This collection contains photographs, newspaper articles, postcards, menus, a high school yearbook, high school diploma, family history information and a variety of local information. The photographs in the collection are from the early 1900s, and include houses as well as people. The newspaper articles date from 1948 to the 1970s and are about a variety of topics. The earliest article is a sale advertisement for a house in Salisbury, Maryland. Ocean City postcards from around the 1970s show hotels and aerial views of Ocean City. There are also menus and postcards from restaurants in Ocean City. The Wicomico High yearbook, from 1927, includes pictures of the freshman, sophomore, junior and senior class. Two high school diplomas from Wicomico County from 1920 and 1926. Farm records, shareholding records and family books give insight to the life of a family living around the Lower Eastern Shore. Finally this collection includes a number of pens and pencils listing the names and addresses of local businesses. As well as information on the local Salisbury baseball team in 1948, local campaign items and cards from local attractions.

Phyllis Hatton married James Harris. Together they had Deborah Harris, who in 1980 married James Underhill. Phyllis was related to the Tignor family by marriage. Andrew Tignor married Effie Willing in April of 1893. Together they had three children, one of which being Boyd Tignor. Deborah Underhill made a note of Boyd being related to the Willing Family by marriage. The 1930 Federal Census listed the Tignor family as being neighbors to the Willing family. According to the 1920 and 1930 Federal Census Georgia R. Willing lived with her father, Hobart Willing, in Nanticoke, Wicomico County. Gladys E Willing is also listed on the 1920 Federal Census along with her older sister Georgia and her father Hobart. Gladys Elizabeth Willing graduated Nanticoke High School in 1920.