From the period of World War I, there is a collection of German army documents and maps ranging in date from 1916 to 1918 brought together by Dodge as souvenirs of war. They include issue no. 3, 1916, of Sachsen im Feld and in der heimat; a catalog for an art exhibition at Charleville that included five works by the German crown prince; work passes for French citizens in Rethel and Nanteuil; German-French decrees issued in June, July, and August, 1917, from the office of the State Commander; German army orders; the September 29, 1918, issue of the ; preliminary and finished maps of the vicinity of Rethel, Mezieres, Langres, and Chateau-Porcien in France, and the area around Courtrai in Belgium. Another small group of five souvenir maps relates to Hessen-Nassau, Wiesbaden, and Neustadt-an-der-Hardt. A larger group of souvenir maps appears to have been captured during the Meuse-Argonne offensive. This group includes an unused contour field map to the scale of 1:25000 for the area around Combres and Fresnes-en-Woevre; a print and manuscript plan of the German trenches at Combres; an artillerie-tageskarte centered on a field of fire north of Mourmelon-le-Grand on August 23 and 24, 1918; a print and manuscript map showing the position of the 48th Infantry Regiment (German) at Fresnes-enWoevre; three manuscript overlay maps showing company positions on first and second nights, third night, and third day and fourth night; an overlay with a manuscript ink drawing of the Combres west sector; a manuscript overlay drawn to the scale of 1:10,000, Aufstellung der Inf.-M.G.u.M.W. während des Kampfes um die Friedrichs-und-Wilhelm zone in der Bogen stellung; and a manuscript chart to a scale of 1:2500 of the tunnel, picket, first and second lines in the angle at lea Eparges. A few American publications for servicemen are included in the collection: two copies of a circa 1916 isolationist leaflet, ; two copies of the October 30, 1918, issue of ; a ticket for the theatre de Charleville (1919); and no. 80, Jan. 28, 1919. A group photograph of Battery F, 113th Field Artillery, made at Le Mans on March 1, 1919, completes the World War I materials.

World War II materials are printed maps and include Belgium and Maastricht; London and Oxford; France, northeast France, Le Mans, and Paris; Germany; central Europe; and Bartholomew's , an account of the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946, published by Joint Task Force One, is included, though extrinsic to the collection.

Generally speaking, the materials relating to Dodge's work with the Blue Ridge Parkway consists of maps. His correspondence and files on the subject, naturally, will be found in the records of the State Highway Commission (now the Division of Highways in the Department of Transportation). Ephemera in the collection includes three photographic negatives from 1935, the 1939 and 1940 brochures issued by the National Park Service, and an official car sticker for the 1940 dedication of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The collection includes, too, copies of the printed highway laws of North Carolina from 1926 to 1931, a copy of the state highway map for 1933, and a 1938 map showing the projected southern extension of the Blue Ridge Parkway into Georgia. The greater part of parkway-related maps in the collection is made up of U.S.G.S. quadrangle sheets, some of them marked, but most of them not: Cranberry, Morganton, Mount Mitchell, Pisgah and Pisgah National Forest, and Roan Mountain. A copy of the Federal Highway Administration's , no. 4, July, 1976, relating to the proposed extension of the Blue Ridge Parkway was added to his father's papers by the donor.

Personal materials among the papers include two 1940 letters from the North Carolina Society for the Preservation of Antiquities, two 1932 photographs of the dedication of the Joseph Hewes monument at Edenton, N.C. and of the ruins of the home of Col. John Martin in Stokes County, two 1934 photographs (and five negatives) of the interior and exterior of Fort Macon, five 1934 photographs of U.S. Highway 221 between Crossnore and Linville, North Carolina, and undated photographs of the tombstone of Peter Stewart Ney and the memorial stone to Patrick Ferguson on King's Mountain. There are, as well, five photographs of aircraft: two of a bird-like glider photographed presumably on a Florida beach in the early 1920s, and three of airplanes and Dodge's three sons at Raleigh Municipal Airport in the late 1930s.