Correspondence: correspondence by and to Peter Hall relating to research and publishing. Organized chronologically, and partially by correspondent.

Committees and Organizations: Meeting minutes and agendas, reports, publications, papers from workshops and seminars, created during Peter Hall's participation in Independent Sector and PONPO.

Conferences: material related to conferences attended by Peter Hall, including agendas, programs, notes, rosters, as well as papers presented at these conferences by himself and others.

Instruction and Teaching: material related to classes and seminars taught by Peter Hall, including syllabuses, outlines, assignments, and weekly notes.

Photographs: One set of photographs of the Rockefeller Archive Center, c. 1990.

Publications 1973-2010: papers, books, chapters, and other formally composed work produced in whole or part by Peter Hall, including conference presentations and speeches, as well as some unpublished material. Some papers have review notes from other scholars.

Reference: a selection of materials related to the history of philanthropy from the working files of Peter Hall. This section mainly contains white and grey litature in philanthropy not easily found elsewhere, and unpublished material sent to Hall by other scholars in the field.

Research: research files created by Peter Hall, organized by subject. Includes the original hard-copy trustee data sheets used to build the database central to the Six Cities Project. Data sheets have been organized by city, then alphabetical by organization name thereunder. They have not been sorted by trustee name.

Audio: cassette tape recordings of meetings and conferences attended by Peter Hall. Materials have been digitized.

Floppy disks: 3.5" and 5" floppy disks from the home office of Peter Dobkin Hall. Digital materials have not been processed.