The collection consists of two parts: items donated by his daughter, Mrs. Lenora Woodall Nilan, and material found in an old building in Columbus. Mrs. Nilan donated all of her father's scrapbooks and clippings, primarily his “Our Town” columns, 1963-1971. (An index to these can be found in the T. J. Peddy Collection, MC 36). The earliest Woodall scrapbooks include articles from 1906 and a picture of a lynching in Knoxville,Georgia. Also included is the account book of the Hatcher-McGehee slave trading company. The book covers the years from 1859 until 1860 during which time the firm sold 445 slaves; the book lists the names of the slaves, their purchase price, the purchaser, and the price charged by Hatcher & McGehee.

The other material was found by an unknown non-family member and donated to the Columbus College Archives; thus, although the provenance is hazy, it obviously relates to the Woodall family. It includes 17 photographs of individuals, (some identified as Woodall family members), houses, a car and a bridge in a park. Besides the photographs, which have removed from the collection and placed in the Archives historic photographs section, there are copies of three of W.C. Woodall's newspaper articles; a 1928 Columbus High School annual, the Cohiscan and a June 19, 1889 commencement program for Chappell College.

A related item donated by Mrs. Nilan was a register of slave sales from 1859 and 1860 conducted by the Hatcher-McGehee slave trading company. This register was placed in its own collection, McGehee, Woodall Slave Register, MC 88.