The collection contains assorted materials including copies of legal documents, a probate decree, a wedding scrapbook containing an invitation to William and Bertha's marriage, memorial tributes from Mt. Zion Hospital, the Northern California Wholesale Grocers' Association, Panama-Pacific Exposition, and Wells Fargo Nevada Bank, a eulogy, a pamphlet, "The Stone Which the Builders Rejected," by Monroe Deutsch, and a letter opener.

William Haas was born in Reckendorf, Bavaria and emigrated to the United States at 14 with his brother, Abraham. They joined their brothers, Jacob and Sam, and older cousins, Charles, Samuel, and Kalman Haas, in establishing a grocery business on the newly expanding west coast. William associated with the firm of Loupe & Haas which later became the Haas Bros, a company in which William was described as the "moving spirit" (Obituary, "The Grocer" 1916). In 1880 William married Bertha Greenebaum, the daughter of one of his business associates.

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