This series includes many newspaper clippings about Schain and her work; honors and awards, including certificates documenting her appointments to various delegations; invitations, notably to call on Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt, or their wives; and photographs of Schain, Carrie Chapman Catt, the Conference of the International Assembly of Women (1946), and the Pan-Pacific Women's Association Conference (1955).

This series is comprised primarily of letters between Schain and Carrie Chapman Catt; it also includes several third party letters to Catt, and a few letters and telegrams to Schain. There is further Catt correspondence in the Inter-American Conference for Peace subseries, located in SERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONS.

This series contains a copy of Schain's book Women and the Franchise, as well as typescripts and notes for her radio broadcasts and speeches on such topics as disarmament, military and diplomatic neutrality, how women's organizations might best pursue international work for the common good, and pacifism in general. This series also includes a scrapbook of editorial newspaper articles by Schain, and published versions of articles she wrote for various journals on the subjects of foreign affairs and international cooperation.

This series is the largest in the collection and in many ways is the heart of it. It consists mainly of correspondence between Schain and her colleagues the world over as they collaborated on national and international conferences, committees, and other projects relating to the pursuit of international peace initiated by women's organizations. The series also includes a smattering of agendas, minutes, bulletins, and reports for some of the organizations in which Schain was involved. The series is arranged alphabetically by name of organization, with correspondence and other types of material listed as subseries.

This series consists of photocopies of pages from a scrapbook compiled by Schain (mostly clippings about political issues), and of brochures, pamphlets and printed matter about countries in which Schain took an interest. Several issues of Middle East Forum are also included, as is a copy of the book The White Man's Dilemma: Climax in the Age of Imperialism by Nathaniel Peffer, which is inscribed by Carrie Chapman Catt.