The Lincoln Consolidated School collection documents the development of Michigan's first large consolidated school district. In the 1920s, ten small school districts, mostly one room school houses, were combined to form one large school district. The collection is arranged into 8 series and multiple subseries. The Administration series includes budget information, Eastern Michigan University Relations, fundraising, reports and surveys, directories, resolutions, record books, and personnel. The Board of Education series contains information about administration, meeting minutes, and the schools' superintendents. The Curriculum, Faculty, and Staff series contains block prints, curriculum materials, curriculum council meeting minutes, faculty and staff information, teacher and school registers, teacher laboratory manual, and student teachers. The History series includes books about the school district and surrounding areas. The Publicity and Outreach series includes clippings, correspondence, conference proceedings, the Mariner, memorial programs, retirement speech, and special programs. The Graphic Materials series contains class composites, photographs, and scrapbooks. The Moving Images series includes three reel to reels and a umatic tape. The Realia series includes bus driver/chauffer pins, school souvenir programs, baccalaureate and commencement programs, play bills, and a book of Brick School songs.

Additions to the collection in 2023 included 1929-1933 newspaper clipping scrapbooks mostly documenting athletics, records from one room schoolhouses that formed Lincoln Consolidated, WWII scrapbook documenting Lincoln Consolidated pupils and staff in service, film reels and video cassettes, saved newspapers, and various scrapbooks created by teachers, class historians, and past pupils. Records date from 1920-2006 and are included in the above arrangement.