From Junebug Clark's introduction: "A collection of Picture Stories containing Joe Clark, HBSS photographs in their chronological context. The majority of this collection are Life magazine stories. The magazine covers are included to establish the date and era that these stories appeared. Some stories the photographs are all by Joe. Other stories may contain one or two by Joe. These are usually national roundups, but the whole story is included."

The almanac covers general topics about the state of Texas including statistics for individual counties, agriculture, weather, "resources, industries, commerce, history, government, population and all other subjects relating to the political, civic and economic development" of the time. A general index is on page 501.