The Archibald R. Ward papers contains scrapbooks, notebooks, and a photo album documenting Ward's studies and his work in the Philippines, primarily relating to cattle diseases such as rinderpest and contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, dating 1893-1941. . The collection includes aboratory notebooks kept by Ward as a student at Cornell University, one for a course in General Chemistry (1893-1894) and one for a course in Chemistry: Qualitative Analysis (circa 1895); a notebook compiled by Ward from 1931-1941, containing detailed typewritten autobiographical notes; an issue of the Bulletin of the Dairy Research Division, Frederick C. Mathews Company, Detroit, Michigan, containing an article on Ward; and a pamphlet, "Methods and standards for the production and distribution of 'certified milk,' adopted by the American Association of Medical Milk Commissions, Inc." (June 10, 1940). The typewritten notes include passages on growing up in Ithaca, New York; studying veterinary medicine at Cornell University; developments in bacteriology; the operation of boats on the Erie Canal; and rowing on the crew team.