The majority of the Sanger papers are devoted to the period prior to his assumption of duties as president of the Medical College of Virginia. Series I contains Sanger's college lecture materials; notes taken when he was a student at Bridgewater College, Clark and Columbia University. Series I also contains the hand and typewritten notes and research of Sanger's dissertation on the subject of senesence which he studied under G. Stanley Hall. Series II consists of personal and professional correspondence; the bulk of which concerns Sanger's unsuccessful campaign for the presidency of Harrisonburg State Teachers' College (Virginia State Normal School now James Madison University) in the summer of 1919. Series III contains Sanger's hand and typewritten notes and drafts of speeches on a variety of topics related to education and the responsibilities of educators in Virginia dating from the early 1930s through the span of his career. The drafts for Sanger's two books As I Remember, an autobiography of his life and creer, and MCV Before 1925, an early history of MCV, are also included in this series. Series IV consists of a variety of information concerning MCV including block plots and tax assessments of the college area in 1940 as well as information detailing the gala affair held in 1950 honoring Sanger's twenty-five years as President of the College. Series V deals with Sanger's avocations outside of the educational field. The collection holds information on Sanger's partnership with a Bridgewater College colleague, Dr. Paul Bowman, in the Ridgeway Orchard in southwestern Virginia during the 1920s. Also, the records of the purchase and upkeep of Sylvia Burns Sanger's family farm in Burnsville, Virginia are included in Series V dating from the 1940s to the early 1970s. Sanger's passion for gardening is evident in the collection of correspondence and publications in Series V. Series VI is entitled Miscellany because it contains a variety of materias including some biographical data on Sanger, personal items such as postcards and notes Sanger collected over the years, personal photographs of the Sanger family from the early years as well as a great number of photographs taken on important occasions throughout Sanger's professional career. The photographs in the Sanger collection are particularly interesting. Series VI also holds the newspapers and clippings Sanger collected over the years 1910-1970. The clipping collection also includes the local obituary notices at the time of Sanger's death in 1975. Series VI contains a variety of publications dealing with the field of education and the publications of the Medical College of Virginia. Sanger's many honorary diplomas and his high school diploma from South Bend High School, Indiana in 1906 are included in this series.Series VII consists of additional papers donated to the archives. In addition to some photographs, correspondence and materials relating to MCV, the addendum contains the notes of two works Sanger was researching at the time of his death. This first contains handwritten biographical sketches of MCV historical figures; the second contains drafts of a work on the homes of Virginia born presidents.
