The collection consists of DuPont Company advertising materials, including postcards, pictorial envelopes, lantern slides, advertisements, display cards, and illustrated pamphlets. Postcards include five sets of a series of images of hunting dogs, specifically the National Field Trial Championship winners from 1896 to 1910, by the artist Edmund Osthaus. Other postcards include a series of game and game birds advertising DuPont gunpowder; a reproduction of a trap shooting scene by N.C. Wyeth also advertising Du Pont powders; and a reproduction of Howard Pyle's painting of the Du Pont powder wagon carrying powder to Commodore Perry in 1813. Pictorial envelopes in the collection also have images of championship hunting dogs and game birds and advertisements for Du Pont powder. Lantern slides have Spanish language advertisements for various Du Pont paints, including Duco and Dulux, and speedy wax.

The collection also includes advertisements and display cards for a variety of DuPont products including automotive products, cellophane, cellulose sponges, gunpowder and ammunition, Antron, Challenge Cleanable Collars, Dacron, Lycra, Rayon, Fabrikoid, Nylon, Orlon, Tontine (washable window shades), Zepel, Zelan, paints and varnishes, Duco, Pyralin, Lucite, and Tyvek.

Illustrated pamphlets in the collection include a sample of "Important American Game Birds," illustrated by Lynn Bogue Hunt; three pamphlets about trapshooting and hunting; and salesmen's instruction pamphlets about blasting powders, high explosives, agricultural explosives, shotgun powders, rifle and revolver powders, etc. Miscellaneous items in the collection consist of the seating arrangement for a DuPont sales convention in 1918 and a menu for a convention which is covered with a DuPont Fabrikoid product.