Academic materials, bulletins, journals, correspondence, summary of annual reports, geological related material, moon maps, newspaper, various published materials.

Assorted magazines, maps, and binders with press materials.

Pictures, documents and illustrations that show the design for the new building.

Inter-office communications, correspondences, and other files dealing with the programs and other daily work of the Hayden Planetarium. Collection is unprocessed; documents are divided by subject heading and boxes are arranged by year span.

Office files including staff memos, complaints, letters of recommendation for employees, employment inquiries, personnel records, publicity information, conference information, shipping information and sky shows.

Contains a variety of unprocessed office materials including calendars, memos and research statistics. Includes some of the following: yearly calendars, memos, research applications, research statistics, invoices, correspondence, lectures, bills and receipts.

Large folders with prints on them.

Archives from the former Richard S. Perkin Library, Hayden Planetarium. Includes administrative records, staff papers, programs and correspondence. Collections of staff papers from Robert R. Coles, Joseph Miles Chamberlain, Frank H. Forrester, James S. Pickering, Thomas D. Nicholson, Franklyn M. Branley, Kenneth L. Franklin, Mark R. Chartrand and Allen Seltzer.

Slides for Measuring Time, Exploring Space exhibition and Perkin Library Slides concerning celestial objects. Includes black and white prints and paper documents.