Scope and Content Collection contains materials from portions of dismantling the OSURG collection, remnants of the BB Chapman collections and donations that fit most apparently in this collection. The only overriding theme is OSU and OAMC. Material in this collection provides some information on the history of the campus and its traditions.

Scope and Contents Collection contains campus building blueprints, correspondence, maps, newspaper clippings, publications, and source information collected by David Peters during the writing of the Campus volume of the Oklahoma State University Centennial History series. Peters covered the origins of the campus in 1890 through approximately 1928. The other two authors of the book, J. Lewie Sanderson and R. Dean McGlamery, covered the rest of the campus history from c. 1928. Their notes were never acquired.

Scope and Contents Collection contains Oklahoma Territory publications, correspondence of early citizens, Oklahoma university and other school publications.