Folder 1 contains 45 b/w prints, 5 contact sheets and 123 negatives of people attending a George Mahon exhibit and press conference at the Southwest Collection in 1978 (?).  Also included is an autographed group portrait signed by George Mahon.

Envelope 2 contains 52 b/w prints and 1 negative of Gordon McClendon at a February, 1981, television interview in the Mass Communication building. Also includes various portraits of McClendon and publicity photographs of the McClendon collection donation to the Southwest Collection.

Envelope 3 contains a total of 2 contact sheets, 51 negatives and 17 prints.  The collection is composed of the following:

-5 b/w prints and 24 negtives of Melvin Mann attending a Southwest Collection press conference and touring the building.

 -12 b/w prints of William Curry Holden and his adobe-style home.

-1 color negative and 2 color slides of former Governor Preston Smith.

 -26 color negatives and 1 contact sheet of the Southwest Collection groundbreaking ceremony in 1994.

Envelope 4 contains 12 b/w prints, 378 b/w negatives, and 48 b/w contact sheets. Images include various staff and student who worked at the Southwest Collection; people attending a Native American function at the Ranching Heritage Center; Dr. Paul Carlson posing with a ewe for his book on sheep; and “3 Great Texas Products” event with John C. White, Charlie Scruggs, and Don Anderson.

Envelope 5 A and B contains 264 prints and 71 negatives of miscellaneous images pertaining to the Southwest Collection's activities and people at various functions.  Events included is a book signing with Fran Holden, Dr. David Murrah speaking at the “Reunion of the Symple-Phonies” Morton C of C banquet in 1986, an work at unlabeled ranch, people attending the Matador Cowboy Reunion in 1972, people attending a City of Lubbock meeting, and people attending a “Southwestern Images Symposium.”  Also included are images of various staff and students who worked at the Southwest Collection, as well as members of the Murrah family.

Envelope 6 contains 78 prints, 109 negatives, 20 slides, and 4 contact sheets.  The images within this collection comprise of SWC staff and students; a portrait of Mac Davis; exterior views of Thompson High School; people eating, listening to music and gardening at a Lubbock Heritage Society event [July 1980]; "Trader's Frontier" - people at a cemetery; Parade images a car and float with "Texas Emu Association" signs and the Lubbock Sojourners float; Interior and landscape views taken from a train; Castro County Mammoth Dig "Easter Elephant" [May 13-16, 1985]; Italian POWs and their families at a Castro County event [April 30, 1988]; a group of men presenting of a rifle to an unidentified man; speakers at the "The American Southwest: Women on the Frontier" symposium; and an iron cross marking the grave of Candelarea Frias killed by Indians NE of Fort Davis in 1879.
     Also includes musicians and people at the Fourth Annual Symposium entitled "The American Southwest: It's Music and Entertainment" [1983]. Some of the people identified include Cliff Ashby, Joe McKennon, Charles Townsend, Anne Butler, David Murrah, Him Hansford, and George Smyer.
     A few images seem to be historical Lubbock ones, probably taken out of the Heritage Club Collection.  These consist of an exterior view of the old Tech Gymnasium; a group portrait of the Home Economics Club from 1936; the Las Vivarachas club initiation dinner [1936]; and a group portrait of the Gargoyle Club members.

Envelope 7 contains 5 prints, 2 contact sheets, 13 slides and 4 b&w transparencies pertaining to the SWC building.  The images include early and final drawings of the proposed Southwest Collection building, transparencies of early floor plans, and numerous color xeroxes of the exterior of the completed building. The contact sheets are of the 1995 building groundbreaking ceremony.  The slides show the building under construction and people wearing hardhats, as well as a view of the Coronelli Globe in it's new enclosure.

Envelope 8 consists of 25 negatives, 32 prints, and 15 slides. Most of the images are of SWC staff at a staff cookout, receiving plants for their new offices, and unpacking the stand for the Coronelli Globe.  Also included are images of Grover E. Murray with an award [1996]; Don Haragan, William Curry Holden, Fran Holden, and David Murrah signing the papers for Holden's donation of his papers to the SWC [1986?]; and various unidentified buildings.