The materials are the personal and professional family papers of Norman Jonathan Sipe, his wife Isabel Sipe (née Deines), and their son Gregory F. Sipe. The materials include identification papers, correspondence, photographs, and journals. Topics include personal family history, the United States Army, the Vietnam War, and architecture teachings.

The collection consists of three letters exchanged between L.E. Sissman and Professor Charles Kaplan in the English Department of California State University, Northridge after he reviewed Sissman's "War Requiem."

The S.L. Mitchell Account Book is that of Mr. Mitchell's General Store of Jonesville, New York from 1850-1851. Entries include customer name, items, and quantites sold.

The Small Family Nanking University Collection consists of a family history, a map of Nanking, copied correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other materials on Nanking University, Lex's career as an architect, and the Nanking Incident, compiled by Jaqueline Schurman, the Smalls' granddaughter.

The John Smith Civil War Collection consists of correspondence, transcripts, copies of pension records, photographs, and research notes documenting Smith's service as a Union corporal in Company D, S9 Regiment, Ohio Infantry during the Civil War.

Millie Moser Smith devoted much of her time to social causes, especially those involving farm workers, which she came into contact with through her church membership. The collection consists of articles, booklets, correspondence, ephemera, fliers, journals, membership directories, newsletters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, photographs, posters, reports, and videocassettes from the National Farm Workers Ministry and related groups that worked on behalf of farm workers.

Professor Wilfred Cantwell Smith was the foremost Canadian scholar on Islam and comparative religion. He founded the Institute for Islamic Studies at McGill University in Montreal in 1951, helped establish the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard, and the Department of Comparative Religion at Dalhousie University.

Tri-Ess is a non-profit educational, social, and support group for heterosexual cross-dressers, their partners or spouses, and their families. The collection contains the records of Tri-Ess and its chapters since its inception in 1973 through 2006. It includes correspondence, directories, corporate documents, flyers, ephemera, newsletters, and photographs. There is considerable documentation on the initial organization of Tri-Ess and numerous publications about cross-dressing.