These travel diaries are written by Jean Brown. The diaries contain handwritten entries recording Brown's daily life while traveling in South Africa and later Micronesia.

Both diaries contain other materials including postcards, tourist maps, hotel memorabilia, various brochures and guides, newspaper and magazine clippings and photographs.

This collection consists of photographs of varying sizes, including those of the Holt family and their home, as well as the Holt-Balcom Saw Mill. The collection also contains travel photographs taken in Wisconsin, where the family lived, and in Colorado. Additionally, there are photographs from the Holt boys’ worldwide tour, including countries in the Middle East and Europe and parts of Russia and Japan.

This collection contains colored slides from various places that Francis Weeks traveled in Western Europe, Asia, Egypt and South America between 1960 and the early 1980s. There are a great number of slides of cathedrals and museums.

Additionally, there are several slide inventories from when some of these slides were contained in Francis Weeks’ own Winnisimet Collection of slides.