Raphael Lemkin, an international lawyer, initiated the use of the term "genocide," and succeeded in persuading the United Nations to adopt the Genocide Convention in 1948. Documents include personal correspondence and artifacts; correspondence, documentation, clippings, and articles regarding the United Nations adoption of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment on the Crime of Genocide treaty; and source material for the unfinished manuscript,History of Genocide. Collection includes photographs, identity cards, articles, papers, essays, clippings, magazines, research materials, term papers, posters, United Nations materials, and microfilm.

Correspondence, notes, manuscripts, and drawings of Culin. The collection contains information on the early days of football, the games of the American Indian, and games in Hawaii, India, and Malaya. The correspondence in the collection consists of only a few letters dealing primarily with Culin's work on Hawaiian games.