The Harry T. Wood papers include correspondence, professional publications, newspaper clippings, debate outlines and notes, student notes, and course material. Materials date from 1894 to 1943, with the majority dating from 1923 to 1937. The papers are divided into five series: Personal, Professional Organizations, Academic Training, Academic Teaching, and Subject Files.

The Personal series contains Wood's certificates, correspondence, genealogical papers, and dictionaries. Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by last name of sender.

The Professional Organizations series is divided into the Michigan Speech Correction Association subseries and the Michigan State Committee on Speech subseries. The former subseries contains correspondence and the Michigan Speech Correction Association's constitution. The latter subseries contains publications, pamphlets, and copies of state legislation.

The Academic Training series is arranged chronologically by each instition that Wood attended: high school, University of Illinois, University of Wisconsin, University of Iowa, and the University of Michigan. The latter three universities each have a subseries with course notes, papers, and course packs arranged alphabetically by class title and/or subject.

The Academic Teaching series is arranged chronologically by the institutions where Wood taught: high schools, Carleton College, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, and Michigan State Normal College. Wood taught at the Springfield, Illinois high school and was superintendent of schools in Fillmore, Illinois. The University of Michigan subseries is further divided alphabetically by course. The Michigan State Normal College is divided into course material, debate team papers, faculty papers, and professional publications. Papers of the men's debate team are arranged chronologically by the year of each particular debate. The subseries of faculty papers contains Wood's transcripts, curriculum vitae, pay information, and letters of recommendation. Materials relating to the Pi Gammu Mu, Pi Kappa Delta, and Sigma Mu Sigma fraternities, organiszations Wood was intimately involved with, had been previously removed from the collection and filed in the fraternities' individual collections.

Wood collected newspaper clippings, papers, and publications for his research, professional needs, and as mementos. These materials are found in the Subject File series, which maintains Wood's original organization of alphabetically by subject. The Insurance file contains correspondence relating to insurance plans available to Michigan State Normal College staff. Material relating to the Michigan State Normal College debate team may also be found in the Argumentation, Debate, and Programs-Debate files. Papers from speech classes that Wood taught, as well as transcripts of speeches Wood wrote, may be found in the Pedagogical Problems file. The Child Psychology file contains a sampling of Gladys Huntington Bevans' You and Your Children column and Doris Blake's advice column published in the Chicago Herald Tribune betweem 1927 and 1932. Material relating to World War I may be found in the War file. Materials from the Occasional Addresses and Programs subseries are further divided by events.

Wood conducted field research on speech defects while a graduate student at the University of Iowa in the 1920s. He also participated in a speech clinic while teaching at Michigan State Normal College. Papers relating to both activities may be found in the Clinic in Speech Correction subject file.