The Howe Family papers and photographs document Walter and Bertha Howe and their relatives, and contain correspondence with family and friends, financial, tax and insurance documents, photographs, photograph albums, and 35 slides. The photographs depict friends and family, including late 19th and early 20th century images of life in Cambria County containing Wilkinson and Cothery family members.

Correspondence, journals, compositions and other papers of Samuel Gridley Howe and Julia Ward Howe, and materials relating to other Howe family members.

Collection documents all three families and Gardiner, Maine. Includes correspondence, compositions, photograph, and notebooks of verse.

Primarily correspondence of Maud Howe Eliot, Julia Ward Howe, Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, and Rosalind Richards. Correspondents include Hester Alington, Henry Beston, Margaret (Terry) Chanler, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth, Olivia Howard Dunbar, and Annie (Ward) Mailliard. Includes photographs of Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Maud Howe Elliott and others.

Correspondence, diaries, photos, and other papers of three generations of the Buffum and Howe families, residents of Keene, N.H., including Reginald F. Howe (1896-1981), photographer and founder of Wireless Association of Keene, his wife, Helen Clark Howe (1901-1980), and father, also a photographer, Fred E. Howe. Includes information relating to Reginald Keene's photographic business, Granite State Studios; and photos (ca. 1940s) of the family, city of Keene, Silver Lake, and Harrisville, N.H.

The Paul Howe papers and photographs consists of correspondence, photographs, military documents, news clippings, scrapbooks, and books. The materials mainly pertain to his military service in both World Wars. Two scrapbooks contain numerous photographs, postcards, newsclippings, and other printed materials illustrating various elements of life during World War I. Three additional scrapbooks primarily contain correspondence between Howe and his parents and sisters during his service in WWI. The collection also contains his military record and discharge certificate for World War I, newsclippings regarding Paul Howe and his service in World War II, correspondence between Howe and his wife and children during World War II, and books regarding World War I.