The Ellis Mayes Theatre Collection contains memorabilia and personal effects of Ellis Mayes, an actor with Knoxville's Carousel Theatre for several decades. Included are photographs, playbills, scripts, and personal mementos belonging to Mayes. Materials date from the 1940s to the 1990s.

This collection is made up of scripts, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, press clippings, musical compositions, autobiographical writings, creative works, playbills, posters, and memorabilia assembled by James Dobson over the course of his career in the performing arts.

This collection consists of newspaper and magazine articles concerning theatre from the 1930s-1980s and Dr. LeRoy Graf's papers, including documents for a 1980 history class.