The Bob Parks collection contains the photographs and scrapbooks compiled by Bob Park during his time as a student athletic and coach of the track and cross-country teams at Eastern Michigan University. Records span from 1949, when Eastern Michigan University was known as Michigan State Normal College until 2000 when Parks retired after coaching the team for 34 years. The collection is arranged into four series: Albums, Photographs, Scrapbooks, and Identified Photograph copies.

The Albums series includes albums from 1949 until 1996. The Photographs series contains team and group photographs taken from 1949 until 2000. The Scrapbooks series includes the years 1949 until 1996. The Identified Photographs copies contains the copies of photographs that Bob Parks has been able to identify.