This collection contains manuscripts, ephemera, and photographs related to the family of Emma Collenberg Hale (1913-2012), Le Roy Mitchell Hale (1913-1990), and Augusta Dorothy Collenberg Wise, all Baltimore City and Baltimore County residents. Included are mostly identified photographs of family members, as well as correspondence and miscellaneous ephemera saved by Emma Hale beginning in World War II. Also included are indentures, deeds, and surveys for Baltimore County, dated 1787-1862.

This scrapbook was kept by Mrs. Ruby Mae Head in the summer of 1940 to document her trip from San Antonio, Texas to Baltimore, Maryland, so that her husband could report for duty at Fort Holabird. It includes postcards, newspaper clippings, printed ephemera, photographs, and written commentary.