The collection includes scrapbooks, photographs, and print matter of the Junior Philomatheia Club and the Philomatheia Club, "The Women's Auxiliary to Boston College." It is composed of historical background materials, administrative records of the organization, scrapbooks depicting both clubs' varied events and achievements, and photographs of Club members and social gatherings. Also included is information on Boston College fund drives in which the Club was involved. The bulk of material is scrapbooks, consisting of news clippings, event programs and invitations, photographs, tickets, playbills, and more.

The historical materials contain correspondence, programs, news articles, and written histories of the Club, including one composed by its first president, Mrs. Edwin Arthur Shuman (Mary K. Shuman). The correspondence spans from 1918-1979, and contains letters from Boston College soldiers fighting abroad during World War I, thanking the women of Philomatheia Club for their letters and gifts. Administrative records include meeting minutes, treasury and secretary books, announcements of the Club, and its constitution and bylaws. The photographs in the collection consist of Club members participating in events and posed on the clubhouse lawn, portraits of senior members and associates from Boston College, and events held, such as balls, reunions, penny sales, and bowling night.

The scrapbooks make up the bulk of the collection, and document the expansive philanthropic work of both the Philomatheia Club and Junior Philomatheia Club. Some of the events documented in the unbound volumes include the Annual Ball held at Copley Plaza, Christmas fundraisers for local families in need, the Junior Philomatheia production of Dick Whittington in 1933, and numerous Whist and card parties, winter carnivals, raffles, garden parties, literary lectures, and more. Some notable figures who attended club events were James Michael Curley, Mayor of Boston, with his wife Gertrude Curley, and Leverett Saltonstall, Governor of Massachusetts, with his wife Alice Saltonstall.