The papers date from 1891 to1996 and measure 2 linear feet. The papers are arranged in nine series: Genealogical information, Lue Bradley Prentiss, Henry Prentiss, Henry Prentiss birth family, Lilian Prentiss Schwarz and family, Lue (Biddy) Childs and family, Henry Prentiss, Jr. and family, Robert Prentiss and family, Artifacts and Photographs. The collection is devoted primarily to correspondence among the members of the Prentiss family. Lue Bradley's correspondence with her parents and diaries she kept between the ages of eleven and twenty-one (1879-1891) are in the Bradley Family papers. The papers of Cornelia Prentiss Shrauger, the eldest child of Lue and Henry Prentiss, are included in the Shrauger Family papers and the Cornelia Shrauger Day papers. Three books by Malissa Childs Redfield The Country of Love (1966), Games of Chance with Strangers (1971), and Scenes from Country Life (1979) are shelved with the printed works in the Iowa Women's Archives.