The James M. Gwin Collection contains approximately 50,000 items of poultry information resources. It consists primarily of business correspondence pertaining to several poultry associations, catalogs from poultry equipment manufacturing firms, documents about early breeders in the poultry industry, egg and poultry legislation, papers on industry meetings held in various states of the United States, and miscellaneous publication clippings related to the egg and poultry industry.

The Poultry and Egg National Board Records include board meeting minutes, financial statements, annual reports, egg promotional material, new product research, cholesterol and fat studies, diet and nutritional cookbooks, reports of the American Home Economics Association conferences, and reports of the 1969 White House Conference on Nutrition.