The Alfred N. Fowler Papers, dated 1963-2001, contains reports, notes, maps, VHS videocassettes, minutes, environmental assessments, environmental protection plans, memoranda, manuals, handbooks, and correspondence. The collection documents Fowler's involvement in the Antarctic Treaty System from 1972-1997. These materials record the inception and first nine years of the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs (COMNAP).

The Colin Bull Papers, dated 1933-2002, contains correspondence, reports, articles, manuscripts, publications, maps, negatives, an oral history, and notebooks created or collected by Bull in his professional activities, organizations, expeditions, and research. Considerable portions of the collection focus on Bull's role as a participant in the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Working Group on Glaciology, SCAR and the Council on Polar Research and National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Polar Programs. The collection also contains negatives of the British North Greenland Expedition of 1952-1954. Later material in this collection concern the transcripts and audio recordings of an oral history interview between Colin Bull and Brian Shoemaker of the American Polar Society on August 20, 2000, where Bull provided details about his career.

The Henry Brecher Papers, dated 1958-2007, contains photographic slides, photograph prints, notes, and reports documenting Henry Brecher's field work in Antarctica, Greenland, Canada, Peru, China and Tanzania. Captions are written on the slides. Brecher's diary and reports documents his work with Operation Deep Freeze V and the Victoria Land Traverse, which was the first American traverse to the South Pole from 1959-1960. Maps of mountains and regions in Antartica and digital reproductions of the slide images are included in this collection. Also included is an oral history interview on audiocassette of Brecher conducted in 1999 with a transcript; in it, he discusses how he became involved in Antarctic expeditions, as well as memories of the South Pole Traverse he participated in. Finally, the collection contains topographic maps and orthophotic maps of a landslide on Sherman Glacier, Alaska; Brecher plotted these maps for use by Cedomir Marangunic in his dissertation.

The Herb Harvis Collection of Byrd Antarctic II Expedition Glass Slides and Maps of Antarctica, dated 1910s-1934, 1964-1987, contains materials related to Byrd Antarctic Expedition II and the exploration and mapping of Antarctica. The glass lantern slides contain photographs taken during Byrd Antarctic Expedition II. The expedition crew, Little America, the Antarctic landscape, the United States Ship Bear, and Richard E. Byrd’s aircraft are featured in these images. It is not known who took the photographs. A glass lantern slide projector is also included. This collection also includes the Antarctic Map Folio Series published by the American Geographical Society of New York. The map folios are dated 1964-1975. Geological maps of Antarctica prepared by the United States Geological Survey and a map of the Falkland Islands published by the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense are also included in this collection.

The Ian M. Whillans Papers, dated 1955-2001, contains datasheets, maps, reports, articles, aerial photographs, negatives, notes, equipment lists, calculations and field books regarding Whillans' glaciological research in Antarctica and Arctic regions.

The Map of the Region Between New Zealand and the Antarctic is a color map, measuring 12.75 x 20 inches, captioned, "Showing the routes of the "City of New York" and, so far as available, the soundings made on these voyages." The map indicates that the soundings were made with a sonic depth finder as communicated to the American Geographical Society by Rear Admiral Byrd, and that the map as a whole was made to demonstrate the lack of available soundings between New Zealand and Little America. The map is copyrighted 1930, by the American Geographical Society of New York.

The Mortimer Turner Papers, dated 1945-2004, contains correspondence, maps, an oral history, publications, proposals, reports, photographs, negatives, budgets, oral histories, rosters, forms, lantern slides and a hooded parka that come from his tenure at both the Division of Polar Programs and the Office of Polar Programs at the National Science Foundation. The collection also contains a few personal files and files related to other positions that Turner held during his career.

The Rendell Rhoades Papers, which dates from 1919-1986 contains manuscripts; correspondence; publications; photographs of Greenland, the Arctic, and Antarctica; maps, and philately collected and created by Rhoades regarding South America, particularly Tierra del Fuego in Argentina, and Antarctica. The majority of the manuscripts in the collection are typescript and handwritten versions of his book Tierra Del Fuego: Between the Straits and the Horn. The collection also contains correspondence from his wife, Nancy Rhoades, regarding his postal covers and postal stamp collection, and other work dating after his death in 1976.

The Richard A. Bowers Papers, dated 1945-2013, contain materials created or collected by Richard A. Bowers that relate to his service with the United States Navy Mobile Construction Battalion (Special) in Antarctica during Operation Deep Freeze I and II. Materials include reports, press clippings, notes, photographs, correspondence, scrapbooks, maps, and clothing. Also included are compact discs, DVDs, VHS videocassettes, and 8mm films. In addition, the collection contains audio recordings and transcripts from the Antarctic Deep Freeze oral history project interview with Richard A. Bowers conducted by Dian O. Belanger on October 11, 1998. In the interview, Bowers discusses the planning and construction of South Pole Station and the air operations facility at McMurdo Sound.

The Thomas D’Amico Papers contain materials collected by D’Amico before, during, and after his time aboard the U.S.S. Bear of Oakland for Richard Byrd's second Antarctic expedition. The collection contains one coat, four pairs of googles, one pocket knife, one knife in a sheath, one pair of gloves, a three piece set of Fraunfelter commemorative china (a mug, small bowl, and a soup bowl), one United States Navy medal, one American Guernsey Cattle Club medal, one Havalite pencil and lighter combination, and several documents pertaining to D’Amico’s time before, during and after the expedition. Documents include correspondence, a scrapbook, clippings and photographs. Materials are dated circa 1926 to 1957, with the bulk of material being dated circa 1933 to 1935.

The Wakefield Dort, Jr. Papers collections contains aerial photgraphs, photograph negatives, photographs, a field notebook, a United States Antarctic Research Program flag, a United States Antarctic Research Program plaque, maps, audio tapes, patches, and 16mm and 35mm slides. Items in this collection were complied during Dort, Jr's time in the United States Antarctic Research Program. Material is dated circa 1940s to 2002 March.