The collection includes notebooks, scrapbooks, poetry, photographs and glass negatives documenting the life and career of Ivan Albright. The notebooks (ca. 1920-1982) include student sketches, class notes, sketches of old master paintings, diagrams for paintings, color palette notes, sketches for mature works, criticism of contemporaries and artists of the past, poetry, prose self analysis and daily commentary. Family life, studio life and artwork are documented in a series of glass negatives which date ca. 1890-1930. Other items in the collection include portrait photographs, manuscripts and typescript poetry, scrapbooks, drawings, personal and profession objects, and a film on Albright.