Paper-weight with inscription, "Atlanta Alumnae Club of Mortar Board extends life membership to Dean Emeritus Nell H. Trotter", October 14, 1978

The collection is comprised of scrapbooks, postcards, photographs, slides, photocopies of newspaper clippings, speeches, personal papers, correspondence, certificates, bound volumes, audiocassettes, plaques and silverware (much of which was given as commemorative gifts). The materials reflect some of Trotter's personal and professional life between 1934 and 1971, as well as changing attitudes to and of women in higher education throughout the twentieth century.