The Culture, society, and service series is divided into five subseries: Artwork; Automobiles and machinery; Photography, motion pictures, and audio recordings; Wars and military, and World’s Fairs and amusements.

The Artwork subseries contains both copies and original pieces arranged in alphabetical order. There are three works by Stanley M. Arthurs including The Accolade, American Eagle Ship, and the Landing Governor Printz at Christiana. There are lithographs and watercolors depicting scenes from various operas, a painting of Chateau du Bois in France and a portrait of Marshall Joffre.

The Automobiles and machinery subseries contains pictures of automobiles, farm machinery, and other vehicles. These images date from 1903 to 1932.

The Photography, motion pictures, and audio recordings subseries contains P.S. du Pont’s camera and photography accessories. There are also lantern slides and twelve rolls of motion picture films for the Edison Home Kinetoscope. The lantern slides are of notable landmarks of various countries such as England and Germany and are dated 1912. The films date from 1909 through 1915 and seem to be fictional shorts. There are also several phonograph records, most of the recordings are of band music, two are of speeches by P.S. du Pont on anti-prohibition in 1932, and one is of the Longwood organ in 1950-1952.

The Wars and military subseries is a small amount of materials dating from the 1830s to 1954. Notably there is a set of negatives of the Arrival of the Shoshone in 1919, which brought the last remaining troops home from France in World War I. There are also images related to the Red Cross from World War I.

The World’s Fairs and amusements subseries is primarily images from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. There are rolled unprinted nitrate negatives taken by P.S. du Pont at the World's Columbian Exposition, some of which have been copied and have had contact prints made from the copies, however, there is a set of which that has not been copied or printed. There are also a set of mounted prints from the World’s Columbian Exposition. There is one image of the embalmed body of John Wilkes Booth on exhibit around the 1910s.