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This series contains the research material that Ford's defense team accumulated over the course of their representation of Ford and includes research material from years prior to and after the case. This series contains notes on cases in progress as well as some material from related cases. There are newsletters, briefings, pamphlets, bulletins, essays, reports, and publications which discuss anti-death penalty and related legal issues. Also included are photocopies of selections from various undated publications about the death penalty. This series represents literature from a wide spectrum of death penalty abolitionists. Several folders contain news clippings organized by year that give a good overview of related death penalty cases and issues. Many of the news clippings were photocopied before deposit in the Department of Special Collections and Archives, while others required preservation photocopying. Also of note are several papers on death penalty issues written by professors and others representing law schools and universities in the United States.

This series documents the Association's work related to Otsego Lake. Central to this series are files documenting the Association's opposition to a proposed motor boat launch in Glimmerglass State Park. These files include correspondence, news clippings, reports, and responses to a major public opinion survey conducted by the Association in 1995. This series also contains material on other lake-related issues, such as boating and public access, development, fish and fishery management, lake management plans, and watershed management plans.

Additional administrative records.

The Julius Lips materials consist of Albert Lestoque's files on the plagiarism case against Lips in which his brother, Paul Leser, was one of the primary accusers. These materials augment the larger collection of materials contained in the Paul Leser Papers.

Series is broken into the sub-series Lawsuits and Challenges. The Lawsuits sub-series includes Draft Environmental Impact Statements (DEIS), Final Environmental Impact Statements (FEIS), Freedom of Information Act requested material (mostly photocopies and faxes of developer proposals and developer, city, or town correspondence), and litigation papers such as Notice of Petitions, Affidavits, Briefs, Memorandum of Law, and Appeals Claims. Early Lawsuits may have the name Friends of the Pine Bush, the original unincorporated name of the organization.

The Central Council Bills are complete for the period from 1965 to 2013. Bills from 2019-2020 are also available, but there is a gap between 2013 and 2019 where records were not transferred from the Student Association. This series contains bills passed by the Central Council which is the legislative body of the student government. The bill relate to appropriations, budgets, recognition of student organizations, resolutions relating to local, state, national and international issues, student government reorganizations. The bills dating from 1978-79 to 1988-1989 are bound and indexed from 1978-1979 through 1985-1986. The bills dating from 2019-2020 are born-digital.

This series contains clips from local newspapers on a variety of topics, including branch activities. The bulk of the clips are from the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The Capital Defender Case Files are the volumes of record on appeal for six cases that the Captal Defender Officer defended against. The six cases included are the People v. Mateo, LaValle, McCoy, Taylor, Harris, and Cahill.

This series is a collection of records dated from 1981-1996. The correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, news clippings, newsletters, and press releases from 1981 to 1985, were collected by Lawrence Wittner when he was Co-Chair and given to Ed Bloch. Similar items from 1985 to 1996 were collected by Ed Bloch as executive secretary of the organization.