Volume 1 (mainly Civil War clippings, but also including items such as party tickets for the 1864 election, with lists of California electors), 1862-1865
Volume 2 (Lincoln and politics; includes a number of political cartoons), ca. 1862-1870
Volume 3 (Lincoln and Civil War), 1867, 1895, 1930-1949
Volume 4 (includes articles on Lincoln books and manuscripts, portraits of Lincoln at various stages of his life, and clippings on other topics such as slavery and Ulysses S. Grant), ca. 1902-1942
Volume 5 (portfolio, with clippings inserted in pockets, mainly about Lincoln, but some about John Brown), 1907-1963