Basic documents of an organization are found here for the East Side Ladies Literary Club, including some generations of by-laws, a long run of minutes from the club's inception until 1984, incomplete membership and attendance records, financial information from 1935 to 2004, and year books for 1902/1903 to 1978/1979, incomplete.

No written or visual information on the clubs activities is found, such as photographs or stories, except for a few isolated newspaper clippings. The scrapbooks often kept by such organizations are missing for this collection.

A bank book from the Convention Account of the Grand Rapids Federation of Women's Clubs, 1948 is the only previous evidence of the club's wider participation in this city wide joint organization. Added with the 2005.060 gift are records of the Kent County Women's Club, from ca. 1880 to 1994.