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The Gordy Collection of Circus Photographs featured a wide array of images from mostly the 1900s to the 1940s, documenting circus life. It focuses primarily on the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus, and shows not only animal and human performers, but features behind the scenes images that give a greater view into what life was like for those who traveled with the group every year.

Student notebooks, writings, lectures given at the Yale Medical School, photographs, and memorabilia relating to Osborne's professional career. The largest part of the papers consists of the lectures given at Yale between 1924 and 1925. Also included is a matriculation book from Leipzig University (1884-1885) and other notebooks, printed matter, and speeches on medical subjects. Several photographs show views of Berlin and other parts of Germany.

The collection consists of photographs taken by Roberta Price of communes in the southwestern United States from 1969 to 1970, including black and white and color prints, negatives, and transparencies. The collection also includes drafts, correspondence, and printed material relating to Huerfano: A Memoir of Life in the Counterculture; additional photographs; interviews and other born digital audiovisual materials; and other papers.

The Robert Louis Stevenson Collection consists of correspondence, writings, photographs, artwork, and other material documenting the life, work, and remembrance of Robert Louis Stevenson.

The Commission planned, sponsored, or encouraged a variety of activities in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington. The records consist of minutes, correspondence, general files, press files, children's contest entries, photographs, History of the George Washington Bicentennial Celebration: Programs of Participation in Connecticut, scrapbooks, and artifacts.

This record group represents a continuation of the official archives of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, supplementing and overlapping the papers in record groups 11, 11A, 11B, 11C, and 11D. It provides extensive information about the institutions and projects to which the United Board lent its support. The United Board for Chrisian Higher Education in Asia supports educational work in China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, The Philippines, Republic of China (Taiwan), Thailand, and Vietnam. The United Board was established to support and coordinate the activities of Protestant colleges and universities in China. Following the Communist takeover of China, the United Board focused its efforts on educational work in other Asian nations.

The papers include clippings, albums, photographs, glass slides, and set designs documenting the career of Donald Oenslager as educator and set designer.

The papers document the work and research interests of academic and activist Bert Hansen. The material is divided into three categories, AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT) records, newspaper clippings, and subject files. The AIDS Committee of Toronto records consist of administrative files related to operations of the group, board and committee-related minutes, agendas, and correspondence, and printed ephemera. These files date from 1983 to 1984. Newspaper and magazine clippings are generally focused on the AIDS epidemic in Canada and the United States, starting from the early period of the epidemic in 1982 until 1996. Some of the aspects of the epidemic that these clippings document include activism in the gay and lesbian community, medical research, human interest stories about people living with AIDS, and discrimination against people with AIDS. There are also a small number of clippings on other topics, such as discrimination within and towards the gay community, visibility of gay men and lesbians in media and history, and anti-pornography activism. The bulk of these date from 1980 to 1984. Subject files date from 1838 to 1996, though the bulk of the materials date from 1970-1996. They consist of materials pertaining to Bert Hansen's research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activism, medical history and academia, and the intersection of both fields. Topics covered in the subject files include the history of the gay rights movement, sociology and sexuality, and portrayals of the gay and lesbian community in the media. Additionally, these subject files contain testimonials of and clippings documenting discrimination against members of the gay and lesbian community.

A collection of correspondence; government documents, including reports, and decrees; church documents;writings; and published illustrated material from Central America (Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama) on civil, military, economic, religious, political, linguistic and social topics.

Typescripts, notes, and typewritten transcriptions of original source material concerning the development of Luis Alberto Guajardo's Apuntes, Datos, y Noticias Para la Historia de Coahuila. Topics documented include the history of Coahuila and Mexico, particularly Monclova; the history of the presidio of Santa Rosa, including its mines; the history of indigenous people in the region; the military feats of Juan de Ugalde; the wars of independence of 1810 and 1821; the cholera epidemics of 1833 and 1849; the campaign into Texas in 1836; and the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and 1911.