This collection consists of materials belonging to botanist Samuel Bain and his family. Most materials in the collection are related to the Great Smoky Mountains.

This collection contains oral histories about the Great Smoky Mountains National Park through interviews of people who lived in the area in the early twentieth century. These interviews were conducted by students from the University of Tennessee in Anthropology and Appalachian Folklore classes.

This collection houses materials gathered and used by students in Anthropology classes at the University of Tennessee. The material covers topics related to the history, folklore, and culture of the southern Appalachia regions. Included are photographs as well as oral history interview tapes.

This collection houses materials gathered and used by students in a 1981 folklore class at the University of Tennessee instructed by Benita Howell. The material covers topics related to the history, folklore, and culture of the Smoky Mountains and southern Appalachia regions. Included are photographs as well as oral history interview tapes and transcripts.

The Derris Slide Collection is composed of approximately 4400 slides from the 1940's through the 1960's of the Great Smoky Mountains region of Tennessee. William Derris was an amateur photographer and owner of the Derris Motel (later the Laughing Horse Inn) in Townsend, Tennessee, which he photographed at length and used the slides of those photographs in a slide show for the entertainment of his guests.

This collection consists of papers, deeds, contracts, tax receipts, manuscript drafts, audio tapes, research notes, and correspondence related to the publication of Highland Homeland: The People of the Great Smokies written by Wilma Dykeman and son, James R. "Jim" Stokely III, published in 1978.