The collection consists of a scrapbook compiled by 1926 graduate, John Dennett Guthrie, containing photos and memorabilia of the cadets years at Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute.

Photos in the scrapbook include: the football team, football games, the baseball team, the basketball team, the wrestling team, life in the Corps of Cadets, the Rat Parade of 1922, ROTC training camp, campus, athletic structures, academic buildings, dormitories, the Town of Blacksburg, as well as home and family.

Memorabilia from the scrapbook includes: buttons from his cadet uniform, a university calendar for 1925, a Camp Training Certificate for ROTC, a receipt for third quarter payments, an Athletic Association Pass, dance and prom programs, dinner programs and menus, a list of hours of instruction, company banquet programs, invitations to club events, an issue of the Bulletin of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Vol. 19 No. 2), an issue of the VPI Alumnus (November 1929), postcards from relatives, a collection of postage stamps, a photo clipping of Miss America, and advertisements.