The John Larish Papers are comprised of one series: Research Papers. This series includes the research materials Larish used in writing his book, Out of Focus. Materials include documents recording the history of the Eastman Kodak Company, the surrounding field of electronic photography, and associated technologies. The first box, Kodak Product History, provides some information about the Rochester area and the issues surrounding the photographic industry as the technology of digital photography developed. The bulk of the collection is arranged by date, beginning in 1970. These folders contain news and industry publications that continue through 2012. Beginning in Box 9, there are contextual materials on the structure and leadership of Kodak and its competitors, as well as notes from interviews Larish conducted with key figures in Kodak, and elsewhere in the industry. Box 10 includes a small group of photographs and Larish's notes from a trip to Japan to meet with colleagues, as well as financial reports tracking Kodak's standing in the industry from 2004 to 2008. The final box in the collection includes VHS, audio cassettes, CDs and DVDs with interview recordings.

The collection includes correspondence, reports, and printed material relating to Folsom's career in business and government. Subjects include creation, passage, and implementation of the Social Security Act of 1935 and amendments to it; unemployment insurance plan of Eastman Kodak Company, 1920's and '30's; Rochester Civic Plan on Unemployment, 1930-34; New York State Advisory Council on Placement and Unemployment Insurance. Also U.S. House of Representatives Special Committee on Postwar Economic Policy and Planning (Colmer Committee), dealing with reconstruction in Europe, 1944-46; National Advisory Board on Mobilization Policy, 1950-53; U.S. Treasury Department, with emphasis on taxation and social insurance, 1953-55. Additional subjects are Committee for Economic Development, and its Committee for Improvement of Management in Government, whose report on presidential succession resulted in a constitutional amendment; and other advisory councils, commissions, and conferences. Other material relates to University of Rochester, calendar reform, and higher education in New York State and in the South. There is correspondence with Dwight D. Eisenhower, Kenneth B. Keating, Oveta Culp Hobby, Nelson A. Rockefeller, and Lyndon B. Johnson; a transcript of an interview with Josef Stalin, 1945; and Folsom's scrapbooks and speeches.

The papers consist primarily of domestic and European photography periodicals with articles about Mr. DeMoulin from 1987 to 1998. Also included is his account "Eastman Kodak Company and the Digital Revolution," written in 2009 in response to criticism of Kodak's reaction to the rise of digital photography.