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 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 John Bolton Watercolor Paintings and Photographs contain ten watercolor paintings, and photographic prints of the paintings, of Ohio State University campus, including the Thompson statue, Alumni gates, and McCracken Power Plant. These paintings were painted by Bolton when he was a student.

The Paul and Ruth Siple Family Artwork Collections contains two pieces of artwork, one oil painting and one elongated photograph. The oil painting depicts an Antarctic landscape and was painted by Nel Law, the wife of a family friend of the Siples that resided in Canberra, Australia. Siple was a scientific attaché in Canberra, along with the family friend that was also an Antarctic researcher. The photograph is of the Scott Memorial Cross located on Ross Island, shot by American photographer Stuart Klipper. The painting is dated 1966 and the photograph is dated 1984.