Users of this collection will discover that sometimes the local anti-tuberculosis society worked in close conjunction with the state and national societies, but other times fought with the broader scoped organizations and sought to separate itself. The collection reflects this multi-leveled aspect of the anti-tb movement as all of the levels are represented by various records.

Two activities of the organization dominate as subjects throughout all the material in the collection. One of these is the Christmas seal. A sub-series of the series, Organizational Records, is dedicated exclusively to Christmas seals but patrons interested specifically in seals can look about anywhere in the collection for information.

Through the decades of the 1960s and 1970s there was considerable conflict between the local organization and both the state (Michigan Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association, MTRDA) and national (National Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association, NTRDA) societies that resulted in efforts to change organizational structure and relationships. Included in the debate were issues surrounding the appropriateness of continuing direct services. Again, a sub-series of the series, Organizational Records, is dedicated exclusively to reorganization efforts but a majority of the documents from these decades throughout the collection relate to this subject.

The formation and early history of the society is covered well by primary sources in the form of meeting minutes, though the minutes do not continue consistently after 1916. Near the end of the Organizational Records series is a file on the history of the society also containing primary, as well as secondary, source information about the early years of operation. There is also a file on the history of the Christmas seal in the Christmas Seal sub-series.

The early statistical/service reports are the best source of information about the direct care services of the local organization and the actual tuberculosis problem in this area. They document what the nurses were doing and what they were finding in their patients. This kind of information cannot be found in the collection after the 1930s.

One of the most comprehensive records sets are the annual reports. They contain mostly statistics and overviews and they were used as promotional tools so the information is more complimentary to the society than objective, but there is a report for nearly every year of the society's existence.

Scrapbooks make up about half the volume of the collection. Those with titles are listed by their title in quotation marks and those that had no titles are simply called “Scrapbook” with a date range. The first scrapbook in the series, Scrapbook 1905 – 1959, is a wealth of original photos representing over fifty years of history in images. The second scrapbook in the series, Scrapbook 1914 – 1952, is a similar wealth of documents including meeting minutes and nurses reports and can supplement what is found separately in the Organizational Records series.

Near the end of the Organizational Records series is a sub-series of material that seems like an anomaly. A full standard Hollinger box is filled with metropolitan studies; reports about utilities, the rise of the suburbs and other issues related to the urbanization of this community dated primarily from the mid to late 1950s. It is a useful group of material. It is unknown how it became included in this collection.