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Includes photographs and pictorial works, mostly unidentified, but includes Spain, North Africa (Algeria, Egypt), Italy, Austria, Germany, France, England, Switzerland, and other places. Other formats are calling cards, menus, programs, clippings, and tickets.

Album of 11 photographs by Schuyler Carteret Lee of the exterior and interior of the Maurice Brill residence, no. 163 East 63rd Street, Manhattan. In 1919 architect Frederick Sterner (1862–1931) combined and remodeled two adjoining brownstones (163 and 165 East 63rd Street) to create the Brill residence. John Hay "Jock" Whitney (1904–1982), a later owner of the house, hired architect Ellery Husted (ca. 1901–1967) to remodel the façade in the neo-Federal style it wears today.

Album includes 83 sepia-toned 3x5 inch snapshots of the farmland, buildings and surrounding views, with a few interiors. The album is inscribed "To Mother and Dad, Christmas, 1926." A poem about the farm by "Scotty the plumber" is with the album.

Meadow Edge Farm was on Old Bedford Road in Mt. Kisco, New York, and was owned at this time by Brill. The 72-acre estate featured an 18-room country house, guest cottage, stables, pool, tennis courts, and farm buildings. Brill, who developed Meadow Edge Farm over a period of approximately 25 years, sold the estate to clothier Samuel W. Kappel in 1939. (Source: SMU description of aerial photograph of the estate)