Includes annual reports, monthly reports, bulletins, plans of work, field notes, slides of Cornell campus and activities, radio talks, publications, photographs, committee records, drawings, subject files, and other materials of the Cornell University Department of Natural Resources, formerly the Conservation Department. Also, 1939 report on land use in Arnot Forest and slides and photographs used in a 1983 master's thesis by Wayne Hartz.

Photograph album scrapbook documenting the history of the department, its faculty, buildings, students, and activities, including maple syrup production and the Cornell Biological Field Station at Shackelton Point, Bridgeport, N.Y. Includes photographs, newsletters, and articles