Items in this collection include papers from Richmond's days as a student at the University of Arkansas, and photographs and post cards acquired by Richmond while a soldier in France during World War I.

The scrapbook, compiled by Holman Richmond's mother, Adelaide Holman Richmond, documents her son's World War I experiences. It contains newspaper and magazine clippings, letters, memoranda, telegrams, certificates, programs, menus, travel passes, circulars/general orders, announcements, receipts, picture postcards, photographs, and other memorabilia.