Collection contains correspondence; subject files including those for organizations and committees for which Schramm was a member; National Academy of Sciences files; manuscripts; articles; files on his published books; payroll expense reports (restricted); conference files; transparencies used for talks; photographs; certificates; NSF and NASA grant proposals; administrative files from Schramm's tenure as Vice President of Research at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory; letters of recommendation (restricted); various University of Chicago departmental files including Physics and Astronomy, and Astrophysics; course materials.