This collection contains business correspondence, financial records, reports and surveys of land, minutes of meetings, letters to stockholders, brochures about Georgia mining, and a newspaper clipping.

The collection contains 22 prints of Barnard’s photographs as he traveled with General Sherman's United States Army. Battlegrounds featured in the collection include Kennesaw, Atlanta, Resaca, Allatoona, and Chattanooga, Tennessee. The prints were included in a larger collection published in Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign.