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The series holds a group of files from productions with which Dean was associated as a manager or publicist, files of miscellaneous press releases and essays, and a series of scrapbooks that document his career. The files hold cast lists, financial statements, and miscellaneous documents and printed ephemera. Press releases deal with productions and Dean's own self-promotion, as well as his thoughts on the topics of knickers, the future of motion pictures, and the author Hall Caine. A set of oversize photographs of Leonore Ulric include stills of the cast of Lulu Belle (1926); two short strips of pink-tinted Cine-Positive nitrate motion picture film (seven frames in all) with images of Ulric were removed to cold storage. The compiler of the thirteen scrapbooks covering Dean's career is unknown but was likely Dean, his sister Katherine, and/or their mother; three of the scrapbooks concern performances by actress Sarah Truax. The scrapbook devoted to the actress Eleonora Duse's American tour of 1902-1903 may not be related to Dean, and may have been created by a contemporary, the actor Harry C. Bruninghaus, whose stamp appears inside the front cover. Two boxes at the end of the series hold folded newspaper clippings, primarily from the early twentieth century.