Papers include student drawings, business and personal correspondence, subject files, account books, diaries, postcards, clippings, notebooks, lecture slides, course material and exams, notes and drafts of articles, reports, printed material concerning Sardis, pamphlets, maps, charts, blueprints, floor plans, and other material pertaining to Detweiler's work at Cornell, the American Schools of Oriental Research, history of architecture, and archaeological field work.

Notebooks of John Sterrett, containing his research records from Asia Minor. Includes notebooks containing inscriptions, road notes, field and expense books concerning archaeological expeditions to Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Assos: some notes are in Greek. Also Sterrett's Ph.D. thesis from the University of Munich, 1880: "Eine Untersuchung uber die funf grosseren homerischen Hymen" (Investigation of the five hymns of Homer).