This collection consists of the personal papers of Rochester, New York based, African American community activist, Howard W. Coles. The materials date between 1836 and 1996. The papers are comprised of newspapers, correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, records, and recorded broadcasts.

The Howard Wesley Davis Papers includes clippings, correspondence, class lectures and assignments, lab equipment, photographs, and publications about his student experience and career as a physicist.

The Howard Wilder Lyman Papers contain materials related to the life of Professor Lyman, his work as a voice and choral music instructor, and his position as director of the University Chorus.

Howard W. Yoder was a Methodist missionary in Peru, Bolivia, and Panama, and Executive Secretary of the Committee on Cooperation in Latin America of the Division of Foreign Missions of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA from 1954 – 1963. The collection contains a 1954 report by Yoder on the state of Protestant missions in Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.

This collection consists of records from H. O. Waugh Hardware, a Rochester, N.Y., hardware store and home heatin installer. The records date between 1935 and 1950. They consist of installation proposals, recipts and job notes.

Correspondence, specifications, contracts, invoices, financial statements, memoranda, and architectural drawings pertaining to the construction of St. Paul's Chapel (Columbia University, New York, N.Y.), a project designed by Howells & Stokes, and by Stokes independently. Correspondence is between Howells & Stokes and Columbia University officials, contractors, and suppliers, including Nicholas Murray Butler, R. Guastavino Co., Tiffany Studios, Coppède, Paul Manship, and McKim, Mead & White, as well as Stokes' aunts Olivia Egleston Phelps Stokes and Caroline Phelps Stokes.

Collection of original sketches and drawings, signed, by cartoonists and illustrators. Collected by Howes Norris, Jr.

Mostly official correspondence from Wood’s work as curator of the American Numismatic Society.

A collection of the personal papers, including personal correspondence and financial documents, of the family of James Otis Hoyt (1842-1896), a prominent New York Lawyer.

Two handwritten catalogs of American currency notes.

H. Richard Niebuhr was president of Elmhurst College, 1924-1927; Sterling Professor of Theology and Christian Ethics, 1954-1962 at Yale University (faculty since 1931); and was known for conglomerating neoorthodoxy, realism, and Christian existentialism. The collection contains 13 typescript essays thematically divided into four sections: Deity of God; Human bondage; Divine action and human response; and Catholic vision.

The collection contains correspondence from Haggard and to and from others, as well as a few miscellaneous items including notes on errata in some of Haggard's works.

The collection is composed of 66 letters from Haggard to various members of his family, primarily to his sister-in-law, Agnes Barber Haggard, who had been his secretary. There are nearly 250 letters addressed to Haggard, to Coulson Kernahan, and to others. Among the correspondents are: James Barrie, Hall Caine, Mrs Patrick Campbell, Joseph Chamberlain, Wilkie Collins, Marie Corelli, Austin Dobson, A. Conan Doyle, J.A. Froude, John Galsworthy, Edmund Gosse, Andrew Lang, C.J. Longman, J.E. Millais, William Morris, Ouida, Grant Richards, Rafael Sabatini, and John Tenniel. There are several manuscripts by Haggard and printed materials relating to him. There are 20 letters from Haggard to his oldest sister, Ella Green, and about 110 to his brother, Col. Andrew C.P. Haggard.

Correspondence, clippings, notebooks, and photographs. The principal files are not complete. The correspondence covers the years 1920 to 1941, and the scrapbooks of clippings begin in 1927 and end in 1945. Nevertheless, many of Knickerbocker's reports, cables, and interviews, some unpublished, are present and provide information concerning news events, primarily in Europe, and the operations of his office. Correspondence with fellow members of the press is extensive and interesting. There are a few original manuscripts in the collection, but none pertain to Knickerbocker's seven books. Also, photographs relating to Knickerbocker's works on Russian trade and the Five Year Plan, and of Knickerbocker himself. The correspondence includes letters from Winston Churchill, Randolph Churchill, Evelyn Waugh, Leon Trotsky, Sir Josiah Stamp, Ernestine Evans, Walter Duranty, and John W. Wheeler-Bennett.

Correspondence, manuscript review, and printed materials of Henri-René Lenormand. The collection includes letters from Lenormand to Eugene Jay Scheffer, an analysis by Lenormand of his own work , and numerous handwritten copies (in unknown hands) of review of Lenormand's plays "L'homme et ses fantômes" "La dent Rouge" "A l'ombre du mal" and Le Simoun.".

A letter describing the writer's travels through New York and Pennsylvania shortly after the start of the War of 1812.

The Huang Fu papers consist of materials relating to Huang Fu's political involvement in the early revolutions, the Coup d'etat of 1924, the Nanking Incident, the Jinan Incident, the Tanggu Truce settlement and its aftermath, dating mostly from 1913 to 1945. Materials included in the papers are correspondence, documents, letters, telegrams, speeches and writings.

Domestic correspondence of Lucius Lee Hubbard (1849-1933), and that of his wife, Frances Johnson Lambard Hubbard (1852-1927), their three daughters, and other relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Houghton, Michigan. Most of the letters are addressed to Hubbard's daughter Frances Hubbard Flaherty, the wife and co-worker of Robert J. Flaherty, the film director. There is also correspondence of the parents and relatives of Frances Hubbard, the Lambard family of Georgia.

The collection consists of about 150 letters, 1802-1903, the main part being from the period 1845-1860. The letters center around Mary (Chapin) Hubbell and represent correspondence to and from her and members of her family including her grandmother, mother, husband, and children. The letters reveal day-to-day events and emotions. Travels, and family and local events, including births, marriages, and deaths, are discussed. Many of the letters are quite long.

The two fashion sketches, rendered in colored marker, were created by Hubert de Givenchy for Anna-Maria Kellen during the 1980s.