The collection includes a scrapbook with memorabilia from William Welch's student days at Clemson A & M College. The scrapbook contains photographs of classmates and college scenes as well as memorabilia from his trip to Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the National Dairy Exposition in 1924. Also included is a folder with copies of newspaper clippings from the scrapbook.
Ten ledger/account/notebooks with dates and names of persons having accounts for years 1864-1880; cotton notes and sales; fertilizer account sales; legal papers; bills of lading and shipping; miscellaneous advertisements.
Handwritten essays or lectures (originals and photocopies) on education, Andrew Pickens, English history. Treaty of Hopewell-on-Keowee, Institute (Experiment station) notes, 1902; a list of occupations of parents and guardians of Clemson students, 1897-1902; D.K. Norris correspondence, July 15, 1895 re local Indian legend; two oversize photographs, one a campus view and one of cadets, faculty, and trustees, were removed and filed in the Mss photograph files.