The collection contains photographs primarily of products such as dredging equipment, railroad tracks, rollers, crushers, and buckets. The films document dredge buckets in operation. The films were shot in the United States and at international locations. The collection has been organized into four series: Company history, Plant views, Products, and Films. Each series is arranged alphabetically.

The Company history series show the ruins of the old Union Iron Forge at High Bridge, along with the ironmaster's house. There is a group of photographs of disabled soldiers viewing the manufacture of tank treads during World War II, as well as other ordnance work from that period. There are individual and group portraits of personnel, many individuals are identified. There are reproductions of a map from 1776 and an advertisement from 1780. The remaining materials date from the 1900s to 1965.

The Plant views series show the plants at High Bridge, New Jersey; Easton and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Hamilton, Ohio. A particularly fine series of photographs shows expansion at the Tioga Iron and Steel Factory in Philadelphia and the steps involved in forging naval guns there during World War I. These materials date from 1912 to 1948.

The Products series consists mainly of photographs of products made from TISCO steel from 1910 to 1920, including dredging equipment, railroad wheels, rollers and crushers, ordnance, and small fittings. Other products of Taylor-Wharton include ball mill liners, buckets, dredges, pumps, stills, gears, wheels, sprockets, railroad tracks, tracker links and grouses, and tracked vehicles. There are a set of images of safes which include factory views. These materials date from the 1890s to 1942.

The films series consists of fifty-one silent 16mm films dating from the mid 1930s through the 1940s. It is unclear as to who created the films, the majority of the films contain imagery of Taylor-Wharton dredge buckets and other equipment associated with the Taylor-Wharton Iron & Steel Company. The films were shot in California and Alaska, as well as internationally in Bali, Bulolo, Kuala Lumpur, La Grange, Malaya, Mangarr, Old Natomas, Colombia, Burma, Siam, Karamata, Sydney and other unidentified places. Many of these films include landscape scenery, indigenous people, animals and aerial footage. There is also an instructional film created by G.R. Hanks on the correct way to slide and run the bases in baseball. There are two short reels of the 200th Anniversary and three 35mm motion pictures of tractors, and steel products. Many of these films have multiple splices that make viewing difficult.