Clippings, typescripts, memoranda, lists, bylaws and constitutions, brochures, programs, announcements, reports, and leases. Subjects covered include history of Chautauqua Institution and Chautauqua County; Chautauqua presidents; financial history of the Institution during the Depression (the Chautauqua Reorganization Corporation); music, opera, and theater; the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle; individual Chautauquans, among them Lewis Miller, Arthur Bestor, Samuel Hazlett, Curtis Haug, John Dewey, Thomas Edison, Mina Edison, Mary Lathbury, and William Rainey Harper.
