This collection contains the personal papers of members of the Donner and Hill families of central Illinois. Materials include photographs, newspaper clippings, memorial books from funerals, correspondence, a scrapbook, and a diary, which document family relationships, reunions, vacations, and education. Additional subjects of the photographs and writings are late nineteenth century camping, train, and steamboat trips; recipes; the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois; and the dress, education, and social life of nursing students in the early 1920s.