Collection contains correspondence, publications, research materials, and professional papers of Katherine V.W. Palmer. Also included are: photographs of Palmer's friends and family, mementos, personal correspondence with her father and son; and library accession books as well as historical reports for the Paleontological Research Institute (PRI).

Interviews with fifteen Cornell emeritus women professors and notable women conducted by Kathryn M. Moore. Interviewees include Cornell professors Alice Bryant, Helen Dudley Bull, Ruth Comstock, Alice Cook, Louise Daniel, Eleanor Emerson, Eleanor Gibson, Isabel Peard, Mabel Rollins, Laura Lee Smith, Evelyn Stout, and Ethel Vatter. Other notable women interviewed are Constance Cook, Katherine Palmer, and Bernice Sandler.