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The Downtown Community School audio recordings document guest speakers, student discussions and readings, school plays, intergroup conferences, lectures, staff meetings, musical performances, school trips, oral histories and other programs. Highlights of the subseries include recordings about race relations and the boycott that took place at the Lincoln School in Englewood, NJ in February 1963 and a visit to the school from Red Thunder Cloud, last Indigenous speaker of the Catawba language. Not all recordings are identified or dated.

The Camp Woodland audio recordings may be one of the more significant components of the collection. While at Camp Woodland, Norman Studer recorded numerous oral histories of many of the indigenous Catskill residents as well as the annual Folk Festival of the Catskills. Studer was acutely aware that he was in a position to capture the ethnographic folk culture, music, and ecology of a fading era. In many instances, the tapes represent the only extant recordings and variations of a number of songs.

Film contains Camp Woodland activities including: a Sunday meeting at the amphitheater, swimming pool, baseball, long jump, badminton, guitar player (Don Muffson?), whittling, painting, typing, camp store or mailroom, hot dogs on an open fire, campers hiking, local houses, construction of a dam or reservoir (5:00), George Edwards, chopping wood, campers interviewing local residents, Prattsville sign, man in horsedrawn haywagon, campers returning to camp with a woman's spinning wheel, campers swimming at falls, campers rebuilding the amphitheater, sharpening blades, whittling, George Edwards, Norman Cazden conducting children singing, Camp Woodland 4H Club, footrace, Museum of Farm Implements, and the Seventh Annual Folk Festival of the Catskills which included dancing, singing, and George Van Kleek.

Camp Woodland activities including some duplication of Film 1. Activities include: people visiting camp, an audience of adults and campers watching performances, campers performing, campers playing sports, campers making their beds, camp buildings, and campers packing to leave camp for the summer.

Graduation ceremony at the Downtown Community School in 1951. Includes: graduates entering, musical performances, awarding of diplomas, graduates processing out, the audience leaving, and the refreshment table.

From Folkfilms. Producer and director, Jules Victor Schwerin; scenario, Peggy Lawson, Jules Schwerin; narration, Jules Schwerin, Lawrence Weinberg; narrator, Jared Reed; music score, Peter Seeger, Michael Seeger; editor, Peggy Lawson; director of photography, associate producer, Julius Tannenbaum; additional photography, Max Glenn, Milek Knebel; narrator, Jared Reed; Catskill folklorist, Norman Studer. Participants: Robert circa Gregory (old man), Ralph Vanderlip (boy), Grant Rodgers (fiddler), Walter L. Terry (judge), David and Herta Marshall (singers), the people of Cannonsville, Delhi, Deposit, Granton, Rock Rift, Walton, West Branch, Delaware River, State of New York.

This film includes some title cards, which are indicated here in quotation marks. Camp Woodland activities including: "Camp Woodland 1960," "Sunday Meeting," dancing, eating dinner, "Pete Seeger" performing onstage, "1960 Folk Festival," dancing, choral performance, "Good-Bye to Campers," "Rusty Bringing Up Supplies," boy pulling a sled of supplies through the snow, playing in the snow, and downhill skiing.