This collection amounts to 0.50 cubic feet and consists of two books: advertisement scrapbook and a ledger of legal documents. There are several folders that consist of photographs and loose papers from the scrapbook, as well as copies of photographs from a flash drive and copies of the papers in the scrapbook. Some of the photographs in this collection were taken by Ward Morgan.

As for the books, the legal ledger is in decent condition, the cover is hardbound and has some damage near the spine but the pages have very minimal tearing/fading. The Advertisement Book not in good condition, the cover is hardbound and is in great condition however the pages themselves have tearing damage and the ads within the book are torn and very fragile. All of the material in the scrapbook are newspaper clippings from various Kalamazoo newspapers and they entirely consist of advertisements from Hoekstra Hardware. The dimensions for both books are “9.5 x14.5” The date of the book with legal records ranges from the late 1860’s to the mid 1940’s. The date of the scrapbook ranges from early 1900 to the late 1980’s.

The photographs are black and white and are slightly bent on the edges. There is an item that has been encased in Mylar and is an Advertisement that is cloth/fabric and is an advertisement for Doyle Brothers and is in both English and German. The Doyle Brothers ad is for a plumbing company that is based in New York.