Eliot family correspondence, souvenirs of Bloomington Illinois, and a collection of newspapers, speeches, pamphlets, handbills, maps, timetables, and miscellany having to do largely with railroads and land development in the Midwest and the sale of Indian lands in 1904.

Included are pamphlets, timetables, advertisements (some photocopies), broadsides, maps, serials, photographs and negatives, alphabetical files, land laws, newsletters, newspapers, and reprints. Pamphlets concern the following topics: agriculture, art, government, history, politics, religion, social science, industry, transportation, and education; also, airline, bus, boat, and railroad timetables.