This collection consists of items relating to the Columbus area. These items include a variety of items relating to the Blackmar-Drake family; Columbus High School yearbooks (the Cohiscan); ledgers, daybooks and letterheads from several Columbus businesses; bound city annual reports including those from fire chiefs, school superintendents, police chiefs and voter registrations 1872-1899, photo albums, postcards and records of various social and civic groups. The photographs and postcards have been removed from this collection and are housed with the Historic Photograph Collection. The bound City of Columbus annual reports are located in the reference collection in the Archives Research Room.