This collection consists of four scrapbooks, a folder of newspaper clippings, and two photographs. The scrapbooks cover the dates December 20, 1865-January 23, 1867; March 5, 1866-June 17, 1874; January 6, 1869-October 5, 1872; and October 12, 1870-January 6, 1873. The clippings, 1865-1880) pertain to Anderson's term as Mayor of Savannah, Georgia, and include ordinances, proceedings of council, official notices, proclamations, and harbor improvements. The photographs are of CSS Alabama crew members, Thomas C. Cuddy, gunner, and midshipman Eugene Anderson Maffitt, dated 1862.
The folder containing photographs is noted as 'VM' (visual materials) in the collection inventory.