The collection documents the Yale School of Nursing deans, faculty, students/alumni, and programs. The collection consists of photographs, newspaper clippings, reports, minor publications, meeting minutes, presentations and papers on nursing, audiovisual materials, and correspondence compiled and/or created by the Yale School of Nursing, the School of Nursing Alumnae/i Association, and individual faculty and staff. Major events in the school's history,deans, and faculty are particularly well documented through photographs, audiovisual recordings, newspaper and other clippings, and writings. Students, particularly early ones, are documented in the photographs, scrapbooks, data cards, and Alumnae/i Association files.

The bulk of the collection consists of photographs of deans, faculty and students/alumni and research files, which contain presentations and research reports on nursing. Yale School of Nursing's programs, curriculum, and administrative history are also documented in the small amount of administrative records present in the collection including reports, correspondence, manuals, and Alumnae/i Association files. The collection primarily documents Yale School of Nursing affiliated individuals, however, the history of nursing and nursing education in the United States is also documented.

Please note that due to a numbering error there are no folders 650-652, 1340.