From an early age, Laurance S. Rockefeller (LSR) was an avid photographer, and his photograph collection reflects this appreciation, along with the broad range of his activities and interests. The LSR Photographs collection is sorted into several component groupings, loosely based on format, storage location (home or office), or use (e.g., Photo Reference files), at the time his collection was arranged and catalogued.

LSR Photographs, RG 1, Photo Files contains the bulk of LSR's loose photographic prints from his home and his office, along with some albums and slides. RG 1 is a composite collection. It contains LSR's loose or "flat" photo files, but also materials that for various reasons were not included in the other collection components at the time the collection was organized. RG 1 encompasses personal and family photos, as well as photographic documentation of LSR's business and civic activities. The Rockefeller Family Office's Public Relations files on Laurance and Mary French Rockefeller have also been included as a series in RG 1. Similarly, the photographs and albums from the former Series 1009 Photos (LSR Family) are now interfiled with RG 1.

LSR's Slide Notebooks, contains slides from the late 1940s to the early 1980s, taken mainly by LSR. The slides consist primarily of travel photos, from Mary and Laurance's trips to the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and the U. S., in the 1950s; as well as various images of family travel, activities, and homes (including Woodstock, VT; Pocantico; and, especially, Wyoming).

RG 4, LSR's Snapshot Files, contains LSR's personal photos, relating especially to his family, houses, friends and activities, travel, and resort developments. The Snapshot Files label reflects the smaller format of the prints (up to 5" x 7") and their grouping into discrete sets of prints and negatives, which are housed together in individual (and sometimes in their original) photo envelopes.

Records include: Grant and Grantee files, correspondence, Board of Directors materials, Annual reports, and a small selection of building and office files.

Includes grant files, administrative files, correspondence, reports, minutes, financial material, annual reports and a small selection of personal materials. The collection is not comprehensive. Due to routine file purges, this collection includes only the records of the final personal beneficiaries, Markle Scholars, and the communications program, along with assorted administrative files. Documentation of other grants exist only in the minutes, progress reports, and collected reprints.

Audiovisual recordings of conferences, seminars, symposia, and NCUSCR programs, events and exhanges.

Record Group 1 of the National Committee on United States – China Relations records (FA772) contains records of the National Committee's events and exchanges programs, primarily for the period 1982 to 2014; conference records; and National Committee publications and reports.

RG 2 of the NCUSCR records contains files documenting its sponsorship of Conferences, Seminars, Workshops, and Dialogues on foreign policy and relations with China, including U. S. - China Dialogues, which ran from 1984 to 2002. Files in the Programs, Projects, and Proposals series concern the U.S. - China Labor Law Cooperation project, 2002-2007, and the National Committee's University Field Staff program, 1966-1973. RG 2 also contains records of Exchanges to China through the Fulbright-Hays Summer Seminars Abroad, for the period 1982-2010, as well as a few general Exchanges files. A series of Personnel files is restricted.

RG 3 of the NCUSCR records documents the National Committee's ongoing work on behalf of cross-cultural orientation and understanding through its Scholar and Teachers Orientation Programs, Fulbright-Hays Summer Seminars, Student Leaders Exchange, and Young Leaders Forums in particular. Materials in the Exchanges from China series document the visits of athletic teams and other delegations from China in 1976–1978 and 1980. Also in the Programs, Projects, and Proposals series are records relating to the National Committee's "China Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections" webcasts and conversations on China, especially in 2007–2008; and files relating to the surveys it conducted for the Ford Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation, 2002–2007, on the topic of U. S. – China / International Relations and Security Issues. The Publications series includes National Committee brochures from 1973 – 2014, and its China Policy Series pamphlets from 1989-2007.