The papers consist of correspondence, writings, and research material relating to the professional career of Paul H. Lavietes. The papers include items relating to his investigation for possible Communist sympathies by the Veterans Administration and the House Committee on Un-American Activities and document his involvement in medical research, various controversies over drug treatments for diabetes, conflict of interest in the pharmaceutical industry, and the John Punnett Peters Memorial Lectures.
The Photographs series consists of black and white photographs of John Punnett Peters, Paul Lavietes, and the twenty-fifth reunion ofthe Yale School ofMedicine Class of 1930, and is arranged alphabetically.