The collection amounts to 5.35 and is composed of ledgers, photographs, catalogs, promotional material and other miscellaneous items from the Doubleday Brothers and Company which produced blank books, forms for education, banks and government, stationery and also was a printing company and sold office supplies and furniture. The company began in Kalamazoo in 1898 and left the area by 2005 which by then it was known as Fidlar Doubleday, a digital printing company. It is now located in Iowa.

The collection has a variety of items ranging from photographs, the majority which are 8”x10” to promotional calendars, most which are 5”x7”, spiral bound to ledgers, the largest one being 16”x11”x2”. In addition there are catalogs, correspondence and a great number of forms created for schools, banks and governments of all sizes. There is information on the construction of the office building on East Kilgore where they moved from their downtown Kalamazoo location in the late 1950s and information on the addition to that building completed around 1964. The photographs were taken mostly in the 1940s of the store at 241 East Michigan around 1944 and in 1948. There also is a series taken during a fire in February, 1948 which damaged the store and offices tremendously. The series taken in September was after the renovation. Almost all of the photographs, except the ones of the fire, were taken by Ward Morgan. A great majority of the photographs are identified including the ones with employees, many of which were used in the Fiftieth Anniversary publication done in 1948.

The collection, for the most part, is in good shape. The ledgers are worn in and some places the leather cover and binding is disintegrating. Some of the correspondence has imprints from paper clips. The newspaper articles were photocopied and the originals were then recycled.