The Parker Family Papers contains material relating to the history and genealogy of the Parker family of East Tennessee. Items include photographs, papers, and scrapbooks that document several family members over a range of years throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Included are four individual photographs, all undated. One is of an unidentified group of people near a river; one is a portrait of J. C. Parker; one is a portrait of Mary E. Burke Parker; and one is a portrait of J. C. Parker and his second wife, Martha. Also included is a wedding invitation from 1894 for Belle Parker to Dr. J. C. Newman in Helenwood, Tenn. A homemade photo album with photographs taken by Everett J. Parker contains a forward from the photographer describing the locations of the photos, many of which show where the Parker family lived in Helenwood as well as their tombstones. There is also a typed manuscript of the Parker family geneaology with handwritten edits and a book of autographs signed by friends of J. C. Parker.