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This small collection contains primarily Detwiller's student drawings, notes, course materials, books, class photographs, and graduation announcements from the period of his study at Columbia University from 1881 to 1885. These materials are supplemented by a small group of Detwiller's childhood sketchbooks, drawings and office papers created by Detwiller during his practice as a professional architect, and other scrapbooks and ephemeral items relating to Detwiller's family and personal interests, spanning the years 1874 to 1940.

Additional materials include carbons of typescript correspondence of lectures given by Dean William A. Boring (academic year 1933-1934) and Professor Theodor Karl Rohdenburg (academic year 1946-1947). Also design problems, the earliest of which were given in conjunction with the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, from academic years 1918-1919, 1926-1927, 1936-1937, 1949-1950, and 1957-1958. Also materials for the Architecture 51 class; correspondence of Joseph Hudnut; course outlines; correspondence relating to the search for a new dean of the school, 1957-1963.

This collection consists of administrative papers related to the Centennial Celebration organiziational efforts. The collection is made up of 7 series: Departmental Files, The Making of an Architect, Exhibit, Mapping Project, Interviews, Photos, and Bulletins, Brochures, and Books.

Included are drawings--from preliminary sketches to finished renderings--done by students in the architecture program at the School of Mines at Columbia and, later, at the School of Architecture at Columbia. The bulk of these were done circa 1884-1912, during the tenures of Deans William Robert Ware (1881-1903) and A.D.F. Hamlin (1903-1912). Included in collection are student drawings by William A. Boring, Harry Allan Jacobs, Benjamin Wistar Morris, Jr., Julian Clarence Levi, Arthur Ware, Talbot Faulkner Hamlin, Leopold F. Arnaud, Perry Coke Smith, Theodor Karl Rohdenburg, and Aladar Olgyay. Also, drawings done by architecture students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, circa 1880s; a photograph, undated, of William Robert Ware; and one drawing, 1879, by architect Cass Gilbert.

The collection contains three albums: [1] Morris High School (Bronx, NY) Scrapbook, 1909-1913, which contains ephemera and autographs collected by Van Der Smissen while a student at the first public school in the Bronx, NY ; [2] Album of Christmas Greeting Cards, 1920s-1930s, which contains a collection of greeting cards sent to Van Der Smissen from students and faculty of The School of Architecture, Columbia University ; [3] Autograph Book, 1936, containing an original poem and a collection of autographs compiled by CU School of Architecture students and possibly faculty and presented to Van Der Smissen on her twentieth anniversary at the school.

The collection consists of 10 student drawings completed by Lydia Patterson while attending Columbia University's School of Architecture. The majority of the drawings are gouache and watercolor with graphite and ink on paper, dated circa 1928 to 1930. The titles and dimensions are as follows: "An Athletic Club" (57 1/2 x 38 1/2 in.)"French Gothic Window" (37 x 58 in.)"A Government Military School" (41 x 33 1/2 in)"Horticultural Society" "A Group of Small Houses" (28 x 39 in.)"A Seaside Lounge Room" (28 x 37 in.)"Private Library #1" (26 1/2 x 36 1/2 in.)"Private Library #2" (26 x 36 in.)"Monumental Observation Tower" (23 1/2 x 36 1/2 in)"Separate Floor Plan for Observation Tower (#9)" (27 x 18 in).

This collection includes a very small number of personal papers from Ware; photographs of students, faculty, and school buildings, 1880s-1920s; memorials and testimonials to Ware; and miscellaneous clippings (including clippings of articles about Marcia Mead, first woman graduate of the School of Architecture), invitations (including two invitations to the first commencement of the University of the City of New York, 1834), greeting cards and announcements.