There are three scrapbooks in the collection: Volume 1 (in Box 3) was compiled by Mary Cornelia Kelley Upham, Upham's first wife; the second (Box 2) by his daughter-in-law Elizabeth Ann Upham; a third volume (Box 1) of unknown provenance contains additional clippings about Upham, as well as his sister, Angenette Upham Peavey and his nephew, Fred W. Upham. Additional material in this collection was collected by Upham's second wife, Grace Mason Upham, and his son, William H. Upham Jr., and includes an unpublished biography by Harlan W. Hein Jr.; an incomplete 1913 speech concerning military preparedness; military papers; legal documents and a will; and correspondence concerning a possible appointment as ambassador to Cuba, correspondence concerning Upham's secretary, Nettie Dickson Wade; family letters to Grace Mason Upham, and a transcribed diary of Upham's first wife Mary. The photographs and lithographs include images of Upham, his wife, and his family. Also in the collection is a pen and ink cartoon depicting Upham and other gubernatorial candidates in 1894.
