The collection is largely composed to records created by the Genesee Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution over the course of conducting its activities. A minority of the collection is composed of newspaper clippings and other items collected by members that came into possession of the chapter. Some of these contents are related to the chapter and the DAR; others are not.

Records reflecting its activities come in many forms, but predominantly in chapter rosters, a treasurer’s journal, and minutes recorded by various secretaries between 1897 and 1929. These reflect that the chapter focused more on contributing money to charitable and educational causes due to other women’s groups in Flint taking on duties similar to other chapters of the DAR in other American cities.

Contents collected the by that are related to the DAR include multiple scrapbooks with cards, newspaper clippings, and photographs. Indexes were created for some of these scrapbooks and printed out from computers. No electronic copies are known to exist. These reflect events and stories about the DAR, both local and national. Some coverage is given to the Flint Ladies’ Library Association.

Contents unrelated to the DAR have unknown provenance, but do not reflect any connection to the chapter or the DAR. Many precede the chapter’s establishment by several decades. A number of ledgers document purchases from the 1840s to 1850s. How they were included in the collection is unknown.

The collection contains clippings of Addison, Cook, Frazer, and Walker families from 1879 to 1950 and a marriage certificate between Delos Cook and Jane Walker.

The collection varies in its scope and content. The most prominent item in it is a book entitled “Building on Faith in Flint.” Arthur Pound wrote it with funding from Union Industrial Trust and Savings Bank. It was published in 1930. The book tracks the history of two banks founded in Flint: Union Trust & Savings Bank (founded 1893) and Industrial Savings Bank (founded 1909). Both banks merged in 1929 to form Union Trust & Industrial Savings Bank. This bank failed one year later. Pound began as far back as 1615 with the early history of Michigan after the arrival of the first Europeans. Native Americans never received any coverage. He wrote of the need for both banks to provide better than “wildcat” banking in Flint and to assist labor and industry. Illustrations of the banks and their branches accompany histories of both banks.

Other items in this collection include a pamphlet issued by the Industrial Workers of the World in response to the Flint Police Force arresting two labor activists, programs from First Baptist Church, including one for the church’s fiftieth anniversary (1903), and photostatic copies of an unidentified Civil War-era diary and the Pierson family. The I.W.W. pamphlet represents the cause of Joseph H. Downer and Daniel Atcheff, who were arrested for criminal syndicalism by Flint police during a labor rally. The I.W.W. argued that both men preached non-violence as the path forward for labor. Articles from the Flint Journal reported that both men had advocated for violence. The Flint Journal also spelled Atcheff’s last name as Acheff. The fiftieth anniversary program for First Baptist Church provides the names of prominent members and a timeline of the church’s first year, 1853. The diary was written in 1865 by an unidentified Union soldier who served in Tennessee and later Washington, D.C. From the entries, he may have been present for the Hampton Roads Conference and while never seeing Abraham Lincoln did catch sight of the three Confederate commissioners who attended.