Papers and reports relating to farm management; documents about incentive plans; insurance and unemployment information for laborers and their employers; information on wages and workers' compensation; labor management and hiring from the work force; documentation on migrant labor; and reports on farm management and the utilization of manpower, 1913-1986.

Pamphlets issued by the New York State College of Agriculture's Cooperative Extension Service on keeping accounts on a farm, including inventory books, account books, and cash books in pamphlet form, as well as pamphlets on keeping accounts for poultry, dairy cows, and crops.

Drafts, interview transcripts and other materials relating to a book project on family farming. Correspondence, materials relating to Rural Sociology courses he taught on Farm Families. Other materials relating to his time as the Cornell University Archivist.

Naturalization papers, business correspondence, a letter from David Reeder describing his activities as a student at General Theological Seminary and discussing Eastman College at Poughkeepsie; also, statements of account, inventories of household goods, agreements for work to be done on Reeder's farm, an indenture, lease, and other property agreements; Onondaga, Ontario, Seneca, and Yates Counties, New York.

Speeches and writings about farm management by Cunningham. Also, slides of a Farm Management tour of northern New York conducted by him, Spring 1962.