This series contains material related to Segal's formative years as a student and an educator at a number of New York and New Jersey institutions. Materials include assignments, syllabi, projects, lesson plans, transcripts and ephemera accumulated over the course of Segal's primary, secondary, college-level and post-graduate studies as well as his experiences teaching from 1958 to 1964.

This series consists of William Jovanovich's files on nearly two hundred authors and publishers with whom he worked. Author files consist of correspondence with authors, their agents, and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich editors, as well as originals and copies of early manuscripts and drafts of writings, press clippings, book jacket proofs, recordings, and other editorial materials, although not all files contain both correspondence and writings. While author files primarily exist for authors whose work was published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, there are also files on authors whose works Jovanovich was considering publishing before a contract fell through, those like Ambrose Bierce and Hart Crane whose works he was interested in reprinting, and authors he did not publish but to whom he otherwise provided guidance or kept up correspondence. Publisher files consist largely of correspondence and include a significant amount of material related to Helen Wolff, of the Kurt and Helen Wolff Book imprint of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, a collaboration that began in 1961. Author files on Edward Dahlberg, T. S. Eliot, Vane Ivanović, Marshall McLuhan, and Carl Sandburg are particularly extensive.

This series consists of editorial correspondence, writings by and about Charles A. Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, photographs, clippings, and other research materials. The contents reflect William Jovanovich's role as the primary editor and compiler of Charles Lindbergh's Autobiography of Values, as well as his role as the executor of Lindbergh's literary estate. Shortly before Charles Lindbergh died in 1974, he called William Jovanovich to his hospital room, handed over a suitcase containing almost 3,000 pages of drafts written over three decades, and asked Jovanovich to shape them into a publishable autobiography. With the help of Judith A. Schiff, an archivist at Yale University, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich published the heavily edited Autobiography of Values in 1978. While Lindbergh's original drafts reside at Yale, this series includes Jovanovich's working drafts for Autobiography of Values throughout the editorial process, as well as related correspondence, photographs, and research materials. Some drafts, notes, and other editorial materials pertaining to The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh, which Harcourt Brace Jovanovich published in 1970, are also present.

This series contains William Jovanovich's general correspondence, with the exception of author and publisher correspondence, which can be found in Series 1: Author and Publisher Files and Series 2: Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Files. Correspondence in this series spans personal and professional topics, following three different original filing systems: alphabetical by correspondent name, chronological, and topical. Correspondence regards Harcourt Brace Jovanovich's publishing activities, Jovanovich's own writings, and personal relationships with fellow professionals and former employees, among other subjects.

This series consists of drafts, proofs, notes, research files, and source materials for Jovanovich's own writings and lectures, along with related correspondence, reviews, and clippings. Materials span his written works in nonfiction and fiction, as well as lectures and speeches on various topics related to publishing and writing, although some works are documented much more thoroughly than others. Jovanovich's nonfiction books, essays, and speeches largely revolve around the publishing industry, textbook publishing, the value of education, Serbian history, and creative writing. Writings represented in this series include Jovanovich's novels Madmen Must (1978), The Last Place (1978) and The World's Last Night (1990), his collection of essays Now, Barabbas (1964), and his memoir The Temper of the West (2003). While major works comprise their own files, there is also an alphabetical run of shorter essays and speeches, containing typescripts and clippings. Also included are several files regarding lectures Jovanovich gave at various colleges and universities, as well as some related correspondence.

This series documents William Jovanovich's personal and family life and career history. Transcriptions and recordings of interviews with Jovanovich, articles focusing on his biography and career trajectory, publicity materials, and correspondence related to his many honorary degrees and awards reflect Jovanovich's public life, while personal and family memorabilia, correspondence, and a collection of materials related to Serbia and Montenegro document his private interests, collecting habits, and family history.

This series includes three distinct file runs of correspondence and other personal papers and business files, distinguished by their creator and level of organization. The first run contains vertical files kept by Ruth Bernhard, sorted by topic. The second contains artificial files by and about Bernhard, organized chronologically by topic and maintained by the Princeton University Art Museum, including original correspondence as well as correspondence between museum staff and various parties, along with articles by and about Bernhard, exhibition catalogs, workshop materials and advertisements, reproductions of photographs, publishing agreements, and more. The third contains unsorted correspondence and enclosures that Bernhard kept loose in boxes.

This series includes any photographic work and publications produced by Ruth Bernhard that are included with the papers, as well as publicity materials related to her activities as a professional photographer. This series documents the appearance of Bernhard's photographs in her own portfolios and monographs, as well as in major publications, advertisements, and exhibitions, with a single image often appearing and reappearing in these various contexts throughout its lifespan. Some items, such as her publicity folios, provide both evidence of her photographic work in print, as well as her efforts to promote and publicize it. Due to this overlap, and to the fact that Bernhard often stored these materials together, this series includes both works and publicity in order to preserve context.

This series primarily contains props and objects used by Ruth Bernhard for still life photography and teaching, along with some print and audio and visual materials related to her activities as a photography instructor. Some objects, such as the cow skull with embedded rosary pictured in Skull and Rosary (1945) and the Venus murex shell pictured in Venus Comb (1943) can be attributed to specific photographs. Others exemplify the sorts of props Bernhard often photographed and used in student instruction, including doll pieces, animal bones, various seed pods and other plant materials, found objects, and modern decor and kitchen equipment. Insight into Bernhard's use of these objects can be found in pages 87-90 of the draft of Ruth Bernhard: Between Art and Life, a biography written by Margaretta Mitchell in conjunction with the artist (See Box 7, Folder 8-9).

This series includes photographs and artwork by others, gifts, personal effects, awards, and other memorabilia collected by Ruth Bernhard throughout her life for personal or sentimental reasons. These materials include snapshots, photographs, and photograph albums documenting Ruth Bernhard's personal and professional life from childhood until her death in 2006, portraying the photographer as a young woman, in the photography studio working with models and students, and during various events, exhibitions, birthday parties, and travels.

Series 1: Alumni Publications consists of periodicals written by and for graduates of Princeton University. The series consists largely of issues of Prospect Magazine, which was produced by the politically conservative group, the Concerned Alumni of Princeton. The series also includes early issues of the The Alumni Princetonian, which is the precursor to the Princeton Alumni Weekly, and which began as a weekly insert in the The Daily Princetonian in the 1890s.

Series 2: Faculty Publications are those written by current or emeritus faculty.

Series 3: Student-generated publications are those documents composed by enrolled undergraduate or graduate students. Several 19th century student publications are present, including some of the earliest known student newspapers, such as The Balance (1802) which provides an account of a Nassau Hall fire, and The Chameleon, written by the Class of 1835. The series also includes special editions and joke issues of the Daily Princetonian, such as The Gaily Printsanything (circa 1920s). In addition, the years 1969 and 1996 saw particular literary flourishing, with the inception of several student-generated magazines consisting of a few issues before the magazines' discontinuation. In a few cases, the records of the creating organization are included with copies of the publications.