The Emma Bell Miles Southern Appalachia art and correspondence digital collection contains correspondence among members and friends of writer and artist Emma Bell Miles’ family of origin illustrating the personal roots of themes Emma lived out and developed in her work. The heart of the collection is a series of letters written during 1901-1903 concerning Emma’s troubled relationship with her parents, her life as a young woman, and her life as an emerging artist and naturalist; as well as the death of her mother, Emma’s marriage to Frank Miles soon thereafter, and disposition of Bell family property in Walden Ridge, Tennessee. The collection also features numerous examples of Emma's art, including watercolors, oil paintings, and sketches.

The James Audubon Birds of America prints collection contains the Amsterdam Edition of James Audubon's illustrations reprinted in their original elephant folio size by the Johnson Reprint Corporation and the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum in 1971 and 1972.

The Jean Miles Catino and Emma Bell Miles correspondence, journals, and papers collection contains Catino's correspondence as well as journals, artwork, and photographs created by Emma Bell Miles, Catino's mother. The Emma Bell Miles content documents mountain life on Walden Ridge in the early 20th century.

The Robert Sparks Walker manuscripts, correspondence, and papers collection includes correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, and other personal papers as well as manuscripts and drafts of books, articles, and poetry authored by the Chattanooga naturalist, writer, poet, and local historian from 1896 to 1962.

The Robert D. MacMurdy scrapbooks and clippings collection contains a scrapbook, two booklets, newspaper clippings, and postcards related to The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, which was held in Dayton, Tennessee in 1925.

The Arthur Forman scrapbook collection contains a scrapbook of newspaper clippings regarding The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes trial held in Dayton, Tennessee in 1925.