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Contains correspondence, inventory lists, tee-shirt designs, order forms, and administrative papers related to the sale of merchandise during the festival and the management of the store at the theater and summer offices.

Contains administrative materials, correspondence, form letters, memoranda, mailing lists, mailings information, and listings of secretarial duties. In the 1960s, administrative assistants were secretaries working directly under the director. In later years, as the festival's administration became more complex, multiple administrative assistants were added and their duties were expanded beyond secretaries. Assistants included:

Contains administrative materials, correspondence, form letters, meeting notes and transcripts, newspaper clippings, drafts, messages, short notes, and memos, signed petitions, staff handbook, brochures, press releases, and a listing of statistics. Materials contain correspondence and documents written to and from the Administrative Director and the Administrative Assistant and the Director's office concerning daily activities, responsibilities and instructions as well as personal notes. Administrative director was a staff position from 1969 to 1993. Beginning in 1969, Charles Reinhart's first year as Director, an administrative director, a coordinator, an administrator, or an operations manager worked with Charles Reinhart and Martha Myers, the Dean, to coordinate the workings of ADF's school and festival. The Administrative Directors were:

Contains information and correspondence about photographers and videographers who actively documented ADF activities, with the exception of personnel related information, such as hiring and firing correspondence. It also includes release forms and information and transcripts of oral histories. The oral histories include a 1959 group interview on the subject of the first year at Bennington with several people including the Limons, the Lloyds, Louis Horst, and Bessie Schonberg.

Contains information compiled by various ADF staff to document important ongoing events in ADF history such as premieres and commissions.

Contains materials concerning the administration and preservation of the collection. Some correspondence concerns other repositories collecting ADF materials. Includes correspondence with other dance collection repositories, such as NYPL and Ohio State University, regarding the reproduction of films resulting from the Film and Notation Project for their own collections.

Contains materials concerning reference services by the ADF Archives and use of archival documents. Consists primarily of correspondence between archivists and patrons, even before ADF had an archival program. Also includes forms and correspondence regarding film rentals for choreographic reconstruction (circa 1965-1969).

Contains correspondence, donation acknowledgements, form letters, sales notices, administrative materials, notes and memoranda, identification cards, rental agreements, photograph schedules, telegrams, ADF archives inventories, and a file storage survey of ADF files at Connecticut College, documenting ADF archival activities (except Labanotation and the Film Notation project), even when there was no formal archives program. Also included is correspondence between ADF and other institutions, such as the New York Performing Arts Library, regarding requests for ADF materials for other dance collections.

Contains correspondence and notes from annual reports including schedules, program information, and general summaries that document ADF's working relationship with Bennington College and Mills College as host institutions. Also includes research notes from various sources detailing information about the School of the Dance from 1934 to 1942.

Contains meeting minutes and correspondence related to the American Dance Festival Board of Directors, including correspondence from Charles Reinhart inviting Betty Ford to become the Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors was established during the first meeting of the incorporators of the American Dance Festival, Inc. on July 31, 1975. Charles L. Reinhart, Martha Myers, and Elizabeth Booth were nominated and elected by the incorporators.

Contains lists of people, including critics and VIPs, issued complementary tickets. Also includes administrative correspondence and notes, along with correspondence to and from those who were issued tickets, as well as form letters regarding festival schedules, form letters outlining complementary ticket policy, and faculty, staff, and student ticket sign-up sheets.

Contains correspondence, form letters, and festival scheduling information regarding group ticket sales, which were primarily discounted sales to businesses and non-profit organizations.

Contains seating charts and pricing information, administrative materials, correspondence, usher and ticket taker lists, usher information sheets, application forms, box office schedules, box office summaries, complementary ticket sign-up sheets, concessions information, form letters, and payment and expenses information.

Contains payroll and scheduling information pertaining to the box office internship.

Contains correspondence, memos, form letters, administrative materials, ticket policy information, schedules, subscriber and single ticket requests and payment materials, ticket samples, seating plans and pricing information, ticket order forms, ticket sales locations, complementary ticket policy forms, discounted ticket information, box officer managers' final reports, budget information, box office manager application information, hotel information, and Ticketron contract materials.

Contains box office reports, administrative materials, seating charts, receipts, and correspondence. Includes information such as the number of tickets sold for each seating price for each show and the gross and net income of each performance. Correspondence includes box office policies, estimates of profits, and ticket returns.

Contains correspondence, forms, subscription forms, student and faculty lists, listings of ticket purchases, and administrative materials concerning single ticket sales and buyers.

Contains correspondence to and from subscribers, printed items, seating charts, forms, and administrative materials concerning subscriptions and subscribers.

Contains ticket order forms, event notices, and season brochures.

Contains performance tickets.

Contains materials on a variety of projects that involved bringing dance and other arts programs to the public, including contacts with government officials and arts patrons in attempts to find and continue support for dance and the arts. Also includes materials regarding classes held at Connecticut College that were open to non-Connecticut College students, such as the Folk and Square Dance class, offered during the summer festival, and children's modern dance classes and adult elementary ballet and modern dance classes offered during the academic year. Includes correspondence and materials regarding classes and workshops held as a part of the Community Outreach Program, established in 1969 under Walter Nicks to involve the community in dance. Dance and movement classes were offered to mothers and young children, teenagers, and the elderly. Also includes material regarding Friends of ADF, an organization formed in 1976 to generate income for the festival and to bring the festival and community closer together.

Contains correspondence, drafts, form letters, administrative materials, sponsors/patrons lists, receipts, lists of complementary tickets, ticket order forms, and donor solicitation letters and forms. Contains correspondence to and from individuals making donations and lists of donors receiving complementary tickets.

Contains correspondence, publicity materials, administration materials, schedules, grant information, summary reports, and newspaper clippings. Groups contacted with funding requests included educational institutions, state and federal government organizations, and private corporations. Of interest are materials regarding various Ford Foundation grants including the 1972-1973 grant funding the ADF Repertory Company and the 1971-1976 National Endowment of the Arts funding for the Dance Critics Conference. Materials overlap with Community Development series, and in kind donations from local organizations are filed there.

Contains correspondence, administrative materials, potential donors, form letters, budgets, publicity materials, schedules, and lists of grants received. Materials include correspondence regarding funding suggestions and publicity materials for a 1974 panel on government funding and the drive to find matching funds to keep ADF at Connecticut College during the summer of 1977.

Contains materials relating to ADF's search for and development of possible funding sources.