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Helen Pumphrey's sketchbook contains fourteen pages of calligraphy, illuminated writing, and drawings. Included are poems, hymns, and botanical lists in English, German, and French. Also two pencil sketches of outdoor scenes, and sketches of parts of plants. One drawing is of five styles of architectural columns. The sketchbook contains a bookbinder’s ticket on the front paste-down.

Helen Pumphrey's sketchbook (28 x 44 cm) contains fourteen pages of calligraphy, illuminated writing, and drawings. Included are poems, hymns, and botanical lists in English, German, and French. Also two pencil sketches of outdoor scenes, and sketches of parts of plants. One drawing is of five styles of architectural columns. The sketchbook contains a bookbinder’s ticket on front paste-down.

An album of pressed flowers collected by Lily Frémont in 1859.

The Lily Frémont fllower album is an album of pressed flowers and drawings made by Elizabeth Benton (Lily) Frémont (1842-1919). The album has a brown leather cover with "Album" written in gilt lettering. Frémont made the album in 1859 when her family was living in California at their estate in Mariposa and their home on San Francisco Bay. The first two pages of the album hold drawings, one of a small house surrounded by trees with a large hill behind it, possibly the Frémont home in Mariposa, the other showing a small group of buildings and a smokestack below a large hill, possible a silver mine. The rest of album contains pressed flowers and plants, each is numbered with a written description. Frémont provides the names to some flowers though many are unidentified. She also gives the date and location where each flower was found, and often describes its soil conditions, growing patterns, seasonality, color and odor. There are 80 total specimens in the album.

This collection contains 11 pencil sketches of the Missouri and Ohio Rivers and their surrounding cities. The sketches depict cityscapes, scenic and street views.

This collection contains 11 pencil sketches of the Missouri and Ohio Rivers and their surrounding cities. Each 11.5 x 18.5 cm sketch includes a brief handwritten caption denoting location. The sketches illustrate cityscapes, scenic and street views. Cities shown include Omaha, Nebraska; Saint Joseph, Missouri; St. Louis, Missouri; Louisville, Kentucky; and Cincinnati, Ohio. Specific locations depicted include Lafayette Park and Shaw’s Botanical Garden (Missouri Botanical Garden) in St. Louis, Missouri, and Lane Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Sophia M. Eckley sketchbook contains 22 sketches of various landscapes and cottages in Nahant, Massachusetts.

The Sophia M. Eckley sketchbook contains 22 sketches of various landscapes and cottages. An inscription on the first page indicates that the sketchbook belonged to Sophie M. Eckley, and the sketches are of Nahant, Massachusetts, drawn in July 1853. The inside front cover has an engraved retailers' label from N. D. Cotton of Boston, "importer and dealer in English, French and American stationery, drawing and painting materials." Also written inside the front cover is a list of dry goods.

Of the 22 sketches, 21 were made in pencil, with one in pastel. Many blank pages follow the first 21 sketches, and on the very last page is a sketch of a man's head with the caption, "Peter Parleys Picture Book."

The majority of the sketches include captions and are of various landscapes and cottages on the coast of Nahant. Specific landscapes depicted include Sunken Lodge, Spectacle Beach, Deer Island, Pea Island, Caste Rock, and Swallow Cave.