The Capital Punishment Project subseries documents the ACLU's opposition to the death penalty and includes files on state legislation, clemency policies, and subject files on the wide range of issues involved, such as research and statistics on the application of the death penalty, death penalty cases, organizations with similar goals, the court system, and capital punishment internationally. The records also document the administration of the project, including the files of director Henry Schwarzschild, files from affiliate involvement with the project, project publicity, correspondence, and publications.

Subseries 12A: General Materials, 1877-1994 [bulk: 1888-1932], is housed in boxes 40, 40A, 57, 238, and 239, the latter two comprising portraits. Biographical information is limited but does contain some interesting anecdotes, one of which is from a student from the class of 1899. A copy of an article about the David Swing trial is the only record from Patton's pre- Princeton years. Both his College of New Jersey and Princeton Theological Seminary inaugurations are documented, including a few letters about the preparations for these events. There is a copy of a paper on Patton's presidency from "The Aims of Education" course taught by President Harold T. Shapiro in the 1990s. There is also an article from The New York Observer that offers a complimentary perspective on Patton. Another item of interest can be found in the Honors/Portrait folder, in the form of a prayer that the then ex-president Patton offered when the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on President Harding. The correspondence in this subseries is arranged in alphabetical order by author. If the author is unknown, the letter is filed under the addressee's name. There are numerous photographs of Patton, and it is interesting to note the change in his countenance, as his stark youthful features yielded to his older, kindlier appearance.

Files arranged alphabetically by author's name, then by title, of material relating to the Subscription Department editions of author works–for both multi-volume sets and individual titles. Examples: The Novels, Tales and Sketches of J. M. Barrie (Thistle Edition of 12 volumes, 1896-1911); S. A. Kilbourne's Game Fishes of the United States (1878).

The Sexual Privacy Project subseries is largely composed of case files and subject files about the project's work on behalf of the LBGT community, prostitutes, and the general right to sexual privacy. Major issues addressed in the cases include anti-sodomy laws, child custody, discrimination, employment discrimination, military rights, police harassment, and security clearance. The subject files consist of materials on cases and legislation that the ACLU was monitoring and research materials on a wide variety of sexual privacy issues. The subseries also includes materials for a book on gay rights, correspondence from homosexuals in prison about their treatment, files on legalizing prostitution, and files on sexual privacy legislation and challenges in each state.

Consists of the general correspondence of Walter Lowrie, including correspondence with several publishing companies.

Subseries 4D, Pamphlets/Ephemera, includes materials relating to the Graduate College site controversy, the dedication of the Graduate College, regulations, entrance requirements, Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni (APGA) directories, students guides, housing, foreign students, and student rights, rules and responsibilities.

Subseries 8F consists of materials related to recruitment of minorities and women, funds established to support minority students, the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science (GEM) consortium and its fellowships; the series also includes titles of Princeton University dissertations from the periods 1878-1944 and 1969-1996. The records were kept by Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, David Redman. Also included are additional reports on diversity of the Graduate School faculty and students.

Subseries 21A, Nancy Malkiel Files, documents such topics and initiatives as the Roadmap for Standards, Faculty Working Group on Undergraduate Academic and Residential Life, the Committee on the Course of Study, admissions, curriculum development, the Committee on Admission and Financial Aid, the Priorities Committee, grading and several more related issues.

The Minutes and Reports subseries contains meeting minutes and reports from the Board of Trustees, Dean of the Faculty, and Dean of the College, and reports from various undergraduate, graduate, and interclub committees, such as the Committee on Student Life, the UICC, and the Subcommittee on Eating Clubs.