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Primarily documentary photographs of buildings and gravestones of historical interest; many were taken by author and architectural historian William King Covell.

Includes photographs of the Stanley-Whitman House, Congregational Church, private homes, graveyards, and village streets.

Also present is a copy photograph of Fort Dumpling given to Annie Lewis by Alice Brayton.

Portraits found in a box marked "family."

A set of seven photographs documenting the residence of Miranda Wilmarth Sheldon Lux (1825-1894), a maternal great-aunt of Wilmarth Lewis. The mammoth plate albumen prints are by Runnels & Stateler, and include one exterior view, five interiors (entrance hall, dining room, parlor, music room, and library), and a view taken from the house's tower looking north up Gough Street to San Francisco Bay. The parlor photograph features on an easel a portrait of Charles Lux (1828-1887), the second husband of Miranda Lux.