Contains printed materials, publications, photographs, and audiovisual materials regarding the workings of the Public Affairs Office.

Publications include Memorial-published periodicals, pamphlets, and press releases, as well as outside publications, clippings and citations of news and magazine articles ,and transcripts of radio and television interviews and reports featuring or referencing MSK and/or cancer treatment and research. Some article clippings were compiled into scrapbooks by Public Affairs, mostly chronological with some dedicated to specific subjects.

Photographic materials include photographs of Physiology & Betatron building construction; individual and group portraits of staff, board members, and others associated with Memorial; photographs of interiors and exteriors of current and former buildings; departmental photography of personnel; photographs of special events; and photographs of various pieces of medical equipment; as well as negatives and 35mm slides.

Audiovisual materials include videotapes of ceremonies, TV recordings, outside productions, a 1986 AIDS seminar, stock footage, “A Tradition of Excellence,” visits with children, parties, and surgical and other medical videos

Also includes printed annual reports of the Support Activities Division (the Public Information Office was a unit of this division in the 1950s) highlighting fundraising activities and media coverage.