Boxes 1-7 contain meeting minutes and lists of Board of Directors and Executive and Nominating committees. Boxes 8-11 describe the service programs established by the Service Overview Committees to carry out the mission of the organization. Boxes 12 and 13 contain financial reports, including endowment funds, guidelines and manuals for different sections of the organization. Box 14 contains photographs, annual reports, publications, and other miscellaneous ephemera.

The Max Lowenthal & Sons Inc. Papers contain financial and tax papers of the Lowenthal Reality and the Max Lowenthal & Sons business, as well as literature regarding the history of Max Lowenthal & Sons Incorporated. The collection includes the New York State and Federal Tax Returns of the corporation in the years 1938-1961 and its financial examinations of 1941-65. In 1968 the company celebrated its Centennial Anniversary. Much coverage of this event was given by the press and the factory. The collection contains several articles regarding this anniversary and its history. There is also information about the opening of a new plant, Lowenthal-Tennessee Incorporated, in 1967 which added a new line of boys sweaters, as well as financial examinations from that time until the company's closing in 1971.

This collection consists of three boxes. Box 1 contains correspondence and historical ephemera, a significant amount of which pertains to the factory opening of 1910. It also contains several style model books. Box 2 contains a scrapbook of historical newspaper clippings. Special care should be used in handling this scrapbook. In Box 3, a wide variety of business and financial information can be found, including original stock certificates and account books, as well as legal documents pertaining to the 1922 merger with Levy Bros.

The most significant historical contents in this collection are the materials found in Box 1, which include photographs and a scrapbook of newspaper accounts detailing the ACWA Strike of 1933, as well as a substantial amount of material regarding the proxy battle of 1960. Box 2 contains a broad collection of general historical material about the company, such as newspaper articles, advertisements, and style model books, as well as an original Heumann patent and Heumann biographical information. Significant financial and stock information is found in Box 3, including original turn of the century bank account books, annual reports, executive payroll reports, and stockholder correspondence. Finally, Box 4 contains miscellaneous business and legal documents related to Keller, Heumann and Thompson, Inc. such as by-laws, constitutions, and minutes of meetings.

The collection consists of minutes of meetings of the general Board, the Board of Directors, and the various committees from December,, 1926 to December, 1955; bank and account books from 1924 to 1926; a stock ledger; and minutes of the meetings of the older Local Board of Fire Underwriters from the years 1881-1886. There are also seven scrapbooks containing primarily newspaper clippings and agency newspapers from the year 1927 to the year 1958. Pages from another account book covering the years 1929-1940 can be found at the beginning of the first scrapbook. There is also a carbon copy of a letter written by Mr. Louis Hawes, the Executive Secretary of the Board, to Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Mr. Hoover's reply at the beginning of the fifth scrapbook.

The Maurice Willson Disher collection on Henry Irving and the Lyceum Theatre Company consists of material relating to the English actor Henry Irving (1838-1905) and the Lyceum Theatre company, assembled by Maurice Willson Disher (1893-1969), English critic and author. The bulk of the material, including correspondence, financial records, and memorabilia, survived a clearance of the Lyceum Theatre sometime after 1903. Disher purchased them at an auction.

The collection is arranged by specific topics. The GAR and Civil War material occupies the majority of box 2, the remaining topics and general correspondence are filed in box 1.

The Eastwood-Bigelow Family Papers includes letters written to and from the Eastwood-Bigelow family members and friends, and are chiefly personal in nature. Included are letters written by Albert Bigelow Paine and Lewis Nathaniel Chase, as well as letters written about the Civil War and trips to California and Europe. Also in the collection are family financial papers, diaries, account books, invitations and calling cards, photographs, newspaper clippings, literary items and recipes.

The Ellwanger and Barry Papers includes the records of Ellwanger and Barry Nursery to 1918, including correspondence, order books, sketchbooks, stock record books, catalogs, price lists, inventories, and account books; records of Ellwanger and Barry Realty Company to 1963, including financial and legal papers, account books, payroll records, and blueprints for houses on the Ellwanger and Barry tract. Also business and personal correspondence, account books, and financial records of Patrick Barry, Charles P. and Julia Wald Barry, Bernard and Harriet Barry Liesching, and Arthur A. Barry, including much information about Rochester banks and civic organizations. Also family photographs and scrapbooks; memorabilia; diaries of Patrick Barry, 1857-72; and record of soldiers' bounties, 1862-1863.

The collection includes correspondence, school compositions, farm records, pension office correspondence, photographs, including daguerreotype and ambrotype portraits, personal account books and receipts.