This collection contains writings and speeches; newspaper clippings; and pamphlets, programs and other printed material concerning political and civic groups, covering such topics as women's suffrage, women workers, women as jurors and city and state politics. Of particular interest to the study of the woman suffrage movement in Buffalo are membership lists of the Woman Workers Suffrage League (ca. 1908) and from the Buffalo Political Equality League (ca. 1905).

An album of autographs collected by E.P. Sears, a Buffalo attorney. Autographs are from prominent Western New York residents, New York State and nationally-known businessmen, politicians, authors and cultural figures.