Primarily articles and speeches of Earle Sumner Draper, Sr., city planner. Also includes correspondence concerning a conference on urbanism held in Cambridge, Massachusetts in March 1942.

Sanford G. Lyon items include a two page manuscript history of the business activities of Sanford G. Lyon, Sr. and other members of his family, 1885-1937, written by Josephine Head Lyon in 1953, concerning the shipment of livestock, sale of hay, grain, coal, lumber, farm and building supplies, as well as Lyon's own brand of fertilizer. Also, newspaper clippings pertaining to Lyon's candidacy for the New York State Legislature, 1922-1924.