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Likely assembled by Emma Jennings, the album begins with images of Farmington, Connecticut, followed by images of Sarah Porter, her school, students, class pictures, and reunions; and an image of the Memento Mori Cemetery cenotaph erected in memory Porter School art instructor Sarah Strong Tuthill (1830-1882). Following a series of blank leaves, a second group of ten pages of photographs of young women begins with a photograph of Celia Jennings. A third grouping of twenty-four pages begins with images of Fairfield, family scenes, pictures of dogs, sail boats, horse and buggies, pictures of interiors, groups of friends and family (some people are identified).

Snapshot photographs of the English children, without captions.

Includes Annie Lewis in a group photograph taken at the Red Cross convention in Los Angeles, 1943, and volunteers posing with actor Walter Pidgeon. Her official portrait photographs are filed in the Lewises' photograph collection (LWL MSS 22), Box 5, Folder 10.

Mailing bags, negative and print wallets and envelopes, and other ephemera from the Pavelle Laboratories and Eastman Kodak companies.

Small personal appointment books, the same type as used by Wilmarth Lewis (LWL MSS 20, Boxes 262-263), but are here only for the years 1936, 1938, 1939, 1944, 1949, and 1957.

Gift of Corine Roosevelt Robinson to Annie Lewis, and featuring a poem by her.

A half-length portrait of Benito Mussolini mounted on a sheet of card; he is holding a sheaf of paper. "FOT V LAVIOSA/ROMA" is printed in the upper left corner. "CONCESS PANDIMIGLIO-38 CAFO LE CASE-ROMA" is printed at the lower left and "REPRODUZIONE VIRTATA-DEPOSITATA" is printed at the lower right. Inscribed in ink on the card mount: "A Miss Annie Burr / Roma marzo 1927 V Mussolini."

A mounted half-length portrait by Isaac Benjamin, Cincinnati; inscribed on mount below image: "For my friend Miss Annie Jennings / with best wishes / Wm H Taft"; in a double-sided display frame made by D. B. Butler & Co., New York.