Book excerpts, magazine articles, personal correspondence, note cards, surveys, book reviews, playbills, maps, travel brochures, travel itineraries, postcards, x-rays, drawings and sketches, negatives, photographs, slides, and glass slides document Tanzer's personal and professional life, particularly his groundbreaking work in ear reconstruction. Included are Tanzer's patient files, both from the U.S. Army and from general practice, planning materials for symposia, papers published by different doctors in the field of reconstructive surgery, and personal documents both from travel and from his life in Hanover, N.H., including a set of slides documenting the Dartmouth Winter Carnivals of 1947 and 1949.