The Educational Equipment collection includes a number of items used in the classrooms of the Michigan State Normal College, Eastern Michigan College and Eastern Michigan University. Most items are marked with institutional initials, but specific classes or faculty that may have used the equipment is unknown. Most the materials in the collection are related to the instruction of chemistry and geology and date from 1900 to 1960s.

The Louise Zahn papers contain documents from 1913 to 1921, from the personal files of Michigan State Normal College student Louise Zahn. The collection includes materials from the education and teaching career of Louise Zahn, before her marriage and subsequent retirement from teaching. This collection is useful to the study of women in college and the teaching profession from the late 1910s to early 1920s.