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Contains folders of correspondence, data, and other supporting documents related to Schmidt-Nielsen's research on desert animals in the Sahara between August 1953 and July 1954. The folders are divided into two groups, general information and data, and are arranged alphabetically within the groups. His personal correspondence and journal entries are available in a bound format within the series. The data folders contain experiment results and research notes on camels, donkeys, rodents, and plants.

Includes annual reports from the station manager, engineering manager, public relations manager, business manager, production manager, news editor, and other staff members. Also included are profit and loss statements, correspondence regarding equipment, equipment diagrams, program schedules, and other materials related to the operation of WDBS.

Contains Jock Elliott's appointment books from the years 1961-2004. Arranged chronologically with the exception of the book for 1978, which is located in Box 3.

Appointment books and calendars that fall outside the Appointment Books and Calendars subseries in the Secretary of Commerce series. Calendars include daily schedules of meetings and appointments, as well as a record of her trips.

Contains appointment books kept by Guest annually from 1951 until 1985 and added to the collection after his death in 1987. Details range from precise hourly schedules of his daily activities and appointments to general notes and thoughts. Guest refered to his appointment books as "diaries." Organized by year.

The Archaeology series contains pamphlets, offprints, extracts, and many illustrated pieces. It is a small group of 233 pamphlets.

Contains correspondence between Silvette and Archibald MacLeish, who addressed Silvette as "Stiletto" in his letters. MacLeish (1892-1982) was an American poet, playwright, teacher and public official, and served as Librarian of Congress from 1939 to 1944 and as Assistant Secretary of State from 1944 to 1945. Silvette compiled these letters in a volume entitled "The Stiletto Letters."

Contains oversized originals, reproductions, blueprints, drawings, and sketches. Organized by building name.

The first series, Army Air Force Historical Office, contains material Watson collected while serving as the Chief of the Southwest Pacific Branch of the Army Air Force Historical Office. The work of the office was eventually collected in the seven volume series, The Army Air Forces in World War II, edited by Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate. Watson's contributions to the series pertain chiefly to Vols. I and IV. Types of material in this series include general correspondence about the work of the Historical Office, newspaper clippings chronicling daily events, and notes taken from primary wartime documents on Southwest Pacific Air Operations. Major events include Rabaul, Battle of the Bismarck Sea, Philippines campaign, Pearl Harbor, Wau, and Nassau Bay. Strategic topics include bombing techniques, equipment, men and morale, radio and radar, supplies, and allocations. There are also draft chapters of his work, The Fifth Air Force in the Huon Peninsula Campaign. Also included are several reference works such as maps of the Southwest Pacific, a gazetteer of New Guinea, and several works by J.V. Cragg on the Fifth Air Force.

This series includes maps, personal letters from officers and soldiers, and prison papers.