Correspondence, proposals, reports, brochures, and memos relating to the Center for Manufacturing Enterprise (CME), and its predecessor Cornell Manufacturing Engineering and Productivity Program (COMEPP), the Sloan Foundation, the Industrial Innovation Extension Service (IIES) and the Realization Consortium, a national engineering educational effort. Also curriculum material and manufacturing option resumes (1992-2000) and graduate lists (1991-2007).

The Deane W. Malott Papers consist of correspondence and office files deriving from his presidency of Cornell University from 1951 to 1963.

The papers of James A. Perkins consist of correspondence, reports, administrative management forms and records, drafts of speeches, correspondence, notes of telephone conversations, memoranda for the record, substantive inter-office notes and memos, commission reports, departmental reports to the President, tape recordings, transcripts, broadsides, a phonodisc, and letters received by the President's Office concerning the events on campus in the Spring of 1969