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The Commission studied the reorganization and consolidation of boards and commissions and revision of the public health laws.

The Plainfield Historical Society was established in a meeting held January 8, 1916 in the Town Clerk's Office, Central Village. Judge John E. Prior was chosen chairman. The date of its last meeting was November 10, 1917.

On July 4, 1915, a group of women in Washington, D.C. formed the Women's Section of the Navy League. The League hoped to band women of various philosophical backgrounds under the banner of "Patriotism, Americanism, and National Defense." The function of a Comforts Committee was to knit woolen garments for men serving in the United States Navy.

The collection consists primarily of artwork and storyboards for books authored and illustrated by Harvey Weiss, as well as correspondence, clippings, printed material, photographs and other material relating to various book projects and several illustrated journals. The collection documents Harvey Weiss's career as a children's illustrator and author, and his process of researching, writing and illustrating books.

The collection comprises the papers of comedian and writer Tom Davis. Davis was best known for being one-half of the comedy duo Franken & Davis, with comedian, writer, and former United States Senator Al Franken, and for their work as writers and performers on the television program, Saturday Night Live. Materials in the collection document Davis' life and work, and include scripts, episode rundowns, and other materials related to Saturday Night Live; writings by Davis, including movie screenplays and drafts of his memoir, 39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss; correspondence; photographs; clippings; audiovisual materials; and ephemera.

The Archiv des Verein zum Schutz deutscher Einwanderer in Texas, contains correspondence, contracts of appointment, minutes of meetings, reports, and instructions from and to the Adelverein's representatives in Texas and elsewhere; documentation of legal and financial transactions; and papers relating to promoting the Adelsverein, securing prospective emigrants, and providing for their transport to Texas.
The archive also contains a major collection of printed material relating to the Adelsverein and European colonization in the Americas. They are supplemented by scores of contemporary newspapers and periodicals which contain articles about or advertisements for the Adelsverein.

This collection, compiled by William H. Brown, contains a variety of financial documents concerning oil companies operating in the North American West. Examples of these documents include informational pamphlets, company magazines, fact sheets, maps, memorandums, newspaper clippings, press releases, company correspondence, reports and analyses, letters to the stockholders, stockholder resolutions, petitions for secondary stock offerings, bond offerings, subscription forms, proxy statements, prospectuses, election forms, mortgage and trust indentures, deposit and trust agreements, reorganization plans and agreements, consolidation plans, and court documents. While all of these documents are represented in the collection, they are not all represented by each company.

This collection, compiled by William H. Brown, contains a variety of financial documents concerning water companies operating in the North American West. Examples of these documents include company correspondence, prospectuses, reports, maps, bondholders' agreements, letters to the stock- and bondholders, mortgage and trust indentures, plans for reorganization, and trust agreements. While all of these documents are represented in the collection, they are not all represented by each company.

The papers document the life, work, and adventures of Marshall Bond between 1897 and 1935, and also include a few papers of his father, Hiram G. Bond, and his son, Marshall Bond, Jr. Bond's Klondike experience is well documented by his diary from 1897-98, letters to his family, draft chapters of a memoir about his experiences, and photographs. The photographs include one of the dog who inspired Jack London's novel The Call of the Wild; several of the Bond family's California home, on which London based the setting for the beginning of the novel; and forty-five commercially produced photos of the Klondike region and Dawson by E. A. Hegg and other photographers.
The bulk of the collection is correspondence, which includes Bond's letters to his family from the Klondike, from Goldfield, Nevada in 1904, from Mexican villages under attack by Pancho Villa in 1918, and from hunting trips in Alaska in 1911 and Africa in 1927. It also includes his incoming and outgoing correspondence with business associates and friends, which documents mining ventures and other matters, including a plan to settle Boer refugees in Mexico. Bond's letters to Herbert H. White report intelligence about Germans in the American Southwest during World War I.
The correspondence includes one letter from Jack London to Marshall Bond, in which London confirms that the character "Buck" was indeed based on the Bonds' dog, and Judge Miller's house in the novel on Judge Bond's house in Santa Clara.
The collection also includes photographs taken in 1926 of surviving associates of Billy the Kid, a few World War I letters from the front, copies of newspaper articles by Bond, maps of the Yukon Territory, and a typescript of a book by Marshall Bond, Jr.