Materials in the Administration and History series were created by the Federal Theatre Project and consist of documents pertaining to the history of the Project as well as surveys, synopsis, and other administrative documents. Materials date between 1935 and 1939. The provenance of the collection is undocumented and it is unclear from the collection record what if any connection there was between the Michigan State Normal College and the Federal Theatre Project.

The Publications series includes eight sub-series of cultural plays, folk songs, holiday plays, musicals, non-royalty plays, operettas, patriotic plays religious plays