The Conferences series includes materials related to conferences, seminars, and other meetings sponsored by the Section. The records include schedules, pamphlets, and addresses delivered at the meetings, as well as correspondence and financial records related to planning the meetings. The majority of the records pertain to the Section's annual conference and seminar in industrial relations (1931-1961) and to the Section's seminar for union personnel (1947-1958).

The Publications series contains copies of reports and papers published by the Section, as well as a few drafts, revised copies and related materials, and articles published by individual members of the Section. The reports of the Section cover a wide variety of labor topics including personnel hiring and compensation, unions, manpower issues, social security, management, employee stock ownership and savings plans, education, and unemployment. The majority of the reports are concerned with the United States, but also include international case studies. Frequent authors include Helen Baker, J. Douglas Brown, Richard A. Lester, and Frederick H. Harbison. Also included are scrapbooks of reviews and summaries of Section reports from major newspapers, government publications, and bibliographies.

The Research series is composed of interview notes with individuals at various companies discussing industrial relations issues as they pertain to their organizations, as well as completed surveys, for studies conducted by the Section. Study topics include benefits, the communication of industrial relations policies within companies, labor markets, layoffs, retirement, and union decision-making.

Series 2 contains records primarily connected to Hoge's editorial position at Foreign Affairs, including correspondence and background materials related to particular articles, authors or foreign affairs subjects. Included are records related to the administration and design of the magazine as well as Hoge's arrival and departure as Editor.

This series includes various reports and information about particular individuals related to the global women's movement.

Personal correspondence to family and friends. These materials are not in any particular order; many letters remain in original envelopes.

The letters in Series 1: Correspondence are primarily personal in nature, though some business correspondence is also included. Most of the correspondence dates from the Birds' time living in the Middle East and India in the 1960s and 1970s, though there are also letters that predate and postdate Eugene's tenure with the Foreign Service. In addition to the Birds' outgoing letters describing their lives to family and friends, the series also contains a large portion of letters that the Birds received from their children and from other Foreign Service families.

Series 3: Subject Files contains notes, reports, correspondence, news clippings, and other materials. Though the bulk of the series pertains to Saudi Arabia or the Middle East more generally, there are also materials on India and some biographical information on Eugene and Jerine Bird.

Series 4: Writings includes the Birds' articles, poetry, speeches, and other writings on the Middle East and various topics. Most of the series is composed of Eugene Bird's writings; the majority of Jerine Bird's writings may be found in Series 2: Saudi Arabian Women Projects. Of note are Eugene Bird's notes and other writings related to an unpublished biography of the diplomat George Antonius.

The Biographical and Personal series consists of approximately 0.5 linear feet of material and includes biographical information, as well as material related to Kirkpatrick's time at Princeton University and other non-professional activities. Of special note is a 185-page biography compiled by Kirkpatrick's wife Rita, which makes use of documents found elsewhere in the collection. The majority of correspondence found in the series is a group of photocopies of letters compiled by Kirkpatrick's wife Rita into a "significant signatures file." The file includes correspondence from U.S. presidents and vice presidents, senators and representatives, and military officers including Omar Bradley. The vast majority of the correspondence in the Significant Signatures File is brief and insubstantial; many of the letters are holiday greetings, invitations, or congratulations on Kirkpatrick's retirement from the CIA or Brown University. There is some correspondence related to Kirkpatrick's intelligence career, including a brief letter in which newly appointed Director of Central Intelligence George H.W. Bush comments on the struggles ahead of him. The series also includes a small folder of photographs, primarily of Kirkpatrick during his military service and years with the CIA.