The papers contain Wolfgang Yourgrau's personal correspondence with colleagues and scholars, both in America and abroad. The collection also includes most of his 77 articles, classroom lecture notes, a complete bibliography of his book collection, manuscripts for the 1942-1943 issues of his anti-fascist German-language weekly The Orient, and journals, speeches, newspaper clippings, press releases, photographs, lectures, manuscripts of articles, transcripts of radio broadcasts, framed paintings, an inventory of his personal library on slides, reel-to-reel tapes, and academic regalia.