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Consists of three record books from the Henry G. Little family of Grinnell.  Little was mayor of the town in the last decades of the nineteenth century.

Consists of newspaper clippings of events in the lives of Henry and Fidelia Little and their daughters Louise (married Henry Viets), Maude (married Professor Jesse Macy), Elizabeth (married lawyer J.P. Lyman, Fannie (married Dr. Austin Alvord), and Henrietta (married Will Holyoke). Inscription in the front of the book is “Fannie R. Little, Grinnell, Iowa, November 28, 1875.” Most clippings are undated; they may cover the years 1874-1884.

Henry Little prepared, in 1880, a genealogy of his wife’s family, the Stoddards, of Wethersfield, Conn., from 1642 to 1880. The book has 32 handwritten pages.

Consists of a photograph album inscribed “Fannie Little Alvord from Henrietta and Tom and added to by Sara and Henry. Grinnell, June 26, 1899.” The book includes many cyanotype photographs (dated 1898-1900) of the family, their homes, (interior and exterior views), the town and college.