The records include subject files, sound and video recordings, press releases, and clipping files. The subject files illustrate the varied functions that the Public Information Office performed for the Mayor and his administration. Most of the subject headings are self explanatory as they relate to individual city departments and municipal activities.

The Mayor--General files contain correspondence and other documents that were handled for the Mayor by the Public Information staff; many of these are of a personal nature (including materials that might more appropriately be in the Mayor's Mementos file). The Monitor Reports summarize city-related stories carried by the local television news programs (Public Information staff members were assigned to view the programs and report on relevant coverage). In the Wood, Bette folder is a copy of chapter two from her manuscript Managing Crisis Cities.

In addition to these files the archives also holds a set of Hall Talk and a file of photographic prints produced by the Public Information staff. Consult the archives staff for access to these materials.