The Estefania Joyce Rodriguez photographs date from 1902 to 2008 and measure 2.5 linear inches. This collection consists of over 150 photographs, mostly black and white, that illuminate the history of Steff Rodriguez's extended family in Alabama, Iowa, and Mexico. Most of the photographs have been identified and this information is contained in a comprehensive index to the photographs. Many of the photographs have been digitized. Newspaper clippings, including Steff Rodriguez's obituary, can be found in the biographical information folder.

The collection contains several photographs of Steff Rodriguez's mother's family (the Adams family) from Alabama. These include photographs of Muggie Adams Rodriguez's brother, Milton Monroe Adams, known as "Uncle Bud," and her sister Adeline Adams Rowlett, known as "Aunt Tiny." The collection includes photographs of Muggie Adams' first two children, Herman Glenn Rodriguez and Nestora Rivera Rodriguez, as well as the children of Muggie and Norberto Rodriguez.

Some of the photographs in the collection were taken in Iowa communities such as Holy City, Bettendorf, Davenport and coal mining towns of south central Iowa including Buxton; others were taken in Alabama, St. Louis, Missouri, and the Panama Canal Zone.