The collection includes photographs of Charles Lincoln Maxey, Sr., and other members of the Maxey family. The collection contains images of African American school groups at varying levels from one-room schoolhouses for elementary level children to college students. All are group photographs, primarily scenes posed before educational buildings, or graduation groups, and most are unidentified. Those identified include the Chi Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, students at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, with Charles Maxey; the Kappa Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, Morgan County Georgia teachers; and the class of 1923 at Clark College with M. E. Maxey. The Clark University photograph was taken by Atlanta African American photographer Paul Poole.