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The Ann A. Hertzler Collection contains biographical information, publications, project and subject files, and artifacts relating to Hertzler's professional career at the University of Missouri-Columbia (1974-1980) and Virginia Tech (1980-2001). Particular areas of emphasis are children's health and nutrition, food and food programs, and Extension publications from both colleges.

Armour's Food Source Map titled "The Greatness of the United States is Founded on Agriculture." Published by Armour and Company in 1922, the map features information on various American food crops/resources and the parts of the country they are from, with explanatory text on the back.

The Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil trade card is an advertisement for a cure-all serum marketed most popularly during the Victorian era. This particular trade card was distributed by James H. S. Aumann, M.D., a druggist and chemist from Wytheville, Virginia.

This collection contains the photographs of Earl Palmer, an award-winning photographer from Cambria, Virginia, whose work depicted the landscape and traditional culture of rural Appalachia in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. Materials date frome 1880 to 1989, but are primarily from the 1940s to the 1970s. The collection is divided among the following series: photographs, duplicate photographs, written materials, oversize photographs, and artifacts.

The Educational Cookery Collection includes flyers, pamphlets, cooking school catalogs, recipes, menus, cookery lessons, and other ephemera relating to cookery and education, dating from the 1880s to the 1960s.

The Food Advertisement Collection consists of single page advertisements for a variety of food products, largely pulled from magazines. Items dates from 1894 to 1962, with the majority from the 1910s-1940s.

This collection contains a notebook from high school, probably from a home economics class. It contains notes, recipes, and information about cooking and likely belonged to Helen Cushen, whose name appears on it in several locations. Although not clearly dated, the item is likely from about 1922-1926.

The Jessie Willcox Smith Collection (1898-1934) is a collection of illustrations by Willcox used for advertisements, magazine covers, and stories.

This collection includes a memobook and journal owned by Judith Fenner Barnard (1896-1984), a teacher in Roadsville, Virginia, and Prince George County, Virginia. The memobook, dated July 1964, contains recipes, addresses, hospital records, and a seating arrangement for a dinner party. The journal, 1914-1972 includes journal entries about the Barnard family's lives and handwritten recipes.

This collection includes five series of kitchen equipment, Housewares, Kitchen Appliances, Kitchen Accessories and Designs, Ranges, Stoves, and Ovens, and Other items. Items range from the Antebellum era to the early 2000s. The majority of items are from the United States, with some pieces from Canada, England, France, Germany, and Spain. Items include sales and promotional materials such as catalogs, product cookbooks, brochures, trade cards, coupons, handbills, broadsides, and billheads. The collection also has a safety grater with its original packaging and a pie rimmer, crimper, and pastry cutter with an illustrated broadside. Many cookbooks were written for specific appliance products that include details on the appliance. Appliance directions and maintenance manuals are within the collection. Materials provide insight into consumer culture, technology, and history of gender, race, class, sanitation, marketing, and graphic design.