A large portion of the collection is photographs taken by Arnall T. Connell's Georgia Institute of Technology students for class assignments with the rest possibly taken by Arnall Connell and other photographers. These items depict Atlanta neighborhoods such as Sweet Auburn, Inman Park, Ansley Park, and Baltimore Block; historic houses such as Hammonds House, Mitchel King House, and Raoul House; apartment buildings such as Antionette Apartments, Elmwood Apartments, and 676 Peachtree Street Apartments; churches such as Friendship Baptist Church, Old Zion Baptist Church, and Collins Methodist Church; and cemeteries such as Westview Cemetery and Oakland Cemetery. The maps depict locations such as downtown Atlanta and the market growth of Atlanta. There are also architectural plans of Sweet Auburn and Castleberry Hill and blueprints for the Grand Loew's Theatre.

Photographs taken by students are included in the inventory under student projects. The dates given for student projects are usually linked to the date of the assignment and are not necessarily the dates of the photographs, although it is likely they were taken within months of the assignment's deadline. The quotation marks in the inventory indicate original language given to the materials by their creator. All photographs in this collection were taken in Atlanta, Georgia, unless otherwise noted.