Kaye and Kern Holoman enjoyed more than fifty years of travel together, often documenting their journeys in diaries beginning with a grand tour of Europe in 1956. Their archive includes some ten bound volumes recording sixteen trips, among them also Eugenia Herring's grand tour of 1928; Kern's post-war journal from Stuttgart, 1946; and later travels of Kern with his companion Jackie Harper. This collection is presented by D. Kern Holoman, their eldest son.

Katherine Holoman (1922-1997), usually called Kaye, was an activist on behalf of public welfare, largely throughher work with the North Carolina General Federation of Women's Clubs and the North Carolina Conference for Social Service.