images and maps of cholera and typhoid infections.

Scrapbook of a Cornell University undergraduate including clippings, photographs, invitations, theatre programs, examinations, academic records, letters, and other items, with especial reference to the effects of the 1903 typhoid epidemic in Ithaca on Davis' academic career.

Three scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, programs, and announcements concerning sports, proms, balls, a typhoid epidemic, and other topics relating to Turner's student days at Cornell University.

Correspondence, infirmary reports, lists of patients, and bills to be paid by Andrew Carnegie. Includes letters of sympathy to Jacob Gould Schurman.