Scrapbooks of clippings centered on the City of Toledo, focusing on municipal legal issues, such as the confiscation and destruction of slot machines, criminal activity, city politics, and such issues getting the Miami and Erie Canal right of way vacated.
Photographs, photocopies of newspaper clippings, and a family genealogy for two members of the Murphy family who were involved in the Lake trades. Harold Murphy was a sailor, while Arthur Murphy worked as a boilermaker in Toledo.