The collection contains correspondence, telegraphs, and documents of the Eagle & Phenix Manufacturing Co. dated 1887-1888, & 1894. According to some accounts, at a point in time the Columbus Fire Department, after inspecting the attic of the Eagle & Phenix office building on Front Avenue, ordered the company to dispose of records stored in that location. Apparently the firm put the records on the street for the trash collectors and people simply took portions of the records. That could explain how the documents survived to become part of the CSU Archives, including the empty accordion folder for correspondence starting with A from the Mills office.

This collection also includes a booklet Eagle & Phenix Division of Reeves Brothers, Inc. Centennial Celebration, dated 1951, and Jaycee's G.I. Journal, Columbus, Ga., Christmas 1944.