The Scrapbooks Collection includes over 140 volumes containing programs, souvenirs, photographs, newspaper clippings, college papers, letters and ephemera relating chiefly to student life at Amherst College. Most are personal scrapbooks that were kept by Amherst College undergraduates; others were kept by fraternities or College offices or organizations. A small number of personal scrapbooks contain material not related to an individual's undergraduate life.

This collection is organized into three series:

• 1. Personal Scrapbooks, 1856-1943
• 2. Institutional Scrapbooks, 1854-1967
• 3. Other Scrapbooks, 1853-1874