Both scrapbooks include autographs of friends, newspaper clippings, dance and other programs, and photographs. Lowell's includes receipts, grades, and class schedules. Both include clippings and broadsides concerning the 1912 student strike over the expulsion of students involved with the underground newspaper X-Ray.

Some material has been removed from the scrapbooks and placed in folders: items that had originally been laid in, heavy dance programs (for the most part, these had already fallen off the pages or torn the pages), and all photographs. In the case of photographs originally glued to pages in Volume 2, the captions from the scrapbook pages are enclosed in quotation marks in the description of each photograph.