This collection consists of black-and-white and color 35mm slides taken by Mitchell between 1967 and 1986. Photographs were taken in a number of different locations, mainly in North Carolina, and depict people, events, landscapes, nature scenes, and buildings; many of the images in his writings and instruction of scientific photography. Many of the images were taken on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Also included are images taken by Mitchell as he traveled to different locations across the United States and around the world. Numerous images of Mitchell's family-owned vineyard (Mitchell Vineyard) and other vineyards he traveled to in the United States, France, and Italy are included in the collection. The collection also includes Mitchell's photographic logs created by Mitchell, that extensively detail the location and specifications of almost 6000 images he took from 1967 to 1985.