The collection amounts to 3.5 cubic feet and is composed of photographs of various sizes, business records, metal signs, and a ledger that belonged to Root Spring Scraper Company located in Kalamazoo Michigan from 1891-2022. The large metal sign is made up of steel and is wrapped for storage. The ledger is made of canvas bound together and is also wrapped for storage.

The ledger is made up of 298 pages filled with information on equipment sold to customers. The pages are green in color with blue ink filled in throughout. There is one cubic foot of just photographs. These photographs come in a variety of sizes with a majority of them being large 8” x 10” photos. Most of the photographs are in black and white with a few being in color. There is also photo negatives and a glass photo negative. Included is a photo book bound together with a spiral. There is one cubic foot of document material that is mainly 8-1/2” x 11”. This document material is various key records from the company that helped run the business including manuals, price lists, sales information, advertisements, employee weekly timesheets from 1942-1962 that are various sizes. These timesheets are handwritten stapled in sections. There is also a flash drive with scanned material including photographs and an interview. There are extra-long photographs that are located in a map case.

The collection is in various different conditions and overall, in fair condition. Many of the photographs on the photo boards are faded from age. Some of the photographs are in good condition while some others are faded, scratched, edges worn with tears, discolored. Some of the photos are hole-punched with tears around the hole. Some photographs have visible dirt stains and have dirt residue. Quite of few newer photographs are glossy not matte. Many smaller photographs have jagged edges where they were cut at some point to be put into a scrapbook. Many of the documents like advertisements and sales material are hole-punched as they were once in a binder that is also apart of the collection. Some of the material is worn with a few tears as well as some dirt. The employee weekly timesheets have bent and cracked edges. The later dates have ink smudges and yellowed pages. The wrapped contents are in okay condition just layered in dirt.