The Operation Highjump Collection contains collected materials both from and about Operation Highjump; materials date from 1947-1948 and the 1990s-2010. Items from Operation Highjump and immediately after include a souvenir edition of the "Bergy Bits" newsletter, and a 1948 United States Navy report on observations from Operation Highjump. Items about Operation Highjump consist of a newsletter and menu from the 1996 Fiftieth Anniversary gathering of people who were a part of Operation Highjump, photocopies made in the 1990s of 1946-1947 newspaper articles and clippings about Operation Highjump, a VHS videocassette with recordings of several television shows about Operation Highjump, and a 2010 DVD of crewmember Wendell Summers narrating his experiences on Operation Highjump.

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.