Records include essays and proposals in support of the festival; theater building plans; master site plan; programs and objectives; financial records, correspondence, memoranda, and minutes of festival committees; leases; and clippings. Correspondents include Walter Bruska, David C. Mandeville, Norbert H. Schickel, Jr., William Schmidt, Alan Schneider, John Summerskill, Walter Wiggins, and Joe Zeigler.

Correspondence (1930-34) primarily of the manager, Hattie Lutt, concerning booking arrangements and theater operations; box office statements,, tax accounts, bank books, time books, and other financial records (1917-34); scrapbooks of clippings, press releases, and reviews (1888-1934); photographs (mainly pre-1920), many signed, of stage and screen stars; and blueprints of the theater.