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The collection contains blueprints and photographs of the Whitney Museum of American Art used by Dixie Trainer to make a replica of the building for a fund-raising gala for the museum.

Jock Pottle is a photographer of architectural models, active during the 1980s through early 2000s. The collection documents his practice photographing architectural models for large and small firms, for American as well as international projects. The collection contains only photographic materials, including photographs, negatives, transparencies, slides, and born-digital image files. The arrangement of the collection follows Pottle's system of organization by is arranged by project number, or by client or project name. A partial file listing has been created, but the collection is underprocessed.

The collection consists of photographs for twenty buildings and models of five unrealized or partially realized project. Projects include markets, churches, factories, garages, a bus station, a bridge, a stadium, an airplane hangar, and an apartment building. The photographs are black and white and mounted to card stock. Each print includes a typed caption, which identifies and dates the project. The photographs are housed together in a clamshell box engraved with the title "La Arquitectura de Jose L. Depini." It is possible the photographs were use as a presentation album.

The collection primarily consists of negatives, transparencies, prints of architectural models arranged chronological by project number.

The collection consists of approximately 140 bound albums of photography by Ezra Stoller featuring buildings and interiors designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) and a small collection of project records. Projects represented include, among others, Albright Knox Art Gallery, American Republic Insurance Company, Banque Lambert, Beineck Library, Chase Manhattan Bank, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, Ford Motor Company, HJ Heinz Research Center, John Hancock Building, Lever House, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and US Airforce Academy.