Records consist mostly of correspondence of Paul Gates, chairman, with officials of the Ithaca public school system, New York Citizens Committee for the Public Schools, and state senator George R. Metcalf, on subjects of vocational education, citizenship education curriculum, and school taxes. Also, related pamphlets and other printed material.

Includes printed material from the 1968 Democratic Convention; a letter from vice president Hubert H. Humphrey, 1968; correspondence, notes and publications pertaining to Ithaca schools, and Ithaca and Tompkins County politics; Alumni News mementos; papers relating to Marcham's service in the army, and financial and Veterans Admininistration records while he was a student at Cornell; correspondence and other materials from the Cornell Daily Sun; and other items.

Includes two account books for a retail business, 1936-1941; broadside advertising weekly review classes offered by the school; two folders of notes on problems and solutions for courses in mechanics; and a letter and note addressed to Schaff from Yale University Library (1942).