The Peter J. Anderson Papers, dated 1889-1995, contain research notes, publications, summaries, articles, audiovisual materials, reports, clippings, photographs, and slides, which pertain almost exclusively to Anderson's activities while a member of the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University. Included in this collection are materials related to Anderson's project, "A Chronology of the United States in Antarctica," funded by the National Science Foundation from 1984-1987. There are also research materials collected by Anderson for polar aviation and in preparation for a definitive biography of Richard E. Byrd. Philately materials collected by and given to Anderson, such as covers (envelopes) from polar regions, are included in this collection.

The Emanuel D. Rudolph Papers contain course materials, clippings, correspondence, articles, microfilm, subject files, and slides related to the Polar Regions. It also contains Antarctic research data notebooks and records, photographs, maps, microclimate charts, and negatives.

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.