This collection consists of handwritten research notes and a piece by Basil Dukes entitled "Where Andrew Johnson's Mother was Buried." The author recollects the story told to him by a close friend of Andrew Johnson's, describing the cemetery plots belonging to the Johnson family.

This collection is a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings kept by the Shields family of Bean Station, Tennessee. The clippings pertain to politics in the local and national arenas, mostly dealing with the Reconstruction Era South and especially (East) Tennessee. There are also several poems, very short biographies, and interesting facts. Another item is a 1938 article on late politician Robert Love Taylor of Tennessee (some articles in the scrapbook mention him).