Papers include Tompkins County Medical Society certificates of Dr. Chauncy P. Farlin, 1838 and 1840; indentures for land in Ludlowville, New York, diaries of Lucien A. Farlin, 1882-1883, and other manuscript and printed items of other family members; ledger sheets of Farlin & Reynolds, a grocery firm of Geneva, New York; and information on the Ithaca Lyceum Theatre compiled from newspapers.

Includes one pamphlet entitled "The International Salt Plant Memory Book" by a 1977-78 fourth grade class in Lansing, New York. Also included are photographs and student papers concerning Portland Point, New York, an abandoned salt mining town. Also includes a revised edition, "Portland Point Memory Book," 1976.