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This collection contains four editorial cartoons drawn by Dorothy McKay (1904-1974), an American cartoonist. Two of the cartoons are watercolor, ink, and wash on board, and two are brush and ink on board. Each work is signed as either "McKay" or "D. McKay" at its corner. Three of the cartoons were illustrated for Esquire magazine, where McKay was employed as its first female cartoonist, and one for Collier's magazine. Publishing marks and stamps appear at the recto and on the verso of each cartoon. The earliest cartoon, "Just grab one, madam, and cut out the twittering," published in Collier's in 1937, shows a woman in an elegant dress looking at a tray of desserts held by an impatient butler. The second cartoon, "He's still on his lunch hour, but I'll take the nickel," is dated November 1944 and depicts a man speaking to a woman as both look down at a monkey in a suit sleeping against a fire hydrant. The third cartoon, "Well, thank God you hear singing too, Dear...I thought I was going crazy in this lonely office" was published January 1954. The full color scene features a group of men singing at a bar with drinks and a man ducked into a telephone booth speaking this his wife, attempting to convince her that he is at the "lonely office." The fourth illustration, "Why don't you do something, dear, besides just make money?" is dated September 1956 and shows a husband and wife in their living room with the woman working at an easel.

The Randy Pendleton papers (1967-2000; 0.04 cubic feet) documents Pendleton's work as a journalist. The collection contains three pieces of ephemera: a Klan business card handed to Pendleton, who was in Birmingham at a Klan convention as a representative of UPI, 1967 or 1968; a press releases handed out at the announcement of Norman Mailer's candidacy for Mayor of New York City dated May 1, 1969 with hand-edits by Pendleton based on Mailer's speech; a "Sore Loserman" sign handed out outside the Florida Supreme Court during the 2000 vote recount.