The oral history interviews in the SOHP collection are carefully planned historical documents which we hope will serve a wide range of scholarly interests. Five additional sets of oral history interviews are listed separately: a set of interviews with members of the early Aurora newspaper collection; a set of interviews with participants in Stanford's Community Committee for International Students (CCIS); a set of interviews conducted by Joan Bromberg of the American Institute of Physics for the Laser History Project; a set of interviews with graduates of the Stanford School of Nursing; a set of interviews with Stanford-associated "Silicon Valley" scientists (a component of the Stanford and the Silicon Valley Project); and a set of interviews with family and friends of Dr. Reid Newell, professor in the School of Medicine.

Certificates, programs, clippings, diplomas, typescript memoirs, albums, and photographs largely pertaining to Sterling's years at Stanford University as President and Chancellor, 1949-ca. 1982. Other subjects of note among the photographs include the Bohemian Club and Stanford overseas campuses in Tokyo, Austria, and Florence. Also included in the collection are newsletters produced by the Stanford-in-Germany program, 1958.

Papers primarily represent his years as President of Stanford University and include correspondence, memoranda, proposals, speeches, minutes, reports, budgets, clippings, and legal papers. Some files predate his term as president; there is a separate series pertaining to the Hoover Institution, 1948-68. Collection also includes Sterling's class notes, lectures, manuscripts, and professional correspondence, 1925-1949.