Subseries 1 contains papers dated between 1927 and 1946, including Bowie's work on wartime contracts, and as Special Assistant to U.S. Deputy Military Governor Lucius Clay.

As well as records of Bowie's work with John J. McCloy, the U.S. High Commissioner of Germany, between 1950 and 1951, Subseries 2 contains papers from the postwar period 1946-1949, including Bowie's work on the Hoover Commission.