Correspondence between various members of the related Throop, Goldsmith, and Cole families, containing comments on a Fourierist colony in Madison County, New York, the Millerites, and the temperance movement. Also, a reprinted article from Antiques, "Deborah Goldsmith, Itinerant Portrait Painter" (1943, by Jean Lipman), concerning the work of Deborah Goldsmith, George Throop's wife.

Publications relating to the commune, peace, alternatives and utopian movements.

A group of pamphlets, newsletters, and other underground or ephemeral publications focused on the topics of vegetarianism, organic eating and food systems, sustainable forest and land management, collective farming, commune living, survivalism, alternative lifestyles, anti-nuclear efforts, human rights and fair labor practices.