The collection contains memorabilia mostly concerning Ms. Norma E. Alewel and her father Louis Emil Alewel, including tax receipts and various St. Louis brochures and blueprints of buildings owned by Olivia and Louis Alewel and designed by Julius E. Tarling. The collection includes many photographs of the Alewel family. Box 3 contains several brochures and pamphlets regarding the St. Louis Relief Committee for Central Europe. Box 4 contains a ledger for an upholstery business for Louis E. Alewel (1940). Many items in the collection relate to the rebuilding of Germany and the views of Germans on World War II. Box 7 includes a Shriners (Moolah) hat in a hat box. Box 8 includes records of the Carr Place Protection and Improvement Association. The collection also contains items concerning the Steuben Society and a scrapbook dated 1954-1957 with cards and letters of Lewis E. and Norma E. Alewel and letters from the Steuben Society of America regarding war efforts of Lewis E. Alewel, compiled by Norma E. Alewel.