Collection 87-31 (1939-1986) includes reports, general correspondence, a master file of photogaphic negatives and prints, and records of Visibility Laboratory director Roswell W. Austin and laboratory scientists J. L. Harris and John E. Tyler.

Collection 2006-68 (1950-1965) includes scientific debriefings and a list of slides.

Collection 91-27 (1954-1969) includes files of research scientist and Visibility Laboratory director Seibert Quimby Duntley, and of lab scientist John Edward Tyler. There are subject files, correspondence files, photographs and committee files which document subjects including Committee on Space Programs for Earth Observations (COSPEAR) and Optical Society of America (OSA).

Collection 2006-66 (1966-1998) includes photographs, slides, and a ledger book documenting events at Scripps Institution of Oceanography Visibility Laboratory.

Collection 2005-48 (reports, 1952-1987) includes technical reports poduced by SIO Visibility Laboratory personnel including Seibert Q. Duntley, John E. Tyler, Rudolf Preisendorfer, Frances Culver, William Culver, William Whitney, and John H. Taylor.

Collection 99-11 (films, 1965) consists of seven 16mm color films documenting the Gemini Visual Acuity Experiment. Six of these films are silent and record specific parts of the experiment, and one film is a 30-minute color, sound film describing the experiment as a whole. The accession also includes of a video transfer master videocassette of the thirty minute summary film, and a videocassette use copy. The films include: Gemini astronauts Frank Borman, Charles Conrad, Gordon Cooper and James Lovell; Visibility Laboratory scientists including Roswell W. Austin, Seibert Q. Duntley, John Taylor and Robert L. Stapleford; the Visibility Laboratory; test sites at Laredo, Texas and Woodleigh, Australia.