Garfield Merner, a member of the board of Trustees and a generous donor, took an especial interest in seeing the holdings of the library grow. These donations included first editions and autographed copies by authors such as Helen Keller and Ernest Hemingway. For information on the holdings of the Mary Fisher Floyd Archives rare book collection, consult the library's card catalog or the archivist. In the future all books in the Mary fisher Floyd Archives and Special Collections will be included in Voyager , the library's online public access catalog. The photograph collection consists of images dating from the early 1900's to the present.
Most photographs are black and white and many of the early images of the school are reproductions.
The collection documents the development of Pfeiffer University from its founding as Oberlin Home and School to the present. Images in the collection include the buildings, people and activities of the University and Stanly County. Photographs are also located in the University Archives' vertical files and in some manuscript collections. The post card collection is a small collection that shows images of the Misenheimer campus from about 1914 to the present. Christmas cards are sent annually by the president to members of the Pfeiffer community and this collection contains many examples of these.