The Shurcliff, Merrill and Footit records consist of correspondence, architectural drawings and plans, aerial photographs, cost estimates, bills, receipts, lists, and memoranda relating to the firm's work at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts between 1933-1975. The records contain correspondence exchanged by Arthur Asahel Shurcliff, Sidney Nichols Shurcliff, Vincent N. Merrill, Douglass B. Footit and various administrators at Mount Holyoke, including President Roswell Gray Ham. Topics discussed in the records include garden restorations, parking area plans, campus beautification and building renovation projects, directional signs, and landscape plantings.